The messaging app that is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge" was founded by a business of what descent?
Slack (software) Slack is a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield. In simpler terms, it is a chatting program. Slack began as an internal tool used by their company, Tiny Speck, in the development of "Glitch", a now defunct online game. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge".
Michael Baum (entrepreneur) Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.