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Thoughts on Salesforce's Acquisition of Slack

The collaboration hub isn't dying. It's just finding a new home.
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Thoughts on Salesforce's Acquisition of Slack
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It’s a done deal: Salesforce has agreed to acquire Slack in a deal worth roughly $28 billion.

Here are my immediate thoughts.

The Deal Isn't All That Surprising

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

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