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It was a whirlwind form of 24-hour interval at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the yearto become CEOat date app Bumble .
source , who chose to speak on background because they were not authorise to verbalise on behalf of the company , confirmedmultiple reportsthat Jones ’ refilling would be announced a workweek from today . The company has kept a pretty tight lid so far on the identity of that person , and industriousness experts we spoke to were mostly reluctant to speculate .
Brent Leary , co - father and married person at CRM Essentials , believes it will be an inner hire , or perhaps someone who left the party , and has knowledge of the acculturation and surgery of Salesforce . With the fellowship focusing more on AI , he thinks it could turn to an executive who can lead Slack through this major transitional time period for Salesforce — and enterprise computer software in general .
“ more often than not speaking I think this particular point in time is one of the most consequential for most if not all technical school companies , which mean Salesforce really has to get the right person to see Slack through this period , ” Leary add .
Salesforcespent close to $ 28 billionto acquire Slack in December 2020 and will be on its third chief executive officer in two twelvemonth . Jonescame on board last class , supervene upon Slack co - founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield . She herald her expiration in a party - wide Slack channel this morning . Marc Benioff in an official statement expressed sadness at her going .
“ A enormously - merit achievement for one of our most unbelievable executives . While we will all of course lose her greatly ( especially me ) , we agnise what an amazing opportunity this is for Lidiane in becoming a public company CEO . And all the more so at Bumble , a truly dandy company , with great economic value that we look up to dearly , ” Benioff said in the affirmation .
Slack seemed to be doing well under Jones , and people liked her , consort to IDC analyst Wayne Kurtzman . “ Slack appears to have increase tax income in recent quarters . Lidiane Jones commands loyalty within Slack , but we do not always have control of when opportunities arise , ” he told TechCrunch , adding , “ The next chief executive officer will have to both granary allegiance of the Slack squad and bring the Cartesian product to the next horizontal surface , both within the Salesforce ecosystem and as a standalone product . ”
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A author told TechCrunch that the chatter internally on Slack suggests Kurtzman was right , with employee wishing Jones well , and like Benioff , lamentable to see her leaving for Bumble . Regardless , it is for certain unusual for an executive to announce she ’s leave just 10 months into her land tenure , and Leary said it had to be a shock , consider the amount of sentence she had been on the job .
“ I do n’t know , but I think this has to be a surprise , give it ’s been less than a class and there was a good deal of flourish made when they announced her call for over the helm from Butterfield , ” Leary say .
A dating app may seem like a strange landing place spot for an enterprise software executive director , who spent the last four years in various roles inside the CRM giant , but Ray Wang , founder and primary analyst at Constellation Research , allege the move to Bumble make a mess of sense for Jones , and would be a better set for her skillset . “ mire is no longer a growth play , but an integration caper for Salesforce , and Lidiane ’s talents are good at Bumble for turnaround and growth , ” he told TechCrunch .
And as Benioff pointed out , she fix to run her own public company , rather than be chief operating officer of a sectionalization inside Salesforce . As she prepares to provide , Jones will aid her successor , whoever that turns out to be , transition to the novel chore , just as Stewart Butterfield helped her — but just 10 month subsequently , she ’s act on .
