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Glitch was such a gem. Stewart's Salesforce exit made him a billionaire. I'm rooting for a fully-endowed Game Neverending 3 that doesn't need to be profitable
by greyface- 2y ago
Glitch was such a gem. Stewart's Salesforce exit made him a billionaire. I'm rooting for a fully-endowed Game Neverending 3 that doesn't need to be profitable to survive.
- wslh 2y ago> Stewart's Salesforce exit made him a billionaire He also co-founded Flickr.
- chowchowchow 2y agoThe Flickr acquisition didn’t make anyone close to a billionaire, the whole deal was for $25 million.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoMaybe one of Yahoo's few W's Well, I still don't know if it's profitable for them but at least it has its niche of paying users
- emddudley 2y agoYahoo (Verizon) did eventually sell Flickr to SmugMug in 2018 for an undisclosed sum.
- wslh 2y agoI just added more context about Stewart as an entrepreneur. It is also important to highlight that Flickr was acquired in 2005 and the acquisition numbers were a fraction of what you see nowadays. Finally, 2005 was just a few years after Internet startups started again after the dot com crash. Google Maps was launched this year and a little bit before Gmail.
- reassess_blind 2y agoBetter than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
- lastdong 2y agoWhich was also a by-product of a cancelled game (also massively multiplayer online game) — this one never ended though
- wslh 2y agoYes, the company was Ludicorp [1] and I don't know if your "this one never ended" was a play with the actual title of the game being developed: "Game Neverending" ;-). Here is Stewart talking about this [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicorp [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arwhuU-2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arwhuU-2c
- lastdong 2y agoIt was play on the name! Thanks so much for sharing the YouTube link — I really appreciate it!
- xp84 2y agoThis is all in the linked article