"[Music] hello Stewart is a pleasure to have you here today thank you how are you doing well cool so typically we would start these with a question asking the students how many of you use flat but sinc..."

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"very soon when I was twelve I really wanted to be normal and for some reason I thought Stuart was a normal name like Mike and Hertz that's a pretty bad name like you'll notice this after I say it any ..."

"usually works the people incorporate a new entity for each project or each development maybe there's a management company it takes management fees but kind of isolates the the investments which means ..."

"any menu screen just like you know any child any screen was a super attractive but the idea that you could control what appeared was really magical and 1979-1980 somewhere around there I got an Apple ..."

"profound way than like long-distance phone calls out or the Telugu you could find community I grew up in its going to college in Victoria British Columbia which is again on the edge of the continent v..."

"it was cognate science is usually computer science psychology linguistics and psychology and so I wanted to take courses and all four to do an honours degree in psychology was like every single course..."

"questions it's good to know so who was the most influential philosopher to you I have a pretty broad range and I liked all kinds of thinkers but like going back to Aristotle it was a more contemporary..."

"low pay and it's a sessional position so renews every nine months and I thought of how many hoops I had to jump through just to get to that point or because it was 98 and the.com thing that's starting..."

"think mostly what people mean is at least around the bay area is companies that receive VC backing as opposed to anything else they're not necessarily specifically technology companies and the you kno..."

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"her cig files the things she said in comments and the the idea that that kind of connection was possible was I mean this really early stage but it's like was very interesting to me you go forward to 9..."

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"enough money to finish it and we tried to cast around for something that we could do with the technology we developed that would create a commercially viable product that turned out to be flubber yeah..."

"just kind of migrated so that wasn't that bad it's good so you realize you have to shut down the game but not before flying to one last video game conference in New York what happens next so it was a ..."

"actually very good that got us going so I've and yet to have a battle with food poisoning be so productive so kudos to you there you decided to focus on Flickr when you made that shift did everyone on..."

"it was you know the game was play as a pre-tax or social interaction Flickr was photography as a pretext for social interaction is the first actually one of the we got bought by Yahoo and one of the d..."

"and like it's there's definitely not something that stands us like the thing that I learned there other than how hard it is too hard it is to get something done or how hard it is I mean maybe that's t..."

"are for all practical purposes impossible okay so with fast forward to 2012 you have left Yahoo which by the way if you have not read the stewards resignation letter from Yahoo please google it he lik..."

"much more experienced it was very easy to raise monies look if you could just like look at any factor in a giant matrix of like things that would lead this to be a good plan or to be successful we had..."

"everyone we we are now as a group in a switch were working on because there was animators and musicians and writers and illustrators level designers a whole bunch of people who just didn't have skills..."

"look that was very sad but obviously for me the video it's personal it's embarrassing I did all this press and they made all these claims I had to convince all these people to calm and it convinced an..."

"was very very difficult in Indiana needs like a little bit of positive news because we had five and a half million dollars left of that money we were able to shut down in a relatively elegant way so w..."

"record-setting pace of eight months that worked out super well I mean we had developed the system that was the proto slack again ninety-two I mentioned one of the software network tools that I used wa..."

"get anyone to even try it and the incursian thing was once people started trying it they all mostly variably stuck with that they've logged in every day it became like it was for us the foundation of ..."

"relationship with a guy named Qi Liu who was a software exactly yeah who was the CTO of Microsoft left around then to go be to take over Baidu but weren't especially worried just because when it was t..."

"structure so wouldn't work for them and there's many other things that are not very very fundamental limitation so for 5,000 people you can have 200 channels if you want to add a 200 first you have to..."

"you don't have any idea and and you hear that there's two alternatives one slack and ones teams and because you're an office 365 customer teams is already free and integrated with all the Microsoft to..."

"of importance like the Financial Times Person of the Year was such a novella and so there's a big write-up of that and there's six consecutive paragraphs that are about slack and there's like there's ..."

"hmm so despite selling out and actually becoming a consultant I studied mechanical engineering and undergrad and as a black engineer I really appreciate what slack has been doing on from the perspecti..."

"there's a really pervasive and incorrect belief that you would have to lower the bar to hire someone who isn't but the canonical candidate look the archetypal candidate for this role I think that's us..."

"archetypal presentation oh it's amazing thank you for sharing that I'm sure I hope people were taking notes so we've gone through the journey of your career you started as a web developer you found in..."

"microphone on at all the time so if anything's negative or critical if I have a relationship with someone then we work together for a long time it's not really a big deal if it's someone that you know..."

"been learning this whole time is is how to do that without like crushing people how to do that without creating an environment where it's entirely top-down like Iron Fist from above and it can be toug..."

"leadership is is the same as the fundamental challenge of just being a human being and I think that's so sound a little bit weird perhaps but like living with an open heart and not seeing other people..."

"in that moment they're just a potential pain in the ass that might take the middle seat next to you and that that's pervasive and when you're really trying to accomplish something it can be very tempt..."

"for aspiring entrepreneurs yeah so I'm not sure I want to like slice it up by who gets more credit but I think the fundamental approach was how much easier can we make people's lives and when I look a..."

"actually is like a challenge so there's some some real fundamentals but the things that we did that were most successful were those things which made life more convenient for people and one of those w..."

"system are much more difficult to to design for and therefore much more interesting amazing thank you all for the questions Dharma you had a pleasure chatting with you it's not often that we get time ..."