

Earlier this month, Slack announced a partnership with Amazon’s cloud business Amazon Web Services - Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature and Amazon will offer Slack as an option for all internal communications. “We swept this massive surge in interest, but I think we also just felt like this was our moment.”Īnd things haven’t slowed down.

“It was just super-high adrenaline,” Butterfield said. Six years later, in the midst of a global pandemic, the trend has moved to the fast lane, and Slack has been pulled along with it.Īs offices have reoriented around remote work, Slack has been perfectly positioned to become a new communication platform of choice, and during the first weeks of March it jumped from 10 million concurrent users to more 12 million.Ĭofounder and CEO Stewart Butterfield told NY Magazine in April the second week in March had been the most productive in the company’s history. When Slack officially launched in 2014, the team behind the business communication platform predicted a gradual migration to remote work and designed an agile product to suit. Here’s our exclusive org chart of the top executives and their roles. The Org has identified the most influential people behind the scenes at business communication platform Slack.
