Slack Technologies, Inc. is rumored to be preparing an IPO for the first half of next year. The 2019 initial public offering is expected to value the company around $7 billion. A Slack representative said the company does not comment on "rumors and speculation."
Just this August, Slack raised $427 million in a funding round at a valuation over $7 billion. The company faces competition from the likes of much larger companies like Microsoft and Google, and it is somewhat surprising that they have not been acquired as of yet. The Wall Street Journal reports that Slack has yet to hire underwriters for an IPO, but they are actively preparing to bring the company to public markets. Slack is a very popular online virtual office chat room and collaboration service that is rumored to have over 8 million daily active users (including Shacknews).
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replyAsif Khan posted a new article, Slack is planning a 2019 IPO valuing the company around $7 billion
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Yeah, but now Slack is being valued at $7 billion...
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https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewart-butterfield this was a great episode on how slack/flickr was built. I love this podcast.
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http://chattypics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_2oabl56ktu.jpg
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Hahah I was all ready to buy in as well.
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As soon as I saw the value, I knew I had misread something. ;)
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I don’t use it. What do they do that other companies can’t replicate?
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I'll buy in. Whenever slack is down, I know about it. Not because I can't do my job (we don't use slack) but because the rest of the world complains about not being able to "work" without slack.
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and doesn't even have basic theme/color changes
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At this point the difference is in the integrations with other products. They managed to get in at the right time and get people on board with creating rich integrations. On the surface, sure, it's "just like IRC" in that you send text to other people, but the integrations are the important part.
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Integrations, waaaaaay better user management, much more powerful client.
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The API hooks alone make it way different than IRC. If you're only using it as a chat room, you're severely underutilizing the platform.
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It's pretty, easy to use, and the web client is so good it practically makes the desktop and mobile clients obsolete.
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The desktop client is just the website client in a wrapper.
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how many companies have you worked at that used IRC?
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Wake me up when IRC has giphy
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It's enterprise software. You pay a subscription fee per user.
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With all the work TMWTB has put in it over the past 5 years I'd say it's at least worth two ham sandwiches and a bag of chips.
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I am aiming for at least a 100 ham sandwich return on investment.
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He might be able to swing it since the site rebuild. Maybe alternatively a small rc cola, probably not both though.
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I don't know why, but Slack and Discord and all the modern messaging services don't appeal to me at all. If I can't iMessage you then you might as well not exist.
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I really wish they would do something like Discord's Nitro pricing. Totally different user markets, but I still wish for it.
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teams is just a vector to get you to use all their O365 services (sharepoint online; onedrive; etc).
it's literally a skin for O365 infrastructure. which is fine - it's a good skin - but to really leverage teams you need to go all-in with at least an E3 license (if not E5).
with slack you can throw it up and only use slack to decent effect. it's a lot cheaper and requires less planning and support.-
how is it cheaper? teams is free with even an E1 subscription. Slack plus gsuite costs more than E1 by far. And unless you are doing telephony, there is no planning and support for team. not any more than slack IMO.
I wouldn't call teams a skin for 0365 - I would call it a rich client for o365. When you combine office + SPO + PowerApps + flow + PowerBI and serve that up in a collab space that teams is, that is super powerful vs. the out of the box slack. I won't argue against teams is all about o365 - we agree there. But let's be honest - MS has EA's of at least E3 with 450+ of the F500, and it's like 800+ of the F1000. Gsuite is well in SFO and in startups, but o365 is dominating midmarket and enterprise.
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I don't know if you guys have ever listened to this NPR show before, but this is an hour long episode where they interview the Slack founder and he talks about the origins, all the way back to before Flickr.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewart-butterfield -
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