Hmmm. The story I keep hearing is companies switching from Slack to Teams, not because Teams is better, but because it's more or less integrated into O365 and has various compliance certs already. 7.1B seems a bit high when competing with MS.
Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
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Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
And honestly, how hard can it be? Put a 5 man team on it and in a few months it'll be done and workable. Few million down the drain but your software is insanely more useable. I guess that doesn't sell the service...
Lets assume well paid developers of $150.000 yearly, 5 man for 3 months is less than $187.500 is wages. Lets be generous and say we double that to account for other expenses. It's $375.000 for a feature that will be a reasonable sales argument.
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#83Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
And honestly, how hard can it be? Put a 5 man team on it and in a few months it'll be done and workable. Few million down the drain but your software is insanely more useable. I guess that doesn't sell the service...
No need! Everyone is already so happy with the electron version; why would they waste more money improving your experience?
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#85Can slack messages be considered "personal data" under GDPR?
The information in the individual slack account is most likely PD under the GDPR.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
And honestly, how hard can it be? Put a 5 man team on it and in a few months it'll be done and workable. Few million down the drain but your software is insanely more useable. I guess that doesn't sell the service...
No need! Everyone is already so happy with the electron version; why would they waste more money improving your experience?
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#87Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#88Still waiting for a native MacOS app that doesn't slow my machine down to a crawl and runs the fans whenever I made a video call. $7.1B folks. $7.1 billion.
I think contributing to open source and making electron better/faster/lighter will benefit everyone and i prefer it over making a native app
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
#89How come Slack is worth $7.1B? I can't imagine they produce that much value or have a high enough revenue to warrant this valuation.
Re: Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
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Its strange, we have a solid fibre connection in Thailand and have ~20mbit upstream to Singapore. It's not like we are in a shack on a mountain in Peru on a dialup modem. Slack is the only service we use thats ridiculously slow for us and we use a lot of US based services.
I can deathmatch fine in Quake 2 on a US server. but slack? Yeah no.