The most famous example is probably Cisco, which was founded to build a clone of the PDP-10 small mainframe computer. To make some money they sold routers on a design they had developed for the Stanford network.
But was it a pivot? The founders later went and started a company XKL doing just what they had originally intended to do: PDP-10 clones.
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The most famous example is probably Cisco, which was founded to build a clone of the PDP-10 small mainframe computer. To make some money they sold routers on a design they had developed for the Stanford network.
But was it a pivot? The founders later went and started a company XKL doing just what they had originally intended to do: PDP-10 clones.
And XKL now seems to make switches, so I guess they've come full circle.