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“Pulling forward the tech theme here, this seems to come up, I don’t know, every other episode that there was a moment in time where the world was ready for a thing, multiple parties arrive at it simultaneously.”
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“” Deion’s like, “Both.” Anyway, long-winded way, I think A+ is both. Both the chat communication market is enormous tons of headroom left to grow and Slack develops new monetized features, products, tool sets around that, that they can start to rebuild a bundle of the productivity suite in the enterprise and go from $80 per year, per user to across a suite of products to $100–$300 per user, per year in the enterprise.”
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- Acquired
“Frankly, I think the biggest thing that could be really scary for them is Microsoft actually succeeds at acquiring a significant amount of the upstarts and non-Microsoft customers to work into the Teams’ organization.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we talked that about on the Atlassian episode. That was the moment for me and I think a lot of people in tech when we’re like, “Wow, the New York Times newsroom is using this.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Very, very well together, but I think very few organizations, especially new organizations do that today.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“By the way, did you know Facebook Work has a ton of organizations? I don’t know how many are active, but it’s a very widely activated product.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think, partially, and several Uber people who wrote us said, “It is the perception of Uber was so bad at this point,” which was Uber’s fault, that no matter what they did, they were going to get pilloried and in this case, people were like, “You’re trying to break the strike.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The story now is that the investors we’re like, “Great, we believe in you. It’s Flickr all over.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think there’s some other more add many type features that requires paid as well.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we are early innings and understanding the impact of this very much like the studies that are starting to come out about open office space.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We’ll be continuing to cover all the big upcoming tech IPOs and we will actually be rounding out our productivity trilogy with Zoom, Slack, and one more in the next episode.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The big thing in my mind is Slack currently has a revenue of multiple of 46X with their current trading market cap.”
- Publisher
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“” I think Slack, in some ways, the antithesis of that very intentional thinking, but you’ve applied it to the fact that you’re going to be very intentional about being on Slack and structuring Slack in a way that works for you.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“There are integrations, but I think even more important than that is all the persistent archive of all your team’s work over the last like, “We would never leave Slack at Wave.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“” Of course it’s going to look different than a shop like Atlassian, that’s only ever built enterprise collaboration software. Of course, yes in the business model which I think you’re right.”
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- Acquired
“Now, we don’t know for sure that all of this was on Stewart and the team’s mind as they were casting about for what to do next but it’s important to know that this was happening in the background.”
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“Of course I’m sure Slack and HipChat, there had to be some sufficient advancement in Ajax—I don’t know if people are still calling it Ajax at the time—the ability to have web pages that refreshed without refreshing the whole page.”
- Publisher
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“What do you need to own to be the most valuable piece of that, and I think identity is definitely a piece of that.”
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- Acquired
“You have some existing infrastructure to build it on because Game Neverending had servers and the ability to bring different people together on the internet.”
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“The blogosphere ends up being the perfect early adopters for Flickr because all of these people have blogs, most of them run on Blogger.”
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- Acquired
“Wouldn’t it be cool if we made a game where people could socialize and interact with each other and build these types of relationships just online in a browser through a more rich experience than these groups, bulletin boards, and things that people are using.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Listeners, just think back to yourselves about websites you were using in 2002, web technology that was available in 2002, and then even think today how difficult it would be to implement a massive multiplayer online game using the web today. David, I suspect that that was quite a trying undertaking.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“” They moved down to beautiful Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, beautiful, beautiful town. Listeners, if you haven’t been, highly recommended.”
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“A lot of times I think start-ups presume to know their customers and because it’s frankly difficult to go out in the real world and have these sorts of conversations, you often project the needs of the customer into a map that you already have in your head and just start building.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I’m terrible at email and I used to be much better at email because I like to devote time to it, I want to make sure I’ve written everything correctly and whatnot.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We maybe alluded this a little bit on the Zoom episode, but I suspect we are going to be entering an age of relatively large acquisitions in the productivity world by both the traditional players, the Microsofts, the Salesforces, the Googles, and Slack, Zoom, and these large public upstart companies.”
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“What it is, why you should use it, why it helps, why it’s better than email, and more importantly just making the onboarding process super, super easy and fast.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think what we’ve seen in our last couple of episodes here on Acquired and we’re going to see here, the really truly huge great companies get built at the Venn diagram intersection of a technology shift, a cultural shift, and a business model shift.”
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