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Perhaps a minor quibble, but I think this sentence is a little bit misleading: "The company says it has 88,000 paying customers — a sliver of a sliver of the wo
by zippergz 7y ago
Perhaps a minor quibble, but I think this sentence is a little bit misleading: "The company says it has 88,000 paying customers — a sliver of a sliver of the world’s desk-and-phone-bound office workers, and fewer than work full-time at, for example, Google’s parent company, Alphabet."
I'm fairly sure that by their definition, a "customer" would be a single paying entity. AKA a company. Which itself might have many thousands of users in it. I guarantee that Slack has FAR more than 88k USERS on paid accounts. And users is the correct number if you're going to compare it against "the world’s desk-and-phone-bound office workers" or the number of employees at Alphabet.