Slack: Changing The World With Chat Event Highlights (Oct. 1, 2018)
Disruptors19 Okt 2018

Slack: Changing The World With Chat Event Highlights (Oct. 1, 2018)

It's hard to talk about Stewart Butterfield without getting into his unorthodox path to the heights of tech. The Canadian entrepreneur spent his early childhood without electricity, taught himself to code, and studied philosophy at Cambridge before falling into a tech career that’s now pitting him against Microsoft and Google. Butterfield’s biggest business success, Slack, is a corporate communications tool aimed at reducing some of the 269 billion emails sent around the world each day. He joined us at the latest RBC Disruptors.


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Solving for the Silver Tsunami

Solving for the Silver Tsunami

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Farmer 4.0: The Shift to Automation

Farmer 4.0: The Shift to Automation

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Farmer 4.0: Agriculture's Skills Revolution

Farmer 4.0: Agriculture's Skills Revolution

Agriculture is undergoing a skills revolution. In part one of this mini-series, John Stackhouse discusses the findings of a new RBC report, Farmer 4.0, with Andrew Schrumm, its lead researcher, and ho...

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From Burberry to Apple: A Shift in Retail (July 8, 2019)

From Burberry to Apple: A Shift in Retail (July 8, 2019)

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Rewiring the Brain (June 24, 2019)

Rewiring the Brain (June 24, 2019)

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