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New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

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We were sure that this was going to be something as big, but we went back to our investors, including Andreessen Horowitz,

and we went in there and told them our plan, and you know, we could one day get to $100 million in revenue with this business, and thereby be a billion-dollar business.

And like, you guys have no idea what you're doing.

You don't understand what it is to sell into companies.

You're going to need all of this expertise, and they were like, pff, good luck with your stupid little thing.

From NPR, it's how I built this.

The show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raaz, and on today's show, how Stewart Butterfield perfected the art of the pivot by turning a failed online game company into Slack, a messaging program now value at over $5 billion.

So you might remember a story we did a while back about Kevin's system and Mike Krieger.

When they joined forces to build a tech company, they came up with something they called bourbon.

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