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Starting off at a new company this past week, and realize a lot of commerce happens on Slack. Whether it's deciding what monitor to order, the best shows to watch on TV or what live events are happening that weekend. Amazon could see this as a way to capture some value generated there.

Also, an easy way to get companies signed up w/ Amazon Prime!

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This is an interesting take on the motivation. Amazon has shown that they're interested in building their own private labels in certain verticals. That trend coupled with the talk about "social shopping" and I can start to buy into the idea that this deal could possibly originate from somewhere other than AWS.

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