NetSquared Vancouver: WHY Slack?

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Agenda

1. The future of work

2. Why Slack

3. Demo

4. Thriving with your team in Slack

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There’s a massive shifttaking placein businessesacross the world.

Cloud

Messaging

Mobile

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“Companies are decentralizing authority, moving toward product and

customer-centric organizations, and forming dynamic networks of highly

empowered teams that communicate and coordinate activities in unique and

powerful ways.”

It’s bringing forward fundamental questions about how and where work should happen.

– Deloitte, Organizational Design

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Your company’s response has a large impact on productivity and more

of time spent in meetings, sending, sorting and responding to email, administrative tasks, and more

of time each week gathering

information

a year wasted on searching but not finding information

PAST

54%

16%

$6M

FUTURE

32% 25%moreproductive

fewermeetings

49% feweremails

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About Slack

Public launch: Feb 2014

$540M in capital raised. Key investors include Accel, a16z, Social Capital, Index, Thrive, GV, Kleiner Perkins, GGV, Horizons, Spark, IVP and DST.

700+ employees across 7 offices worldwide, HQ in San Francisco.

Diverse set of industries, including software/technology, retail, media, telecom and professional services.

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Unprecedented adoption to date

4M

2.25

42%

Daily active users

daily active users

of revenue outside the US

hours of daily active user engagement

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Where Work Happens

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Our Mission:To make people’s workinglives simpler, more pleasant,and more productive.

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Slack takes communication that happens across a bunch of disconnected places

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And brings those conversations and the people having them together.

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Slack takes the hundreds of siloed apps fragmenting your workflows

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385+ apps

And makes it possible to use them, together, to get your work done in Slack.

apps900+

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This builds a searchable and accessible archive that becomes your company’s collective knowledge base.

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Smarter and personalized search

Directed focus on what’s important

And it makes Slack smarter the more you use it. Greater sense of

collective knowledge

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Demo