A failed video game accidentally created Slack.
Stewart Butterfield shut down the game, listened to users, and pivoted to what actually worked. That side tool became one of the fastest-growing business apps ever.
Failure didn’t end the startup. It revealed the real product.
🎥 https://youtube.com/shorts/2i4PF_rri-Q
#Slack #BestSoln #BestSolution #StartupLessons #ProductThinking #Entrepreneurship #Founders #BusinessStories #StewartButterfield
The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
https://buildingslack.com/the-death-of-glitch-the-birth-of-slack/
#videogames #glitch #slack #stewartbutterfield #bestgameever
[This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.] “We have to shut down the game.” Stewart Butterfield said. I looked at him out
Search for Mint Butterfield: Child of Slack Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield Reported Missing
Mint Butterfield '16' child of Slack co-founder reported missing after possibly running away to San Francisco
https://missingpeople.info/mint-butterfield/
#SlackAI #SlackAIDay #Slack #StewartButterfield #mintButterfield #MissingPerson #Missing
#20yrsago “Daddy, Are We There Yet?” Alan Kay’s talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/kayetcon2003
#20yrsago A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: @ClayShirky’s talk at ETCON 2003 https://craphound.com/shirkyetcon2003.txt
#20yrsago Journalism 3.1b2, @dangillmor talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/gillmoretcon2003.txt
#20yrsago Notes from Meg Hourihan’s “Edges of the Writable Web” talk at ETCON https://craphound.com/megetcon2003.txt
#20yrsago #StewartButterfield: “The Game Context as a Testing Ground for Social Software.” https://craphound.com/stewartetcon2003.txt
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I was carrying on a long-distance relationship from San Francisco with a woman in London, and we were both alpha testers for a social game called #GameNeverending.
One day over breakfast with GNE's founder #StewartButterfield, he asked me how things were going in my romantic life. I answered that things were great, but mentioned that my girlfriend and I were struggling to share the pictures we took in our daily lives with one another.
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Best Solution (Bestsoln)
/home/tatamongus
haor.org
Missingpeopleoinfo
Thomas Weibel
Cory Doctorow
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