<i>I think you are seeing it from the strongly-VC-backed startup perspective.</i><p>I feel I can pretty authoritatively answer &quot;Betcha not&quot; here. &lt;&#x2F;cofounder&gt;<p>It&#x27;s trivial to justify Slack&#x27;s pricetag at any software company.  Your entire team lives in it continuously and it becomes the nerve center of the company... for <i>freaking pennies</i>.  It&#x27;s ludicrous.  If you add it up the non-Starfighter companies I run spend like $50k a year on SaaS&#x2F;hosting&#x2F;etc (&quot;everything with an API attached&quot;) of which Slack is like ~1%, and probably the most underpriced-relative-to-value service which does not quote its pricing in picodollars.