Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff says the software giant's upcoming $27.7 billion acquisition of messaging app Slack Technologies (WORK) will hel

Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first

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2021-06-15 04:00:04

Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff says the software giant's upcoming $27.7 billion acquisition of messaging app Slack Technologies (WORK) will help the cloud company become "a key leader in the future of work."

"We're going to rebuild all of our technology, once again, to become Slack-first to help our customers have a harness to work in this new world — where you're working at home; you're working in the office; you're working at events; you're working anywhere. Well, if you're going to be successful from anywhere, you're going to need an incredible platform like Slack," Benioff told Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday, taking a pause from his digital hiatus this summer. According to Benioff's Twitter (TWTR) bio, he's "intentionally offline" until Aug. 1.

In December, the software giant signed a definitive agreement to acquire popular messaging software platform Slack Technologies in a cash and stock deal worth $27.7 billion, making it Salesforce's largest-ever acquisition. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter.