Slack Anniversary The fastest growing app in history
Slack is one of the few business applications that does not cause constant flashes of incinerating anger of users, but, on the contrary, oddly enough, brings pleasure in the process of work.
An application for organizing a corporate chat, or “main communication platform”, celebrated the anniversary of February 12, 2015. The project was created by Stuart Butterfield - Flickr co-founder. Every day, the application is used by 500,000 people, and the number of users increased by 35% only in the first 6 weeks of this year. This is two times more than six months ago. And all corporate users, taken together, sent 1.7 billion messages during this time.
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To achieve such rapid growth, Slack attracted $ 162 million in venture capital from investors such as Google Venture, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
“Messengers have emerged as the main applications for people to communicate on the Internet and eventually became part of the workflow,” Butterfield says. Slack is used by companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, Walmart, Foursquare, Box, Braintree, as well as many electronic publications, including BuzzFeed, Geektimes, Megamind.
And many of them use the application for a fee. So, Slack earned $ 12 million in annual revenue from subscriptions, having 135,000 paid accounts. Slack provides three service options for users: from free to $ 12 per month.
“I worked closely and studied SaaS companies for about 7 years. Based on the data that I saw, I can say that Slack is the fastest growing B2B company, ”says Tom Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures.
An application for organizing a corporate chat, or “main communication platform”, celebrated the anniversary of February 12, 2015. The project was created by Stuart Butterfield - Flickr co-founder. Every day, the application is used by 500,000 people, and the number of users increased by 35% only in the first 6 weeks of this year. This is two times more than six months ago. And all corporate users, taken together, sent 1.7 billion messages during this time.
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To achieve such rapid growth, Slack attracted $ 162 million in venture capital from investors such as Google Venture, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
“Messengers have emerged as the main applications for people to communicate on the Internet and eventually became part of the workflow,” Butterfield says. Slack is used by companies such as Airbnb, Stripe, Walmart, Foursquare, Box, Braintree, as well as many electronic publications, including BuzzFeed, Geektimes, Megamind.
And many of them use the application for a fee. So, Slack earned $ 12 million in annual revenue from subscriptions, having 135,000 paid accounts. Slack provides three service options for users: from free to $ 12 per month.
“I worked closely and studied SaaS companies for about 7 years. Based on the data that I saw, I can say that Slack is the fastest growing B2B company, ”says Tom Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/285920/
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