Moved by Slack’s CEO
Left-to-right: Sirita Wright, Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack, participated in an amazing one-on-one discussion with none other than Black Enterprise‘s effervescent social media manager, Sirita Wright. Before the session, I caught Sirita going over her notes about Butterfield and Slack. She looked up and said, “Did you read the memo he sent employees on MLK Day?†I had. It was an incredibly insightful and moving post on racial justice. “Think about how profoundly shameful it is that there even ever had to be a ‘civil rights movement,’†wrote Butterfield. Sirita actually shed tears while re-reading the memo. I suggest giving it a read yourself.
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