> Slack has a huge opportunity in front of them (become the messaging platform for every business that exists).
How about: being bought by Microsoft.
How about: being bought by Microsoft.
Disclosure: Work at MSFT, not on Teams.
They bought Github even though they already had VSTS aka Azure Devops that offered free git hosting and they just abandoned their own browser engine for Chromium. Also they bought Xamarin.
Microsoft would buy to prevent someone else from doing so.
Though its hold has weakened greatly, the Outlook, Exchange, and AD behemoth still own enterprise communications.