Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, is stepping down two years after the company was purchased by Salesforce.

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield Stepping Down In January

Welcome back to closing bell and cheddar news everyone. Happy monday, Christine Schoeller down here on the floor of the stock exchange and let's take a look at some top business stories that we're following. This hour slacks founder and Ceo Stewart Butterfield stepping down slack was purchased by sale forced in 2020 for $27 billion as shares of salesforce down 7.5% on this news. And it comes just days after the co ceo of salesforce bret, Taylor surprisingly announced that he too would be stepping down. Well, salesforce is saying that Butterfield's departure has nothing to do with Taylor's trying to downplay concerns of an executive exodus. In addition to Taylor in Butterfield, the sea of Tableau, Mark Nelson also stepping down from his post. Well, Butterfield founded slack by accident around 2013 as it was the communications platform that he had built for a video game he was developing at the time. He then took the company public in 2019 before the salesforce acquisition the following year. And head of digital experiences clouds at slack when diana jones is gonna become the new Ceo, when butterfield leaves in january