The company behind Slack
Slack
Slack is made by Slack Technologies, LLC, which has been part of Salesforce since 2021. It earns money from paid plans sold alongside a free one; its About page counts more than 200,000 paid customers.
Read on Oct 6, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Slack at a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Based in
- San Francisco, California
- Ownership
- Part of a larger company
Who runs Slack
The people Slack names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there.
Company details
- Ownership
- Part of a larger company. Owned by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), which announced on July 21, 2021 that it had completed its acquisition of Slack. Slack's site signs itself "Slack Technologies, LLC, a Salesforce company". salesforce.com
- Founded
- 2014 slack.com
- Based in
- San Francisco, California slack.com
- Hiring
- 17 open positions, in software engineering, data, sales and user experience slack.com
- Partner program
- Partner programme for software partners, whose tools connect to Slack, and for consulting partners, who sign up through the Salesforce Partner Community. No commission or revenue-share terms are published. slack.com
Slack on social media and the web
- Blog · slack.com
- Changelog · slack.com
- Community · slack.com
- Status page · slack-status.com
- Careers · slack.com
Only accounts Slack links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
Slack news and launches
Questions about Slack the company
Who runs Slack?
Slack's pages name Stewart Butterfield (Co-founder of Tiny Speck, the start-up where Slack began), Cal Henderson (Co-founder of Tiny Speck, the start-up where Slack began), Eric Costello (Co-founder of Tiny Speck, the start-up where Slack began) and Serguei Mourachov (Co-founder of Tiny Speck, the start-up where Slack began). None of them is named as chief executive on the pages read, as read on Oct 6, 2026.
Who founded Slack?
Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello and Serguei Mourachov are named as founders of Slack, which was founded in 2014.
Is Slack funded by investors?
Owned by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), which announced on July 21, 2021 that it had completed its acquisition of Slack. Slack's site signs itself "Slack Technologies, LLC, a Salesforce company". Its money comes from the company that owns it, not from rounds of its own.
Who owns Slack?
Owned by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), which announced on July 21, 2021 that it had completed its acquisition of Slack. Slack's site signs itself "Slack Technologies, LLC, a Salesforce company".
Where is Slack based?
Slack gives its base as San Francisco, California.
Is Slack hiring?
17 open positions, in software engineering, data, sales and user experience.
Is Slack on social media?
Slack links to its own accounts on YouTube. The links are on this page, taken from Slack's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 6, 2026. Facts come from Slack’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.