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✨Slack's Game-Changing Pivot 👾Origin as Tiny Speck: #Founding: Slack began life as Tiny Speck, a company founded by Stewart Butterfield. Initially, the focus was on creating an online game called "Glitch." #Challenges: Despite a promising start, "Glitch" faced difficulties in gaining traction and was eventually shut down. //The Pivot// #Internal Tool: While developing "Glitch," the team at Tiny Speck created an internal communication tool to streamline their work. This tool was what would later become Slack. #Realization: They realized that this internal tool was far more valuable and efficient than many existing communication platforms, especially for team collaboration. 💥Rebranding: The tool was rebranded as Slack (derived from "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge"). 📎Beta Release: Slack was released in beta in August 2013, and it quickly garnered attention for In 2021, Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion 🙏
Founder of Snapchat ... • 3m
Slack’s story began with a failed video game, Glitch, developed by Tiny Speck in 2009. The team built an internal chat tool to collaborate, which proved more promising than the game. In 2013, Stewart Butterfield pivoted, launching Slack—a user-frie
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Day 3 - Startup Surprise How a Side Project Accidentally Became a Billion-Dollar Business: The Untold Story of Slack Did you know Slack, the workplace communication giant, was never meant to be a company? It began as a side project, an internal tool
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At my current and previous companies, Slack has been the go-to tool for quick, real-time team communication. Every department has its own channel, plus we’ve had separate ones for big projects or company-wide announcements. It does the job well — tho
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ADJUVA LEGAL® • 3m
A "Pivot" is just a nice word for "We were wrong." And that's your superpower. 🚀 The startup world loves to romanticise the "pivot." It sounds like a chess grandmaster's calculated, genius move. The reality? It's usually a moment of sheer panic
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