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I wonder if this has anything to do with the exfiltrated Slack source code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

• capableweb 4y ago
  No, the problem seems to be the disillusion by Slack leadership that somehow Salesforce would incorporate Slack culture rather than Slack culture slowly being morphed into Salesforce culture. > “The problem has been, there’s no incorporation of the Slack culture into the Salesforce culture,” Butterfield said, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by Fortune. “And unless there is some element of that, then it’s not integration in any sense. It’s just the elimination.” Not sure how anyone would think a acquisition would lead to the parent company starting to incorporate bought company's culture into their own, haven't seen that in the wild anywhere.
  • supersync 4y ago
    What’s sobering is even a prescient leader like Butterfield was snowed despite that clear evidence. I tell everyone founder - acquisition is the death of everything you worked for. Acquisitions teams are sales teams with 0 follow on accountability, structure, or goals. They are quite literally there to tell you what you want to hear & get you to believe it’s true. With maybe the exception of Microsoft, it’s not.
  • atdrummond 4y ago
    McDonell-Douglas, despite being the acquired party, destroyed Boeing’s engineer-led culture and replaced it with an accountant-led one instead. A big reason why the unimaginative 737MAX was allowed to proceed and more innovative projects like the 797 floundered or were cancelled. Even the 787, which should have led to massive Boeing orderbooks due to its prescience, was hamstrung by battery issues right out of the gate.
• paxys 4y ago
  What's the relation between the two stories other than company name?
  • j-bos 4y ago
    None, just found the proximity of events interesting.