As much as Butterfield is proud of the company’s diversity efforts, he’s also nervous about being held up as an example. “I worry about giving the impression that there’s a magic formula and we discovered it,” Butterfield told me. “I know from the inside that we have not figured everything out, that there’s going to be kind of a constant improvement.” A few months after leaving Slack, Baker told me the company still struggles with the stereotypes and misogyny that infect every tech workplace. “They definitely have challenges; there is definitely a James Damore at Slack,” Baker says, referring
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