Slack: The Bulls are typing...

The success of companies like Slack, Zoom, and Atlassian in challenging the dominance of Microsoft and Google’s productivity suites accounts for part of this interest, but the rise of remote and distributed teams is the most important secular shift driving the trend.

It is almost inevitable that centralized internal communication systems will gradually replace email for most organizations over the next 10-20 years and we should do what we can to accelerate the trend and “own it”.

Acquisitions: The company has used M&A as an important growth tool. As per Ben Thompson’s about their Slack acquisition, “the fact that the company “buys growth” is often held up as a criticism, but the truth is