Slack and Amazon partnership?

Jun 7, 2020 4 Comments

Is Amazon acquiring Slack? I just heard that they are partnering with Chime ...

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  • Amazon / IT
    leffe

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    leffe
    Acquisition may be speculation, but there’s no upside to Amazon in acquiring Slack.

    Firstly, Slack’s too expensive to acquire.
    Secondly, Amazon has a great deal in the partnership: AWS hosting fees of the already wide user base + increasing user base due to their partnership’s benefits, along with user data for their claimed ML algorithms on AWS.
    Thirdly, it also gets Slack licensing for the entire company.
    Lastly, Amazon already has it’s own product, Amazon Chime for its customers from which it makes some revenue (from what I hear it isn’t too much)

    So there’s no upside I guess, since Amazon already brokered a deal where it got everything it wanted.
    Jun 7, 2020 2
    • Amazon
      o.m.g.

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      o.m.g.
      Will Amazon get paid if Slack uses AWS? Also, if they are using Chime functionalities like video, would Amazon pay for that functionality? Or Would Amazon get a cut by the number of customers using Slack?

      Would Slack make money off Amazon customers? How’s it gonna be?
      Jun 7, 2020
    • Slack
      kyzersoze

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      kyzersoze
      These are all great questions
      Jun 8, 2020
  • Walmart
    AFamilyMan

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    Been there, done that. Grey hairs.
    AFamilyMan
    Just a speculations. Search how many similar acquisition speculations amazon participated in every month.
    Jun 7, 2020 0