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Discord and Slack both grew out of failed video games

Original: Discord виріс із гри, яка провалилась. Slack теж почався з гри, яку закрили. Джейсон Цитрон продав свою першу компанію O

Discord emerged from a failed game project. Founder Jason Citron had earlier sold his company OpenFeint to Japan's GREE for $104 million in 2011, then shut down his next game, Fates Forever, two years after launch because of low user numbers. Slack followed a similar path, starting life as the internal tool of a cancelled game studio. Commenters cite both as examples of pivots turning failure into billion-dollar companies.

Why now: The story of failed games becoming major communication platforms is being shared as a lesson about pivots in startups.

DiscordSlackJason CitronOpenFeintGREE

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