Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack, at his company’s IPO on Wall Street in June 2019. © Getty — Drew Angerer
A page turns in Slack’s head. Eight years after launching the instant messaging software for businesses, Stewart Butterfield will leave his post in January. He will be replaced by Lidiane Jones, in charge of Salesforce’s cloud activities, said the American specialist in customer relationship management (CRM) software. In addition to Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s Chief Product Officer, Tamar Yehoshua, and Chief Marketing Officer, Jonathan Prince, have also decided to leave the company.
Salesforce announced the acquisition of Slack in December 2020 for $27.7 billion. This mega-acquisition aimed to position itself against Microsoft, which owns the professional messaging application Teams. The transaction, officially concluded last year, was a major step in the history of Slack, which had made its IPO in June 2019. Listed on Wall Street, the messaging had seen its valuation rise to 20 billion dollars, against barely 7.1 billion at the end of 2018. Enough to arouse the appetite of giants of the scale of Salesforce.
Slack
Slack is a very complete communication platform unifying various exchange and information tools for professionals.
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Version :
4.22.0 -
Downloads:
115 -
Release date :
01/12/2022 -
Author :
Slack -
Licence :
Free license -
Categories:
Communication – Productivity
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Operating system :
Android, Linux, Online service All Internet browsers, Windows 64 bits – XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, iOS iPhone / iPad, macOS
Slack faces competition from Microsoft Teams
While Slack has won over many large groups, including within the CAC 40, it has benefited less from the various confinements caused by the Covid-19 pandemic than its rival Teams from Microsoft. Consequently, a rapprochement with the heavyweight of enterprise applications and customer relationship software has become essential.
“Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in a fully digital world where it’s possible to work from anywhere”, said Marc Benioff, co-founder and boss of Salesforce, when the takeover was announced. The latter is now the only master on board within the American company, after the surprise departure of Bret Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce, a week ago. Bret Taylor only shared the controls of the group with Marc Benioff for a short year.