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Although Slack has grown during the coronavirus pandemic, investors are concerned that the workplace software company isn’t growing fast enough.
It’s a dilemma for Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, but he believes that it’s only a matter of time before investors understand the company’s business better.
Slack has only reported earnings five times since going public in June, 2019. But it takes about seven-to-nine quarters before a “pattern is established” and investors become more familiar with a company, Butterfield said Monday at the Fortune Global Forum.
Part of the problem may be that video-conferencing company Zoom has stolen some of Slack’s thunder in the workplace, experiencing massive growth as people shift to video conferencing during the pandemic. In some ways, Zoom is sort of like “Michael Jordan” or “Wayne Gretzky,” Butterfield said.
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“It’s totally unheard of in the history of software,” Butterfield said.
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Zoom’s video conferencing is easier to grasp then Slack’s workplace chatting service. When Slack put up a billboard to promote the company, he said some people may have thought, “What is this, a spreadsheet?”
Indeed, Slack is researching new unconventional ways people could use its service. For instance, it’s looking into features that may seem like “Instagram Stories,” which “might sound absurd,” Butterfield said. For those unaware, Instagram Stories are the short, disappearing videos or photos people send to their friends on Facebook’s photo-and-video sharing service. Butterfield hypothesized that an Instagram Stories-like feature for companies may be more inviting to people who may be burned out on having to constantly attend video meetings.
The goal is for Slack to create workplace tools that feel more “organic” and lend themselves more to “serendipity,” he said, so that people don’t feel overburdened with online communications.
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