Off Brand

Slack’s Outage Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to the Company

When it comes to accidental branding moments, this one will go down in the books

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Marker

3 min readJan 5, 2021

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Photo: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

When Slack started 2021 by suffering a mass outage on the very morning most of the remote workforce revved up their computers after a long holiday break, it seemed…

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