Calendly vs Slack
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Scheduling automation platform; 20M users at 50,000+ orgs; $100M+ ARR; $3B valuation after $350M raise (2021); freemium viral growth in sales, recruiting, and customer success teams.
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Calendly is the leading scheduling automation platform, eliminating the back-and-forth of meeting coordination by allowing users to share a link through which others can book available time slots that sync automatically with their calendar. Founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona in Atlanta, Calendly became a viral productivity tool through bottom-up adoption in sales, recruiting, and customer success teams before expanding to enterprise with SSO, admin controls, and team features.
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) team messaging platform at $27.7B acquisition processing 1.5B weekly messages; competing with Microsoft Teams for enterprise collaboration through Salesforce integration and developer-first experience.
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Slack is a San Francisco-based team collaboration and communication platform — acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) in 2021 for $27.7 billion — providing organizations with channel-based messaging, direct messaging, file sharing, video calls (Slack Huddles), and a 2,600+ app integration ecosystem that connects team communication with the business tools (Salesforce, Jira, GitHub, Google Drive) teams use daily. Used by 200,000+ organizations including IBM, Airbnb, and Target, Slack processes 1.5 billion+ messages weekly and serves as the communication backbone for technology companies, knowledge work organizations, and enterprises worldwide.
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