Why Slack’s Whiny Lawsuit vs. Microsoft Will Backfire | Ammirati on Innovation | Cloud Wars Live
Watch "Ammirati on Innovation," a monthly series from Cloud Wars Live. As the Digital Economy begins to boom, the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics.
The Big Themes:
• Slack's New York Times ad begins, “Dear Microsoft, big news and congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition.”
• The ad reeks of arrogance. And Slack is saying to the European Union, “it’s just not fair the way Microsoft is treating us.”
• It’s time for Slack to be part of a different enterprise company, and maybe it’s Oracle, Salesforce – or maybe Microsoft will have pity on them and gobble them up.
• The cloud space is only going to get more interesting over the next 12 months, as we rush to reinvent these industries and businesses and reimagine them.
• Slack and Microsoft Teams are not anywhere near the same. Sean says, “when I get a link from a company that I’m working with, I grimace. It’s an absolutely terrible product.”
The Big Quote:
“The sad reality is Slack is worth more inside somebody else's enterprise today than it is alone.”
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