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by jasonblais 2030 days ago
Given that - Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016 - Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020

That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies.

So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.