Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield

With his startup Slack raising $160 million on a valuation of nearly $3 billion, CEO Stewart Butterfield offers a brutally honest assessment of VC funding and the state of tech startups.

Published: Apr 16, 2015
Length: 6 minutes (1,600 words)

Google: The Quest

You get the sense that under Larry Page’s leadership, Google could try its hand at anything. More than anything else during my interviews with people who know Page, one comment stands out: “I don’t care what you put in the article,” says David Lawee, Google’s head of acquisitions. “To me, this is the real story: Larry is a truly awesome inventor-entrepreneur. My aspiration for him is that he becomes one of the greatest inventors-entrepreneurs in history, in the realm of the Thomas Edisons of the world.”

Source: Fast Company
Published: Mar 18, 2011
Length: 21 minutes (5,312 words)

Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, just after 2:30 p.m., the unthinkable happened.

Source: Fast Company
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Length: 19 minutes (4,774 words)

About a Bing

Beware Google: Microsoft’s new search engine isn’t half-bad.

Source: Slate
Published: Jun 2, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,191 words)