Slack targets âconservativeâ Australia after its takeover by Salesforce
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Slackâs founder and chief executive Stewart Butterfield says its acquisition by software giant Salesforce should help the workplace messaging company make greater inroads into the âconservativeâ Australian market.
Slackâs popularity has benefited from the coronavirus lockdowns, with many local companies turning to the platform to enable communication between staff working from home. But Mr Butterfield said Australia had been a challenging market before the pandemic took hold.
âAustralia is a very important market and interestingly, harder to crack than some other markets,â he said. âThe customers that we reach in Australia tend to be either resource extraction or financial services, the biggest companies in Australia are pretty concentrat
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