Glue: The New Slack Killer with David Sacks and Evan Owen | E1955
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David Sacks and Evan Owen of Glue join Jason to demo their new “slack killer” product (4:38), explain the role of AI within Glue (14:14), discuss building products with remote vs in-person teams (36:47), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) David Sacks and Evan Owen join Jason to show us newly launched Glue.
(2:42) David Sacks answers, “Why build another product?”.
(4:38) Evan jumps into a demo of Glue.
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(12:15) Popular data sources users are incorporating into Glue.
(14:14) Digging deeper on the AI of Glue and when it will be able to be proactive in its participation. (19:42) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://www.linkedin.com/twist (21:07) Glue’s strategy on converting users from tools like slack in this competitive landscape.
(27:18) Glue’s approach to pricing.
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(31:45) Training models and the heated subject of privacy and security.
(34:12) How building a company now, fourteen years after Yammer, has been different for Sacks.
(36:47) Diving into the topic of building products with remote vs in-person teams.
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| 0:00.0 | And we found it to be really magical where when AI again is combined with the chat experience. |
| 0:06.3 | Doesn't make sense for employees of a company to go to one place to do their AI chats and |
| 0:10.9 | another place to do their human chats and should all be in one place. I think the AI becomes powerful enough |
| 0:15.8 | eventually that you don't even have to ask it a question. It'll just jump in and provide help |
| 0:21.7 | as needed like a virtual teammate would and then we have to make sure |
| 0:25.3 | that the quality of those answers is good enough that it doesn't become a pest. |
| 0:29.1 | I think we will get there probably pretty soon. |
| 0:31.2 | I mean I call that prompless by the way right now AI has to be prompted. |
| 0:35.8 | I think eventually it makes a lot of sense. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, it'll get good enough that you don't even have to prompt it. |
| 0:40.0 | And that's another reason why you want your the home for AI to be in your enterprise chat |
| 0:46.7 | app is because you know when you go off to chat geeptee or something else that's separate |
| 0:51.6 | it doesn't have the context to just chime in. |
| 0:54.1 | Again, to conversations you're already having with your coworkers and add value. |
| 0:58.2 | That's one of the reasons why we call this glue is we think of it as the hub between your humans your apps and your AI. |
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