Stewart Butterfield speaks on November 08, 2019 in San Francisco, California.
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Salesforce mentioned on Monday that Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving the corporate. He will get replaced by way of Lidiane Jones, an govt vice chairman at Salesforce who joined in 2019.
Butterfield’s introduced departure comes days after Salesforce mentioned co-CEO Bret Taylor was once stepping down only a yr after being promoted to the proportion the highest activity with Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder.
Benioff knowledgeable staff on a decision on Monday that Butterfield was once leaving, in keeping with folks aware of the topic who requested to not be named as a result of they were not approved to talk at the document. Salesforce received Slack for approximately $27 billion ultimate yr, its biggest acquire ever. The deal was once introduced in overdue 2020.
“Stewart is an improbable chief who created a great, loved corporate in Slack,” an organization spokesperson instructed CNBC in a commentary. “He has helped lead the a hit integration of Slack into Salesforce and nowadays Slack is woven into the Salesforce Buyer 360 platform. Stewart additionally was once instrumental in opting for Lidiane Jones as the following Slack CEO to guide it into its subsequent bankruptcy. Lidiane has a powerful background in buyer and undertaking tech and has been amongst Salesforce’s management for over 3 years. We are thankful for Stewart and excited for Lidiane as she takes over the reins of Slack.”
Tamar Yehoshua, Slack’s product leader, may even leave, at the side of Jonathan Prince, senior vice chairman in control of advertising, logo and communications, the folk acquainted mentioned.
Jones spent over 12 years at Microsoft, sooner than leaving to sign up for Sonos in 2015. She’s been at Salesforce since 2019 and is lately govt vice chairman and common supervisor of virtual enjoy clouds.
Butterfield at first labored with the opposite co-founder of Slack, Cal Henderson, at photo-sharing site Flickr, which Yahoo received in 2005. In 2009 the 2 males based Tiny Speck as they sought to construct an internet online game named Glitch. The sport didn’t turn into a world-beating hit and Tiny Speck close it down. Tiny Speck had evolved tool staff had used to construct Glitch, and the startup made the tool to be had to the general public as Slack in 2014.
It grew temporarily, mobilizing Microsoft. When Microsoft introduced Groups in 2016, Slack took out an advert within the New York Occasions to welcome Microsoft to the marketplace.
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