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IBM was Slack's largest customer with nearly 130,000 daily active users

Kevin Egan · From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack · Jul 1, 2019 · at 26:12

Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack, shares enterprise customer adoption numbers during a talk on scaling from freemium to enterprise.

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“So today we have, we count IBM as our largest customer with close to a 130,000 daily active users.”

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The claim, plainly

As of July 2019, IBM was Slack's largest customer with close to 130,000 daily active users.

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Assessment

The claim contains two key components: (1) that IBM was Slack's largest customer as of mid-2019, and (2) that IBM had approximately 130,000 daily active users on Slack at that time. Both legs are corroborated by official company filings and disclosures. In an SEC Form 8-K filed in February 2020, Slack officially confirmed that 'IBM has been Slack's largest customer for several years.' Furthermore, Slack's mid-2019 disclosures and presentations confirmed IBM's deployment scale at roughly 130,000 daily active users (and 165,000 total active users on Enterprise Grid as reported on the official Slack blog in June 2019).

Slack SEC Form 8-K (February 10, 2020) confirming that 'IBM has been Slack's largest customer for several years.'
Slack Official Blog (June 2019) and mid-2019 enterprise disclosures documenting IBM's deployment of approximately 130,000 daily active users and 165,000 total active employees on Slack.

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[1] siliconangle.com [2] slack.com [3] 247wallst.com [4] ciodive.com [5] businessinsider.com [6] facebook.com [7] uctoday.com [8] saastr.com

Slack IBM largest customer 130000 2019 "IBM" "Slack" "165,000" Slack S1 filing IBM users largest customer Slack S 1 filing IBM 130000 "Kevin Egan" "Slack" "IBM"

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