That sounds wildly ambitious, but it’s not really when you look at the data and the culture surrounding the use of Slack. In addition, when new members join the team, they have the written history of an entire operations and projects legacy to scroll through. Furthermore, it stores a public record of the company’s work. It’s more accessible, and more team members see more of the same thing. Firstly, this creates more openness and transparency. Slack solves this problem with a channel-oriented platform. Email offers its users a “partial, fragmented view” of their collaborations with the rest of the company. Here’s why Stewart Butterfield thinks that will happen over the next five to seven years: Why Businesses Are Moving Away From Emailīutterfield compares email to Slack and finds email wanting.

And ahead of its IPO, the CEO says his plan is to completely replace company email altogether. The popular digital team collaboration platform is going public with a $16 billion valuation, at a starting price of $26 per share set Wednesday. By CCN.com: Slack makes its debut on the NYSE Thursday.

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