Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 has recognized esteemed individuals across the city over the past 23 years, and this year they are changing the game again with a new honour: the Hall of Fame. Those who have received the recognition for 5 years or more will be unveiled at the awards ceremony on February 1st in support of their […]
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Productivity Platform Slack Reveals AI Tools at Dreamforce
Slack launched in 2009, though its history in Vancouver stretches further back to 2002. In 2019 the company announced its intention to go public. Slack entered the market and shares surged. Toward the end of 2020, San Francisco’s Salesforce announced a commitment to enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $28 billion mega-deal. “This is a match […]
Slack Unveils New Product Innovations At Dreamforce
Today at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Slack unveiled product innovations that make it even more productive for teams to work together in Slack. The updates allow Slack users to pull in actionable data directly from Salesforce Customer 360 and get more value from Slack as their digital HQ – a place where […]
A Succinct Record of Slack
Slack is headquartered in Silicon Valley but was born in Vancouver, where it boasts a beautiful multi-floor downtown office. Like any good startup, Slack has an fascinating history. And as is so often the case, something came before it. In this case, a few things. Our tale begins in 2002—over a decade before Slack would […]
It’s Official: Salesforce Acquires Vancouver-born Slack
Salesforce announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion mega-deal. Rumors of a pending deal surfaced last week, causing Slack’s stock price to spike. According to today’s announcement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps For Remote Development Teams
CTO.ai‘s mission is to make DevOps accessible to the next 40 million developers. And what better place then where collaboration and communication happens. With the future of work accelerating towards remote, the Vancouver startup has launched The Ops Platform in the Slack App Directory so anyone can easily automate a DevOps workflow. As the first […]
Goodbye Yaletown, Slack is Going Downtown
According to Daily Hive’s Venture, hometown Slack is making a move in Vancouver The now San Francisco-headquartered workplace communications platform will be moving into a new office at the Bentall 5 office tower at 550 Burrard Street. According to NAI Commercial’s latest market report, Slack has recently leased 34,000 square feet of space in the […]
Slack Valued Over $20 Billion at Public Debut
Vancouver-born Slack is off to a great start as a public company today as shares of the chat-based collaboration app are trading 50 percent above the initial price set by the company. Slack shares started trading at $38.50 on the New York Stock Exchange, well above Slack’s “reference price” of $26. The reference price is […]
Slack Plans to Forego IPO for a Direct Offering
According to the Wall Street Journal, Vancouver-born Slack is planning to go public through a direct public offering (DPO), potentially making it the second big technology company after Spotify to bypass a traditional initial public offering (IPO). A DPO is similar to an IPO in that securities, such as stock or debt, are sold to […]