Today's podcast covers:1. [You asked: We don't sell saddles here](https://buildingslack.com/you-asked/)Welcome to Pocket to Podcast. Today we have one article covering the internal impact and lasting significance of Stewart Butterfield's "We Don't Sell Saddles Here" essay at Slack.In July 2013, just before Slack launched its Preview Release, Stewart Butterfield shared an internal memo titled "We Don't Sell Saddles Here." This memo, shared by John O'Nolan, CEO of Ghost, during an inquiry about its reception and its aging, was later published on the web around the time of Slack’s public launch in February 2014. The internal reaction to the memo was significant; it raised the team's ambitions and broadened the scope of their efforts. At a time when the company was engrossed in the minutiae of making everything work for their first public release, Butterfield was thinking several steps ahead. He outlined the dual challenges ahead: convincing a large group of people who had no prior knowledge of Slack to sign up and pay for it, and refining the product to eliminate all rough edges, providi...Generated by Pocket to Podcast