Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
25 Jun 2019 Acquired The Slack DPO
“The story now is that the investors we’re like, “Great, we believe in you. It’s Flickr all over.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 25 Jun 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Slack DPO
Transcript context
…The word enterprise wasn’t uttered out of Stewart’s mouth for a while. The story now is that the investors we’re like, “Great, we believe in you. It’s Flickr all over. We’ll do it again.” I think the reality was a little more nuanced than that. Remember, Accel is the largest outside shareholder in Atlassian at this point. I think they were more like, “Okay, fine. You guys are doing productivity software? Okay.” Fortunately, they say, “All right, do it. We’ll let our money ride. Keep the $5 million and see what you can do.” They started working on it and they have to decide what to call it, the team is like, “Linefeed, that’s not accessible enough.” That’s like the IRC of names.…
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