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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is also departing, along with some other product-focused execs. The departing execs championed Salesforce's product strategyThe departures of Taylor, Butterfield, and Nelson come as Salesforce's strategy comes under the microscope on Wall Street. With Slack and Tableau, Salesforce already had a lot to prove. Salesforce has already said that Lidiane Jones, an executive VP, will take over for Butterfield as Slack CEO. What it does mean, however, is that Salesforce, Slack, and Tableau are all losing the biggest champions of the integrated product strategy right as the company faces hard questions.
Lidiane Jones is taking over Stewart Butterfield's role as CEO of Slack. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is exiting the company in January, and Salesforce has confirmed that Lidiane Jones will be his successor. "Slack will have a new CEO: Lidiane Jones. This is good: Lidiane is amazing," Butterfield wrote in the post, which was viewed and published in full by Insider. A spokesperson for Salesforce wrote in a statement to Insider that Butterfield was "instrumental" in choosing Jones as his successor.
Salesforce said on Monday that Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving the company. "Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack," a company spokesperson told CNBC in a statement. "He has helped lead the successful integration of Slack into Salesforce and today Slack is woven into the Salesforce Customer 360 platform. Noah Weiss, senior vice president of product at Slack, will replace Yehoshua, Butterfield said in a Slack message to all Salesforce employees that CNBC viewed. Months later, Taylor told Butterfield that while Salesforce wasn't interested in selling Quip to Slack, Salesforce was interested in buying Slack.
Slack CEO Butterfield to depart next month
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Dec 5 (Reuters) - Slack Chief Executive Officer Stewart Butterfield plans to leave the workplace messaging platform in January, parent company Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) said on Monday. Lidiane Jones, who is the senior vice-president of product management for Salesforce Commerce Cloud, will take over as CEO of Slack, a company spokesperson said. Salesforce had acquired Slack last year in a nearly $28 billion deal following a massive bet that Slack's workplace app will become popular for collaborations within and between companies. Last week, Salesforce stock tumbled after co-CEO Bret Taylor's sudden exit caught Wall Street off guard and raised concerns about the merit in having two leaders. read moreReporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-PhillipsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. The news comes just days after Salesforce announced CEO Bret Taylor is also leaving the company. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce in January. Butterfield posted his announcement, viewed by Insider, to an internal Slack channel at Salesforce on Monday morning. Butterfield is a co-founder of Slack, which Salesforce acquired for nearly $28 billion in 2021.
Salesforce fell 6% on Monday after Insider reported that executive Steward Butterfield is departing the company. Butterfield's exit from Slack marks the third high-profile executive departure in less than a week. Butterfield is the co-founder and current CEO of the popular workplace messaging platform Slack, which Salesforce acquired for about $28 billion in 2021. The imminent departure of Butterfield is concerning to Salesforce investors because it marks the third high-profile executive departure in less than a week. Butterfield said in an internal Slack message viewed by Insider that his departure has nothing to do with the departure of Bret.
On Monday, the company announced the departure of Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, who joined Salesforce last year as part of its biggest acquisition ever. Taylor, who joined Salesforce in 2016 through the acquisition of his startup Quip, said he'd "decided to return to my entrepreneurial roots." While Taylor and Butterfield are the highest-profile exits, they're far from alone among Salesforce's executive ranks. Noah Weiss, senior vice president of product at Slack, will succeed Yehoshua, Butterfield said in a Slack message. Butterfield is being succeeded by Lidiane Jones, an executive vice president at Salesforce who joined in 2019.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced Monday that he's leaving Salesforce, Slack's corporate owner. The news comes days after Salesforce announced its CEO Bret Taylor is also stepping down. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced Monday morning that he is leaving Salesforce in January, according to an announcement Butterfield posted to a company Slack channel that was viewed by Insider. Slack will have a new CEO: Lidiane Jones. He's going to keep the bar high, and then keep pushing it higher.
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