Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by davnn on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:26AM (#17623656)

> And yet, Atlassian got as big as they did in large part because of transparent pricing.

Who knows if that had any influence on their success?

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by qaq on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:04AM (#17625040)

Hmm "everyone" for many "Enterprise" shops the spend on sales team is bigger than on software eng. so one of the reasons Atlassian was always profitable is they didn't have a sales team until they were huge.

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by walterbell on Friday July 27, 2018 @10:05AM (#17626021)

This is widely accepted because they did not spend money on an enterprise sales team in their early years, yet saw enterprise adoption.

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