In 2012, Stewart Butterfield tried saving a game company, and that one workplace tool ended up becoming Slack |
Stewart Butterfield extracted a small team chat system from a failed game. Image credit – Wikimedia The case of Stewart Butterfield and his colleagues shows how failure can become the foundation for success. In 2012, Butterfield’s multiplayer online game, Glitch, failed. However, instead of shutting off its lights, Butterfield and his colleagues understood that the…