How the Slack app ecosystem is helping chatbot developers

GUEST: It’s good to be part of the Slack ecosystem.
Our bot MailClark is among 600 third-party apps that work on Slack. I like to say we get all the benefits of a flea on the back of an elephant; the beast moves, eats, or grows, and so do we.
But even that metaphor has its limits. Slack wants us there, and it goes out of its way to care for us. Take, for instance, the $80 million venture fund it formed last year exclusively for apps. It already spent $2 million funding companies with apps