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Rob Seaman, Slack Interim CEO
Slack's product chief was elevated to interim CEO in December 2025 after OpenAI hired away then-CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer; publicly framed Slack Code as removing code as the development bottleneck and defended its user-permission-based access model.
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Katie Steigman, Slack VP of Product
Described code-channel mechanics and argued shared visibility acts as a safety guard because peers can see and comment on agent work.
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Ryan Gavin, Slack Chief Marketing Officer
Framed pre-Slack-Code agentic coding as a 'solo player sport' that fails to produce organizational returns, positioning Slack Code as the fix.
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Jeff Wang, President of New Enterprise, Cognition (Devin)
Gave a live launch demo of Devin working inside a code channel and cited Cognition's internal merged-PR count rising roughly 10x against about 40% headcount growth as evidence multiplayer agent workflows scale collaboration.
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NanoCo (Gavriel Cohen & Lazer Cohen, co-founders)
Launched the competing NanoClaw Slack integration the same week, letting users spin up persistent teams of custom AI agents from a single Slack message; raised a $12M seed round and reports 250,000+ downloads and 30,000+ GitHub stars.
Published public-preview changelog entries for Copilot in Slack and Copilot in Microsoft Teams the day after Slack Code's announcement, signaling a competitive response to Slack's collaborative-coding push.