I don’t like Slack either, but the article isn’t about Slack. It’s about a leader trying to install some product thinking into what I can only assume to be a start-up made up mostly of engineers at the time. Makes you wonder (and perhaps detect a little irony) why sending that email was thought to be useful or necessary at that time in Slack’s product life cycle. Whether you like Slack or not, they found product-market fit and are objectively more successful than most of us here will ever be. And here’s an artifact that gives you a glimpse into how they managed to do it. Now how do you plan to reach product-market fit? How does your strategy differ from “build something great and they will come”?

I was just saying it's hard to get inspired by it when it's about Slack - the sentiments expressed there are interesting, yes.

it's even more inspiring when they achieved what the mail said, sell the vision not the technology 😄

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