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Sounds like the company was dead anyway and you are mistaking causation. Companies that are "alive" don't pivot. Companies that are dying people to avoid death.
by freddie_mercury 8y ago
Sounds like the company was dead anyway and you are mistaking causation. Companies that are "alive" don't pivot. Companies that are dying people to avoid death. That the company had to pivot suggests the owners decided the exit strategy wasn't actually realistic.
- rspeer 8y ago> Companies that are "alive" don't pivot. They can pivot into being a company that is alive, though. Remember that Slack was a pivot from an online game.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoI did not know that, any good rendition of that story available online?
- rspeer 8y agoI found this: https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/13-the-big-pivot-with-slacks-stewart-butterfield-.pdf https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/13-the... You can also see a piece of the game on Slack's 404 page! http://slack.com/404 http://slack.com/404
- jmull 8y agoDefinitely. A pivot is like a "Hail Mary" pass... risky and unlikely to work -- something that only makes sense when time is running out and you have nothing left to lose. Or... if your company pivoted when the end wasn't near, the leadership was greatly incompetent, which means you pretty much never had a chance in the first place. Interesting to note: the poster read the signs and made the right move at the right time in any case.