Microsoft Teams

“What I'm building a lot of Is these long running foundry agents right? So there's autopilots. So the easiest thing is to me, I think I just built one even last week where the idea was, hey, can I have an agent that is continuously monitoring essentially my own…”

“I think I just built one even last week where the idea was, hey, can I have an agent that is continuously monitoring essentially my own chief of staff autopilot, right? We're going to have that, obviously, in Scout. That's what we showed. But it is so easy and…”

“What we've actually ended up doing is We've built like a set of you know, skills internally. We have like, we each have our set of skills and we've just been distributing even to the non-technical folks, the CLI. And then effectively we're just giving it acces…”

“So we use teams for video communication, like, but we don't use it for chat. We get home for a long, long history, right? We always talk about chat ops and like, everything is built into slack, like every command, every flow, even though you have been acquired…”

“The reality is that most people don't care about the product only being 80% as good. For most people that doesn't matter. They're not willing to pay a lot more for that incremental, incremental piece.”

“We've seen more than a 15 X increase in Microsoft team meetings that we've measured since Microsoft Copilot launched for teams meetings.”

“Like one of the best things we've done in the past five years is we've completely opened up to our competitors and like, for example, Microsoft Teams is a huge competitor for us. And we partnered with them and have them run on natively on our devices. Hundreds…”

“To me, I'm like, you might have more of a chance to grow the business by going after the seven hundred million people or whatever left who are probably still running their company's primary on email than you would living in this like very clearly like We all k…”

“Microsoft announced that it would permanently retire Skype and shift its remaining users over to Microsoft Teams. Skype will ring for the last time on May fifth, 2025.”

“These days, a lot of startups, instead of Doing like email support, they're opening up shared Slack channels, Microsoft Teams channels Discord communities, WhatsApp chats, et cetera. And the biggest problem, the initial problem that we actually discovered was …”

“It's the building for the teams market that's going to justify your uniform unicorn valuation, not purely the slack.”

“So this is one of those ideas where I think, you know, they call it a tar pit idea. It's an idea that seems good on paper, but, like, once you actually go and go into it. It's actually a bad idea, because there's so much investment that you need to put into so…”

“Google wave itself, like the project I work on at Google was really prescient in what it wanted to do in terms of real time communications and collaborations. But it was early for a bunch of reasons, like browsers weren't quite ready. People weren't quite read…”

“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.”

“At that point, Microsoft launched Teams, and I don't know if you remember this moment where Slack put an ad in the, I think it was the New York Times, copying the Apple versus Microsoft thing from ages before, going, you know, welcome to the game, welcome to t…”

“Like we took more than two years to launch, and by that time both Slack and Teams have actually started winning so many users, when we took it to our customers the CIOs actually told us, Girish, we are already dealing with slack and teams. We have to standardi…”

“So what we did was we conceded collaboration. So today our same fresh connect code that we built is integrating with Slack and teams. So we conceded collaboration to teams in Slack.”

“We've been building a learning management platform built into Microsoft Teams because we believe that learning should be where you actually meet where you are at every day.”

“In 2016 is the birth of the company as it is today, because Freddie Bang, who's still our CTO, comes and says to the board, I will rebuild this for Azure and for Teams, and they give him 50,000 Danish kronos or 7000 dollars. He spent 70,000 dollars. Rebuilding…”

“Extrapolating that further, as we think about, you know, future innovations, making it much easier to create these deep fakes, whether it's an audio or audio visual, whether it's your Slack or your Teams or your chatting interface, whatever it is, all of which…”

“I think, you know, the origin of Teams really was a defensive move for them to protect Office, because Office is an incredible, very profitable kind of monopoly in the productivity space. And so I think when they built Teams, it was more of a kind of covering …”

“I think as Teams has evolved over time, it's become much more of a video conferencing product that competes with like Zoom and Google Meet, the people who use Teams use it completely different than Slack where you live and breathe and channels and work and kin…”

“That's why Slack is owned by Salesforce now, because, like, Teams is free and the Microsoft bundle.”

“Apparently Teams is like five times the size of Slack now. Because Microsoft owns the enterprise”

“Which was, you look at Slack, you look at teams, they built something that worked for them and everyone else has to use it that way, but it wasn't flexible and it was horribly it wasn't scalable. It was horrible at scale.”

“There's no switching cost in, you know, no one cares if this call is Teams or Zoom or Meet. Or hangouts or whatever it's called today. No one cares or knows you just click the link. Whereas switching, switching between different production tools is a big deal.”

“We had to compete with him at Slack when he was, you know, he decided to turn the sites on on with teams onto us, we had no choice but to basically sell to Salesforce.”

“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”

“You look at I don't know. Microsoft teams. It like says it imputes this is going to be a horrible experience. I'm not user friendly with you.”

“We've certainly had a lot of interest, a lot of installations, pretty good uptake from that perspective, lower conversions, I think, than we expected.”

“On the Microsoft side, there's no charging model. There's no fee model at all. On the one hand, that's kind of a little bit of a negative. There's no charging model built in, so there's no model natively in the platform to charge customers. The positive of tha…”

“One of the things we've found, for example, is that users are quite surprised that there's a pricing involved for the purchase of our apps. We've had a number of customers or a number of feedback items, shall we say, from users who've been quite surprised that…”

“We had, for example, portions of our app get rejected because of requirements that were coming through from the main team's engineering team to the store validation team that would like literally just in conflict with one another.”

“One of those, for instance, is building a bot. You might want to put a bot into the store and there are probably seven or eight separate technologies you kind of need to get yourself or your team skilled up on in order to build a, you know, natural language, u…”

“To give you an idea of that, our first app was probably about a month or so of verification backwards and forwards. The last app was on the order of like two days. I think there were two minor things they came back with. We fixed them and resubmitted and we we…”

“We've got a few apps that we've built. One of them never made it to the actual store itself. We went through the entire process, the verifications, there were a few bugs that were raised. We addressed all of those things, et cetera. And at the end of it, Micro…”

“That's probably the best bet is to try and work with customers, your potential customers, your potential beta customers, things like that, and look at the side loading option as the best.”

“I think what one needs to do is in considering whether the product makes sense is not just whether it's a, you know, fulfills a business need, but whether it's the kind of product that you can build significant IP into to make sure that your moat's big enough.…”

“What Microsoft is doing in Teams is kind of interesting, because it's trying to not just be the video call, it's trying to be like a whole substrate for collaboration. Whereas Zoom made it really easy to get into a call, but everything else around the Zoom app…”

“One of them is there's like a, an ownership layer that if everything happens in Slack or indeed happens in teams, which is Microsoft's attempt to do the same thing. Then that becomes more important than the apps that you're using, and so it makes it easier, th…”

“Teams, which is the real alternative in some sense, although I think it's much more of a competitor to Zoom or other voice and video calling services than it is a Slack.”

“It's limited to 5000 people per instance and critically only 200 channels. And if you want to add a 201st channel, you have to hard delete one of them without the whole history.”

“Definitely ignoring everything else that's happening is the best thing to do. Competition can be very distracting and it's easy to look at someone else and sort of assume that, like, they're more successful than you are, or that the flow that you went through …”