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Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

Came here to say the same thing. I got almost to the end of the article before I found out that he didn't regret the pivot.

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#4

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

I was also confused by the wording. The word 'mistake' makes it feel like a very negative article.

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#5

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

I only read it because I wanted to hear about how a pivot killed the company lol

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#6

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

Better title would have been: Unintential pivot became a success

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#7

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

Well, the pivot itself was not intended. Normally, you read data and decide to pivot in a direction you're aware of based on the data.

In this case, I had in mind building a mobile version of Beepl, NOT a trivia game. I never intended the pivot to happen and for some while I was lost as to what the hell had just happened.

I might even argue that its not a pivot in its right sense because the end products are absolutely unrelated. I mean, how is a trivia game the pivot of a CRM? :P

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#8
The title might have been in error but if he's hiring staff off the back of 23 people downloading a game each day, this might be a case of "truth in jest".

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#9

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

This is just a clickbait of the highest caliber. Not only the pivot didn't turn out to be a mistake after all, but the article is a blatant promo piece, and wasn't any mistakes anyway. Intentionally trying to implement new functionality is not a mistake, it's, well, an intentional action.

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post #6

Title refers to a pivot that came to be because of a mistake, not that the pivot itself is a mistake.

Better title would have been: Unintential pivot became a success

I can't claim a success yet. Only a better product than what I was doing before.
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