Finally, Salesforce acquired Slack with a whooping amount of 27.7B USD.
How this deal can impact the market, what are things about this deal you must know if you are from Salesforce ecosystem, are given below :
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“Microsoft Teams” product, which offers a workplace chatroom, automation tools and videoconference hosting, is a top rival to Slack. Hence this deal is very important for Salesforce to make intensified competition to Microsoft.
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Both companies approved this deal, but if Slack’s management change their mind or back out to accept the proposal, Slack will be required to pay Salesforce $900 million.
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Slack has 12 million daily active users. It means, Salesforce paid almost $2333 per user.
4.
Slack has 142000 paying customers. Means, Salesforce paid almost $197183 per paying customer to acquire Slack.
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In October 2020, Slack’s revenue was around $650 million. In 2020 somewhere it will be $1 bn revenue.
It means, Salesforce paid more than 28 times for this company’s revenue.
6.
The way Disney found a great results by acquiring Steve Job’s company Pixar, same is going to happen with Salesforce, study says.
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A deal will also expand the very famous rivalry between Salesforce and Microsoft in the larger market for business & cloud.
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This is the largest acquisition deal made by Salesforce ever!
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Slack’s virtual meetings aren’t a core part of its feature set. This is a major issue in Slack which Salesforce has to focus. Else competitors will cover this market to make loss for Salesforce.
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Salesforce spent $4.6 billion on marketing and sales in the first half of the year, about 47% of its $10 billion in revenues for the same time frame. Whereas, Slack spent $219 million on marketing and sales in the first half of the year, a little more than half of its $364 million in revenue for the period.
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