Please don't take HN on nitpicky tangents, especially bilious ones. Every article contains some minor provocation. We all need to learn to handle those, not start threads about them.

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In what way is Slack not elite? Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by. By almost any measure, that's elite.

Is Berkeley not an elite school, because it's less prestigious than Stanford?

> In what way is Slack elite?

Slack's a big name in the tech industry and there's certainly competition for jobs they have on offer.

As _elite_ as, say, Apple, Google or Facebook? Probably not - but they're not Accenture or Capita either.

I tend to avoid valleythink, but Slack's brand value is definitely elite, it pays extremely well and is widely used, even if it is just a glorified Bay Area chat app.