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by rjknight 973 days ago
I thought the same thing, but then "slack" also implies not working very hard, and that didn't seem to be a problem for them (though maybe the counterfactual is a world in which Slack had even more users with a better name).
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Good point. It is slightly different in that you (mostly) only use Slack if your org has chosen to use it anyway - but no, fair point.
I was thinking the same thing about Slack. But yeah, I wonder if the name had a positive or negative impact on the overall outcome.