Timeline of Slack

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This is a timeline of Slack, a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield.[1]

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2009 July 9 Stewart Butterfield sends a tweet announcing that his new company, Tiny Speck is hiring. Along the top of the jobs page it reads We’re a new company, founded by four core members of the original team behind Flickr.[2][3] Tiny Speck is founded as a Canadian software company in Vancouver, British Columbia. The core team is largely drawn from the founders of Ludicorp, the company that created Flickr, an image- and video-hosting website and web services suite.[4]
2011 September 27 Tiny Speck opens Glitch to the public as a storied massively multi-player online game, after it being chronicled for 23 months.[5]
2013 August 14 In a preview release, Slack is launched as a tool for office collaboration and communication. It’s meant to reduce or eliminate workplace email, and to compete with services like Yammer and Campfire.[6][7][8][9]
2013 August 15 Slack signs up 8,000 companies in 24 hours.[10]
2014 April 25 Slack raises US$42.75 million. At the time it reports 60,000 daily users and 15,000 paid seats.[11]
2014 November 3 Slack raises $120 million in venture capital with a $1.2 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures.[12]
2014 November 21 In an interview with the MIT Technology Review, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield comments about Slack: "Certainly I feel that what we have right now is just a giant piece of shit. Like, it’s just terrible and we should be humiliated that we offer this to the public".[13][14][15]
2015 January 28 Acquisition Slack announces the acquisition of Screenhero.[16]
2015 February 12 Slacks announces 10,000 new daily active users signing up each week, with more than 60,000 teams and 135,000 paid accounts. The company claims having 500,000 daily active users, having doubled twice in the last two quarters.[17]
2015 March 26 Slack signs a deal with investors to raise up to $160 million in a funding round that valued the company at $2.76 billion. New investors include Institutional Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, Index Ventures and DST Global.[18]
2015 April 16 Slack Raises US$160 million, at a post-money valuation of US$2.8 billion. Slack reports being used daily by 750,000 workers.[19]
2015 June 24 Slack announces having surpassed 1 million active users each day, including 300,000 “paid seats,” which refers to the number of people using Slack as paying customers. So far, the company reports $25 million in annual recurring revenue.[20]
2016 April 1 Slack announces having raised US$200 million at a US$3.8 billion post-money valuation.[21]
2016 November 15 Product integration Business analytics software company Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram.[22]
2016 December 7 Partnership Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services, bringing a number of new features, including deeper integrations with Google services. Among the additions are new bots for notifications, as well as support for Google’s recently launched Team Drives, document previews and permissioning, etc.[23]
2017 January 6 Slack reveals 11 more companies backed through its US$80 million fund, which is dedicated to early-stage investments in companies building apps in Slack. The latest Slackbot companies to receive funding include Statsbot, SwayFinance, Guru, Bold, Demisto, DataFox, Troops, WorkRamp, Synervoz, Twine, and Donut.[24]
2017 February 1 Slack has announces new enterprise version, aimed at helping companies administer and connect multiple chat instances.[25]
2017 February 8 PayPal launches bot meant for Slack users to send P2P payments, all while staying within the Slack team messaging app.
2017 February 24 Dropbox releases open-source Slack bot, with the purpose of tackling unauthorized access and other security incidents in the workplace. The so called Securitybot can automatically grab alerts from security monitoring tools and verify incidents with other employers.[26]
2017 April 11 Slack launches in-message drop-down menus for apps, a feature to help its users better connect with apps they need at work.[27]
2017 April 12 Slack introduces drop-down menus in the messages for Apps that integrate with it, under the purpose of expanding its developer platform to improve interactions with third-party apps.[28]
2017 April 18 Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor Workplace, a collaborative platform run by the company.[29]
2017 September 17–18 Funding Slack closes a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank,[30] which values the company at US$5.1 billion.[31][32]

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  1. ↑ Kumparak, Greg (February 5, 2015). "Slack's Co-Founders Take Home The Crunchie For Founder Of The Year". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-04-10. 
  2. ↑ Siegler, MG. "Flickr Follow-Up Project Has A Name, Tiny Speck. And They're Hiring.". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  3. ↑ Butterfield, Stewart. twitter.com https://twitter.com/stewart/status/2561595737. Retrieved 3 October 2017.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Kara Swisher. "Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game startup, Glitch". AllThingsD. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  5. ↑ Tsotsis, Alexia. "Tiny Speck's Glitch Goes Live For Everyone At 10AM PST Today". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  6. ↑ Hockenson, Lauren. "Flickr co-founder's new tool, Slack, seeks to reform workplace conversation". gigaom.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  7. ↑ Tam, Donna. "Flickr founder plans to kill company e-mails with Slack". cnet.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  8. ↑ Fingas, Jon. "Flickr creator takes sign-ups for Slack, an office collaboration tool with universal search". engadget.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  9. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "Slack, The Newest Enterprise Social Network, Is The Latest Effort From Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
  10. ↑ Koetsier, John. "Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield's new Slack signed up 8,000 companies in 24 hours". venturebeat.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  11. ↑ "Slack, Stewart Butterfield's Collaboration Software Startup, Has Raised $42.75M". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  12. ↑ Alex Hern (3 November 2014). "Why Slack is worth $1bn: it's trying to change how we work". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  13. ↑ Bort, Julie. "Slack is an insanely popular app, but its CEO thinks it's 'terrible'". businessinsider.com.au. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  14. ↑ "Stewart Butterfield on Slack: Founder Calls His Own App Terrible". techvibes.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  15. ↑ "Three Questions with Slack's CEO". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Screenhero joins Slack". screenhero.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Slack growth skyrockets: 10,000 new active users each week". fortune.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  18. ↑ Macmillan, Douglas. "Slack's Valuation More Than Doubles to $2.8 Billion in Five Months". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Used Daily By 750K Workers, Slack Raises $160M, Valuing Collaboration Startup At $2.8B". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  20. ↑ "Slack Keeps On Growing". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  21. ↑ Roof, Katie. "Slack is work chat's runaway train, raises $200M at $3.8B". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  22. ↑ "Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  23. ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  24. ↑ "Slack reveals 11 more companies backed through its $106 million fund". betakit.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  25. ↑ "Slack finally launches its enterprise edition". computerworld.co.nz. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  26. ↑ "Dropbox releases open-source Slack bot". betanews.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Slack launches in-message drop-down menus for apps". venturebeat.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  28. ↑ "Slack apps can now use drop-down menus". cio.co.nz. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  29. ↑ "Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor". theverge.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017. 
  30. ↑ Huet, Ellen; Lanxon, Nate. "Slack Gets Slice of SoftBank's $100 Billion Tech Bounty". Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  31. ↑ "Slack overview". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
  32. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Slack raises a huge financing round from SoftBank valuing the company at $5.1B". Retrieved 1 October 2017. 
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