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Re:Why Figma Is Worth $20B and Other Observations from the A... by bottlepalm on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:25AM (#32899635)
Isn't this what Microsoft did with Teams? Copy Discord and compete. How worse off would we be if Microsoft had just bought Discord?
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Re:Why Figma Is Worth $20B and Other Observations from the A... by duped on Monday September 19, 2022 @02:31PM (#32902062)
Not really, Microsoft wanted to buy Slack but the deal was nixed by the board in favor of improving Skype for business (previously called Lync) which already had a large user base. Later teams was rolled out as the replacement for S4B. Slack was of course ultimately sold to Salesforce.

Discord focuses on a totally different market vertical than Slack and Teams.

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