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That sounds like a cop-out answer from the CEO to be honest. Slack isn't a confusing novelty the market has never seen; foundations of Slack have existed for qu
by siruncledrew 7y ago
That sounds like a cop-out answer from the CEO to be honest. Slack isn't a confusing novelty the market has never seen; foundations of Slack have existed for quite some time (eg. using AIM with chatbots 15 years ago as a kid).
It's not the market's fault Slack's revenue/sales expectations don't match their goals. That's entirely on Slack to either do a better job or be more realistic with their 'ceiling'.
- chimi 7y agoI remember a quote that said basically, "If your product is ahead of its time, your marketing isn't good enough."
- bhhaskin 7y agoIt sounds like Slack is drinking their own Kool-Aid.
- viraptor 7y agoFoundations existed for years, not even the same product existed before them: hipchat. It was pretty much equivalent. Slack had a nicer mobile app and some other improvements, but otherwise they're almost the same thing.
- hajile 7y agoSlack bought hipchat from Atlassian and shut it down. https://slackhq.com/atlassian-and-slack-partnership https://slackhq.com/atlassian-and-slack-partnership
- paulddraper 7y agoIn fact, Slack's success was precisely because it was a very well understood type of product (group chat). Everyone shrugged and said "Yeah I need that" and it looked/felt better than Hipchat.
- corobo 7y agoI switched to it from a private IRC setup. It was the same but with modern addons like integrations Definitely not a new category, I very near share a date of birth with IRC. Even before that you had BBSs