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Salesforce is a plague on every company it buys. They completely ruined Heroku and I expect it won't be long before Slack starts to suffer.

• samwillis 4y ago
  This is a common meme about Heroku, but when you look at the timeframes it's not quite true. Heroku was founded in 2007, acquired by Salesforce in 2010 well before its innovation and growth began to decline. Many of their biggest products and innovations came after the acquisition. That's not to say it was then neglected by them later on!
  • flappyeagle 4y ago
    They had existing momentum which dwindled and was never recharged
    • justeleblanc 4y ago
      Must have been some incredible momentum, built in three years and lasting for a decade.
  • holografix 4y ago
    Heroku’s downfall had little to do with Salesforce and much to do with AWS, Google and Azure muscling in to the PaaS market. Once K8s got wide adoption Heroku was over. Selling Heroku to IT was a huge pain in ass as the key decision makers mostly make résumé-driven buying and engineering decisions. Did Salesforce neglect Heroku or allow it to operate independently? It’s a matter of point of view. The reality is that Heroku saw itself more and more irrelevant vis à vis its competitor and without the funds to compete. It’s only hope for survival is to become more and more relevant to Salesforce customers while largely out-competed but the big 3 for everyone else.