Slack corporate messenger estimated at $ 5.1 bn after next financing. This is written by the Financial Times.
As it became known, for the last round of investments the messenger attracted $ 250 million. Most of the investment came from the Vision Fund.
According to Slack executive director Stuart Butterfield, the company is intended for initial public offering of shares (IPO), but this will not happen until 2018. He stressed that the reason for this is the age of Slack and its inability at the moment to meet business objectives.
"This is a strange world. If all this happened 10 years ago, we would go to an IPO, "Butterfield stressed..