{
  "id": 16608843,
  "title": "Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought Slack for a $28 billion and then never used it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-bought-slack-for-a-28-billion-and-then",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-26T12:12:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/slack-co-founder-stewart-butterfield-met-marc-benioff-for-barely-an-hour-before-the-28-billion-sale-benioff-never-used-slack-reveals-early-employee-butterfields-last-meeting-with-him-was-cut-short-because-/articleshow/135211601.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield got barely an hour with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff before the $27.7 billion Slack acquisition in 2020, and his last meeting was cut short when Matthew McConaughey arrived. Former Slack Principal Engineer Johnny Rodgers, writing on his Building Slack blog, also reveals that Benioff never used Slack, and that Butterfield quit Salesforce after being put on a…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}