I love this comment on failure- "I have put an enormous effort over the course of many years, with limited success, into getting product managers and designers to understand that it's fine to be wrong. Being wrong is just the process of getting to the right answer." The story of how both Flickr and Slack were created from Butterfield's attempts to build the Game Neverending are an inspiration,
as is the story of his epic resignation letter from yahoo,
"Stewart tried to quit after three years. But Caterina had just left too, and lots of other high-ranking people were fleeing Yahoo, and so the company talked him into staying a few more months to help avoid the appearance of a mass exodus. ("I was told it would look bad if I left," he says.) During his last several months at Yahoo, he didn't actually do anything. With his time finally served, he told his manager, Brad Garlinghouse, that he was leaving. Garlinghouse asked Stewart to write a resignation email that could be forwarded to Yahoo's human relations department. So Stewart did.
I love this comment on failure- "I have put an enormous effort over the course of many years, with limited success, into getting product managers and designers to understand that it's fine to be wrong. Being wrong is just the process of getting to the right answer." The story of how both Flickr and Slack were created from Butterfield's attempts to build the Game Neverending are an inspiration,
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/
as is the story of his epic resignation letter from yahoo,
"Stewart tried to quit after three years. But Caterina had just left too, and lots of other high-ranking people were fleeing Yahoo, and so the company talked him into staying a few more months to help avoid the appearance of a mass exodus. ("I was told it would look bad if I left," he says.) During his last several months at Yahoo, he didn't actually do anything. With his time finally served, he told his manager, Brad Garlinghouse, that he was leaving. Garlinghouse asked Stewart to write a resignation email that could be forwarded to Yahoo's human relations department. So Stewart did.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/20/digitalmedia.yahoo1