But now, with Friendster and continuing to Facebook, we entered the era of relationship based computing, says Stewart Butterfield, adding “more CPU cycles are now spent on people interacting and relating to each other than any other application.”Turing’s early work in general computing resulted in this meta-world brain on the back of communication.These would open apps specifically designed to handle all these file types. Document centric computing, build around documents, files, and folders.Think the Apollo moon landings, nuclear power plants, missile guidance, or aviation. Application specific computing, meant for a specific use cases.The three stages of world computing according to Stewart: The most ambitious projection Stewart Butterfield shared with interviewer Andrew Braccia of Accel Partners is making sense of these countless pings: with the rise of artificial intelligence, big data, and affective computing, posits Stewart, we’re moving towards making more sense - automagically - of the world’s increasing noise, and Slack stands to be at the center. Stewart’s team, decorated with English Literature and Philosophy graduates, looks deeply into the future. That includes task management, bug reporting, continuous integration - and eventually, all opportunities for Slack’s workplace domination plan. But with the combined tools - 80 in total - the company uses and pays for besides the Slack chat it developed, the company has reached over 100,000 distinct messages per day - many from machines or software.

With over 350 employees sending 30,000 total messages a day, the team isn’t far from it. The pressure gets turned up” and your project evolves far beyond you: Stewart now looks at Slack as an Operating System. Stewart has to keep exceeding expectations with the community and with investors. Almost every tech company uses Slack to communicate online. “It sucks to be the CEO of a startup that’s doing super well.” And it makes sense, the attention that it has got from Silicon Valley is notorious.

“T he stakes just get higher and higher” for Stewart Butterfield, Slack CEO and Founder. Originally written by Christian Turlica to Startup Grind, the global entrepreneurship community. Slack Stewart Butterfield: “It Sucks To Be the CEO of a Startup That’s Doing Super Well”

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