The company went public in 2019, but rising competition from Microsoft Teams and other rivals led Slack's leadership to steer it toward the 2021 acquisition by Salesforce.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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