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Slack and Microsoft Teams
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- 0:00Slack welcomed Microsoft Teams with a
- 0:01full-page ad. Microsoft won anyway. This
- 0:04is Stewart Butterfield. Slack came out
- 0:05of a failed video game. By 2016, it was
- 0:08the [music] fastest-growing business app
- 0:09in history. Then Microsoft announced
- 0:11Teams. The morning it launched, Slack
- 0:13took out a full page in The New York
- 0:15[music] Times.
- 0:16Dear Microsoft, wow, big news,
- 0:18congratulations. It went on, we are
- 0:20genuinely excited to have some
- 0:21competition. Microsoft [music] gave
- 0:23Teams away free inside Office. Three
- 0:25years later, Slack had 12 million daily
- 0:27users. Teams had already passed it, 22
- 0:30million, then 75, then 320 million.
- 0:33Slack complained to [music] regulators
- 0:34in Europe. It did not matter. 2020,
- 0:36Salesforce bought Slack for 27.7 [music]
- 0:39billion dollars. Butterfield stayed a
- 0:41year, then walked away. Teams won. He
- 0:43got 27 billion for losing. That is the
- 0:45kind of loss most founders would take.
- 0:47Follow Viberg Economies for more.
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