8. History of Slack
2009
MARCH
Stewart Butterfield creates Tiny
Speck
Development starts on Glitch
2012
NOVEMBER
Glitch shuts down
DECEMBER
Tiny Speck pivots to develop its
internal communications tool
Linefeed
2014
FEBRUARY
Slack officially releases for
desktop, iOS, and Android
AUGUST
Tiny Speck officially becomes
Slack Technologies
2015
FEBRUARY
Slack’s central database is
compromised
MARCH
Slack introduces two-factor
authentication
APRIL
$3B valuation
2016-2017
OCTOBER
Slack teams up with IBM’s
Watson
JANUARY
Slack introduces
threaded-messaging
2018
FEBRUARY
Slack names Allen Shim its first
CFO
$5B valuation
9. What is Slack up to today?
▰ $7B valuation
▰ Plans to go public
▰ Direct Listing > IPO
10. That Secret Sauce
▰ Centralized Communications
▰ Intelligent bot system
▰ Integrative API
11. Competition
Microsoft Teams
- Freemium
- Conversation threads
- Audio/Video
Facebook Workplace
- Open integrations
- Fun and thematic
Google Hangouts
- Audio/Video
- Google integrations
Slack
- Fast conversation lookup
- Intelligent bot system
- Customizable
12. Prediction?
▰ Clear cut YES
▰ Insane growth
▰ Caters to the right industry
▰ Andreessen Horowitz