In nearly 1 year, approx. 500,000 daily active users and 135 paid accounts (according to venturebeat.com article). Organizations including Walmart, eBay, Sony, Yelp, New York Times, and NBCUniversal are already on board. So, will it be that desktop and mobile friendly app that replaces corporate email. Or, just a collaboration application / chat / IM that runs side by side with Google Docs, Sharpoint, Twitter, etc. on your desktop – capable of notification, indexing, in a Twitter venue but 2-way? All communication is visible, though option to create private group threads or channels is available, making sharing of information available to all via groups (but address book basically visible). That being the case, be sure to check your corporate communication and privacy policy, since dialog will be archived and accessible by admins. The servers are hosted in Amazon’s AWS data centers, and application security features include: alternative password entry using web browser, 1-way hashing for passwords, available two factor authentication, password kill switch for team owners, uses 256-bit AES and support TLS 1.2 for messages. Not that any of these would have prevented a database breach earlier this year - good time the data was encrypted...
Slack managed to raise $160 million of funding this year (after $43 million a year ago) and isn’t turning over a profit yet but currently offering additional features for $6.50 per month. Maybe another form of HipChat or Dropbox trendy app but users are diverse and not just Millennials.
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