Simone Stolzoff

He had this feeling that the business was not on a sustainable path.

And so he made his investors whole.

He gave his employees the opportunity to leave.

And then with the employees that were left, he decided to pivot and try to start a new company in a different industry.

While they were building this online game, they had built this internal communications tool so that they can collaborate while they were building.

And that company is Slack.

That founder is Stuart Butterfield.

And the reason why I like the story, you know, of course, there's like a nice bow on the end.

Slack sold for like $28 billion to Salesforce, like one of the most successful enterprise businesses of all time.

But the reason why I like this story is because Butterfield in the moment said, we had no idea like the possibility of this opportunity.

We discovered it as we went.

We had to like have the faith to take one step in front of the other.

And what he discovered was larger than what the game could have ever become.

And so that is the benefit of having tolerance of uncertainty.

Yeah.

Imagine the alternative.

Imagine if everything was scripted, like we were all just like on a conveyor belt going to like a known destination, like no movie, not have a spoiler.

You know, there would never be like the butterflies of a first date.

You know, everything would be written.

We don't want that reality either.