Thoughts on Salesforce's Acquisition of Slack

The collaboration hub isn't dying. It's just finding a new home.

members-only post Dec 01, 2020 2-min read

It’s a done deal: Salesforce has agreed to acquire Slack in a deal worth roughly $28 billion.

Here are my immediate thoughts.

JUST IN: Salesforce agrees to buy Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock in one of the biggest technology deals of the year https://t.co/4yTPQd5Lt3 pic.twitter.com/zxc5Vd0n18
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) December 1, 2020

The Deal Isn't All That Surprising

In Slack For Dummies, I made a series of predictions about the future of Slack—the vast majority of which have come true. I'll focus here on four:

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