

Years later, Butterfield would pull off a pivot more massive than his last. Together, they would build Tiny Speck, the company behind an artful, non-combat massively multiplayer online game. To make his dreams a reality, he joined forces with Flickr’s original chief software architect Cal Henderson, as well as former Flickr employees Eric Costello and Serguei Mourachov, who like himself, had served some time at Yahoo after the acquisition. This time, Butterfield would make it work. Flickr had been a failed attempt at a game called Game Neverending followed by a big pivot. Stewart Butterfield, known already for his part in building Flickr, a photo-sharing service acquired by Yahoo in 2005, decided to try his hand - again - at building a game. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Let’s rewind a decade.


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