Riding the News Cycle

In conversation with: Andrew Braccia, Accel Partners

Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack and Flickr, talks about how press coverage of new technologies tends to swing from adoration to criticism, and how companies in the limelight should prepare themselves for the inevitable turn. In conversation with Andrew Braccia of Accel Partners, Butterfield also notes that the amount of pressure to perform well is about the same, whether in good times or bad.