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Stewart Butterfield, Slack Chief Executive Officer

Slack CEO Butterfield to depart next month

Slack Chief Executive Officer Stewart Butterfield plans to leave the workplace messaging platform in January, parent company Salesforce said today.

Business • 05 Dec 22

Salesforce raised its annual revenue forecast to between $25.90-26 billion, above estimates of $25.76 billion.

Salesforce raises annual revenue, profit outlook

Salesforce.com has raised its full-year forecast for revenue as well as profit, and reported quarterly revenue that beat analysts' estimates, following increased demand for its …

Business • 28 May 21

Salesforce buys Slack in $26bn deal

Salesforce has agreed to buy workplace messaging app Slack Technologies for about $26 billion in its biggest deal, as the cloud-computing pioneer bolsters its remote-work …

Business • 01 Dec 20

Shares of Slack Technologies soared nearly 50% in their public trading debut yesterday

Slack stock surges at debut with firm valued at $23 bn

Shares of Slack Technologies, the fast-growing workplace messaging and communication platform, soared nearly 50% in their public trading debut yesterday, valuing the company at over …

Business • 21 Jun 19

Slack's chief executive Stewart Butterfield

Slack sees full year revenues rising by as much as 50%

Slack Technologies said it expects fiscal 2020 revenue to grow as much as 50% but the owner of the workplace instant messaging app anticipates a …

Business • 11 Jun 19

The number of paying customers using Slack has risen by more than 50% over the past five years to over 85,000

Slack makes confidential filing to go public

Slack Technologies said it had confidentially applied with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list its shares publicly.

Business • 05 Feb 19

Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack

Slack raises $427m and hits $7.1 bn valuation

Slack, the workplace collaboration software startup that aims to fuel a move away from email, has raised $427 million to give it a valuation of …

Technology • 21 Aug 18

In an interview with RTÉ News, Stewart outlined plans for the company's Irish operation

Slack: Fundraising, the competition, and Ireland

The CEO of workplace messaging platform Slack, Stewart Butterfield, was in Dublin recently, checking in on the company's Irish operation.

Business • 09 Nov 17

Slack will employ around 150 people in Dublin by the end of the year

Slack raises $250m in new funding round

Workplace messaging and collaboration platform Slack has raised $250m in fresh capital, valuing it at $5.1 billion.

Business • 18 Sep 17

A hotly tipped star of the international tech start-up scene, Slack currently employs 50 people here, and hopes to add another 100 this year

Slack 'doubly happy' it chose Dublin for HQ

The co-founder and CEO of the rapidly growing workplace messaging platform Slack has said Brexit has made the company 'doubly happy' it has chosen Dublin …

Business • 18 Jan 17

Slack to create 80 more jobs in Dublin over the next two years

Slack to create 80 jobs at Dublin hub

Workplace messaging platform Slack is to create 80 jobs in Dublin over the next two years, bringing to 180 the numbers employed in the capital …

Business • 13 Apr 16

Stewart Butterfield said that the company is constrained by physical space and the heated property market has made it very competitive to get leases

Slack planning to expand Dublin office - CEO

The founder and chief executive of the instant messaging app Slack has said the company plans to expand its Dublin office in the future.

Business • 03 Nov 15

Slack says the jobs will be customer support and account management roles

Software company to create 100 jobs in Dublin

Software company Slack says it will create 100 jobs over the next two years with the opening of its European headquarters in Dublin.

News • 14 May 15

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