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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by osrec on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:17AM (#20233754)
Interesting... I guess you could see a lot of SaaS companies as outsourced software development teams for the whales.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by trose on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:26AM (#20233853)
yep, if you owe someone a little money they have control. If you owe someone a lot of money, you have control. The whales use SaaS companies to develop things they dont want in house and demand features because they know they're one of the biggest customers.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by adwww on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:26AM (#20233852)
That is exactly how my current employer feels half the time.
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