Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation

Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by vishnugupta on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:20AM (#20231413)

> 40% of their revenue is concentrated in <1% of their paid customers. Is this normal in the corporate SaaS market ?

Speaking from my experience of 6 months at a SaaS company this is about the norm.

Besides the usual 80/20 rule it gets more skewed at the top. And so even the product development was optimised to keep the top 1% happy. A ton of custom built features with hundreds of feature flags..

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by doomjunky on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:48AM (#20234076)

The 80/20 rule is basically the power law which is one of my favorite laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by notSupplied on Thursday June 20, 2019 @04:10PM (#20236838)

It is also one of the most abused rules, often used to justify extremely sloppy "big picture thinking".

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by yosito on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:25PM (#20246028)

Yeah, but 80% of the time, the sloppy thinking is right.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by jgalt212 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:06PM (#20234898)

I would say this is only normal/healthy if you have a freemium business model--otherwise the revenues to me seem way to skewed (i.e. very/very far away from 80/20).

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