[jonas21]

I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. As a bootstrapped company, we often worry that someone with lots of venture funding (like Slack) will enter our space with a free product, making it difficult for those of us who actually have to turn a profit to compete.

[judge2020]

No doubt this happened with both Google Chat and Microsoft Teams - Google and Microsoft continue to gain marketshare from companies that previously were running their own email/file servers, so any attempt to get them to move to slack is going to be an uphill battle.

[jiveturkey]

if you often worry about that, you should consider that you are a feature, not a company. build your erm product appropriately. ie be more attractive to acquire than compete against.