Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
2 Dec 2020 Acquired Special: Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring
“If your bet on Slack is the same way that you would bet on Stripe, the next great company is going to use this as an infrastructure choice, that has to be the bet that you can keep making and I would say Salesforce buying it loosens my conviction in that dream scenario staying true.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 2 Dec 2020
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…I think that's right, but I do think for this next generation, companies like Huddle are going to come out and combine the best of Discord with all of the below-the-surface-level features of Slack. It'll be interesting to see where those turn out, but I think there's some promise there. Frankly, if Slack was going to get cut off at the knees where someone else was going to be the tool for the new upstarts, if that was already true, being owned by Salesforce is going to make that way more true. If your bet on Slack is the same way that you would bet on Stripe, the next great company is going to use this as an infrastructure choice, that has to be the bet that you can keep making and I would say Salesforce buying it loosens my conviction in that dream scenario staying true. I would assign a negative price to the rest of the Salesforce 360 cloud.…
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