Slack hires Foursquare executive Noah Weiss to lead Search, Learning and Intelligence Group

Slack has just hired Foursquare executive Noah Weiss to lead its Search, Learning and Intelligence Group for the company which will be part of the startup’s new office in New York.

Noah Weiss wrote in a Medium post , “Slack is well on its way to building the new business operating system. Weaving in an intelligent layer is a huge opportunity to enhance the product for people who use Slack and the platform for developers who build on top of it.” Weiss along with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield envision a Slack with conversational knowledge bots and tools that mine chat histories to alert people to the most relevant messages.

https://twitter.com/noah_weiss/status/692068229758394368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

“The focus is on building features that make Slack better the bigger a company is and the more it uses Slack. The success of the group will be measured in how much more productive, informed, and collaborative Slack users get?-? whether a company has 10, 100, or 10,000 people,” Weiss wrote.

Last month, the company launched a new app store where users could download apps specifically built for use via the Slack app.  The news came with the announcement to launch its own $80 mililon VC fund designed to back startups building apps on top of Slack, pointed out Business Insider .