First Round Review · 2017-10-07 · 3161d

Eliminating Doubt in Product Decisions: Lessons from Twitter and Slack

Tess Rosania, a product leader at Twitter and Slack, shares four case studies and tactical frameworks for making high-stakes product decisions with confidence. She demonstrates how to overcome internal resistance and user skepticism through structured conversations, hypothesis trees, and data-driven reasoning rather than relying on intuition alone.

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Metrics in this report

Company Size at Twitter

3000-4000employees

approximate

During ranked timeline initiative

Daily Active Users (Slack Core Product)

6 millionusers

current

Slack messaging and channels platform

Fortune 500 Adoption Rate

43%%

current

Slack customer base penetration

Tweet Reading Rate

1 out of 10ratio

at best

Average user timeline consumption