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I think in the long run you are likely be right - at scale software margins are amazing. As of today, Slack looses some money & is unprofitable.

• dexterdog 9y ago
  Really? Slack is bringing in 150m/yr. They can't make money with that product at that rate?
  • meritt 9y ago
    Of course they can, but an extremely profitable well-oiled small company rarely gets acquired. You need to have way more employees than necessary and running at a loss. Slack runs a chat app and has 870 employees. It's beyond absurd.
    • dexterdog 9y ago
      No idea they had that many employees. Any idea how many actually work on the product from a technical perspective?
    • bduerst 9y ago
      What percent of that is support and how many customers do they have? Not saying you're wrong, just that there's overhead for software as it scales for enterprises.