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Ben Gilbert: belief

2 Dec 2020 Acquired Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring

“I think that is in stark contrast to Slack’s philosophy. Everybody listening to this knows what Slack looks like.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
2 Dec 2020
Publisher
Acquired

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…No. I think that is in stark contrast to Slack’s philosophy. Everybody listening to this knows what Slack looks like. Even if you didn't use it at your company for a while, you were well aware of what the feature set of that software is. Salesforce is the ultimate embodiment of enterprise software sold through traditional enterprise ways. We don't need to show you pixels until we absolutely need to, which is often post sale, we're going to sell you on a dream. I don't exactly know a point I was making there, but yeah. It is true, though. I remember the first time that I actually used Salesforce, not the lightning interface, whatever that looks like. I was just appalled at how bad it was.…

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