The Slack DPO

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 9 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions, IPOs, and direct public listings. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenpol. And we are your hosts. Today we are covering the spiritual sister of our previous episode on Zoom. Slack.

and the largest enterprise IPO in history. And of course it wasn't even actually an IPO, but rather a direct listing. Barry McCarthy, he rides again, the acquired superhero. Today we'll talk about what all that means, the cray of Slack's evolution from even before it was founded, where its roots really are, uh, and break down their business and their market cap today. And what it could do in the future.

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