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Re:A story about pivots by baxtr on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:13AM (#25872895)
Great story! What happened to the two other companies? Did they fail?
Re:A story about pivots by wpietri on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:06PM (#25876887)
They did fail. For what it's worth, we did as well. I think our eventual product idea was much better than our first one, though, and I think our fatal mistake was not about lack of user demand, but on building too much on the theory that we could use Facebook for viral growth. As we were about to go for our A round Facebook changed a lot of things to de-emphasize apps and posting to people's feeds, so our growth numbers fell off a cliff. Turns out investors only like hockey sticks when they go up.
Re:A story about pivots by zhoujianfu on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#25875512)
One is Uber and the other is Lyft.
Re:A story about pivots by keithwhor on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:02PM (#25873466)
One is Dropbox and the other is Box.