The greatest accident in startup history:
A gaming studio built a simple chat tool to solve their own problem.
8 years later, Salesforce bought it for $27.7 Billion.
Here's how a side project saved a failing company and changed work forever:
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That’s exactly how Airbnb started—two broke roommates couldn’t afford rent, so they rented out air mattresses. That small fix turned into a $100B business.
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