Instead, he wanted to buy something from them. While we might not ever know the back (Slack) room maneuvering that went on to make the deal a reality, it is interesting to note that Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield told me in an interview this week that he was not actually trying to sell the company when he approached Salesforce president and COO Bret Taylor earlier this year. Then quite suddenly this week, Slack was part of Salesforce, plucked off the market for an enormous sum of money. It raised $1.4 billion, went from zero to a $7 billion valuation to IPO, checking off every box on the startup founder’s wish list. It started as a pivot from a game company, of all things. Slack was the living embodiment of the Silicon Valley startup success fantasy. The report was not the only shake-up in the cloud industry Wednesday as Amazon's AWS public cloud service was experiencing a major outage, grounding many online services that depend on it.When Salesforce bought Slack earlier this week for $27.7 billion, it was in some ways the end of a startup fairytale.
Slack shares closed Tuesday at $29.58 giving the company a market cap of $16.89 billion. Microsoft, and Salesforce." Slack shares were last up more than 23%, while Salesforce shares were down about 3%. "This would also have a ripple impact for GoogleĪnd its cloud endeavors and put more pressure on Kurian and GCP to do a collaborative cloud deal over the next 3 to 6 months to keep pace with the likes of Amazon Salesforce's acquisition of Slack could also set off a string of software company acquisitions across the tech industry well into next year, Ives said. Microsoft already butts heads with Salesforce, which specializes in customer relationship management software, with its Dynamics 365 CRM service. "This deal would be a major shot across the bow at Microsoft with the company's Teams offering a direct messaging competitor against Slack that has been a clear hurdle to growth and now would be a two horse race between Microsoft and Salesforce," said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives in a note Wednesday. One analyst said Wednesday, following a report of a possible deal in the works, and may set off a wave of software acquisitions. Would be a major challenge to Microsoft Corp.
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