Communication
Slack
Light and popular team chat, especially for technology companies and startups.
- Communication
- Salesforce
- Free / Pro €7.25 / Business+ €12.50 per user per month
What is Slack?
Slack created the modern team-chat category. It has a large ecosystem and broad integrations and has been owned by Salesforce since 2021. Slack AI adds assistance to conversations and channel summaries.
How can a business use it day to day?
Concrete use cases for entrepreneurs and knowledge workers:
Topic-based channels
Use open channels instead of long email threads.
Huddles for quick meetings
Start an audio conversation with one click.
Integrations
Bring GitHub, Jira, Zoom and Google Drive into Slack.
Workflow Builder automations
Build small automations without code.
Video guides
See how Slack works in practice:
Videos: English
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Viktor: AI Coworker That Lives in Slack — Fryderyk Wiatrowski
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Founder Story of Slack: Building Software for Humans
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The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
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Remote(ly) Better Than Before - (Deel) Alex Bouaziz, (Sourcegraph) Quinn Slack & Katie Roof
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Slack’s Founding Story | Cal Henderson (Slack) & Sarah Cannon (Coatue) | Slush 2023
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Building Software That People Love: Lessons from Cal Henderson, Slack Co-founder & CTO
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Cal Henderson: Co-founder @Slack, Workplace Productivity & Organizational Alignment | Slush 2024
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Slack’s bot strategy aims to bring actionable data closer to users
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Slush AgAIn | Cal Henderson (Slack) & Laura Modiano (OpenAI)
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#040 Customer-Driven Products: How Brett Kopf built “Slack for Schools” and Omella
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The Future Live | 03.13.26 | Guests from Slack, Giga, Letta, and Microsoft AI!
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Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and Andrew Braccia (ACCEL Partners) at Startup Grind Global 2016
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We Built a Mindblowing AI Agent in Slack!! (Step-by-Step)
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How Slack's CEO Denise Dresser is embracing its evolution under Salesforce | TC Disrupt24
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Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
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Glue: The New Slack Killer with David Sacks and Evan Owen | E1955
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Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM @Slack)
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Solving Real User Problems With Generative AI: Slack’s Jackie Rocca
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Digital First Future of Work with Christina Janzer of Slack | Wharton People Analytics Conference
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Slack Founder Butterfield on AI, Software and the Tech Boom's End | Odd Lots
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Slack's Stewart Butterfield: The Big Pivot
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How to Train ChatGPT on Your Data and Chat via Slack (Chat w/ PDF, Docs + MORE)
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How Product Leaders are Building the Future of Enterprise Software with Atlassian, Slack & Miro CPOs
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Tamar Yehoshua (Slack) + Harry Stebbings (The Twenty Minute VC) at Startup Grind Global 2021
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Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield
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David Sacks (Yammer) & Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust
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In Conversation with Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack
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The Secrets To Managing in All Directions with Slack Sr. Director Engineering Arquay Harris
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Is Slack really worth $20 Billion?
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How to Make the Whole World Love Your Product from Bevy, Atlassian, Salesforce and Slack
SWOT summary
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats — from an entrepreneur's point of view.
Strengths
- Lightweight and fast
- Leading chat integration ecosystem
- Good search and usability
- Slack AI features
Weaknesses
- The free plan keeps only 90 days of history
- Costs rise quickly for large teams
- No native Office-style document collaboration
- Meeting features are below Zoom
Opportunities
- Salesforce integration with Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
- AI summaries
- Enterprise Grid for large organisations
- Slack Connect for inter-company conversations
Threats
- Microsoft Teams dominates Microsoft 365 organisations
- Discord competes at the lightweight end
- Price increases burden customers
- Customers are consolidating software