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It is probably about commercial side of it. Selling slack to the enterprise probably is something missing.

• inetknght 9y ago
  > Selling slack to the enterprise probably is something missing. You know that there are enterprises with 5000+ members on a paid slack, right?
  • ryanbrunner 9y ago
    It's less about whether they can technically handle the scale (they clearly can), but more about enterprises that are going to have typical enterprise demands - security policies, encryption at rest, whitelabeling, maybe even on-premise installs. On top of that, enterprises typically aren't self service, you need to have a pretty large sales team to effectively sell to the enterprise.
    • inetknght 9y ago
      Yes, yes. But I'm saying that there are already enterprises that use Slack. So perhaps it has at least some of that already solved.
      • gdilla 9y ago
        obviously, but part of that investment is increasing sales velocity to enterprises. It would behoove slack to grow and get more bigCos entrenched onto the platform - switching costs and employee preference can help them get a foothold on the market to beat back competition.