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Re:Slack Platform Launch by incepted on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @11:19PM (#10742346)
> I feel like the world has lost it's mind slightly. When a 2 year old startup launches an $80m fund.

Slack was founded in 2009 and has raised over $300M (yes, three hundred million dollars) [1]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity

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Re:Slack Platform Launch by TheLogothete on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:13AM (#10742839)
Wow, what did they need 300m for? This is nuts.
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Re:Slack Platform Launch by hkmurakami on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:20AM (#10742854)
The CEO is quoted as saying "we don't need it but the terms were so good that it would be foolish to refuse the money. Also it buys safety during a downturn."
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