Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
by chimi on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:52PM
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I remember a quote that said basically, "If your product is ahead of its time, your marketing isn't good enough."
Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
by bhhaskin on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:02PM
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It sounds like Slack is drinking their own Kool-Aid.
Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
by paulddraper on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:30PM
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In fact, Slack's success was precisely because it was a very well understood type of product (group chat).
Everyone shrugged and said "Yeah I need that" and it looked/felt better than Hipchat.
Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
by corobo on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:34AM
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I switched to it from a private IRC setup. It was the same but with modern addons like integrations
Definitely not a new category, I very near share a date of birth with IRC. Even before that you had BBSs
Re:Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss
by viraptor on Thursday September 05, 2019 @06:25PM
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Foundations existed for years, not even the same product existed before them: hipchat. It was pretty much equivalent. Slack had a nicer mobile app and some other improvements, but otherwise they're almost the same thing.
It's not the market's fault Slack's revenue/sales expectations don't match their goals. That's entirely on Slack to either do a better job or be more realistic with their 'ceiling'.