companies-with-successful-pivot

companies-with-successful-pivot copied to clipboard

**Company Name?** ZipLine **What's the company main business today?** Zipline is an American medical product delivery company that is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, which designs, manufactures, and operates...

tanzimsy

Add new company: Amazon

5

Amazon was initially an online bookstore. It's entire AWS business is result of an attempt to create ideal online shopping basket.

yuri-per

Add new company: [company name]

1

**Berkshire Hathaway** **multinational conglomerate holding company** **Textile mills** **Waning textile industry in America** **[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway#History)**

pbhowmic

Add new company: Cisco

1

**Company Name?** Cisco Systems **What's the company main business today?** routers and other networking gear **What did the company do in the early days?** Business plan was to build clone...

dvhwgumby

Add new company: Blackberry

1

**Blackberry** **Highly secured real time operating systems** **Produced smartphones and Bluetooth devices** **They started loosing a lot of market share to the other phone providers.** **[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry)/company website**

dtaivpp

Not quite a "pivot" as this company never stepped away from making games, but Blizzard did make one very important decision in its early days **Company Name?** Blizzard (originally Silicon...

LarsDu

Fitting with my previous post, it might be interesting to point out some less wholesome (non-tech company) pivots **Company Name?** Purdue Pharmaceuticals **What's the company main business today?** Bankrupt, but...

LarsDu

After bringing up Tandy, IBM, and Polaroid (blasts from the past), why not bring up less conventional companies? **Company Name?** Guadalajara Cartel **What's the company main business today?** Defunct, but...

LarsDu

Utrecht University: A Case Study in Streamlining Education through Digital Transformation Utrecht University, established in 1636, stands as a prominent institution in the Netherlands renowned for its high standards in...

MornaySc

**Huawei Technologies** **The company and its subsidiaries principally provide end-to-end Information and Communications Technology solutions. This includes the research, design, manufacture and marketing of telecom network equipment, IT products and...

s-dabba