Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
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Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
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Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#2Fascinating. Amazon generally only does acquisitions of small companies for core technologies or teams; they've historically been great champions of the "not invented here" philosophy.
This would be a radical departure from that pattern.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#3Really believe that Microsoft should have bought Slack. It makes perfect sense for them and aligns with their vision to be the productivity center of everyone's workflow.
Microsoft doesnt understand this space at all. Look what they are doing to Skype by making it more like Snapchat when their main use case is business related. Teams also feels so unfinished.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#4As somebody who happily advocates Matrix[1], I'd be ecstatic if Slack would be bought by some giant and thus slowly made obsolete :)
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#5Starting off at a new company this past week, and realize a lot of commerce happens on Slack. Whether it's deciding what monitor to order, the best shows to watch on TV or what live events are happening that weekend. Amazon could see this as a way to capture some value generated there.
Also, an easy way to get companies signed up w/ Amazon Prime!
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#6I would think Discord was a better fit for Amazon.
1. Great fit with twitch.
2. Seems like it could be "forked internally" and reskinned to compete with slack in the business space too.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#7Fascinating. Amazon generally only does acquisitions of small companies for core technologies or teams; they've historically been great champions of the "not invented here" philosophy. This would be a radical departure from that pattern.
What's also interesting is that they have a product that is somewhat of a Slack competitor:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-chime-unified-commun...
It was launched only 4 months ago. I wonder how it's doing today and how important Amazon thinks this space is for them and their platform. It's AWS branded too which is a bit odd.
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#8I would think Discord was a better fit for Amazon. 1. Great fit with twitch. 2. Seems like it could be "forked internally" and reskinned to compete with slack in the business space too.
Twitch bought Curse and revamped their app as the Twitch App, it's moving towards Discord-like features already.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#9Really believe that Microsoft should have bought Slack. It makes perfect sense for them and aligns with their vision to be the productivity center of everyone's workflow. Microsoft doesnt understand this space at all. Look what they are doing to Skype by making it more like Snapchat when their main use case is business related. Teams also feels so unfinished.
Don't generalize the company products with the company teams. I don't have an opinion on your comments on Skype. Teams is a competitor and tied to Active Directory. But many employees are involved in slack channels across Microsoft based, open sourced based, and other channels daily.
Slack/Teams/etc are tools. Real work will find the right tools and the right people and the right working model.
Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon
#10I would think Discord was a better fit for Amazon. 1. Great fit with twitch. 2. Seems like it could be "forked internally" and reskinned to compete with slack in the business space too.
Twitch bought Curse and revamped their app as the Twitch App, it's moving towards Discord-like features already.
Yeah, but Twitch's chat sucks. Discord feels like an incredibly good fit with Twitch and Curse. I've been expecting this acquisition for at least a year. Figured it would be how Amazon broke into the chat space.