Not Buying Slack in 2016 is Bill Gates’ Best Call Ever as Microsoft Tech Advisor
Since the June direct listing, Slack has lost nearly half of its market value.Instead of an acquisition, Bill Gates advocated for an in-house Slack killer.Microsoft Teams now boasts of more daily active users relative to Slack.In 2016 when Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) was just a few years old, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) seriously considered acquiring the…