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The Slack DPO

Acquired

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Slack

Slack launched in August 2013, and less than a year after making the pivot on the first day that they launch 8,000 companies sign up for the waitlist. And then within two weeks, there's 15,000 companies signed up or teams that are signed up on the waitlist to use it. They're at a million dollars in ARR and like most SaaS companies, you know, takes a year to get to that level. By February 2014, they have 10,000 new users signing up a day. What's cool is they're not trying to target the enterprise yet, but they have all these huge organizations, they're teams that have organically adopted.

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