Slack files to go public
What do you think? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/slack-confidentially-files-to-go-public.html
My own startup should fly IPO in 3 years!!!
This will be massive
Jungle is massive - Ali G ✌️
Next BlueApron. All hype and no profits
Slack is hyped and most companies are like eat your own dog food.
There is no innovative product. It's a chat room system. The only thing slightly novel about it is that it proved company chatrooms are very useful
> There is no innovative product Innovation is overrated and UX is underrated
Microsoft/ Google will take this market over. Small third party companies without ecosystems will not succeed in the enterprise space.
Microsoft and Google have a pretty bad track record in this space. Slack only got as far as it did in my org because they had an irc gateway and a decent phone app imho
Have you seen Microsoft teams? That was true a few years ago, but not at all today. Microsoft teams is growing much faster than slack because of enterprise tie in.
That’s why the new logo
in the long run slack will be to collaboration what LinkedIn is to recruiting.
Nope. That’s too key of a space for the big dogs to not try to take over, whereas LinkedIn doesn’t have any big competitors. Microsoft Teams will beat Slack in a few years - fastest growing product in Microsoft history.
Microsoft products including Skype and many others are shitty at best and that includes the OS the browser etc
What‘s the payout for a regular developer working at Slack once this goes through? TC??
Dude they just get bought by atlassian?
Nope. Atlassian sold them some IP for Hipchat and Stride. Slack is still an independent entity, for now.
The public coms indicated we took an equity stake in them. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership No idea if it's a big enough one to have any influence there or if it will show up on either our quarterly reports or in their prospectus
I, for one, don’t understand the mass appeal of Slack or why a modern-day AOL Instant Messenger (for business) would be worth as much as it is. I’ll give them the benefit of the large enterprise user base, but this is an easily disruptable space, especially if a Slack becomes complacent and doesn’t ship meaningful updates. I wouldn’t personally invest, but we’ll see what happens.
Interface sucks tbh.... I prefer the hipchat interface.
I totally agree. It's just weird to me that a chat app platform can gather as much vc and momentum like this ... But good for them though.