I know this is pretty big news but, if you’ve known me for a while, you’ll know that I just don’t say things I don’t believe. Obviously, there are more details here, but I’m going to let each leader talk about it in their own words. This will be extremely helpful for us over the next few years. She earned that credibility as an EVP & GM, leading Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Flow through major technology and business transformations. She also has enormous credibility inside of Salesforce and will be an effective advocate for Slack’s business, customers, and people. She has a deep respect for our approach to product, our customer obsession, and our unique culture. Before Salesforce she spent four years leading product at Sonos where she fell in love with Slack. She’s right at that little diamond-shaped heart in the four-circle Venn diagram of Smart, Humble, Hardworking, and Collaborative. She’s pragmatic and practical, insightful, passionate, creative, kind, and curious. So, I’m going to work on some personal projects, focus on health, and try to learn as many new things as I can. Can I tell you something? I fantasize about gardening. Though it may sound hackneyed, I actually am going to spend more time with my family. I am not going off to do something entrepreneurial. So: why? Well, we started this company 13.5 years ago (though it’s “only” been 10 years since we started development of Slack itself). He’s going to keep the bar high, and then keep pushing it higher. In his seven years (!) as part of Slack he’s led product development in nearly every area at one point or another, and the ambition of our product strategy owes a lot to his leadership. And, Slack’s own Noah Weiss is the new Chief Product Officer. Their impact will be felt for as long as Slack is around.Ĭal remains the CTO which is good because he’s plainly, no exaggeration, the best CTO in the world. 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. In early January, I’ll be stepping down as CEO of Slack.
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