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You mean available to slack? Ofc, how else would search work?
I'd imagine that they have separate, encrypted siloed search indexes for each paying organization. Why would someone put sensitive information on Slack otherwise?
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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Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
If Amazon wanted to be evil they have a lot more to work with than just chat conversations...
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…
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?
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Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
Is it very different from running all your sensitive company code on Bezos & Co servers?
Selling Slack seems like a mistake. It's so ubiquitous. I'd be interested in buying stock in Slack if they IPO. Snapchat was in a similar situation, and four or so years ago when they turned down Zuck's ~$5B offer everyone was saying what a silly mistake it was not to sell. How could Snapchat possibly make money? And think of all the disheartened employees whose shares would've been worth something. Turns out there's…
The problem with selling isn't the money, the problem is what do you do with the rest of your life. If you sell, that is most likely your peak. This is what zuck and the Snapchat guy was thinking. If they sell, that's it, they are done. Life is over as they know it.
I don't know anything about Evan Spiegel, but I just read about the Snap Foundation - https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/02/snap-inc-snap-foundation...
I just saw simonrobb's comment, and of course the best example is Elon Musk. That's how you sell a company and do something with the rest of your life.
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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.
You can go back through all of history in all Slack conversations as long as you pay the subscription fees, so yes. I'd expect Slack to put older conversations into cold storage too.
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.
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> 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 ?
This would possibly be a first step for AWS to start moving up the stack.