Stewart Butterfield, the cofounder and CEO of Slack, is leaving its mum or dad business Salesforce less than two a long time after the application big acquired the workspace messaging app maker for $27 billion, Salesforce declared right now (Dec. 5). Also stepping down are Slack’s item main Tamar Yehoshua and Jonathan Prince, the head of Slack’s promoting, brand name and communications, CNBC noted these days.
Butterfield’s departure came at the heels of the resignation of Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, who was promoted just a year ago to share the leading position with Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s cofounder and the other co-CEO. In an interior Slack information reported by CNBC, Butterfield claimed his departure is not similar to Taylor’s resignation last week.
He reported he’s likely to expend additional time with his spouse and children and perform on individual projects. Butterfield is at the moment married to Jen Rubio, cofounder of the Absent luggage firm. “These days my fantasies are about gardening,†he wrote.
Butterfield will be changed by Lidiane Jones, a previous Microsoft govt who joined Salesforce in 2019 to guide the company’s cloud-based mostly electronic encounter products. In a assertion, Salesforce stated Butterfield was “instrumental†in deciding on Jones as the upcoming Slack CEO.
