Peter Swimm: He Was About to Quit. Then Microsoft Called.

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Sep 30, 202642:11Business

Send us Fan Mail He was about to quit. Then Microsoft called. Peter Swimm built a Slack bot called Howdy — and Microsoft acquired it. But what happened inside that acquisition is not the story most founders expect to hea...

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