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The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos)

Stewart Butterfield · NFX Free Beginner

The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos)

An audio reading of the whole memo, which plays inline here, so you can take in the argument in one pass while doing something else.

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The question it answers

  1. What did Slack's "We don't sell saddles here" memo actually change about how they sold?

Read with it

  1. The memo itself, published by Butterfield. Read the primary source rather than the hundred posts summarising it, because the... Medium Essay · Short read We Don't Sell Saddles Here Stewart Butterfield
  2. The founders describe coining inbound marketing as an old game versus new game framing, then choosing SMB over enterprise to... Crucible Moments Podcast · 40 min HubSpot: An Underdog Helps Invent Modern Marketing, and Then Takes on Goliath Sequoia Capital with Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
  3. The full verbatim memo, dated 31 July 2013 and sent two weeks before the preview release. Read the primary text rather than the... alexanderjarvis.com Article · About 10 min read We Don't Sell Saddles Here memo from Slack Stewart Butterfield
  4. Video · Podcast episode 76. How Slack is Generating $600MM With a Bottom-Up Approach w/ Kevin Egan at Slack Kevin Egan
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