𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘

Stewart Butterfield built a huge online game. Nobody played it. Millions of dollars vanished. The game failed. The team used a custom chat tool to communicate. They realized the tool had more value than the game. They scrapped the game. They launched the chat tool as Slack. Slack sold for 27 billion dollars. The failure funded the win.

💡 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: Value often hides in the tools you build for yourself. What internal tool in your company is a product?