May 25, 2023· 45 min
Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on AI, Software, and the End of the Tech Boom
Orality
Model
78%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(2,392 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(5,120 words)
M:28%
GuestStewart Butterfield(0 words)
M:29%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic30%
absolutely, very, crazy
Engagement75%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, so
Repetition100%
like (249x), know (100x), think (77x)
Parallelism81%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But it's one of these topics t..., So there's two big things that...
Sound Patterns64%
63 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging8%
maybe, might, probably
Passive Voice3%
being taken, been taken, were acquired
Abstract Nouns18%
investment, question, consciousness
Subordination7%
because, since, however
Sentence Length38%
Avg: 14.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style25%
739 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style79%
internationally, apply, absolutely
Description
Stewart Butterfield has been at the forefront of two epochal turning points for tech. First, he was the co-founder of the photo sharing site Flickr, that was one of the defining brands of the so-called Web 2.0 and the world of user-generated content. Several years after that, he co-founded Slack, one of the big winners of the software-as-a-service wars, changing how people work and how companies operate. Now we're at another turning point for the tech industry. Layoffs have occurred across the space and AI is putting traditional business models into doubt. On this episode, we speak with Butterfield about his experiences and what he sees coming next for tech. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.