2013 · Pivot
Would you have funded Slack?
A team chat app from a failed game company
A small company built an online game that failed. Its team built an internal chat tool along the way and now wants to sell that to other companies. Workplace chat already has many products.
- The company's game had just shut down
- Raised $17 million for the new product
Show what happened
🦄 Breakout
Slack It went public in 2019, and Salesforce bought it in 2021 for $27.7 billion.
Venture firms invested $17 million in the pivot.
Sources: Slack Technologies (Wikipedia)
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