Bill Gates reportedly talked Microsoft out of bidding $8 billion for Slack

Microsoft was mulling an $8 billion bid for super-hot work-chat app Slack — but opposition from founder Bill Gates and current CEO Satya Nadella killed the deal before an offer could even be made, reports TechCrunch's Jon Russell. According to that report, Microsoft Executive VP Qi Lu, the guy in charge of R&D for Bing, Office, and Skype, was the key figure in lobbying for the company to make a big bid.
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