Stewart Butterfield wanted to return money to investors after his startup Glitch failed, but Accel refused, which led to its 24% stake in Slack at its IPO (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Stewart Butterfield wanted to return money to investors after his startup Glitch failed, but Accel refused, which led to its 24% stake in Slack at its IPO (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)


Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:

Stewart Butterfield wanted to return money to investors after his startup Glitch failed, but Accel refused, which led to its 24% stake in Slack at its IPO  —  Stewart Butterfield wanted to quit and give the money back to investors.  They wouldn’t let him.  —  Stewart Butterfield loved the game, but not enough people agreed with him.

Stewart Butterfield wanted to return money to investors after his startup Glitch failed, but Accel refused, which led to its 24% stake in Slack at its IPO (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
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