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Salesforce-Slack

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Slack is a business communication and collaboration platform known for channel-based messaging. It was acquired by Salesforce, Inc. in 2021.

We dig behind Salesforce-Slack's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Company profile

Industry
Enterprise software
Founded
2009
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Ownership
Acquired by Salesforce, Inc. in 2021

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The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
Salesforce Paid ~30x Revenue for a Slack Losing the Bundle War, ~12M Daily Users to Teams' ~115M
The 'Digital HQ' story says Salesforce bought a pandemic winner. The record says otherwise: Slack had ~12M daily users to Teams' ~115M and was losing the bundle war. Salesforce paid ~30x trailing revenue to absorb a competitive liability it couldn't out-engineer.
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