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STEWART BUTTERFIELD

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We didn't set out to build a chat tool. We set out to build a game. But the chat tool was what actually worked.

I've failed at making video games twice. Both times, I accidentally built a billion-dollar company.

Philosophy taught me more about product design than any engineering course ever could.

The best products come from solving your own problems. If you need it, others probably do too.

Flickr sold for $25 million to Yahoo. Slack sold for $27.7 billion to Salesforce. Same formula, better timing.

I grew up on a commune without electricity. Now I run companies that power how the world communicates.