Are Venture Capitalists Crazy or Is Slack Really Worth $3.8B?
Digital Clarity Group analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe looks at Slack a little differently.
Slack is much more than a chat application — it was one of the first to try to provide a platform for communicative work beyond emails,” he told CMSWire. “Email is still important but in (for example) journalism and media, the discussion is the work and work revolves around discussions. So in my opinion it is already much more than chat — it’s a solid framework for collaborative/communicative work.
Pelz-Sharpe isn’t alone in this line of thinking.
Though he stopped short of calling content created in Slack a “document,” others, like Google Docs creator Sam Schillace, have done exactly that. The thinking goes something like this: Documents became letters; letters became email; emails (became, will become) digitized conversation — making conversation the new document.
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