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The Perseverance of Stewart Butterfield
The Long Journey to Slack's $27.7 Billion Exit

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Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Slack, had to overcome failure repeatedly to find his big success.
He performed one of the most successful pivots in business history and built a $27.7 billion company because of it.
Fascinated by the idea of connecting people through technology, he’s spent his career building companies to do just that.
And yet, as you’re about to find out, this all might not have happened, had it not been for the advice of his professor in 1998.
Let’s get to it.

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