Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
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Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
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Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#2How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it.
From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#3How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it. From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
This article was posted a couple months ago here and should answer your question: http://www.fastcompany.com/3041905/slacks-founder-on-how-the...
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#4How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it. From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
I'd certainly find some analysis of this interesting to read. Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack. I imagine having a rather powerful free plan helped a lot, although Hipchat might disprove that.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
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Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#6How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it. From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
I'd certainly find some analysis of this interesting to read. Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack. I imagine having a rather powerful free plan helped a lot, although Hipchat might disprove that.
Yeah, but the consensus seems to be that Atlassian ruined HipChat. I'm not sure if that's true, but everyone I know that switch lists that as a top reason.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#7How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it. From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
Yeah, I remember hearing about it, using it and loving it all in the span of a few hours /days.
Then within a month every other team I talked to was also using it... blew HipChat right out of the water.
I would attribute it to the amazing UX and well thought out feature-set. Integrations and per-channel notifications were both essential features and easy to find and figure out how to use.
I also wouldn't discount the design, their choice of color palette and styled stripes with the # managed to set them apart while still looking professional.
I don't know what contributed the most to my adoption personally, but whatever it is, they've got it.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd certainly find some analysis of this interesting to read. Campfire was popular throughout my more technical social groups up until a couple of years ago but never came close to the intensity around Slack. I imagine having a rather powerful free plan helped a lot, although Hipchat might disprove that.
Yeah, but the consensus seems to be that Atlassian ruined HipChat. I'm not sure if that's true, but everyone I know that switch lists that as a top reason.
Still using Hipchat. Seems fine.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#9This is pretty surreal for me. I tried out Slack briefly when they first allowed the public to request accounts. Made a mental note "cool", and moved on.
The next year or so I started to see a lot more teams/companies that were getting on the Slack hype-train, and now this.
Huge props to the team on this valuation but I'm still quite confused.
Re: Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
#10How did Slack blow up so quickly? I remember when I first read about it on TheVerge, that same morning the head of our sales team messages the CTO and suggests our company try it out. Next thing I know, every other company is using it. From my perspective, it went from nothing to huge success overnight.
Yeah, I remember hearing about it, using it and loving it all in the span of a few hours /days. Then within a month every other team I talked to was also using it... blew HipChat right out of the water. I would attribute it to the amazing UX and well thought out feature-set. Integrations and per-channel notifications were both essential features and easy to find and figure out how to use. I also wouldn't discount the…
Could you expand on why it's so much better than HipChat? I haven't used Slack yet, but I'm interested in trying it out. It sounds like it's the same thing as HipChat.