Software is adopted, not sold

<p>Ian and Corey met at Microsoft, where they built <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14938">Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005</a> (which boasted its own CD-ROM).</p><p>They went on to found <a href="https://mattermost.com/">Mattermost</a> in 2016 to give developers one platform for collaborating across tools and teams.</p><p>Ian, who previously founded the game company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/yc-backed-spinpunch-aims-to-build-faster-prettier-html5-games/">SpinPunch</a>, calls Mattermost “yet another of those video game companies turned B2B software companies,” like <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/the-slack-origin-story/">Slack</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/business/discord-server-social-media.html">Discord</a>. Says Ian: “Games are all the risk of a movie plus all the complexity of a B2B SaaS product.”</p><p>Today’s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/8842/lifeboat">Lifeboat badge</a> goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/6063747/diogo">Diogo</a> for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51488008/how-can-i-call-functions-from-one-cpp-file-in-another-cpp-file">How can I call functions from one .cpp file in another .cpp file?</a>.</p><p>Connect with Ian on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/iantien/">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p>Connect with Corey on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyhulen/">LinkedIn</a>.</p>