The copy them all strategy

Teams is particularly effective as a way to prevent a Microsoft customer from even trying Slack. And, in that case, it doesn’t matter how much “love” Slack put into its product: said love was not simply unrequited, but unexperienced.

The Slack Social Network by Ben Thompson

Cash is bad — Reed Hastings

“It’s horrible how mismanaged most Silicon Valley companies are in capital.

Microsoft always wanted to have a lot of cash on hand. Apple had no cash 15 years ago in 2000. Who did the most innovation? The cash does not help. The cash insolates you in a bad way. It’s a bad thing that companies store cash.”

Reed Hastings (Netflix), to John Doerr (KPCB)