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This makes Slack a uniquely high-leverage place to be a VP of Product.
If Atlassian, which makes Slack competitor Hipchat and will list under the ticker symbol TEAM, manages to sell all shares at the highest price, it will raise a total of $370 million.
This dynamic makes Slack and HipChat different from most consumer-facing messaging platforms like Facebook's Messenger or Tencent's WeChat, which have strong spillover between, rather than just within, localized network clusters.
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That quick growth has made Slack an acquisition target.
It will back enterprise software developers making Slack integrations part of their core product.
Slack has launched an app directory and is investing in services that make Slack a core part of their process.
"We're really making Slack a kind of great connective tissue for even the largest organizations," Weiss said.
Slack and its VCs want these developers to make Slack more useful and convenient with apps for doing all sorts of things in the workplace.
Earlier this week it further opened up tools to developers that allows them to make Slack bots more interactive with drop-down menus.
Not surprisingly, Mayfield doesn't see this as additional set of activities, so much as a helper tool to make Slack users more productive.
And secondly, it helps Slack seek out more interesting services that are built to work on Slack by design, making Slack itself a more useful and sticky service for its own paying customers.
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