shazow
@shazow.eth
Why is email so hard to kill? Because too much economic activity is dependent on it. The reason Slack managed to steal the "internal comms" segment from email quite easily is because there's no economic activity there.
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@thumbsup.eth
Slack is fighting for the “centralized + private/internal communication” market. There’s so many players there, because you get that great B2B SAAS money. Email is by design open to external communications. It’s a strength and a weakness that makes it less than ideal for internal comms. Email is like crypto. Unstoppable, and deeply flawed. But with much better privacy. Slack (et al) are like credit cards. Great for leveraging trust to allow certain things like being able to rent a hotel without sharing your direct financial information with the hotel, or being able to pay for something a week before payday. Slack doesn’t let you pay but it gives you privileges like prioritized communication access to someone (only slack members can DM them, only channel members can see channel messages). Vs the endless barrage of emails.
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0xygendebt
@0xygendebt
i don’t know if that comparison then tracks to PMF Slack combined internal collaboration tools in disparate pillars of the org email is ubiquitous across a multitude of biz lines/pillars
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