Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, the wildly popular business messaging platform, on founding photo sharing company Flickr (2:30), its ill-fated sale to Yahoo (6:00), starting again (9:00), the accident that became Slack (10:30), being a unicorn (14:30), his early days in London (17:00), learning to be an optimist (19:15), why he's not worried by Microsoft (21:00), 'Calloween' (25:00), the power of emojis (28:00), what's it's like to be personally worth hundreds of millions of dollars (32:45) and loving Lego (34:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.4	Yo.
0:34.2	Technology.
0:35.3	What is it all about?
0:37.2	The younger you are, the less likely you are to have an email address
0:40.3	that you check daily and so I think the email is already dying in that way it's just not clear
0:45.3	what's going to be replacing it in a work setting welcome to Danny in the Valley we have a great show
0:53.1	this week Cal Henderson is here.
0:56.5	Cal is the CTO and one of the founders of Slack,
1:00.2	the business messaging platform that has taken the world by storm,
1:04.4	or at least the business world.
1:06.5	It gained fame, of course, as the fastest company to ever reach unicorn status,
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