It's funny how first time entrepreneurs worry about giant cos entering their market, and anybody who's worked at a giant co tells them not to worry (cont)
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The way I think of it now is: you never compete against Google. You compete against a PM at Google, who works 9-5 (sorry!), doesn't care 1/100th as much as you do, and has 70 lawyers on his back and 6 months of meetings every time he wants to do something
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Big cos sometimes do kill startups — but it's the exception not the rule. Look at Spotify. 3 of the biggest companies in the world compete with them — Apple, Google and Amazon. Or Slack — Google, Microsoft, FB all compete. Or Dropbox — Apple, Google and Microsoft. All do fine.
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Replying to @Altimor
The thing here is that if the startup proves the market, BigCo can either acquhire or come in as a second-mover and bundle it at a loss. Nobody would pay for Teams, but they all have it because Office365. And it's good enough that then paying for Slack is hard to justify.
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I’d love to see a stacked chart of DAUs for teams / FB for work / Slack. My feel is that MS’ entrance on the market had a negligible impact on slack’s growth. Like
@paulg said, “startups don’t compete against each other, they compete against people not caring”2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes -
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Replying to @sergeykarayev @Altimor and
does seem like the exception among a generally true rule. does Teams have a stellar PM or is there some other known explanatory factor as to its success? eg you don't see OneDrive or OneNote doing the same numbers, at least not that I know of
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Replying to @swyx @sergeykarayev and
Would love to know too. They probably bundled it into office somehow.
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I believe Teams is bundled into Office 365, together with Skype. It’s clearly superior to Skype and a decent chat tool itself, so why would you go out and buy Slack?
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