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99 Percent of Fortune 500 Employees Who Use This Product Hate It. This Entrepreneur Built a Million-Dollar Business Out of That Hatred.Entrepreneurism is all about problem-solving, and finding a common issue can be a great starting place for your business idea.

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This story appears in theSeptember 2021issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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The idea forHaystackcame swift and easy. A way tobuildHaystack took more work.

Cameron Lindsay, 27, was sitting at his last job in 2018 when he noticed that 99 percent of Fortune 500s have intranetproducts— and 99 percent of people who use them hate them. In those two 99s, he saw 100 percent opportunity. The incumbents making these internal corporatecommunicationssystems were "all older-school," he says. "Employees today want it superfast, superconnected, and delightful." He teamed up withcofounderHaibo Zhao, a former tech lead at Google and Snap, to reimagine a sleek, nimble sports car of an intranet.

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