Marc Benioff on “everything being Slack-first.”

Here are my choices of the 10 most-compelling comments made by the Salesforce executive team about Slack and its potential for disrupting and redefining what enterprise software is all about here at the dawn of the digital age. īut after hearing the earnings call, I don’t think I’ve ever heard an acquisition described with more passion, more commitment and more unshakeable excitement than Salesforce’s purchase of Slack. I said as much before the earnings call in a piece called Salesforce Unleashes Slack and Rocks the Cloud. I’m sharing this perspective on the rapture-factor because often the potential of a deal is revealed not only in the numbers but in the very public commitments made by the execs who approved the deal and are putting their company and their reputations on the line. Of course, new acquisitions are always portrayed in favorable lights by the people who just made the decision to shell out billions for those deals, but even by those standards, the commentary about Slack from the Salesforce execs was a lovefest of bedazzled proportions.

25 earnings call were certainly attention-grabbing, the ultimate show-stealer was the lavish praise poured on Slack by Benioff, COO Bret Taylor, CFO Amy Weaver and chief revenue officer Gavin Patterson. While the financial numbers presented on Salesforce’s Aug.

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