Slack announced on Monday that it is being acquired by enterprise software giant Salesforce for $27.7 billion. "It would just be an impossible undertaking." "Organizations can't be productive like that at scale," he said. Before building his 2.8 billion startup Slack, which many consider the fastest-growing. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is an intelligent guy. Henderson said if he'd been asked a month prior to Slack shutting its office whether he thought it would be possible for large organizations to go remote overnight, he would have said no. (Flickr/kk) Slack Founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield. Now, obviously it turned out to not be true." "In many ways it felt like it was a snow day. "It felt like it was just a short-term thing … we weren't going to be in this for months," he said. The Microsoft Teams rival closed its offices and asked people to work from home at the beginning of March before shelter-in-place measures were introduced in California. They are in the same office and they can have in person meetings and whiteboarding sessions and all that kind of interaction." "We were already distributed because we have offices around the world, but we weren't fully distributed. "I was as surprised as anyone that we were able to be so productive during that shift," he said.
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