Slack Faces Giant Tech Rivals
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Slack Faces Giant Tech Rivals
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#2Eh, I think they'll be fine. A solid product and existing userbase. They'll either get auctioned off for a few billion or showered with enough money that they can't possibly fail for at least five years.
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#3800 employees?! How?!
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#4I'm a member of a team that pays for Slack. Don't forget, if you don't pay for the product, you are the product. I am sick, sick, sick, of being somebody's product.
And with Slack, I don't have to be somebody's product. I don't have to already use Lookout xxx Outlook. I don't have to cope with messages from recruiters sending spam. Any fake nuz that shows up was faked by somebody I know.
Go Slack. Please figure out how to make your business sustainable: you're helping make our business sustainable.
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#5800 employees?! How?!
Finance, marketing, HR, recruiting...
Slack claims to not have a sales team.
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#6800 employees?! How?!
how: they've raised over half a billion dollars.
my own question is "why." slack is by no means a trivial business to run but 800 does seem awfully high.
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#7I'm a member of a team that pays for Slack. Don't forget, if you don't pay for the product, you are the product. I am sick, sick, sick, of being somebody's product. And with Slack, I don't have to be somebody's product. I don't have to already use Lookout xxx Outlook. I don't have to cope with messages from recruiters sending spam. Any fake nuz that shows up was faked by somebody I know. Go Slack. Please figure out h…
So the problem slack has is that chat is so foundational to the web that it's one of those things that doesn't really make sense to farm it out to third parties.
It's not hard or expensive to run yourself, and it's not difficult to securely expose on the web. That's why Lync has such a head start and why Atlassian's on premises option is gaining traction. Ultimately I suspect Mattermost is going to end up the main winner here. Slack, Teams and Hipchat will all have their userbases, but they'll have been in a three-way bar fight to get them, which is expensive.
Meanwhile, all those 12 person offices that farm their IT out to third party support companies? They're gonna start getting given Mattermost servers, because that's easy for the IT shops to license and install, yet also still under their direct control, which is important because IT support companies don't have a tonne of bandwidth to educate all 100 client companies if slack suddenly changes something.
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#8800 employees?! How?!
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#9800 employees?! How?!
Too many startups go the easy route once they get significant funding – go on a hiring spree.
In my opinion, per-employee metrics (ie. revenue/profit per employee) are a great way to make sure that you don't overhire [1].
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple...
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#10> “We’re trying to build empathy at scale,” Mr. Butterfield said.
> “There are people who will die, get divorced, have children with cancer,” Mr. Butterfield said. “You really have to put yourself in their frames of mind. If we preoccupy these people for a minute longer than we have to, we’ll lose them.”