this year's biggest ipo and how it impacts the likes of uber and lyft, and then slack ceo stewart butterfield as the debate in silicon valley about hybrid work and remote work rages on later, bulletin board material as facebook introduces its own competing product. >> and john, several tech movers to get to this morning, as wall street gets bullish on micron and bearish on virgin galactic those calls and more on the last day of the month coming up >> guys, meantime, didi, as you know by now, making its debut. ipo price at $14, raising $4.4 billion for the chinese ridesharing giant. the upsized offering giving didi a market cap of more than $66 billion. 17 listings today renaissance capital said the market is already on track for a record year, with 213 traditional ipos raising more than $70 billion year to date. one of the biggest backers of today's didi debut is softbank, which finds itself backing multiple fronts of the rideshare and delivery wars. holding a 21.5% stake in didi after it sold $2 billion of stock in its competitor, uber, earlier this year. its claim to fame is pushing uber ou

joining us now is slack ceo stewart butterfield. s how this grows the options people have been using for the last 18 months, what changes? stewart: adding more tools. there is a broader ecosystem. at slack, we use zoom, google docs, and you look at all the tools people are using, all these different means of collaboration and communication. but we still haven't reached every possibility and we end up using tools that were not intended or a specific use. all the zoom fatigue i think is because we are using a hammer on things that are not nails. we need more options. two things we launched, one is an ad hoc, unstructured conversations of the other is video messages. both are there is alternatives, not replacements, alternatives to the grid of rectangles and video feeds in people's faces that we all got used to. emily: how much did the pandemic influence the development of a digital toolkit? stewart: tremendously. we heard from customers that people really needed a sense of belonging. they missed their colleagues, but it was a very diff

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