a16z on X: ".@bhorowitz on how a game studio turned it's last $6 million into Slack:
"Stewart calls me. He says, 'Ben, I've got $6 million left. I have no way to raise money because I've made really no progress. So I've got three choices. I can pray for rain and try and finish it, I can https://t.co/QHidNAzvbm" / X<br>Post
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.@bhorowitz on how a game studio turned it's last $6 million into Slack:
"Stewart calls me. He says, 'Ben, I've got $6 million left. I have no way to raise money because I've made really no progress. So I've got three choices. I can pray for rain and try and finish it, I can shut down the company and give you your $6 million back, or we built this tool that we use in our engineering team to communicate with each other, and I could just put that out as a product.'"
"I'm like, 'What? You just built some tool to talk to each other and you want to put that out as a product? And you're a consumer guy, and you want to become an enterprise software guy?'"
"$6 million is not gonna make any difference in my life. If you really think it's a good idea, go ahead."
Ben Horowitz Talks Honesty, Failure, and Secrets at UC Berkeley (2016)
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The VC flex of 6mm being petty cash is unparalleled
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@ronstauffer
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My new life goal is to reach the point where I can say: “$6 million is not gonna make any difference in my life.”
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@ehzish
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the tiny water bottle behind him has seen this story told a hundred times
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