Slack Wars
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Slack Wars

Mar 14, 2017 · 26 min

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Slack, the messaging and collaboration tool for teams, is all the rage right now inside many companies, and it has some big new competition from Google, Microsoft and others. We're going inside this growing market today with our guest, Samir Diwan, the co-founder and CEO of Seattle startup Polly.ai, a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapters

  1. 0:00 Introduction to Slack Wars
  2. 0:13 The Magic of Slack
  3. 2:37 Slack as an Enterprise Hub
  4. 3:27 New Competition: Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts Chat
  5. 5:30 Microsoft Teams' Distribution Advantage
  6. 7:17 Google Hangouts Chat's Potential
  7. 9:13 The Importance of Developers
  8. 10:18 Slack vs. Incumbents: Independent vs. Cloud-Based
  9. 12:54 Feature Request: Trello Integration
  10. 14:10 Polly: The Elevator Pitch

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