𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟰𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘
A failing game created a billion dollar company.
Stewart Butterfield built a game called Glitch. The game failed. Players left. The company burned through millions.
The team used a custom chat tool to work together. They hated email. They polished the chat tool. They launched it as a standalone product.
Slack grew fast. Salesforce bought it for 27.7 billion dollars. The failure funded the success.
💡 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: Value often hides in the tools you build to solve your own problems. What tool are you ignoring?