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The statement went on to discuss the succession plan: “Stewart also was instrumental in choosing Lidiane Jones as the next Slack CEO to lead it into its next chapter.

He has helped lead the successful integration of Slack into Salesforce and today Slack is woven into the Salesforce Customer 360 platform,” the company said in a statement. “Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack. The company also announced that Lidiane Jones, who has been the executive VP and GM for digital experiences clouds at Salesforce, would be taking over for Butterfield, leaving a succession plan that had apparently been lacking when Taylor surprised everyone by stepping down last week. TechCrunch has confirmed the news with Salesforce by email. Business Insider first reported the news. “But in nearly 25 years leading this company, Marc has successfully steered Salesforce through the two biggest economic downturns in modern history, and I know he’ll do it again.Just days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he will be stepping down in January. We’re at a time with an unusual amount of economic uncertainty, and there’s no doubt that makes things harder,” Butterfield wrote. “That’s not to say there won’t be challenges ahead. “Though the time here is coincidental (there’s also no relation to Bret’s announcement we’ve been planning this for a while),” Butterfield wrote, adding that Noah Weiss, SVP of product, will become the new CPO. And last week, the day after Taylor announced his exit from Salesforce, the CEO of Tableau Software, a data visualization company also owned by Salesforce, announced his plans to depart the company.

Tamar Yehoshua, Slack’s CPO, and Jonathan Prince, the company’s SVP of marketing, brand, and communications, are also leaving along with Butterfield. Salesforce shares were down more than 4% in midday trading on Monday. The string of departures raises more questions about Salesforce’s senior management team and its plans to groom a potential successor to founder and CEO Marc Benioff. Lidiane Jones, a VP at Salesforce, will be taking over as the new Slack CEO next month, Butterfield said. Insider first reported the news of Butterfield’s departure. “I’m not going to do anything entrepreneurial,” Butterfield wrote in the note, which was viewed by Fortune, adding that he plans to spend more time with family, gardening, and focusing on his health and personal projects. Butterfield announced the news in a Slack message to the #all-salesforce channel on Monday, calling the timing with Taylor’s departure a “weird” coincidence.