Posted on 20/11/09
THE ACCIDENTAL INNOVATOR GIVES IT ANOTHER GO
VANCOUVER -- The last time Stewart Butterfield invented the future it was by accident.In late 2003, his Vancouver startup was almost out of money and it had to abandon work on Game Neverending, a Web-based video game heavy on social interaction. The nine-person company stripped down what they had built and what emerged was Flickr, the photo-sharing website that now ranks among the world's most popular.
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