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YouTube started as a dating site.
Slack was a failed video game.
Instagram a location check-in app.

The most iconic companies didn’t win with their first idea. They won when they pivoted.

Here are 17 epic pivots 👇

• Amplitude: Texting → Analytics
• Box: Consumer file sharing → Cloud storage
• Brex: VR headsets → Business credit cards
• Coinbase: Bitcoin wallet → Crypto exchange
• Discord: Mobile game → Group messaging
• Flickr: Role-playing game → Photo sharing
• Hugging Face: AI Tamagotchi → Dev tool
• Hubble: City discovery → Expert marketplace
• Instagram: Location app → Photo sharing
• Lattice: OKR tracking → Performance mgmt
• Loom: Marketplace → Screen recording
• Lyft: Carpooling (Zimride) → Ridesharing
• Notion: Website builder → Workspace
• Pinterest: Digital catalogs → Visual discovery
• Slack: Video game → Team communication
• WhatsApp: Status updates → Messaging
• YouTube: Dating site → Online video

The market always tells you what’s working.

The best founders?
They listen.
They adapt.
They pivot.

It takes courage to change course...
but that’s usually where the magic happens.

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