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Re:Slack S-1 by lispm on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:59PM (#19760195)
> Slack has a huge opportunity in front of them (become the messaging platform for every business that exists).

How about: being bought by Microsoft.

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Re:Slack S-1 by dylanmclark on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:38PM (#19761078)
I don't think Microsoft would buy Slack given the money they've dumped into developing and promoting Teams. Seems they're too far gone at this point.

Disclosure: Work at MSFT, not on Teams.

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Re:Slack S-1 by scarface74 on Friday April 26, 2019 @05:33PM (#19761955)
Hopefully they are smart enough not to fall for the sunk cost fallacy. But three other examples come to mind.

They bought Github even though they already had VSTS aka Azure Devops that offered free git hosting and they just abandoned their own browser engine for Chromium. Also they bought Xamarin.

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Re:Slack S-1 by lispm on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:45PM (#19761127)
Not because of the software, but because of the customers and the dev team?
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Re:Slack S-1 by dredmorbius on Friday April 26, 2019 @05:35PM (#19761971)
WhatsApp.

Microsoft would buy to prevent someone else from doing so.

Though its hold has weakened greatly, the Outlook, Exchange, and AD behemoth still own enterprise communications.

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Re:Slack S-1 by irishcoffee on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:22PM (#19762269)
I was under the impression Facebook owned WhatsApp...?
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Re:Slack S-1 by dredmorbius on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:06PM (#19762828)
Why they own it, and what they paid to do so, is the point.
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Re:Slack S-1 by toasterlovin on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:08PM (#19760287)
Yeah, I actually think that’s a likely eventual outcome. I would be shocked if they haven’t already had discussions to that effect. It seems like a natural fit to me.
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