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Welcome to season four, episode nine of Acquired, the podcast about technology, acquisitions, IPOs and direct public listings.
I'm Ben Gilbert.
I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts.
Today we are covering the spiritual sister of our previous episode on Zoom, Slack and the largest enterprise IPO in history.
And of course, it wasn't Even actually an IPO, but rather a direct listing.
Barry McCarthy, he rides again, the acquired superhero.
Today we'll talk about what all that means, the crazy history of Slack's evolution from even before it was founded, where its roots really are, and break down their business and their market cap today and what it could do in the future.
Okay, listeners, now is a great time to tell you about longtime friend of the show, ServiceNow.
Yes, as you know, ServiceNow is the AI platform for business transformation.
And they have some new news to share.
ServiceNow is introducing AI agents.
So only the ServiceNow platform puts AI agents to work across every corner of your business.
Yep.
And as you know from listening to us all year, ServiceNow is pretty remarkable about embracing the latest AI developments and building them into products for their customers.
AI agents are the next phase of this.
So what are AI agents?