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Slack: B2B’s Home Base, the Everything Enterprise Platform

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Ellen DaSilva

Slack's humble beginnings as a feature within a game soon became a product with a cult-like following. Is its rapid growth a result of its platform for 3rd party enterprise SaaS integrations, and does that raise switching costs as the platform becomes the home base for the modern enterprise?

How is Slack killing email?

Posted on September 13, 2015 by S

How is Slack killing email?

Slack, a Digital Open Office

Posted on September 13, 2015 by David

I was first introduced to Slack during my internship this past summer at a very small startup that used Gmail as their email client of choice; an already significant step-up from my previous Outlook experiences. A few weeks into the […]

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Slack: B2B’s Home Base, the Everything Enterprise Platform

How is Slack killing email?

Slack, a Digital Open Office