The vendor reported earnings earlier this month for the third quarter of its 2023 fiscal year. around high inflation and a potential recession next year have fueled more time needed to close deals, Salesforce co-CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff and his team have told analysts on recent earnings calls. The Slack CEO’s leave has been in the works for “several months,” according to Business Insider.īutterfield co-founded Slack in 2009 and sold the company to Salesforce in 2021 for about $28 billion.īutterfield and Taylor’s departures come as Salesforce tries to grow revenues and margins despite an uncertain economy. We’re grateful for Stewart and excited for Lidiane as she takes over the reins of Slack.“īutterfield will leave Salesforce in January and said in an internal Slack message that his departure is unrelated to the recent surprise announcement of Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor also leaving, according to Business Insider, which broke the news. The email continued: “Lidiane has a strong background in customer and enterprise tech and has been among Salesforce’s leadership for over three years. Stewart also was instrumental in choosing Lidiane Jones as the next Slack CEO to lead it into its next chapter.” “He has helped lead the successful integration of Slack into Salesforce and today Slack is woven into the Salesforce Customer 360 platform. “Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack,” a Salesforce spokesperson wrote in an email to CRN. Succeeding Butterfield is Lidiane Jones, who’s worked at San Francisco-based Salesforce for more than three years and currently holds the title of executive vice president and general manager of Salesforce’s Experience, Commerce and Marketing cloud.ĬRN has reached out to Butterfield and Jones for comment.
Salesforce has confirmed a second executive departure shocker before closing out the year, with Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield leaving collaboration application and Salesforce subsidiary, the enterprise applications vendor told CRN in an email.
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