Slack founder memoir reveals Salesforce waste: Hawaii exec event cost millions
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-26
A quoted excerpt from Stewart Butterfield's "Building Slack" series describes operational dysfunction inside Salesforce: executives green-lighting expensive celebrity appearances while cutting employee travel, VPs over-hiring thousands then laying them off, and the Laulima annual exec event flying everyone to Hawaii at a cost of millions.
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