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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 to survive.

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> Stewart's Salesforce exit made him a billionaire

He also co-founded Flickr.

The Flickr acquisition didn’t make anyone close to a billionaire, the whole deal was for $25 million.

Maybe 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

Yahoo (Verizon) did eventually sell Flickr to SmugMug in 2018 for an undisclosed sum.

I 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.

Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.

Which was also a by-product of a cancelled game (also massively multiplayer online game) — this one never ended though

Yes, 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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8arwhuU-2c

It was play on the name! Thanks so much for sharing the YouTube link — I really appreciate it!

This is all in the linked article

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