Slack's product chief to step down
Published Jan 17, 2019 04:50PM ET
Slack's product chief to step down
(Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc's chief product officer, April Underwood, is leaving the messaging startup, at a time when the company is exploring a public listing later this year.
Underwood is leaving to spend more time working at #Angels, an investing group she co-founded three months before joining Slack in 2015, according to her blog post https://medium.com/@aunder/new-year-new-old-hashtag-angels-a4f2b73f68e.
She will be replaced by Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) executive Tamar Yehoshua, Slack, which provides chat and direct messaging services for businesses, said on Thursday.
Underwood, a former employee at Google and Twitter, joined when Slack employed just 150 people.
Reuters reported earlier this month that Slack is "seriously" considering making its stock exchange debut through a direct listing, a plan which would make it the second big technology company after Spotify Technology SA (N:SPOT) to bypass a traditional IPO process in going public.
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