Nov 27 Going Public – Part Two “Starting three years ago, we started trying to run Slack as a public company. We have been building toward this Nov 27, 2025 10 min read
Nov 06 Going Public – Part One On April 26th, 2019, Slack filed to take the company public. We’d managed to overcome the most painful growing Nov 6, 2025 11 min read
Oct 16 You asked: What is the the right way to use Slack? Hello friends, First off, thanks for all the questions you sent in for our interview with Cal. It was so Oct 16, 2025 6 min read
Sep 20 An Interview with Cal Henderson Our interview with Slack's co-founder and CTO, Cal Henderson. Recorded Sept 19th, 2025. Sep 20, 2025 60 min read
Aug 18 The reliability crisis “If we can’t ship safely, we aren’t shipping at all,” Cal Henderson wrote in our #announce-devel channel. It Aug 18, 2025 13 min read
Aug 01 Turning Slack into a network One of the four big bets in Stewart’s Master Plan was to make Slack a network. We initially designed Aug 1, 2025 10 min read
Jun 23 Eric Eric Costello co-founded four products at two companies with Stewart, Cal and Serguei. Ludicorp made Game Neverending and Flickr. Tiny Jun 23, 2025 7 min read
Apr 14 The 800-pound gorilla On the morning of November 2nd, 2016 we arrived to the office to find a paper copy of the New Apr 14, 2025 11 min read
Mar 24 Lost in the grid Ali Rayl knew Slack’s customers better than anyone. As Slack’s first customer support staff, Ali personally answered every Mar 24, 2025 9 min read
Feb 24 The Master Plan Backstage, Stewart vibrated with his typical charismatic energy. An assistant checked his lapel mic. Everyone in the company, now numbering Feb 24, 2025 4 min read