George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, argues that Anthropic should build a Slack competitor. His case rests on three points: Claude lacks group conversation capabilities that would make it truly useful in business workflows; Slack's data access policies are too restrictive for AI agents to leverage company knowledge; and Slack's network effects are weaker than assumed, making it vulnerable to a well-positioned competitor. He envisions a 'NewSlack' bundled with Claude that would give every employee access to AI in their natural collaboration environment, while committing to open data access and interoperability — something Anthropic's reputation for principled behavior makes credible.
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Claude's missing feature is group conversationSlack's data policies are unacceptableSlack is more vulnerable than you thinkNewSlack and Claude are a perfect bundleThe commitment that would make it workSort: