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$2.8 billion startup Slack is getting ready for an IPO

Alexei OreskovicNov 25, 2015, 06:14 IST

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Slack, the popular workplace messaging app, is preparing for an IPO.

Stewart Butterfield, Slack's founder and CEO, said in an interview with The Australian Business Review that the company recently kicked off an "IPO readiness" program. The idea, Butterfield said, is for Slack to have the option to go public in the future and to be prepared when the time is right.

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