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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by askafriend on Sunday September 17, 2017 @11:59PM (#15273303)
That's the easy part. The hard part is scaling, marketing, and building a business/platform around the product so that you take it worldwide.

Several people have built Slack clones and there's even multiple open source projects out there. Building a company and business at a scale like Slack is the incredibly difficult part and nobody has managed to replicate that.

Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by c-smile on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:34AM (#15273426)
That's true. My personal educated estimation is that only 5-10% of income is spent on R&D in established companies.