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That makes me wonder, are there any major examples of this kind of abrupt pivot actually succeeding? Nintendo was a much more gradual product shift that makes sense in retrospect: playing cards -> tabletop games and toys -> video games. Or another gradual example was Tandy Corporation, which went from making leather crafts -> general crafting/DIY to electronics crafting -> Radio Shack and Tandy computers. That one's…
The one that springs to mind is Tiny Speck launching an MMORPG, failing, and then polishing up the in-game chat tool and releasing it as Slack. Oh, there was a certain pair of Ohio bike shop owners who pivoted to powered flight some time back.
All Stewart tries to do is make game companies, and all Stewart actually ends up doing is starting big non-game-related tech companies.