Slack, the enterprise messaging tool that lets business colleagues trade words, work on projects together, share links and other things in real time, has come a very long way since launching in August 2013. After selling photo-sharing app Flickr to Yahoo in 2005, Canadian entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield started a new company with the intention of building a game. Years later Butterfield and his team realized that a chat app they had been building on the side showed great potential as an alternative to email and decided to focus on that instead. Read More...
How Slack Cornered the Market and Battled Tech Giants
Slack, the enterprise messaging tool that lets business colleagues trade words, work on projects together, share links and other things in real time, has come a very long way since launching in August 2013. After selling photo-sharing app Flickr to Yahoo in 2005, Canadian entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield started a new company with the intention of building a game. Years later Butterfield and his team realized that a chat app they had been building on the side showed great potential as an alternative to email and decided to focus on that instead.
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