> But that’s not how you find business opportunities in the real world. You can’t just say I’m going to pivot, and suddenly a good opportunity lands on your lap

> But that’s not how you find business opportunities in the real world. You can’t just say I’m going to pivot, and suddenly a good opportunity lands on your lap from heaven. You get good ideas by embracing randomness for a long time, until something looks like it has a fighting chance of paying off. The pivot idea you were forced to come up with is extremely unlikely to be one. This is in general true, but I fail to see how that's against the idea of pivoting as advocated by YC. We find out interesting pivoting ideas by doing, and one of the most effective way is to get ideas by exploring adjacent areas while we invest deeply into an area the we are are interested in. That is, we discover by doing. Is that what the startups do?