If you use Slack at work, you’ve likely noticed that the number of channels you’re invited to proliferates incessantly. David Sacks,

David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast

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2024-05-16 10:00:14

If you use Slack at work, you’ve likely noticed that the number of channels you’re invited to proliferates incessantly.

David Sacks, one-quarter of the popular All In podcast and a renowned serial entrepreneur whose past companies include Yammer — an employee chat startup that sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012 — says he can solve this problem. Toward that end, he teamed up with Evan Owen, formerly the VP of engineering at a collaboration app, Zinc, that ServiceMax acquired in 2019.

The two of them have created Glue, an employee chat app that they say will fix what they call “Slack channel fatigue.” Glue, which emerged from stealth on Tuesday, is designed around topic-based threads and uses GenAI.

Craft Ventures, the VC firm that Sacks founded, incubated and funded the company through multiple seed rounds. Glue was born in 2021 when Sacks and Owen, then an entrepreneur-in-residence at Craft, decided they each had many ideas about improving workplace messaging, and the space was due for an update.