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How can something as basic as a chat technology be valued at so much? Seems crazy when there much more important problems to solve. Maybe I am missing something :)


Yes you are. The communications industry has enormous value and implications for basically any other problem we as humans work on.

Anyone who can come with a tool that makes communications marginally more effective has come up with a tool that has great value.

What you are missing is the part where messaging is a solved problem.

We've come far from telegraph and fax machines, but still have a long way to go.




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