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Slack CEO departs Salesforce, Circle cancels SPAC, SBF's links with media & regulators | E1628

This Week in Startups

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How Does Product Velocity Slow Down When a Company Is Acquired by a Bigger Company?

After figma was acquired by adobe for what's 20 billion dollars users freaked out saying you know figma is gonna get rolled into the adobe suite. But then a couple things always happen right product velocity slows down usually when a company is acquired by a bigger company. There's just not the same level of Urgency around keeping the product going and I think you could argue that we saw that with slack It sort of stagnated for a long time before huddles were the big innovation, which is great.

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