“I loved HipChat I was a huge user of HipChat at my startup back in the day”
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UsesThe 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process
“early on slack was competing against this product called hipchat and that was actually what I used at our startup”
“we did a big advertising campaign on our hipchat product which was head to head with slack”
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