Re:Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
by SandB0x on Thursday April 16, 2015 @02:37PM
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Thanks, and to the other responders, appreciate your views too.
I can see the issue with scaling. There was a great video about the problems of email when Google Wave came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo . So if this service lets people drop in and out of a conversation with ease then I can see the benefit.
> Email just creates more email.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Email is not intrinsically bad. You can write one line chat-like responses and you can write formal letters. I can that moving your communication to a website with a different look and feel might make people behave differently though.
I can see the issue with scaling. There was a great video about the problems of email when Google Wave came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo . So if this service lets people drop in and out of a conversation with ease then I can see the benefit.
> Email just creates more email.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Email is not intrinsically bad. You can write one line chat-like responses and you can write formal letters. I can that moving your communication to a website with a different look and feel might make people behave differently though.
However I am now curious to give Slack a try...