2020–01–19 | The Week At Work
| Microsoft Teams Ad Push | The Downside Of Work Chat | Workboard Raises $30M | VCs Hot For Work Tech |
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Stories
Microsoft launches global ad campaign for Teams, Slack competitor | Megan Graham reports on a big marketing push from Microsoft positioning Teams as the market-leading work chat tool over Slack. I discuss this at more length in Microsoft Has Grand Ambitions For Teams.
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How Slack ruined work | Sean Hargrave takes a negative tack on Slack, and really on work chat in general, citing the downside of synchronous, insistent communication. I expand on this and related themes in You Have To Go Slow To Go Fast.
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WorkBoard triples again in 2019, raises $30M from a16z to celebrate | Alex Wilhelm reports on a round by OKR tool Workboard:
WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that provides goal setting and management software to other companies, announced today that it has closed a $30 million Series C. The new capital comes less than a year after the startup raised a $23 million Series B. WorkBoard has raised $66.6 million to date, according to Crunchbase.
Andreessen Horowitz’s David Ulevitch led the round, which saw participation from Microsoft’s M12, GGV and Workday…
