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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, "

Flickr: From an Online.Game Tool to a Photo Sharing App! Flickr was initially part of an online multiplayer game called Game Neverending, made by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. That game included a feature allowing players to upload and sh

"The origins of Slack- A multi-billion dollar pivot" (Saturday Startup Nugget Story -4): In 2009, Stewart Butterfield and his team were working on a gaming startup called Tiny Speck. As they built an online game called Glitch, they faced communicati

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

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 gam

Slack's Accidental Success Built from a failed game company In 2011, a gaming startup called Tiny Speck was shutting down. Their game failed—but their internal chat tool was amazing. Instead of giving up, they pivoted. That tool became Slack. Toda

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

Random Interesting Stuff! So there was a game called Super Punch out, and for 28 Years people thought that it's just a single player game. Untill a Twitter user found that, by using some specific button combinations, you can enter into a 2 player m

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

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