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Some of the greatest companies exist because of compromise. Slack was a failed game. YouTube started as a dating site. Pivoting or adjusting the vision isn’t compromise, it’s evolution. Perhaps the line is blurry.
Thatmoonemojiguy 🌝 • 2m
🎥 From Dating App to Empire: The YouTube Story In February 2005, three former PayPal employees launched a site called YouTube. Their original idea? 💘 A video dating site. The slogan: “Tune in, Hook up.” It flopped. No one uploaded dating videos.
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Day 3 - Startup Surprise How a Side Project Accidentally Became a Billion-Dollar Business: The Untold Story of Slack Did you know Slack, the workplace communication giant, was never meant to be a company? It began as a side project, an internal tool
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ADJUVA LEGAL® • 1m
A "Pivot" is just a nice word for "We were wrong." And that's your superpower. 🚀 The startup world loves to romanticise the "pivot." It sounds like a chess grandmaster's calculated, genius move. The reality? It's usually a moment of sheer panic
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Youtube's Great Pivot YouTube, the video-sharing platform that has become an integral part of our daily lives, had a rather unconventional origin story. Initially, the founders envisioned it as a dating site where users could create videos introduci
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HOW MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS AND FOUNDERS DESTROYS EMPIRES ⚠️ TO FOUNDERS: This could be you!!. In April 2020, Quibi launched with $1.75 billion and Hollywood royalty behind it. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman promised to revolutionize m
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