Un lungo profilo su Slack, un nuovo sistema per le aziende per comunicare internamente, utilizzato soprattutto da editori come BuzzFeed, Medium e Gawker. Slack è una chat, ma non solo: unifica tutte le attività di un team — GitHub e Dropbox, ad esempio — sotto un unico tetto. Il suo fondatore è Stewart Butterfield, che nel 2002 creò Flickr:
Slack is so beloved that some companies have begun mentioning it as an employment perk alongside on-site massages and bottomless bacon-tray Fridays in their job listings. Like: We have a dry cleaning service, an ice cream parlor, and… Slack.
Since its public debut in February, Slack has been growing at a rate of 5 to 10 percent a week and now has more than 120,000 daily users. Fully 38,000 people from 2000 different organizations pay for the full-featured version of the service. It has so far pocketed $1.5 million in revenue.