stackyFACTSThe dominant chat app for gamers only exists because the founders made a terrible multiplayer arena game nobody wanted to play. However, the voice communication tool they built for the game worked flawlessly, so they scrapped the awful game and kept the chat feature. A true lesson in failing upward.
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