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Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Flickr became a modest success and was acquired by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005, making Butterfield a Super Founder who, like many other Super Founders, went on to start a multibillion-dollar company next.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
- If you’re going to pivot, make it big. Stewart Butterfield pivoted two video game companies into Flickr and Slack. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says startup founders can pivot from failure to success, but only if they “slash and burn” the rest of their business. If it looks similar, go further.
Ian Vanagas • 50 Things We’ve Learned About Building Successful Products
our job is also to understand what people think they want and then translate the value of Slack into their terms.
Stewart Butterfield • We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Our “small giants” approach optimized for mojo over growth. We wanted a small, talent-dense team with a focus on craft, autonomy, and quality of life for all team members. We banished the term “founder” in favor of “partner” and tried to be transparent with all business matters across the team.
We took some capital from investors in order to invest ... See more
We took some capital from investors in order to invest ... See more
