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Re: Slack S-1

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Post by 0xDEFC0DE »

fratlas wrote: post #13
amrrs wrote: post #2

Lyft, Uber, Zoom, Beyond Meat and now, Slack Is there any benefit of Public at this point of time? or Just a trend to grab as much as Wallet share from the average investor?

I've been seeing a lot of calls about this incoming downturn (especially HN), does anyone have any articles/analysis they can point me to? Would love to read up on the state of it.

The recent yield curve inversion got a lot of peoples' attention as that has preceded recessions since the 1960s or so, but I can't point to a better article than mainstream news.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by xfitm3 »

sinatra wrote: post #16

Great product! Still don’t know why they don’t give the user the option of disabling threaded conversations for self or for entire organization. People have been asking for it for years. Ref: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/822064778269102080?lang=e... At least allow me as an individual user to see all messages sequentially without any threads. I am willing to do mental context switches. I prefer doing that to los…

Slack is hostile towards users. They aggressively push a narrative that if Slack is annoying - its a management problem.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by graetzer »

douglasfshearer wrote: post #12

Slack has a 5-year, $50M/year minimum commitment with AWS. From the document: > In April 2018, the Company executed an amendment to its existing agreement with Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). The amended agreement was effective as of May 1, 2018 and continues through July 31, 2023. The Company has minimum annual commitments of $50.0 million each year of the agreement term for a total minimum commitment of $250.0 million…

thats still only half as much as Lyfts $100M/year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282624

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by jfoster »

sinatra wrote: post #16

Great product! Still don’t know why they don’t give the user the option of disabling threaded conversations for self or for entire organization. People have been asking for it for years. Ref: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/822064778269102080?lang=e... At least allow me as an individual user to see all messages sequentially without any threads. I am willing to do mental context switches. I prefer doing that to los…

I think threaded conversations become more important as an organisation's channels become increasingly noisy. Threaded conversations can partly alleviate that.

They probably want to prevent organisations from disabling a feature that may assist with their scaling on slack.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by [deleted] »

arkitaip wrote: post #19
jasongill wrote: post #4

Congratulations to the Slack team; a great product that has generally become better over time. Let's hope that going public doesn't change them too much (although things like the new logo debacle don't inspire confidence at times)

I think we're already seeing a backlash against the always multitasking, loss of focus culture that Slack has become the poster child for in the SASS space. Just like Facebook or Twitter, Slack is engineered for constant dopamine-fueled engagement, which quickly turns it into a bad and ultimately unproductive habit for companies that use it. I am already seeing competitors like Level use Slack as a warning example an…

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Re: Slack S-1

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Post by raldi »

sinatra wrote: post #16

Great product! Still don’t know why they don’t give the user the option of disabling threaded conversations for self or for entire organization. People have been asking for it for years. Ref: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/822064778269102080?lang=e... At least allow me as an individual user to see all messages sequentially without any threads. I am willing to do mental context switches. I prefer doing that to los…

They also don't give the option of disabling vowels.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by prklmn »

polote wrote: post #14
CSMastermind wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The market is going to crash and everyone wants to cash out before it does.

But could also be the thing that will make the market crash nobody knows

The S&P 500 by itself is valued at almost $24T (https://ycharts.com/indicators/sandp_500_market_cap).

A couple large companies going public and raising several billion dollars will not make the market crash. All of them listing at once is a symptom of where we are in the economic cycle, and where these companies are in their individual growth curves.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by sneak »

fratlas wrote: post #13
amrrs wrote: post #2

Lyft, Uber, Zoom, Beyond Meat and now, Slack Is there any benefit of Public at this point of time? or Just a trend to grab as much as Wallet share from the average investor?

I've been seeing a lot of calls about this incoming downturn (especially HN), does anyone have any articles/analysis they can point me to? Would love to read up on the state of it.

There is no "state of the art" of predicting the future, sadly.

Re: Slack S-1

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Post by mertd »

fratlas wrote: post #13
amrrs wrote: post #2

Lyft, Uber, Zoom, Beyond Meat and now, Slack Is there any benefit of Public at this point of time? or Just a trend to grab as much as Wallet share from the average investor?

I've been seeing a lot of calls about this incoming downturn (especially HN), does anyone have any articles/analysis they can point me to? Would love to read up on the state of it.

No. The bull run could sustain for another 10 years or end tomorrow. I bet people predicting the downturn are also still heavily invested in stocks.
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