[sct202]

Zoom is trying to compete by launching Zoom email, calendar, and group chat. Probably a lot of the headcount increases are due to moving fast and trying to get to market as fast as possible.

[jeffbee]

That ... does not sound like it would work. Zoom is a success because the founder and the founding team came with decades of video conference experience and really just re-implememted webex/cisco products without any bullshit. What do any of these people know about hosting email?

[ec109685]

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

I'd add that Chat seems like a modern day corollary.

[jeffbee]

Remember the time Facebook tried to take on Gmail? Neither does anyone else.

[bismark]

uh, I do? https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-email-killer/