Ep 818: AI Just Went Multiplayer. Slack Is Where It All Comes Together
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Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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How did the host introduce the shift from single-player to multiplayer AI?
I think the pre-2026 AI story was single player. Whether you were an individual, small business owner, or part of a large enterprise, I think the 2022 to 2025 Strategy for AI was unfortunately a lot of copying and pasting and working in silos, but that's changed, right? We are in 2026 where everything is agentic first and headless and also multi-player. So that's what we're going to be tackling on today's show. Not just that shift of AI going multiplayer, but specifically how everyone's favorite communication tools, Slack, is actually bringing that all together. So I'm excited for today's conversation. Hope you are too. Welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Bolson. If you're new here, we do this every day.
This is your unedited, unscripted live stream podcast and free business, free newsletter, helping everyday business leaders like you and me not just keep up with what's happening in AI because it does, it stops, but I tell you what matters, what doesn't. You take that information to grow your company and your career. If that's what you're trying to do, it starts here. But make sure you go to our website at youreverydayai.com. We're going to be recapping the highlights from today's podcast, and it's going to be a good one. We have a great guest and all the other AI news that you need to know to stay ahead and be the smartest person in AI in your company. Sounds like a good deal, right? All right. But we have a treat for everyone today.
It's not just going to be me yapping.
Who is Ryan Gaffin and what does his role at Slack involve?
We get to steal some of the secrets from someone building the tools we all get to use. All right. So I'm excited to bring on to today's show, live stream audience, if you could help me welcome to the show. Let's bring them on there. Ryan Gaffin, the chief marketing officer at Slack. Ryan, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI Show. Jordan, thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here. All right, so tell everyone a little bit, what is your role at Slack, right? Everyone knows Slack, everyone knows CMO, but what does that actually look like? Because you guys are shipping so many things, especially on the AI and agentic side.
Yeah, I appreciate it. I like to describe myself as middle management overhead. That's really what I am. But I do get the privilege of looking after the Slack business and the marketing side. I also get to look after small and medium business here at Salesforce, as well as something we call our digital growth systems team. At Slack, it's really about how do we take and transform organizations and kind of get them ready for this moment. It sounds cliche, but everyone is racing as hard as they can, and many are struggling with what's going on. It's just the pace of change, the innovation, the AI and agent buzzword drinking game continues, and everyone's trying to figure out how they navigate it. And Slack's become an incredibly important tool for many organizations to do just that.
So that's where I'm spending a lot of my time these days.
Yeah, walk us through, you know, I kind of previewed it, but it seems like, you know, so much of AI strategy, you know, especially in the earlier years of the online chatbot was really just about how individuals can bring, you know, their best together and then somehow you have to duct tape it all together. First of all, tell us what the heck is Slackbot for those of our audience who haven't used it or maybe they haven't heard. And then what's Slackbot doing to try to turn the player from a single player game into a multiplayer agentic collaboration?
Yeah, so there's a bunch there that's important to unpack. So I think, you know, first and foremost, I'll kind of, let me touch on the multiplayer piece and then I'll kind of, I'll get into Slackbot a little bit. You know, there's this interesting thing that's been happening that we've all experienced, like this explosion of intelligence tools that are now at our fingertips.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:16
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How did the host introduce the shift from single-player to multiplayer AI?
0:16–1:49
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Who is Ryan Gaffin and what does his role at Slack involve?
1:49–19:48
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What is Slackbot and how does it act as an AI personal assistant?
19:48–31:10
Speakers
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