OverviewSuggest Edit
Slack is a company developing collaboration software. It offers a team communication application that provides messaging, video and voice calls, organized conversations, integrated file sharing, searchable history, and other capabilities, as well as numerous integrated third-party tools. The company serves engineering, financial services, sales, IT, marketing, customer support, HR, project management, and media industries.
| Type | Public | |
| Founded | 2009 | |
| HQ | San Francisco, US | Map |
| Website | slack.com | |
| Employee Ratings | More | |
| Culture score | A- | More |
Recent NewsAll News
- Buddy systems and 24-hour coffee breaks: How companies like Slack, Zoom, and Box are hiring and training new employees during the pandemic
- 7 Slack secrets that will change how you communicate with coworkers
- GitLab’s head of Remote on hiring, onboarding and why Slack is a no-work zone
- (Update: it’s back) Slack is currently fixing performance issues that prevented some users from connecting
Key People/Management at Slack
Cal Henderson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Allen Shim
Chief Financial Officer
Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product Officer
David Schellhase
General Counsel
Julie Liegl
Chief Marketing Officer
Robert Frati
Senior Vice President of Sales & Customer Success
Slack Office Locations
Slack has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, New York and in 10 other locations
San Francisco, US (HQ)
500 Howard St, San Francisco
Chicago, US
71 S Wacker Dr #3440
Denver, US
1681 Chestnut Pl #700
New York, US
436 Lafayette St
New York, US
71 5th Ave 6th Floor
San Francisco, US
22 4th St 16th Floor, San Francisco
Slack Financials and Metrics
Slack Revenue
Slack's revenue was reported to be $630.42 m in FY, 2020
| USD | |
|---|---|
Revenue (FY, 2020) | 630.4m |
Gross profit (FY, 2020) | 533.2m |
Gross profit margin (FY, 2020), % | 84.6% |
Net income (FY, 2020) | (568.4m) |
EBIT (FY, 2020) | (588.3m) |
Market capitalization (22-May-2020) | 17.8b |
Closing stock price (22-May-2020) | 31.7 |
Cash (31-Jan-2020) | 499.0m |
EV | 17.5b |
Slack's current market capitalization is $17.8 b.
Annual
Quarterly
| USD | Q1, 2018 | Q2, 2018 | Q3, 2018 | Q1, 2019 | Q2, 2019 | Q3, 2019 | Q1, 2020 | Q2, 2020 | Q3, 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revenue | 42.7m | 51.3m | 58.0m | 80.9m | 92.0m | 105.6m | 134.8m | 145.0m | 168.7m |
Cost of goods sold | 5.4m | 6.1m | 6.8m | 10.1m | 11.4m | 13.5m | 18.6m | 31.1m | 23.1m |
Gross profit | 37.3m | 45.2m | 51.3m | 70.8m | 80.7m | 92.1m | 116.2m | 113.9m | 145.6m |
Gross profit Margin, % | 87% | 88% | 88% | 88% | 88% | 87% | 86% | 79% | 86% |
Annual
Annual
| USD | Y, 2020 |
|---|---|
EV/EBIT | -29.8 x |
EV/CFO | -1.4 k x |
Revenue/Employee | 343.6k |
Financial Leverage | 2 x |
Slack Operating Metrics
Slack's Daily Active Users was reported to be 44 m in Mar, 2020. Slack's Users was reported to be 4 m in Y, 2016. Slack's Enterprise Customers was reported to be 600 k in Q1, 2020.
Slack Revenue Breakdown
Slack revenue breakdown by geographic segment: 63.7% from United States and 36.3% from International
Slack Online and Social Media Presence
417.45k Twitter followers
Slack has 417.45k Twitter Followers. The number of followers has increased 0.7% month over month and increased 1.6% quarter over quarter
Slack's Trends
Twitter Engagement Stats for @slackhq
251.9k
Tweets
146.1k
Following
417.4k
Followers
921
Tweets last 30 days
1.7
Avg. likes per Tweet
41.2%
Tweets with engagement
Slack Company Culture
Overall Culture
A-
81/100
CEO Rating
A+
93/100
Compensation
A
85/100
Diversity
B
79/100
Slack News and Updates
May 24, 2020
Buddy systems and 24-hour coffee breaks: How companies like Slack, Zoom, and Box are hiring and training new employees during the pandemic
As the pandemic has forced companies to shift to remote work, most have had to completely change the way they hire and onboard new employees.
