Slack is a business messaging and collaboration platform launched in 2013 by Stewart Butterfield and colleagues, built from communication tools originally developed for an unsuccessful video game project. Organized around topic- and team-based channels rather than individual email threads, it became a widely adopted alternative to email for internal workplace communication, was acquired by Salesforce in 2021, and helped popularize the broader category of persistent team-chat software that rivals including Microsoft Teams later contested.
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Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2021.
History section, paragraph 2, public launch sentence
In August 2013, Slack was launched to the public
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Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2021.
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Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2021.
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