A Slack Story

A Slack Story

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Do the Best Work of Your Life
What matters? How do we do things here? Starting to build a sales team culture. Finding a Slack culture.
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James Sherrett
Slack Gets Kinda Famous
Slack in the wild. Hosting Jared Leto and his Oscar. Tweeting with Snoop Dogg. Finding new office spaces.
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James Sherrett
Billion with a B
Living a fundraising announcement from the inside. Framing it for everyone. Creating the chance to tell our story. Finding the flywheel.
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Meet the New New Boss: A.J.
Getting another new boss. Mapping how we sold Slack. Finding how strengths can become weaknesses.
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James Sherrett
How Slack Hired its First 5 Sales People
Thinking about hiring. Showing your work. Scoring candidates. Lying at work. Finding our first 5.
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James Sherrett
Finding the Bigs and Smalls
Growing catches up to us all. Following my curiosity to find our customer segments. Seeking help to sit next to the money. Inventing new roles at Slack.
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James Sherrett
Selling by Email Thread
Going deep on selling by email, in a detailed example. Finding out how negotiations worked — at the beginning. Closing deals, baby.
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James Sherrett
A Slack Story
A Slack Story
In 2013, I started as #9 on the Slack team. A Slack Story tells the best stories from the 7 years and 5 jobs that followed.

A Slack Story

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