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Or try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.
My wife and I once spent TWO hours stuffing photocopiers into an elevator in Deus Ex. So, getting close with that one.
Eh people will be salty about the Salesforce name but honestly their acquisition of Heroku hasn't caused me any pains regarding our experience with that platform. I'm as skeptical as anyone else, and I think there's more risk in a tighter "integration" making it a miserable experience. Might be a good time in the market for a new Slack competitor!
I don't believe Salesforce got much value out of Heroku however. Their main app isn't built on top of it, and they were shopping around for cloud providers to expand to places like Australia.
"Congratulations to Slack on its exit" I say as I forgot they are post-IPO. I always thought it strange how big Slack got to begin with. History will probably remember its ultimate accomplishment was getting lots of companies to switch from direct-message communication to chat rooms. However, that was probably inevitable as an internet savvy generation took over more companies, and Slack was simply well-timed. It's n…
If they fuck up Slack, everyone will move to MS Teams. That is, unless some start-up dreams up some kind of revolutionary paradigm shift in how people communicate online. Maybe something in the AR space ~10 years from now.
Teams feels entirely too tied to MSFT. The UI seems unbearable.
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Indeed. I expect mass layoffs basically immediately.
Yes the redundant orgs will probably be mainly laid off eventually. You don’t need 2 HR’s, G/A, etc. Sales will probably be reduced quite a bit and the engineering team will stick around.
I can't possibly see this going well for salesforce. Buying slack for 70x revenue is insane. Their entire market is going to be eaten by teams and google chat, if it hasn't already. Microsoft has such a gigantic advantage when it comes to enterprise productivity software because everyone is already using office. And those that aren't are on g-suite. Slack's recent guidance was horrible too.
- Slack wasn't going to survive as an independent. Their anti-trust efforts against Microsoft + Teams seemed to go nowhere.
- Salesforce is one of the only companies that can go to-to-toe with Microsoft in the enterprise - 80%+ of the Fortune 500, 150k+ customers, 200k+ people at their conference each year
- Salesforce already know your org chart so can roll out slack to anyone already on force.com easily.
- Salesforce are building out from a data-up direction to take up what employees have open on their screens at work. Slack/collab was a big part they were missing (so is video/conf - zoom would be perfect but it's overvalued, Workday also fits)
- Integrations with CRM, customer support, social media management, etc. are a no-brainer into slack
- Microsoft are weak exactly where Salesforce are strong so a lot of customers are across both and would be tempted by free Slack over free Teams
- They're issuing stock for half the acquisition and have a cap of 250B+ which is a bit bubbly but they're doing well P&L wise recently
Anyone read the press release? Salesforce wants to use Slack as an input device driver. Imagine slacking with your customers, colleagues etc... need to create a DB entry? Slack command. Need to schedule some follow up, slack command. Need to track a bunch of tasks? Slack-Force integrations. I see an AI bot here to help get that data into Salesforce. To quote: "Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of e…
"Congratulations to Slack on its exit" I say as I forgot they are post-IPO. I always thought it strange how big Slack got to begin with. History will probably remember its ultimate accomplishment was getting lots of companies to switch from direct-message communication to chat rooms. However, that was probably inevitable as an internet savvy generation took over more companies, and Slack was simply well-timed. It's n…
If they fuck up Slack, everyone will move to MS Teams. That is, unless some start-up dreams up some kind of revolutionary paradigm shift in how people communicate online. Maybe something in the AR space ~10 years from now.
Anyone read the press release? Salesforce wants to use Slack as an input device driver. Imagine slacking with your customers, colleagues etc... need to create a DB entry? Slack command. Need to schedule some follow up, slack command. Need to track a bunch of tasks? Slack-Force integrations. I see an AI bot here to help get that data into Salesforce. To quote: "Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of e…
I'm just terrified that they'll integrate Slack's clean web interface with the massive net of clutter that is Salesforce's UI.