![]() ![]() Butterfield wants Slack to do for the next decade what Microsoft did for the past two by dominating how millions work. That would make Slack one of the world’s most valuable companies. John O’Farrell, a Slack board member and partner at the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz says that if Butterfield and Slack play their cards right, they can build a $100 billion company. Slack’s is currently on track to hit $45 million). (The social network’s revenue in 2014 was $12.5 billion. He wants his business to exceed Facebook’s. “The most irritated that I’ve gotten in the last week are discussions of just this feature because it’s taken us so long to get it,” Butterfield said in an interview last month.īutterfield, 42, says that his firm is worth much more than its current valuation of $2.8 billion. People won’t be interrupted by its messages between, say, the hours of 10:00pm and 8:00am in whatever time zone they live. To help tackle how much we work, Slack is developing a “do not disturb” feature. Slack has so successfully infiltrated how so many people spend their waking hours that the company is now working on ways to get people off Slack–if only to let them get some shut-eye. (More than 2,000 people use Slack at Time Inc., which publishes this web site and many others.) Teams at NASA and the State Department are on Slack. ![]() So do Fortune 500 firms like Comcast and Walmart. Venture-capital darlings Airbnb, BuzzFeed and Blue Bottle Coffee use it. More than 1.7 millions people have become daily active users of the service since it was first released in February 2014 10 times as many people were using Slack in August of this year as there were during the same period last year. On Tuesday, Butterfield said that 1 million people were using Slack at the same time for the first time in the company’s short history. ![]()
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