joining us is slack cofounder and ceo stewart butterfield. good morning. >> good morning.nks for having me. >> great to have you i want to get right into the strategy behind this and what's happening in the collaboration space. it seems to me the battle space for collaboration platforms has moved over the past couple years from internal company communications increasingly to collaboration outside company. you were working on slack connect. how does this fit into that and the experience that you think is going to make your platform better >> that's a great question and i think it's obviously especially important right now, i don't think we'll be back in the office for a while, but even to the extent that people do end up going back to offices let's say later this year or early next year, it's still going to cause a generational shock and much bigger reliance on software couple weeks ago we announced slack connect. the idea there is to both increase the efficacy of collaboration across organizational boundaries while also increasing the security so, it's two slack organizati

slack's ceo, stewart butterfield, he was just on our air, guys. you remember talking to him a few months ago and he said this >> this perpetual question, which is, at this point a little buzz puzering for us, but at some point, microsoft's just going to kill us >> but guys, that's exactly what the eu complaint alleges, that microsoft uses its market power to try and crush slack now, the complaint also throws microsoft into the antitrust spotlight, which it has largely avoided versus its big-tech peers over the last few years. of course, we are all looking ahead to this monday when the ceos of amazon, apple, alphabet and facebook will testify before congress of course, you'll note, i did not mention microsoft. back to you guys. >> yeah, echoes of bundling here, that old term from the browser wars thank you. >>> and spotify, meanwhile, striking a new licensing deal with universal music you can see, shares of spotify rising again this morning, up 5%, what's already been a strong year for the stock, up over 90%. "squawk alley" will be right back stayi

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