Salesforce’s purchase of Slack: how social media is swallowing our brains

Salesforce’s purchase of Slack: how social media is swallowing our brains

ByJosh Bernoff

Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. That was a statement about economics. Now I believe that social media is swallowing our brains, which is a much broader statement about human behavior. The precipitating event for this observation is Salesforce’s announcement that it would acquire Slack for $27.7 billion. According to Salesforce…

The Slack letter to Microsoft is built on meaningless platitudes
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The Slack letter to Microsoft is built on meaningless platitudes

ByJosh Bernoff

Slack wrote an open letter to Microsoft, ostensibly welcoming it to the market for workplace collaboration systems. It’s a weird hunk of prose, direct and honest on the surface, but fundamentally insincere. The choice to publish this letter — and to fill it with platitudes — makes me question the judgment of the company. Here’s what happened….