Mr Butterfield is not the typical leader of a striving startup.

巴特菲尔德不是那种典型的拼搏型创业企业领袖。

Now Mr Butterfield has a second chance.

如今巴特菲尔德有了第二次机会。

The firm has 75m in annual recurring revenue and is breaking even, says Mr Butterfield.

巴特菲尔德表示，Slack的年度经常性收入为7500万美元，公司正逐渐实现收支平衡。

Mr Butterfield says that Slack has never received a formal offer from anyone and is planning to go public.

巴特菲尔德则表示从未收到任何人的正式报价，而公司正计划上市。

But Mr Butterfield and his team developed an internal messaging system to collaborate on it, which became the basis for Slack.

但巴特菲尔德和他的团队在创业过程中开发了一个内部通讯系统用于协作，奠定了Slack的基础。

Mr Butterfield says that Slack could achieve 10 billion in revenue if it signs up 100m knowledge workers, of which there are around 850m worldwide.

巴特菲尔德表示，假如全球约8.5亿的知识型劳动者中有一亿成为Slack的付费用户，那么公司的年收入将达到100亿美元。

Stewart Butterfield, Slack's chief executive, says the company started to detect a significant pickup in teams being created in South Korea and Japan in the middle of February.

Slack首席执行官斯图尔特·巴特菲尔德表示，公司从2月中旬开始发现，韩国和日本正在组建的团队数量显著增加。