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Stewart Butterfield

Slack
San Francisco, United States
Stewart Butterfield co-founded Flickr and then Slack, both emerging from failed games (Game Neverending and Glitch). This pattern of pivoting gracefully — finding the valuable artifact inside a failed project — defines his entrepreneurial approach. Slack transformed workplace communication and was acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion in 2021, one of the largest SaaS acquisitions in history.
Enterprise Collaboration / SaaS

About Slack

Slack is a channel-based messaging platform for team communication, file sharing, and integrations with thousands of business apps. Now integrated into Salesforce as its primary collaboration layer.

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