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Whatsapp: 500 million users for $18b. Slack: ~10 million users for $9b? This doesn't make much sense to me. What's the rationale behind this?
Whatsapp: 500 million users for $18b. Slack: ~10 million users for $9b? This doesn't make much sense to me. What's the rationale behind this?
Different product means different user economics.
Could they legally buy slack and then use all the conversational data to teach their Alexa AI on how to talk more like humans?
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Agreed. These purchases seem to work the best when they're used for defensive purposes and to round out a product offering that already has a substantial userbase . Whatever gadgets they might hang off the app, they're fundamentally a way for people to talk to each other. If you don't have the people, why would you need a slick implementation? As you mentioned, the app would go out of vogue and users would move on. A…
> Of all the mega-corps, Amazon is one of the few that has all the pieces and user-engagement, but no social component. Honest question, since I might be out of the loop here in Europe, but what user engagement pieces does Amazon have then ? I use Amazon for shopping and AWS, and would have no idea what other products they have that are dominating a market. Is this about Kindle ?
Too late to buy, Slack is such old news now and their market is super saturated. This could have been a decent decision several years ago, but not now.
Although the search data would indicate Slack is still super hot - I tend to agree (anecdotally) that the market is saturated, first movers have already ... moved, and most likely growth will be slow.
Slack and Amazon appear to have very difficult cultures, so that would be a very interesting acquisition. If I was an engineer at Slack, I would really, really hope that the company could continue to operate independently, as a subsidiary. I would not be happy if I was forced to work for Amazon for the next x months before I could cash out and leave.
Serious question..... but also more me fleshing out my thoughts on messaging apps.... What is the point in buying a messaging app? - instant messenger - ICQ - Skype - Yammer - WhatsApp They all seem to be popular for a short time and then fad away. What does owing one of these get a company? The case against owning them is that they all go out of favour and you only have a small window, say up to 5 years, where your…
We all asked the same question about Facebook. All social networks before Facebook had faded away. But, Facebook didn't. Potential Slack buyers think that Slack is also here to stay in a similar manner. EDIT: I'm not saying Slack is Facebook. One reason why I think Slack may survive longer than ICQ, Skype etc is how well integrated it is with all other services. For a tool to replace Slack, it should also provide the…
Also messengers aren't as N-N since you end up only talking to a small number of people after a while and don't actually want to move all your contacts.
I don't want to move all my FB contacts either but the number of connections I sort of care about is still likely more than 100.
Too late to buy, Slack is such old news now and their market is super saturated. This could have been a decent decision several years ago, but not now.
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Is all data on slack just available for viewing? If it were so I think its customers would have raised this as an issue by now.
Public slack, yes. But you also have enterprise slack, which is hosted on an organizations' own machines. I imagine they don't have access to that data.