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▶ 8:39 Toni Cowan-Brown You bring up Slack and Notion a lot as sort of these outliers. 4 times in the scene

▶ 20:57 Benedict Evans This is like the great fallacy of enterprise software that you can just sell to the users, and it's like it only ever worked for Slack and one other company.

▶ 13:46 Toni Cowan-Brown We can't forget the acquisition of Salesforce, um, the acquisition of Slack by Salesforce as well, which I think was basically Salesforce attempt, no, to try and be the next version of teams.
▶ 29:16 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, as we were talking also, and just because we mentioned, um, I brought up Slack and Salesforce, and I hadn't realized this, that Stuart Butterfield, who joined obviously the company as the CEO of Slack and obviously joined Salesforce, I… 4 times in the scene
▶ 34:19 Toni Cowan-Brown But I think more than anything, like whether it was Microsoft, Activision, Meta, within, you name it, whether it's Slack, Salesforce, I think what's more interesting here is the border conversation about acquisitions in tech and how to…

▶ 0:36 Benedict Evans No, I think Slack was like 23 or 24, wasn't it? 3 times in the scene

▶ 23:45 Benedict Evans You have your own laptop and your mobile phone, so you can kind of do that, and you've got Slack, and you've got text messages, like, hey, where are you?

▶ 6:21 Toni Cowan-Brown If I'm working within an organization or I'm working within a group team, like all of that conversation, all of that collaboration, all of that back and forth is happening now either via WhatsApp or text message or probably better via… 8 times in the scene
▶ 14:01 Toni Cowan-Brown Was it Slack?
▶ 15:00 Benedict Evans And so you turn all of those tools instead of, it's almost like Excel, it's almost like email or indeed Slack is kind of like a CSV or a PDF.

▶ 37:30 Toni Cowan-Brown They've got their own discord channels, slack channels, where there's 10 journalists coming together and you can't help, but think, wait a minute to your point.

▶ 6:49 Benedict Evans Is Slack the answer to that?
▶ 26:26 Toni Cowan-Brown So that's the thing that I learned when I worked remotely is to always, I started ever, and this is weird because I've sometimes, I think I've done it to you a few times, but I kick off messages, whether they're on Slack or emails or on…
▶ 29:51 Toni Cowan-Brown Or the habits, or the expectations, or, you know, hey, we're expecting to see people on Slack, and this is where you check in, and then we're expecting people, by the way, to be on time for Zoom calls, because that's the thing that's…

▶ 30:59 Benedict Evans Because the founder of Slack, Stuart Butterfield, so he originally, like, so, so he was the co-founder of Flickr. 2 times in the scene

▶ 0:03 Toni Cowan-Brown And today we're talking future of work, Slack, and Salesforce. 5 times in the scene
▶ 0:52 Bernadette Kevins If I do like the thumbnail of what Slack is trying to do, so the sort of the basic, so the basic thesis of Slack is that A, it's a good chat tool across an enterprise, but B, all of the robots, the emails, the random interconnections from… 6 times in the scene
▶ 2:55 Bernadette Kevins 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. 9 times in the scene
▶ 6:55 Bernadette Kevins Solution, we'll move to Slack. 8 times in the scene
▶ 15:51 Bernadette Kevins And now the relevant part of the bundle is Microsoft Teams, which again, like Slack, is this collaborative substrate, and it has, you know, file sharing, and document creation, and chat, and messaging, and video calls. 3 times in the scene
▶ 17:50 Bernadette Kevins And so only seven years ago, Salesforce itself was the size that Slack is now, and Slack in turn was tiny. 5 times in the scene
▶ 21:03 Bernadette Kevins And Lotus Notes is actually also kind of interesting because Lotus Notes was a vision of Slack, or a different version of that. 2 times in the scene
▶ 26:32 Toni Cowan-Brown Uh, maybe one last word on what does this say about Salesforce acquiring Slack on, on their stake or, or how they view the future of work? 2 times in the scene

▶ 31:03 Benedict Evans It can be, you know, a business executive's, you know, email and Slack machine.

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