{"id":34682,"date":"2025-10-09T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-coo-brad-lightcap-calls-the-ai-giant-the-worlds-most-active-slack-user\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:51:24","slug":"openai-coo-brad-lightcap-calls-the-ai-giant-the-worlds-most-active-slack-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-coo-brad-lightcap-calls-the-ai-giant-the-worlds-most-active-slack-user\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap calls the AI giant the &#8216;world&#8217;s most active Slack user&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68e7cb515dbc4fd10daa8574?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Brad Lightcap is pictured speaking at an OpenAI event.\"\/><figcaption>OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that the company relied on Slack.<\/p>\n<p>STR\/JIJI Press\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Brad Lightcap said that OpenAI has &quot;the world&#039;s most active users of Slack internally.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>OpenAI recently launched a workplace suite, which Lightcap said complements other tools like Slack and Salesforce.<\/li>\n<li>A former OpenAI engineer previously wrote that &quot;everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI employees are Slacking up a storm.<\/p>\n<p>While AI companies say they&#039;re radically changing how we work, from work to messaging to cutting head count entirely, OpenAI is sticking with one classic workplace tool \u2014 and they use it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said his company had high-frequency Slackers on Fortune&#039;s &quot;Term Sheet&quot; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are probably the world&#039;s most active users of Slack internally at OpenAI,&quot; Lightcap said.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#039;s sales team also &quot;runs on&quot; Salesforce, Lightcap said. Salesforce acquired Slack in 2020 for $27.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Both Salesforce and Slack are SaaS platforms \u2014 as in, software-as-a-service. This is an area that many new AI companies are jumping into, including OpenAI itself. The company released a new suite of workplace tools in October, including an inbound sales assistant and a contract searcher.<\/p>\n<p>Within the company, however, OpenAI sticks with some SaaS stalwarts.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We use kind of all the canonical SaaS systems you can think of,&quot; Lightcap said. &quot;These are really, really important systems for OpenAI, and I think they&#039;re going to be really, really enduring and important systems for a while.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In a July blog post, former OpenAI engineer Calvin French-Owen described the company&#039;s operations, including its reliance on Slack over email.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack,&quot; Calvin French-Owen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there,&quot; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>If AI isn&#039;t the great Slack replacer, where does it fit in? Lightcap said on the podcast that it can &quot;live in the cracks&quot; within these systems and their workflows. That would make everyone work faster, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that the company relied on Slack. STR\/JIJI Press\/AFP via Getty Images Brad Lightcap said that OpenAI has &quot;the world&#039;s most active users of Slack internally.&quot; OpenAI recently launched a workplace suite, which Lightcap said complements other tools like Slack and Salesforce. A former OpenAI engineer previously wrote that &quot;everything, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}