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Aug 2018
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Stewart Butterfield

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Emily Chang sits down with Slack CEO & co-founder Stewart Butterfield to discuss his nontraditional upbringing, how past start-up failures lead to the success of Flickr and Slack and his thoughts on taking his $7B valued company public while facing competition from Facebook, Microsoft & Google. 

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