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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.

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.

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

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