Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
Stuart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and Slack, shares deep product philosophy, leadership principles, and hard-won insights from building two iconic tech companies, emphasizing utility curves, product taste, friction as a design tool, and the emotional cost of pivoting.
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