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Ben Horowitz tells the story of Slack’s pivot from a failed gaming app into a $28 billion company In 2009, Stewart Butterfield was all in on his new online game, Glitch. Investors backed him with $15 million. But two fatal problems killed the game: 1. It was built on Flash—right before Apple banned Flash from the iPhone. 2. Players finished the game in two days—terrible for retention. With just $6 million left and no way to raise more, Stewart faced three choices: Keep building and hope for a miracle. Shut everything down and return the money. Launch a simple tool his team had built to communicate better. His investor, Ben, was stunned: “You built a tool just to talk to each other?” Stewart believed in it. Ben let him go for it. That tool? Slack. It became the fastest-growing enterprise software ever. In 2021, Salesforce bought it for $27.7 billion. The Hidden Truth? Breakthroughs come from doing hard things. Stewart spent years optimizing Glitch, pushing his team to work faster. In the process, he discovered something no one else had: team communication was broken. That insight changed everything. Your next billion-dollar idea? It’s hiding in your hardest problem right now. Follow Vishu Bheda for more valuable startup insights from the world's best founders!
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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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“He was broke. Jobless. Living off his girlfriend’s paycheck. Four years later, his game made over $300 million—and he built it entirely alone.” In 2011, Eric Barone had no job, no money, and no idea what came next. So he opened his laptop and start
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