• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Plenty of companies pivot when their initial business plan doesn’t work out or if the market changes.

    For example, did you know that American Express used to be a shipping company like FedEx and UPS? Or Mattel used to sell picture frames before they started making toys? Or Nintendo started out as a playing card company and still sells them today?

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like “grifters”.