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1. Slack
Company Presentation
By: Muneeb Ahmad

2. What is it?
● Collaboration tool to replace email
● Direct messaging and group chats
● Lets you seamlessly attach documents from other services like Google Docs

3. Sample Product

4. History
● Was built as an internal
tool for a company
● Co-founder of Flickr
● Launched in 2014 with
16,000 Daily Active Users

5. Financials
● Privately held
● $500M in 7 rounds
● $64M in annual recurring revenue
● Valued at $3.8 billion

6. Secret Sauce
● Service
integrations
● Search within
chats and
documents

7. Competition
● HipChat
○ Mobile apps don’t work
● Yammer
○ For forum like discussions

8. My Prediction
Will the company succeed?
● Integrating audio and
video chatting
● Over 2.3 million Daily
Active Users today

9. Thank You!
Questions?
Contact: muneebah@umich.edu