Ryan Gaffin
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first heard Jul 2026
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And I think very quickly, every leading company is going to want to follow suit, which is what I call building in the open.
You know, if you look at like the origin stories of Chachi Big T, if you look at the origin stories of computer from Perplexity, Anthropic, Claude, and the, you know, announcement from a couple of weeks ago with Tag and Claude, all those in Slackbots, all those are byproducts of building in the open.
You're in Slack, you're working on this project, you're iterating with a group of people who are writing code, developing, building new pull requests.
They're going through, they're saying, this is working, this isn't working, I'm trying this, et cetera.
And you iterate, you iterate, you iterate, and you go through and you collectively go and build this thing at unbelievable speed.
um that's how we built slackbot you know slackbot started as a small team that was working on something there's a channel everyone's in there we're testing it out etc we have a thing called slackbot unbaked which is like the you know where the team's like hey i just built this feature everyone go try it out and we all bang on it and see this is working this is great this is amazing this totally didn't work um and it's unbelievable the collaborative power when you build in the open and the speed that happens there
And something super powerful is happening right now, which is it used to be that building was the domain of product and engineering, but now builders are everybody in your company and everybody at your company now needs a platform to build in the open.
If you're in marketing, you need to build in the open.
If you're in finance, if you're in HR, everyone's a builder.
And you have these incredibly powerful tools, not just Slack bot, but tools from Vercel, tools from Anthropic, tools from OpenAI, Linear, all these tools are deployed in Slack because that's where the humans are working.
That's where the collaboration is coming together.
And then you can use these tools to go and build and create incredible stuff.
And so that kind of moment for us, when I saw the pace and the power of building in the open, how quickly we could iterate by doing that.
And then, you know, we're seeing that play out through all of these unbelievable AI companies out there.
You know, it dawned on me, it was like, this is how everyone's going to be working in the future.
We're just a little bit ahead of the curve, but everyone's a builder and everyone needs a building platform.
Yeah, and just building on your opening point, I'm not going to get it perfectly right, but the Shopify CEO, Toby, they built this incredible agent called River, and they deployed it, and they said it's only allowed to be deployed to channels in Slack.
And the reason why, and I'm not going to get his quote exactly right, but he basically said, hey, if you're not like using AI and building and learning in the open, like you're fundamentally in this kind of closed loop system where like an individual is working and getting better.
Maybe they're getting productive, but the larger team, the larger group, the larger system, that learning is not compounding.
And so like you have to be in the open.
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