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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications

The Vergecast

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Is Slack Going to Kill Email?

"We don't use emal for internal communication at all, ever. Like no one would ever emal anyone else," he says. "If we wanted emel dead, it'd be cold and in the ground already,. keeping it around do our dirty work." Slack is an open standard, universal name space. Anyone can run an s m t p server. And i think you want those advantages, but you none of those are advantages when it's just internal communication, where you can select a specific platform....

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