Entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield describes how Slack grew organically out of a need for a tool to improve in-house communication and coordination, not necessarily as a premeditated product intended for the market. “Just like any other business, most of your daily effort is in communication,” Butterfield says to Andrew Braccia of Accel Partners.

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