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:
In 2
Stewart Butterfield (Slack’s co-founder) made around $1.6B from the $27.7B Salesforce deal. He stayed as Slack’s CEO until 2023. Now, he's exploring new ventures after leaving Salesforce.
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