Adjacent question, leaving aside value proposition. Do companies pay for 1000 seats like this? I didn't realize slack is $5 a user a month. Do they discount this for bulk, or are companies paying $5k/month $60k/yearly? These subscriptions must really add up. On All In, they discussed the leverage from AI tools and they probably also meant open source, but one of the companies just rolled their own instance of a big m…
I'm not really in the know, but I bet the enterprise discounts don't kick in until you're at the tens of thousands of users. In any case, $60k sounds like a lot as a top-line figure to some bean-counter, but all these sales pitches follow the same basic pattern: - This is an essential, best-in-class tool. You wouldn't deny your employees a laptop or a free lunch, would you? - $5/user/mo is a bargain compared to the h…
I'll take that bet ;) Not really sure about OpenAI, but you can absolutely negotiate with almost any company.