{"id":50,"date":"2020-07-07T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/this-is-what-slack-and-silicon-valley-generally\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T09:33:00","slug":"this-is-what-slack-and-silicon-valley-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/this-is-what-slack-and-silicon-valley-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft provides a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is what Slack \u2014 and Silicon Valley, generally \u2014 failed to understand about Microsoft\u2019s competitive advantage: the company doesn\u2019t win just because it bundles, or because it has a superior ground game. By virtue of doing everything, even if mediocrely, the company is providing a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, particularly for the non-tech workers that are in fact most of the market. Slack may have infused its chat client with love, but chatting is a means to an end, and Microsoft often seems like the only enterprise company that understands that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2020\/the-slack-social-network\/\">https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2020\/the-slack-social-network\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Platform case study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what Slack \u2014 and Silicon Valley, generally \u2014 failed to understand about Microsoft\u2019s competitive advantage: the company doesn\u2019t win just because it bundles, or because it has a superior ground game. By virtue of doing everything, even if mediocrely, the company is providing a whole that is greater than the sum of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[29,30,203,31,7],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-thinking-2","tag-competition","tag-microsoft","tag-platform","tag-slack","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}