The Slack social network

First came Slack, taking the world of chat software by storm. Then came Microsoft Teams, drawing some competitive ribbing from Slack in a full page ad in the NY Times. Then within a few years, Teams’ adoption overtook Slack’s by a wide margin. Ben Thompson from Stratechery describes how Slack plans to shift the battlefield with Slack Connect. “While Microsoft is busy building an operating system in the cloud, Slack has decided to build the enterprise social network.” | learn more