Enterprise technology companies like Box, Slack, and Okta are taking unique approaches to hiring and training new employees.
For example, they're grouping …
May 21, 2020
7 Slack secrets that will change how you communicate with coworkers
Save time and enhance your messaging environment with these little-known, super-useful options.
If there’s one thing we humans can agree upon these days, it’s that communicating sure isn’t easy.Read Full Story
May 19, 2020
GitLab’s head of Remote on hiring, onboarding and why Slack is a no-work zone
With more than 1,200 employees distributed across over 65 countries and a valuation of nearly $3 billion, GitLab is one of the world’s most successful fully remote startups. Describing it as a textbook example of a remote company would be redundant, because the company actually wrote a textbook abou…
May 13, 2020
(Update: it’s back) Slack is currently fixing performance issues that prevented some users from connecting
Update: Slack says connection issues are now fixed for everyone. Everyone should be able to connect to Slack now. Please let us know at feedback@slack.com if you have any connection trouble. Thank you for being patient with us, we appreciate it. https://t.co/AALbQGsDHq — Slack Status (@SlackStatus) …
May 13, 2020
The Margin: Breathe easy, remote workers: Slack is back online after brief outage
Remote workers were thrown off-balance Tuesday night when Slack Technologies Inc.’s collaboration and messaging system crashed.
May 12, 2020
Atlassian acquires help desk startup Halp to go after Slack users
Atlassian Corp. PLC has acquired Halp Inc., a venture-backed startup with a cloud service that allows enterprise help desk teams to answer employee support requests inside Slack. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a blog post announcing the deal today, the Halp team said the startup’s nam…
Slack Blogs
May 11, 2020
Slack Announces Date of First Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2020—Slack Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:WORK) today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, ended April 30, 2020, following the close of the U.S. markets on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Slack will host a conference call that day at…
May 11, 2020
The manager’s manual: Supporting flexible schedules
This story is part of an ongoing series to help managers navigate remote work during the Covid-19 crisis. Life is unpredictable right now, and so are our schedules. Working a strict 9 to 5 is unrealistic when you’re delivering groceries to elderly parents, learning how to homeschool on the fly, avoi…
May 08, 2020
Slack on Slack: Lessons learned while taking new-hire onboarding virtual
Slack has 16 global offices, and no matter which of them new employees called home, they’d spend their first week in San Francisco, along with their fellow new hires. These full-day, interactive onboarding sessions included how we use Slack at Slack, company culture, the usual security and legal pol…
May 05, 2020
Join us for Frontiers 2020: a free virtual conference
Frontiers, Slack’s annual conference for customers, is always a big highlight of our year. And we’ve really been looking forward to bringing our community together again in San Francisco like we did in 2019. However, to prioritize the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees and the g…
May 05, 2020
Finder amplifies global collaboration by going all-remote with Slack
This story is part of an ongoing series exploring how organizations are supporting remote work during the Covid-19 crisis. We hope these stories provide actionable tips and inspiration that organizations can use to make this transition a little bit smoother. As a free comparison site, Finder helps 1…
May 01, 2020
Masks for Docs is building a movement in Slack to fight Covid-19
This story is part of an ongoing series exploring how organizations are supporting remote work during the Covid-19 crisis. We hope these stories provide actionable tips and inspiration that organizations can use to make this transition a little bit smoother. In times of crisis, people often say “loo…
Slack Frequently Asked Questions
When was Slack founded?
Slack was founded in 2009.
Who are Slack key executives?
Slack's key executives are Cal Henderson, Allen Shim and Tamar Yehoshua.
How many employees does Slack have?
Slack has 1,982 employees.
What is Slack revenue?
Latest Slack annual revenue is $630.4 m.
What is Slack revenue per employee?
Latest Slack revenue per employee is $318.1 k.
Who are Slack competitors?
Competitors of Slack include Flock, Microsoft and Telegram.
Where is Slack headquarters?
Slack headquarters is located at 500 Howard St, San Francisco, San Francisco.
Where are Slack offices?
Slack has offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, New York and in 10 other locations.
How many offices does Slack have?
Slack has 17 offices.
Learn about Craft real-time company insights
Receive alerts for 300+ data fields across thousands of companies