HipChat

“I worked on HipChat and Stride. HipChat was one known, Stride less so we were trying to win the enterprise communications market before Slack and Microsoft Teams came about.”

“There's lots of literature around there on should you do rewrites, should you not do rewrites? You ask me now, I tell you never.”

“Yeah, it was actually, it was noticed by the market in that as soon as we did that, our stock price went up, which was, and I think it was 60 dollars back then, and it went up to 70.”

“Atlassian was successful with a playbook, and the playbook was, we've got people in, like developers or tech or IT, they choose Atlassian apps, they love them, they start to recommend them to people in the business, and we start to see adoption, like bottom-up…”

“Your competitor, like if you think of what they do as an iceberg, like the top side, what comes out of the water is what they've shipped in terms of features, but it's based on all this stuff that they've built in terms of research. An understanding of their c…”

“So, I would say that in terms of code, purely in terms of code, 70% of what we wrote for HipChat is, is, is probably still in the Atlassian platform today.”

“In one case, what you try to do is, so when you rebuild, you've got a successful business. You've got hundreds of thousands of customers, for example, and you're trying to rebuild the same thing or a different thing, but for the same customers that have got ex…”

“One of the funny anecdotes at Uber was that for a long time we were officially on HipChat, but there were so many teams across the company that would have their little secret Slack, you know, team chat going because they just didn't want to deal with it. I fee…”

“Look at FlowDoc and look at HipChat and, like, there aren't any features that are different. And in fact, both of those products had more features and they had things like replies that we would consistently hear from people.”

“Slack is going to be bigger than HipChat or its entire competitive landscape in six months.”