I think about this a lot:
Slack’s timing was impeccable. They are the primary tool in the "distributed workforce" tech stack.
The popularization of this hiring concept (see: @patrickc’s recent tweet) is proof that Slack will benefit from a wave. Similar wave? Shopify and DTC.
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what this theory pre-supposes is that most of the DTC founding teams over the past few years have the skills to roll a self-hosted cart... let alone all the extras such as connecting to WMS, customer service, etc. Maybe a MVP... but nothing that could scale w/o $$$ for hiring.
"Theory pre-supposes" 
I literally have a DTC company and I set-up a self-hosted cart, multiple in fact (since migrated to bigcommerce).
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Reread what I wrote.
End of conversation
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Yeah, I rolled self-hosted pre-2011, then switched... and have since helped a lot of founders. Myself, Shopify and most of the agencies, apps, and devs in this space would not be able to pay rent if capital did not continuously find founding teams w/ little technical skills.
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