That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket

August 10, 2015 at 5:29 pm | Posted in Astrology | Comments Off on That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket

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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield (Photo credit: Carlo Ricci for Forbes)

Forbes |  In less than two years Slack Technologies has become one of the most glistening of tech’s ten-digit “unicorn” startups, boasting 1.1 million users and a private market valuation of $2.8 billion. If you’ve used Slack’s team-based messaging software, you know that one of its catchiest innovations isSlackbot, a helpful little avatar that pops up periodically to provide tips so jaunty that it seems human.

Such creativity can’t be programmed. Instead, much of it is minted by one of Slack’s 180 employees, Anna Pickard, the 38-year-old editorial director. She earned a theater degree from Britain’s Manchester Metropolitan University before discovering that she hated the constant snubs of auditions that didn’t work out. After dabbling in blogging, videogame writing and cat impersonations, she found her way into tech, where she cooks up zany replies to users who…

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