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Startup Experts Reveal Their Favorite Pivot Stories
Tom Blomfield

Startup Experts Reveal Their Favorite Pivot Stories

Jul 21, 2023

Key Takeaways


You might think that pivoting is something done only by the startups that don’t make it. In reality, a huge number of the best startups pivoted.

In this first episode of our new series, Office Hours, Y Combinator Group Partners share their favorite stories of entrepreneurs who pivoted and went on to build game-changing companies. The group of startup experts also share their own pivot stories and help answer the questions: How do you know if it’s time for your startup to pivot—and how will you know if that next idea is the one?

Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-apply
Work at a startup: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-jobs

Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro: How To Pivot
00:37 - Favorite Pivots
00:53 - Brex
02:40 - Goat
04:55 - Tom Blomfield: Billion Dollar Startup
07:52 - Clipboard Health
08:49 - The Secret to Finding the Right Problem
10:28 - Pivot Hell
13:43 - Diana Hu's Startup
16:23 - Picking The Right Metrics To Follow
16:47 - Favorite Understanding Of Pivoting
18:34 - Find And Track Your Main KPI
20:02 - Outro: Pivoting Process

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