Is Slack owned by Google?

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and now owned by Salesforce .

But it turns out that Slack is an acronym as well. It stands for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge . Slack co-founder and CEO Steward Butterfield revealed that last night in response to an inquiry on Twitter.

This is one of the many reasons Slack is popular: it has simply outpaced its smaller rivals in funding terms . As competition increases, out-funding your competition is certainly one way of winning. Comparing Slack’s metrics to larger competitors, however, Slack is miniscule.

Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information that they need . By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way that organisations communicate.