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April Underwood

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  1. Obviously, creating a lot of new. So I'd love to get your thoughts on that. But first, give people a background of how you got to where you got, because I think it's very important to understand people's. Orig

    2018-09-05 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Slack chief product officer April Underwood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, editor at large of recode. You may know me as someone who spends all day on Slack making new emojis of Peter Kafka's face, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode on the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today in the red chair is someone I've wanted to talk to for a while, April Underwood, the chief product officer at Slack. She's been at Slack for three years now, but before that spent nearly five years as the director of product at Twitter. Lots to talk about there. We're taping this episode in late August, but releasing it just before the Slack Frontiers conference in San Francisco. April, welcome to Reco Decode. Thanks so much for having me. So there's so much to talk about. So what I want to do, you guys just raised a whole bunch of money. There's been all kinds of Slack has done a lot of stuff in the past couple of years. So let's just get your backgrounds. I'd love to understand how you got to where you got. Obviously, as I was saying, you're one of the few really high-ranking female leaders in tech. There's not as many as there should be. And you've worked at a lot of these places that are...

    2018-09-05 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Slack chief product officer April Underwood · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT