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That same year, Butterfield secured an office for Slack employees in San Francisco, and was expected to commence recruitment during the second half of the year. As of December 2015, Slack had raised US$340 million in venture capital and had more than 2 million daily active users, of which 570,000 were paid customers. Slack Is a Communications Tool, But Also Much More. So, there you have it-now you know what Slack is and how it works. The tool is user-friendly but also has a wide range of features. Besides general communication, Slack is also great for helping your team manage their projects better. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield (Getty Images) Workplace tool Slack has been acquired by software company Salesforce for approximately $27.7 billion on December 1. The Washington Post reports that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for a sale in cash and stock.

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Slack has proven that simple tools — built beautifully — can solve even the most vexing problems of team collaboration. Its cross-platform chat and notification functions keep many of the most widely distributed teams in sync, and with its marketplace of integrations, users can pull files and data from a spectrum of third-party services to help enrich dialogue and workflow.

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Accel seeded the company in 2009 when it was Tiny Speck, a gaming company building virtual worlds for teens which was founded by Stewart Butterfield, the creator of Flickr. In 2012, when it became clear that their product, a game called Glitch, wouldn’t be a hit, Butterfield and his team latched onto the promise of an operations tool they’d built for internal use during that time; in August 2013, Slack officially launched. Accel has been an active supporter through each round of funding. In 2019, 10 years after the founding of Tiny Speck, what is now Slack Technologies, Inc. went public via direct listing (NYSE: WORK).