Crossposted from the Staunch Robots blog.
Slack just raised $120 million. Good for them. One of our Staunchers works on a team that uses it and he likes it a lot. I personally prefer Flowdock, but this space is moving fast and I expect lots of players to emerge offering different value propositions. One thing that stood out for me is in the statement by Slack’s CEO
“The world is in the very early stages of a 100 year shift in how people communicate, and we’re determined to push the boundaries,” says Stewart Butterfield, Slack CEO.
Exactly. As it happens, just last night I wrote a comment (screen cap below) on Brad Feld’s blog about how email is only about twenty years old in terms of mass adoption. I feel fortunate to have lived to see the evolution of communications and am excited for what lies ahead. Not just for the sake of the technology, but also for how it empowers us.
Because of the Internet and new communication tools, I’m able to write this post in Medellin, Colombia while managing multiple projects.
I”m going back to Boulder next Tuesday. An Oculus Rift Developer Kit will be waiting for me and I can’t wait to dive in. Companies like Slack, Flowdock, Asana, Flow, Trello and many, many more are making it possible for people like me to live wherever they want, and opening up opportunities for people in developing nations to participate in exciting first-world projects
I feel lucky to be alive right now.
