Salesforce said Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive and co-founder of the messaging app Slack Technologies, plans to leave the company next month. The news of Mr. Butterfield’s departure comes after Salesforce said last week that co-CEO Bret Taylor would depart the company in January, leaving Chairman Marc Benioff the sole CEO of the company he co-founded. Mr. Taylor was credited as the architect of Salesforce’s 2020 deal to buy Slack for $27.7 billion, Salesforce’s biggest acquisition ever. Read More...
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Why Snowflake, Datadog, and MongoDB Fell Today
Shares of enterprise software giants Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG), and MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) were plunging on Monday, down by 8.7%, 6.4%, and 9.4%, respectively, as of 3:06 p.m. ET. There wasn’t much company-specific news today, although Snowflake reported earnings last week, and MongoDB will report tomorrow. Friday’s strong jobs and wages report, combined with today’s stronger-than-expected services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) reading, showed the economy may be stronger than generally thought — surprising, especially since recent financial results and guidance in the software industry have been less than stellar.
