Butterfield realized Glitch could never justify its $17.5M venture investment
Stewart Butterfield · Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield · Jul 30, 2018 · at 30:33
Stewart Butterfield explains why Tiny Speck decided to shut down their multiplayer game Glitch despite having raised $17.5 million in venture capital.
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“It was never going to become the kind of business that would justify 17 and a half million dollars of venture capital investment.”
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