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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by tabbott on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:55AM (#25221609)
Zulip's founder here. (I should write a blog post on this topic.)

The structural reason is that we're intentionally not taking VC funding, which does more or less inevitable lead to that outcome.

Less structural but just as important is that my personal priority is in creating great open source software for the world, not personal enrichment.

This thread may be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23105031.

Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by cutemonster on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:10PM (#25241746)
Thanks! I read it and the history section at your website