![]() ![]() In March 2015, Slack announced it had been hacked for over four days in February 2015 and that some data associated with user accounts had been compromised, including email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords, phone numbers, and Skype IDs. On December 5, 2022, Salesforce announced that Stewart Butterfield was leaving Slack, and he would be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, an executive vice president at Salesforce. ![]() On January 1, 2021, Slack and Salesforce announced an agreement for Salesforce to acquire the company for a value of approximately $27.7 billion. This acquisition was to provide additional search offerings for employees within a Slack workspace. In July 2020, Slack acquired Rimeto a startup company focused on directory building. In June 2019, Slack went public through a direct public offering to reach a market value of US$19.5 billion. The companies also announced a commitment to work on integrating Slack with Atlassian services. On July 26, 2018, Atlassian announced the shutdown of its competing HipChat and Stride, effective February 11, 2019, and the sale of its intellectual property to Slack. Slack was previously compatible with non-proprietary Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and XMPP messaging protocols, but the company closed the corresponding gateways in May 2018. ![]() Īccording to Butterfield, "Slack" is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge," which he chose in 2012 to replace the previous codename, "linefeed." Slack launched to the public in August 2013. ![]() Slack began as an internal tool for Stewart Butterfield's company, Tiny Speck, during the development of Glitch, an online game. ![]()
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