{"id":74049,"date":"2016-10-21T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=74049"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:28:00","slug":"slack-milestones","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/slack-milestones","title":{"rendered":"Slack Raking in More and More Cash as Userbase Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slack&#8217;s growth has slowed. But not by much. The company, <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2015\/09\/25\/a-brief-history-of-slack-2015-09-25\">credited as the fastest-growing startup ever<\/a>, says it now boasts 2.5 million simultaneously connected users.<\/p>\n<p>These users helped the Vancouver-born, Silicon Valley-based company reach $100,000,000 in annual recurring revenue recently. Not bad for a company that started in 2014. Slack also noted that six million apps have been installed on Slack teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Continued momentum on the Slack platform is an important sign of the expanding role we play in the business software ecosystem,&#8221; the company says.<\/p>\n<p>As of last month, Slack was valued at around $4 billion. The company, which has more than three million daily active users, operates a directory of several hundred third-party apps. CEO Stewart Butterfield is heavy on synergy. In addition to partnerships <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/09\/28\/slack-deepens-integration-with-salesforce\">like this one with Salesforce<\/a>, Slack has invested $2 million across 14 companies. Last year Slack started an $80 million fund, co-launched with venture capital firms including Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. Investments typically range from $100,000 to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/09\/28\/slack-deepens-integration-with-salesforce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slack&#8217;s growth has slowed. But not by much. The company, credited as the fastest-growing startup ever, says it now boasts 2.5 million simultaneously connected users. These users helped the Vancouver-born, Silicon Valley-based company reach $100,000,000 in annual recurring revenue recently. Not bad for a company that started in 2014. Slack also noted that six million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":73149,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-74049","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=74049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}