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Slack Technologies

Slack Technologies, LLC is an American software company founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its proprietary communication platform Slack.

Private Founded 2009 United States Enterprise Software
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Founders

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Stewart Butterfield
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Slack Technologies’s founders.

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The Slack Technologies diaspora

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People who worked at or founded Slack Technologies and went on to start their own companies.

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Ludicorp 2002 Flickr 2004 Slack 2009

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