Their individual contributions as leaders were indispensable but they were also team players and helped make us an all-star executive team. They were both more experienced than me and taught me a lot (probably more than I know, even now). Tamar and Jonathan arrived within a month of each other at a critical point in Slack’s development as a company. Planning has been in the works for several months. (FWIW, this has nothing to do with Bret’s departure. Slack will have a new CEO: Lidiane Jones. Also, both Tamar and Jonathan Prince are leaving. On behalf of the SaaStr Community, a toast to you, Stewart Butterfield.In early January, I’ll be stepping down as CEO of Slack. He pushed his top executives, especially his women and less represented execs, to be a bigger public face as much as practical.Ī humble and effective leader. And he knew that the journey of building an amazing product was such a team effort, that focusing it too much on the one at the top was … too much focus. He even offered to give his investors their money back in the early days. Flickr, his startup before, had a real but modest impact (and possibly even inspired the name of a blog you may have read). I always felt Stewart was a bit uncomfortable with the crown. The kind of leader we’d all like to work for. But especially, for being an inspiration. Thank you, Stewart Butterfield, for building an app we all run our teams on. And Stewart was again kind enough to come through: I wanted a truly empathetic leader to teach us in the darker times of lockdown, how to Bridge the Gap. My first ask was again … Stewart Butterfield. Everyone was really struggling those first few weeks. Slack was much bigger, and more B2B by this point, with a large enterprise sales team, and Stewart was in a much more contemplative mode: Stewart then came back in 2018 to join Alex Konrad of Forbes and reflect on top learnings pre-IPO. That incredible session here, when Slack still didn’t have any traditional sales team: But he was kind enough to come as our final speaker at SaaStr Annual #001. I knew the other speakers, but Stewart was just a cold outbound we did. At the first SaaStr Annual ever in 2015, Stewart was kind enough to be our final speaker, sharing the stage with David Sacks. Slack has been a small part of SaaStr since the beginning. It’s the end of one era and the beginning of another. Stewart Butterfield announced this week he’s handing the reins over now to Lidiane Jones at Salesforce. So Slack is ending a bit of an era at $2B+ ARR, having been the fastest growing SaaS startup of its generation, rocketing to an incredible IPO, and then an epic acquisition by Salesforce in 2021 for $27 Billion! Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin December 5, 2022 The first real PLG model for us to all emulate moving on in Jan 2023, the quiet end of an era
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