Why Atlassian and Slack are sending each other gifts, and how startups should learn to embrace competition

If a competitor launched in their market, most startups wouldn’t think to offer congratulations to the challenger, much less offer them a box of sweet treats. But that’s exactly what Slack did to congratulate Atlassian for launching it’s Stride messaging platform last week. The Stride platform offers a range of new features to Atlassian customers, including […]

Angela Castles September 14, 2017

Earlier this month Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes launched a campaign against the demerger. Source: supplied.

If a competitor launched in their market, most startups wouldn’t think to offer congratulations to the challenger, much less offer them a box of sweet treats.

But that’s exactly what Slack did to congratulate Atlassian for launching it’s Stride messaging platform last week.

The Stride platform offers a range of new features to Atlassian customers, including a ‘focus mode’ option to mute messages and notifications, as well as an option to schedule meetings and allocate ‘actions’ and ‘decisions’ labels to messages on the platform.