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Wired Writes Up Slack: The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup

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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

Outstanding article from Wired on Steward Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and Glitch, and how his business software Slack is growing at an unbelievable rate.

We’ve been running a trial of Slack at work for select teams, and it’s an amazing product. The hype around it is well deserved.

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