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Time to update the old canard. "If you could have invented Slack... you would have invented Slack." Execution is everything.

by harryjo 10y ago

murukesh_s 10y ago
Execution is everything? Then Microsoft is also copying their execution. What's wrong with that? Why going overboard and trying to troll Microsoft?
- dasil003 10y ago
  You can't copy execution. In the trenches every day decisions are made. The quality of the product that comes out deeply reflects the team that made it. You can clone an implementation relatively easily, and Microsoft has a ton of smart teams and has really upped its game recently, but Microsoft's next feature will not be the same as Slack's next feature, the cultures are just too different.
  - murukesh_s 10y ago
    Can't copy in one day for sure, but boy you sure can. Ask zynga how they did it. Or just look at Samsung phones with latest Android. Sure there are few products like Adobe suite & stackoverflow etc which have stood the test of time, but slack is a relatively newcomer who is yet to crack into the big enterprises.
mcphage 10y ago
> Execution is everything. Execution is a lot, but so is timing. Execution can be controlled, timing is mostly luck.
- 6stringmerc 10y ago
  From a creative sector perspective, this claim holds a lot of merit as well. A correlative phrase I've heard is "Success is preparation meeting luck" because the sands of time are littered with well executed failures. In many fields!
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hiou 10y ago
Which pairs up with the age old assumption that everyone is trying to create slack and couldn't have possibly been doing something more important with their lives than bringing IRC to the masses.
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duaneb 10y ago
Yea, but at the same time I don't want to spend my life evangelizing chat software as revolutionizing how business is done. The business reminds me more of a lifestyle magazine than anything.

Time to update the old canard. "If you could have invented Slack... you would have invented Slack." Execution is everything.

by harryjo 10y ago

Time to update the old canard. "If you could have invented Slack... you would have invented Slack." Execution is everything.

murukesh_s 10y ago

Execution is everything? Then Microsoft is also copying their execution. What's wrong with that? Why going overboard and trying to troll Microsoft?

dasil003 10y ago
You can't copy execution. In the trenches every day decisions are made. The quality of the product that comes out deeply reflects the team that made it. You can clone an implementation relatively easily, and Microsoft has a ton of smart teams and has really upped its game recently, but Microsoft's next feature will not be the same as Slack's next feature, the cultures are just too different.
- murukesh_s 10y ago
  Can't copy in one day for sure, but boy you sure can. Ask zynga how they did it. Or just look at Samsung phones with latest Android. Sure there are few products like Adobe suite & stackoverflow etc which have stood the test of time, but slack is a relatively newcomer who is yet to crack into the big enterprises.

mcphage 10y ago

> Execution is everything. Execution is a lot, but so is timing. Execution can be controlled, timing is mostly luck.

6stringmerc 10y ago
From a creative sector perspective, this claim holds a lot of merit as well. A correlative phrase I've heard is "Success is preparation meeting luck" because the sands of time are littered with well executed failures. In many fields!
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hiou 10y ago

Which pairs up with the age old assumption that everyone is trying to create slack and couldn't have possibly been doing something more important with their lives than bringing IRC to the masses.

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duaneb 10y ago

Yea, but at the same time I don't want to spend my life evangelizing chat software as revolutionizing how business is done. The business reminds me more of a lifestyle magazine than anything.