I was hitting major pivot points every few years: first, taking a leave of absence from UCLA to work at a startup, pivoting to Google two years later to the Training and Development team, then a few years later pivoting internally to the career development team before leaving the company two years after that when my first book, Life After College, came out.
Medio, based out of Seattle, was founded in 2004, originally setting out to develop a contextualised search engine for mobile phone users but later pivoting to provide a more B2B product, in the form of analytics, predictive modelling, and push marketing based on a company's users' data.
The young company initially focused strongly on check-ins based around events, and later pivoted more towards check-ins based on anything you may be doing.
E-commerce behemoth Alibaba was one, whose app "Laiwang" to take on WeChat later pivoted to a Slack-like product for enterprise communication.
The service later pivoted into Twitch when the team realized that Justin.tv's audience spiked around video gaming streaming sessions and the rest, as they say, is history.
TV Time began its life as a source for TV show GIFs known as WhipClip, but later pivoted to a social TV community after acquiring TVShow Time in December 2016.
The company later pivoted to focus on the e-sports industry, with tools that could extract information from game videos like player names, game type, number of gaming sessions per stream, and more.
Mixel, which first launched as an iPad app in November 2011 and later pivoted to focus entirely on the iPhone, had attracted funding from Founders Fund, Polaris Venture Partners Allen & Company, CrunchFund, and betaworks.
We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, Intel's latest acquisition: Kno, the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software — specifically via apps that let students read interactive versions of digitized textbooks.
Initially the duo developed a safety app that mapped out optimal routes to let a ride-hailing customer sense if their driver was going rogue and not sticking to the designated trip, but it later pivoted into logistics tracking after feedback from enterprise users.
Later it pivoted into the enterprise space with a product for teams.
