Noah Weiss

“That's a smart way to do it. Yeah.”

“I think it's actually great to say, "Okay. The overall vision for the company, is it the responsibility of any one team to have everyone buy into that vision, but then to have space for teams to be ab...”

“Ideally as a group you're saying, We want to get it to a bar that's going to delight our users and here's the gap from where we are today to what we want to shift." I think that mentality winds up bei...”

“Right. Maybe we borrowed that or someone was inspired by it. But be a great host. It sounded aspirational. I love that.”

“We used natural language processing to extract all this information from the web and try to build this database of facts. An idea then was could you take queries, people have like, "What are the talle...”

“Then I think making sure that as you're designing the products that you have virtuous cycles that are naturally part of the product experience where you can get training data as a byproduct of people ...”

“That if you work at a company where you have so much knowledge in your Slack channel repository that you can suddenly get amazing leaps in productivity to help you better do your job because that know...”

“I don't think that's going to quite be possible anytime soon. But I think Spotify heading towards that north star you wind up developing. I hope a lot of really compelling projects experiences along t...”

“But I think today when things are moving so quickly, you actually want a little bit of a more ad hoc, flexible approach to move quickly and that's what we're doing.”

“But that's one up being a pretty great source. Whenever a team I think either gets stuck or feels like they reach a dead end in a direction is doing complaint-storms about the product area that they'r...”

“I would think teams that work on very user facing products do it at least once a quarter. I think other teams that work on maybe less user facing might do it maybe twice a year. But quarterly is a pre...”

“But collectively, I think the way that Slack thinks about competition is we obsess it about customers. We build something they'll love enough to tell their coworkers and the rest takes care of itself.”