Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by nerdwaller » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

maitrik wrote: post #3

Really 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.

One thing I don't get is Microsoft Teams, which seems to be their closest Slack competitor, while they also have Skype and Lync.

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

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Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by tdburn » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

One article yesterday suggested that the Amazon non compete lawsuit agaimay their former AWS employee might indicate that they're planning on getting into the business productivity market. With this news that might have credibility

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by wcummings » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

How much revenue does slack generate?

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by flipp3r » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

wcummings wrote: post #64

How much revenue does slack generate?

"The company reportedly has about 5 million daily active users, with 1.5 million of those paying for the service." * https://slack.com/pricing

At least 10 million a month, I assume?

Edit: "Slack has 5 million daily active users -- 1.5 million of whom pay to use the service -- and had $150 million in annual recurring revenue as of Jan. 31." from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/messaging...

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by holydude » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:41 PM UTC

I hope they do not buy it but I am afraid they will. I am somehow sick of these companies that do not generate enough profit to sustain themselves and have to be bought by oligopolies like Amazon.

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by alexwilde » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

"Of the so-called big-five tech companies in the US, Amazon is the only one without a messaging platform." https://chime.aws/

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:44 PM UTC

wcummings wrote: post #64

How much revenue does slack generate?

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Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by cylinder » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:49 PM UTC

... why?

Re: Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

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Post by dkural » Thu, Jun 15, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

Amazon's been a prudent steward of its cash and shareholder value. I'd be really surprised if it spent this sum over Slack & encourage Bezos to go get his head checked. Messaging platforms come and go. Many better ways to spend $9B for Amazon.