How a Late-Night Bug Became a Growth Engine | Sam Chlebowski, Motion.io | Scaling Station Podcast

What do you do when the thing that breaks your product becomes the thing that saves your company?

Sam Chlebowski — Co-founder of Motion.io platform — joins Scaling Station to tell the behind-the-scenes story nobody expects: the chaotic night that exposed a flaw, the gut-wrenching decision to pivot, and the unlikely sequence that turned panic into purpose.

You’ll ride the tense moments with Sam:

• 🌙 The midnight incident that nearly shut everything down — and the moral choice that followed.
• 🔧 The 48-hour hack that revealed a hidden user behavior no one studied.
• 🚀 The counterintuitive playbook they used to turn breakdown into traction.

Bold takeaway: product mistakes can be strategic signals if you know how to listen.

This is a raw founder confession — filled with real metrics, cultural trade-offs, and the exact decisions that rewired growth strategy.

Don’t just watch—learn the mindset that turns crisis into runway. Join us, apply one tactic this week, and report back.

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