Slack

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#25 trending in Business & Startups this week · most on Money For Couples with Ramit Sethi

Slack is a cloud-based team communication and collaboration platform for organizations. It organizes conversations in channels and direct messages, supports private groups, integrations, workflow automation, and AI-powered features for searching, summarizing, and coordinating work.

Rank this week

#25new
#137 over 30 days

Share of the conversation

1.3‰
3.3× usual level

0.7‰ of what listeners heard

Reach this week

6 shows
6 episodes · ~741k plays

Tone this week

Neutral
  • Negative 1
  • Neutral 2

Share of the conversation

Mentions of Slack per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.

0.0‰0.5‰1‰1.5‰usual level · 0.38‰Jul 11Aug 2Aug 25Sep 16Oct 8
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DayShare (7-day)Mentions
Aug 120.53‰2
Aug 180.67‰1
Aug 190.73‰2
Aug 250.88‰1
Aug 310.49‰1
Sep 90.28‰1
Sep 130.47‰1
Sep 140.62‰1
Sep 180.75‰2
Sep 210.54‰1
Sep 220.68‰1
Sep 230.85‰1
Sep 250.69‰1
Sep 280.84‰2
Oct 20.54‰1
Oct 30.68‰1
Oct 41.03‰2
Oct 50.91‰1
Oct 61.15‰1

Why is it trending?· Last 7 days

Slack appears in stories about scaling teams and AI-enabled work

Hala Taha said her podcast began with 10 volunteers in a Slack channel, using a team-and-systems approach to scale her brand.[1]

Luca Ferrari described a personal assistant living in Slack, with access to the same toolkit permissions as its user and able to perform tasks.[2]

Peter Diamandis discussed future digital coworkers that people could call, text, or Slack as part of a virtualized company.[3]

Vanessa Van Edwards argued that workplace conversation is increasingly happening on Slack in a transactional way, creating a need for conversation coaches or dedicated roles.[4]

Jason Robbins recalled passing on a company that began as a Slack bot for travel planning before pivoting to data infrastructure, while Ramit Sethi mentioned Slack as a destination for voice-to-text messages.[5][6]

Sources · 6 moments

  1. 1.
    Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Hala Taha: How to Turn Social Media Visibility Into a Revenue Engine | Marketing
    Hala Taha · Oct 2 · Listen at 6:11 ↗
    “Um, when I first started my podcast, 2 months into it, I had 10 volunteers in a Slack channel.”
  2. 2.
    Prof G Markets · This EU Firm Made Billions Buying Up Forgotten Tech
    Luca Ferrari · Oct 4 · Listen at 53:05 ↗
    “us Spooners, by the way, are basically the members of this core team, highly selective recruiting process, and people we move around our businesses fluidly. But we are working now to extend this technology, by the way, to all team members.”
  3. 3.
    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299
    Peter Diamandis · Oct 3 · Listen at 50:17 ↗
    “We've talked about the idea that in the near future, like now, You're gonna have digital coworkers that pop up on Zoom, that you call, that you text, you Slack, and interact with you. And I think it's pretty compelling as a mechanism for a”
  4. 4.
    The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk · 709: Vanessa Van Edwards - How to Connect with Anyone, Master Small Talk, and Ask the 9 Power Questions That Deepen Every Relationship
    Vanessa Van Edwards · Oct 4 · Listen at 49:34 ↗
    “I think CCO, Chief Conversation Officer, is coming, or Chief Community Officer. We're losing our small conversations at work. Right, where there's no more water cooler or we're all about the task. We're all— we're conversing all on Slack, w”

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