Alya Abbott

Yeah, exactly. And then that disrupts people's focus time, even if they are online. You want to be able to just dive into your work and focus for a couple hours, and then when you need a break, maybe check in on your chat messages and follow up on stuff. Most of the messages people are sending are probably not so urgent that you need to interrupt your flow to jump in right away.

Yeah, exactly. And then that disrupts people's focus time, even if they are online. You want to be able to just dive into your work and focus for a couple hours, and then when you need a break, maybe check in on your chat messages and follow up on stuff. Most of the messages people are sending are probably not so urgent that you need to interrupt your flow to jump in right away.

And so that's part of the design here is that to really make it possible to say, okay, I'm going to dive into the code. I'm going to dive into my project and then reemerge and follow up on all the chats where I need to respond and then go back to what I was doing.

And so that's part of the design here is that to really make it possible to say, okay, I'm going to dive into the code. I'm going to dive into my project and then reemerge and follow up on all the chats where I need to respond and then go back to what I was doing.

Yeah, well, now they're going to actually start erasing it after a year, I think, right?

Yeah, well, now they're going to actually start erasing it after a year, I think, right?

Well, we did... I guess maybe you guys remember it was a couple of years ago, maybe now, that Slack switched from letting folks see 10,000 messages of history to just 90 days on a free plan. And that...

Well, we did... I guess maybe you guys remember it was a couple of years ago, maybe now, that Slack switched from letting folks see 10,000 messages of history to just 90 days on a free plan. And that...

That was really, it was framed as kind of a positive, but what we saw is a huge influx of folks, communities who don't find, can't afford something like paying for a pro plan on Slack, leaving Slack and importing their data and moving to Zulop. And I mean, for us, we have a really robust sponsorship program for communities and open source projects, nonprofits,

That was really, it was framed as kind of a positive, but what we saw is a huge influx of folks, communities who don't find, can't afford something like paying for a pro plan on Slack, leaving Slack and importing their data and moving to Zulop. And I mean, for us, we have a really robust sponsorship program for communities and open source projects, nonprofits,

education, kind of all kinds of non-business uses for Zulip. We really try to, you know, enable folks to benefit from our software. So we do sponsor free Zulip Cloud standard plans for folks. We have over, I think, over 1,500 sponsored organizations at this point. So it's a really robust program.

education, kind of all kinds of non-business uses for Zulip. We really try to, you know, enable folks to benefit from our software. So we do sponsor free Zulip Cloud standard plans for folks. We have over, I think, over 1,500 sponsored organizations at this point. So it's a really robust program.

Yeah, and it's something that we really believe in Zulip as a way to help folks be more productive and really help them accomplish what they're trying to do. And so we don't want to wall that off as much as we can. Of course, we do need businesses and organizations that can afford it to pay for the product.

Yeah, and it's something that we really believe in Zulip as a way to help folks be more productive and really help them accomplish what they're trying to do. And so we don't want to wall that off as much as we can. Of course, we do need businesses and organizations that can afford it to pay for the product.

But otherwise, we really do want to share it as much as we can and enable folks to do awesome things with it.

But otherwise, we really do want to share it as much as we can and enable folks to do awesome things with it.

Yeah, well, and I guess our general philosophy on pricing is, look, if you're a business and you're paying somebody a salary, paying a small monthly fee for that user, a few dollars a month to have chat software that they use hours every day, and in our case, that can help them be more efficient with their time, that's just so worth it. And it's a very reasonable way to do things.

Yeah, well, and I guess our general philosophy on pricing is, look, if you're a business and you're paying somebody a salary, paying a small monthly fee for that user, a few dollars a month to have chat software that they use hours every day, and in our case, that can help them be more efficient with their time, that's just so worth it. And it's a very reasonable way to do things.

But if you're looking at an organization where the folks using chat are not your employees, so even if there's some kind of core employee corps, a few folks who are part of a business, but then you have a large community that's part of that organization, now the pricing doesn't make any sense at all. And so that's Folks can contact our sales team for their specific situation.

But if you're looking at an organization where the folks using chat are not your employees, so even if there's some kind of core employee corps, a few folks who are part of a business, but then you have a large community that's part of that organization, now the pricing doesn't make any sense at all. And so that's Folks can contact our sales team for their specific situation.