Parker Harris

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Slack & Director, Salesforce

Search every verified Parker Harris interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the TDX 2026 conference, Harris demonstrated updates to Slackbot, describing it as an "employee superagent" that can access company intelligence from conversations and documents. He emphasized the importance of user adoption, stating that "if no one's using it, who cares?" and noted that the company plans to focus on discovery and ease of use for all employees, not just engineers. During a Dreamforce 2025 fireside chat with Guy Raz, Harris discussed the impact of agentic AI, defining it as "an agent that can do things on your behalf" and predicting that a large majority of repetitive tasks will be automated. He argued that jobs will change rather than disappear, drawing parallels to the industrial revolution and the advent of personal computers, and expressed hope that AI could help reduce partisanship. Harris also reflected on Salesforce's founding, describing meeting Marc Benioff as "one of the luckiest moments in my life" and recalling the company's early emphasis on trust as a core value when customers were skeptical of internet transactions. He cautioned against corporations using AI as a reason to cut their workforce, stating that "you can't cut yourself to growth" and instead suggested retraining employees for higher-level tasks.