There really aren't any Heroku leaders anymore. I think anyone director level or higher is Salesforce—not Heroku.

It's worth mentioning that this isn't a result of Salesforce acquiring Heroku. That happened 12 years ago when Heroku was next to nothing. Salesforce gets credit for investing in and making Heroku. Why they ultimately have decided to give up on it I have no idea. I hear it's because salespeople had a hard time understanding how to sell it which seems like a strange reason to give up entirely.

Salesforce is where good software goes to die (or at best become stagnant and lame). Same thing happened to quip and will happen to slack.

Oh no! I hope Slack doesn’t become slow and bloated, or go through unnecessary UX redesigns. /s

MS teams is proof slack could get a lot worse yet :-)

Oh man, I somehow missed Slack had been acquired by Salesforce. So many things make sense now!

I didn't know Slack had been acquired by Salesforce.

That's sad, I guess.

This happens after every single Salesforce acqusition. If you think you're different, compare how many new internal promotions there are, how many senior management have left and how many Salesforce transplants there are.

Everyone thought they were the darling child, at least for the first 18 months.

> because salespeople had a hard time understanding how to sell it which seems like a strange reason to give up entirely.

Yet unfortunately from my experience with large orgs and sales, the sales people get all the control and freely shit on the people actually making the software they sell.

>I have no idea. I hear it's because

So you had an idea after all?