On episode 1145, Jason explains how Slack's product stagnation could have led them to sell to Salesforce.

Okay, everybody, it is an exciting day if you are a Slack shareholder or it might be disappointing because people

thought Slack was going to be this independent company that grew headwinds of

and maybe became worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

But it seems the company with the headwinds of

Microsoft Teams constantly blowing them back and the inability to grow really fast.

They seem to have put themselves in a position to be forced to be acquired by a larger company.

It's kind of a bummer, you know, I think that the company couldn't keep growing and then use its public stock to acquire other companies. And it does seem like there is some sort of a

product roadblock inside the company where they just couldn't get new features

out couldn't get new competitive products in market to get people excited.

They just did a good job of being solid, right?

And there was no real competitor except for Microsoft Teams to come out of this hip chat gave up and wound up selling to them.

So you have to wonder is there going to be a new chat enterprise software that emerges.

Now that sales force has bought this, I think you're going to see another round of people

looking and saying hmm maybe now is a good time to launch a competitor now you'd

say why would that be very simple when these big companies acquire them they get a

bunch of indigestion, right?

We talked about that like, can they acquire this without squashing it?

Can they acquire it and accelerate its growth as opposed to slow it down.

Who's going to run it?

Do you have somebody great?

Is Stewart going to stay with the company

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