Stewart Butterfield discusses the work from home environment amid an uptick in COVID cases on 'The Claman Countdown', will depart from his role in January, according to the company's owner Salesforce.
Butterfield helped establish Slack as a workplace communication tool during its early establishment in 2013 and has been central to the company's growth over the last few years. In December 2020,The co-founder's departure comes days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor announced he would depart the company. According to the Wall Street Journal, Taylor is considered one of the central people in the deal to buy Slack last year.
Butterfield told employees that his departure has no correlation to Taylor's resignation, adding that "planning has been in the works for several months! Just weird timing," according to the Verge. The company will replace Butterfield with Lidiane Jones, the current executive VP & GM of digital experience clouds, next year. Since the Salesforce acquisition, leadership at Slack, as well as the app's functionality, has remained mostly the same.
"Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack," a Salesforce spokesperson said in a statement. "He has helped lead the successful integration of Slack into Salesforce and today Slack is woven into the Salesforce Customer 360 platform."Stewart also was instrumental in choosing Lidiane Jones as the next Slack CEO to lead it into its next chapter," the spokesperson added.
Butterfield told employees in an internal message that he plans to focus on "learning new things" and spending time with his family. Previously, the billionaire entrepreneur co-founded the photo-sharing technology purchased
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