The chat application gained adoption fast in a bottom-up fashion as small teams embraced it and persuaded their companies to use it.Slack chief product officer Tamar Yehoshua and SVP Jonathan Prince also will depart, per Butterfield's message.Ĭatch up quick: Butterfield led Slack from its start nearly a decade ago, as a spin-off from a game project that failed to gain traction.
Butterfield wrote in an internal Slack message to employees that his move is unrelated to Taylor's, adding: "Planning has been in the works for several months.Why it matters: This comes less than two years after Salesforce bought Slack for $28 billion, and only a week after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor submitted his own resignation. He'll be succeeded by longtime Salesforce cloud executive Lidiane Jones. Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield will leave parent company Salesforce early next month, the company confirms to Axios.
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