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4. Pivot to Perfection

How YouTube, Groupon, and Instagram Can Help You Pull Off a Successful Pivot
Griffin Kao1 , Jessica Hong2, Michael Perusse3 and Weizhen Sheng4
(1)
Wynnewood, PA, USA
(2)
Edina, MN, USA
(3)
Cambridge, MA, USA
(4)
Markham, ON, Canada
 

When YouTube was first founded in 2005, it was meant to be a dating platform. Though it is now a video-sharing platform with over two billion monthly active users,1 it started off as a dating site with zero users at all. In fact, when it first launched with the slogan “Tune in, Hook up,” the platform could not get a single person to upload a dating profile ...

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