Back

The Startup guy

Startup Energy • 2m

Some of the most successful companies: Slack, Instagram, Twitter (X), YouTube, Discord, Netflix, and more have pivoted multiple times. The point? Pivot 10 times if needed. Because in the startup world, surviving is all that matters. If you can survive, you will eventually win.

Reply
2
22

More like this

Recommendations from Medial

Account Deleted

Hey I am on Medial • 5m

Social Media Platform X (twitter) multiple times slow down in past days

Reply
4

Vishu Bheda

 • 

Medial • 2m

𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀: • There are no rules • Surviving is all that matters • Great companies are built out of necessity • Pivot 10 times if needed—it’s a good thing • Nothing hap

See More
Reply
6
14
Image Description

Niket Raj Dwivedi

 • 

Medial • 1y

"The origins of Slack- A multi-billion dollar pivot" (Saturday Startup Nugget Story -4): In 2009, Stewart Butterfield and his team were working on a gaming startup called Tiny Speck. As they built an online game called Glitch, they faced communicati

See More
1 Reply
23
Image Description
Image Description

PRATHAM

 • 

Medial • 1y

WTF Is Pivot⁉️ Ever tried making a cuisine and ended up with khichdi? Congrats, you've just pivoted! In startup world, a pivot is when your 'next Unicorn' idea flops more crazily than a Bollywood remake, so you change your boat and tries to get int

See More
21 Replies
16

Shruti

Student • 11m

✨Slack's Game-Changing Pivot 👾Origin as Tiny Speck: #Founding: Slack began life as Tiny Speck, a company founded by Stewart Butterfield. Initially, the focus was on creating an online game called "Glitch." #Challenges: Despite a promising start, "

See More
Reply
1
10

Manish Soni

Can Immediately Join... • 28d

ChatGPT is not the new Google Twitter or X is dead, burnt by a lot of competitors YouTube is the new MiniTV with versatile Viewing Use Cases OTT is spacial place for mediocre budget cinema 📽️ Quick Commerce will eventually be Controlled by Amazon a

See More
Reply
8
Image Description
Image Description

Vishu Bheda

 • 

Medial • 9m

The riskiest pivot in social media history: Launching paid subscriptions while every other platform depended on ads. But Elon saw something no one else did... 15 months later, X Premium's results are remarkable. Everyone needs to understand why it

See More
11 Replies
4
17
Image Description
Image Description

Abhishek Pai Angle

 • 

Ribin • 5m

We did a pivot to save our company! We started as an experience gifting platform that was a gifting marketplace for experiences like fine dines, salons, spa, etc Raised a VC round and initially got traction but soon realised that the high CAC and f

See More
8 Replies
14
48

Download the medial app to read full posts, comements and news.