It seems to me the only justification for them taking half a billion dollars in VC money[0] -- besides of course "because we can" -- is that Slack must have pla

It seems to me the only justification for them taking half a billion dollars in VC money[0] -- besides of course "because we can" -- is that Slack must have plans to grow into much, much more than the "enterprise group-chat app." As annoying as Slack's UI can be, it's not as annoying as Jira's, and Atlassian has a market cap over $8B. Salesforce has a market cap over $64B and also has a lot to do with people in big businesses communicating about stuff. My hunch has long been that Butterfield, having sold Flickr too early back in the day, badly wants to join the Three Comma Club. That annoying knock-knock-knock sound is just the beginning. [0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity