𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗡
They spent years building a game called Glitch.
Players hated it. The product failed. The money ran out.
Stewart Butterfield saw one thing that worked. The team used a custom internal chat tool.
They killed the game. They polished the chat tool. They launched Slack.
The tool solved a real problem. The game was the mistake. The mistake built the empire.
💡 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: The byproduct of a failure often holds the real value. What are you ignoring in your current failure?