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Everybody, it's Dan life on the Vergecast. On this week's interview episode, I'm joined by

Stuart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack. I'm guessing if you listen to the Vergecast, you know what Slack is,

but it's the workplace communications tool that came out a nowhere a few years ago, and is now

dominant in an enterprises of all sizes. At the Verge and Vox Media, we use Slack to do basically

everything. Stuart and I talked about how Slack beat its early competitors, where it's going.

We talked about some feature requests, of course. We talked about Slack's explosive growth

during the pandemic, and importantly, we also talked about Slack's competition with Microsoft.

Microsoft is incredibly focused on Slack with its team's product. Slack is a startup.

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