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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by 28304283409234 »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #237
easton wrote: post #14

I'm somewhat surprised that Amazon didn't end up acquiring Slack, considering that the major thing they are missing compared to Microsoft is productivity tools. If they had purchased Dropbox and Slack they could've gotten a foothold rather quickly and slowed down one of Microsoft's major selling points (you already use Office, why not Azure?). Discord could be another interesting company in the chat space, as I'm sur…

They also need email. They should buy Zimbra.

They bought Zarafa instead. 10 Years ago. Which is now Workmail.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by bserge »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #393
brundolf wrote: post #214

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Sure, nobody said this doesn't work out well for the founders. Just the product, and its userbase, and future business.

I wonder if and when the society will finally develop an immune response to this business pattern: a) get a large amount of people to tie their lives/businesses to a service you provide, b) sell out to a bigger fish, leaving these users high and dry.

On the bright side, these users can likely move to another platform if the big fish fudges up.

And now the big fish has spent a massive amount on a worthless product.

Kinda like MySpace.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by odiroot »

mullingitover wrote: post #394

They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead. Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead. I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.

Maybe we can get a good cross-platform email client next?

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by kumarvvr »

baby wrote: post #526
abalashov wrote: post #267

For me the fascinating headline here is the 86% gross margins. FY2020 gross revenue at Slack was $630.4m, GAAP gross profit $533.2m [1]. SaaS apps are comically, stupidly profitable at scale. That's educational. [1] https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-announces-fourth-quarter-a...

The subscription model is a true modernized return to the good old ways of creating a product that sells because it’s good quality. How? If a user is not satisfied, they will stop paying. Slack has all the incentives to improve their product, especially in the face of competition.

Perhaps true for a standalone app, but very different for a social one like Slack.

You have to use what others are using.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by goatinaboat »

astral303 wrote: post #505
spicyramen wrote: post #490

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You nailed it, Google product managers, specially in Cloud lack the Enterprise expertise. They need to get that a company with IT staff already went through updating NT to Windows 2000 and then 2008 and deploying Linux and Active Directory and Exchange 5.5, 2k..etc...many MS products which were de facto for any large Company, if you can't integrate with it you will never have a solid footstep into the Enterprise worl…

My large disappointment with Google's Cloud Platform offering was lack of commitment to parity features. I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs. For example, you cannot, on one hand, advertise that you have a competitive feature (Google Functions competing with AWS Lambda), but then, on the other hand, turn around and label it beta and basically…

I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs.

Anyone who uses GCP knows you type “gcloud beta ...” an awful lot. But enterprise sales are made on the golf course between people who have never and will never use the product themselves.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by square_usual »

zacharycohn wrote: post #559
dmlittle wrote: post #175

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I don't think this is true. You can't really join/leave channels on Discord (yes I'm aware you can use roles to give permissions but it's not the same).

This is my biggest complaint about Discord, and the reason I rarely check the few servers I'm on. There are three channels out of 80 I'm interested in. Just let me leave them!

You can mute channels and hide them, or mute sections, or mute chanells and collapse the sections they are in. There are lots of ways to get channels you don't want out of your face.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by chha »

fphhotchips wrote: post #583
staticelf wrote: post #580

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What is an MMO? Massive Multiplayer Online?

Short for MMORPG or massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Not really; MMO is just a massively multiplayer online game, it doesn't have to be an RPG. It could just as well be an FPS, RTS or any other genre...

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by syshum »

magicalhippo wrote: post #456
syshum wrote: post #443

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>>and there's no way to chat with someone in one team while you're in a call with someone from the other team besides running a separate client. This was largely fixed, you may have to enable the "new meeting experience" though, which starts your meeting / call in a separate window from the main client

I have that enabled and I still get the message that my call will end when I try to switch teams while in a call. Last tried this a couple of days ago.

I am not sure what you mean by "switch teams". Are you attempting to Switch Tenants?

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by codeulike »

JoeOfTexas wrote: post #65
subsubzero wrote: post #29

Kinda bummed by this news. I know a bunch of people over at Slack and I'm sure none of them are excited about being acquired. I still don't understand how salesforce has gotten so big where they can acquire $25B healthy companies which really don't fit into their eco-system.

Their sales teams have been locking in all major corporations. I have no idea how they cornered a market so fast. They are living like kings right now.

You talking about Salesforce? They've been around since 1999 and have been dominant in SaaS ever since the phrase was first coined. There's nothing fast about it.

Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

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Post by pimterry »

kumarvvr wrote: post #594
baby wrote: post #526

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The subscription model is a true modernized return to the good old ways of creating a product that sells because it’s good quality. How? If a user is not satisfied, they will stop paying. Slack has all the incentives to improve their product, especially in the face of competition.

Perhaps true for a standalone app, but very different for a social one like Slack. You have to use what others are using.

Is that true? For a social app where every user pays, sure, but Slack is generally paid for by a central business/group/organization. If the users in the organization are sufficiently unhappy with Slack, a functional organization should be unhappy with Slack, and if the organization is unhappy it can migrate everybody elsewhere overnight, with minimal social impact.
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