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Yen: Grace scaled Slack from 500,000 to over 5 million DAUs

Alan Yen · Insider's Guide To Building Great Product w/Merci Grace, Slack's First Head of Product · Oct 9, 2018 · at 1:54

Alan Yen introduces former Slack Head of Product Merci Grace, detailing her impact on the company's user growth.

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“And so while at Slack, she ran their growth team as director of product and took the company from 500,000 daily active users to over five million.”

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The claim, plainly

While leading the growth team as director of product at Slack, Merci Grace scaled daily active users from 500,000 to over 5 million.

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Assessment

Both prongs of the claim are corroborated by official announcements and public records. Merci Grace joined Slack in early 2015 as Director of Product / Growth Lead and led the growth team until August 2017. During her tenure, Slack's publicly reported Daily Active User (DAU) count grew from 500,000 (announced in February 2015) to over 5.0 million (announced in January 2017), reaching 6.0 million shortly after her August 2017 departure.

Slack officially announced reaching 500,000 DAUs on February 12, 2015, matching the start of Merci Grace's tenure as Growth Lead / Director of Product (Growth).
Slack announced surpassing 5.0 million DAUs on January 31, 2017, and 6.0 million DAUs in September 2017.
Merci Grace led Slack's growth team from early 2015 through her departure in August 2017.

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[1] itshipped.fm [2] maven.com [3] amplitude.com [4] medium.com [5] medium.com [6] growthmethod.com [7] lennysnewsletter.com [8] issarice.com

"Slack" "daily active users" "January 2017" OR "February 2017" OR "August 2017" OR "5 million" Merci Grace joined Slack left Slack Merci Grace Slack Director of Product Growth dates tenure "Merci Grace" "Slack" "Director of Product" OR "Head of Growth" joined OR started OR left OR tenure Slack daily active users 500000 2015 Slack daily active users 5 million 2017 2018 "Merci Grace" "Slack" "2015" "2017"

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