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Given how much remote work depends on Slack, is it a risk to manage that Salesforce could use their leverage on the product to undermine the viability of remote
by motohagiography 4y ago
Given how much remote work depends on Slack, is it a risk to manage that Salesforce could use their leverage on the product to undermine the viability of remote work in general, or become a gatekeeper for it? They literally bought the key remote work platform for about 1/3 less than Musk paid for Twitter.
Standing up a competitor may be a challenge given the regulatory requirements of enterprise environments that use it.
Imo, the most urgent play for Twitter may be to launch some features that would be a viable Slack competitor for startups and some part of that private chat market. What Twitter has that Slack doesn't is a foundation to become an identity provider. I've spent years in the identity space, and what stops them is they can never produce something anyone actually wants, and all their solutions need to be imposed, whereas turning twitter handles into identity tokens is some trivial hacking. I could beta it with a team of 5 devs and an engineering manager with a good relationship with devops in 8mos.
Slack may become the next Outlook mail, which is the thing everyone hates but it's too integrated to switch from, and it's an anchor on pretty much everything.
- lotsoweiners 4y agoWouldn’t Teams be the closer Outlook analogy? No one at my large government organization can use Slack and is expected to use Teams.