The Hard Pivot
The Hard Pivot
Podcast Description
The Hard Pivot is a podcast where founders share their pivot stories—the tough decisions, challenges, and turning points that reshaped their companies.
Inspired by the responses Zach got after publicly sharing Draftboard’s pivot journey, this podcast dives into the critical moments of change: when founders realized something was wrong, how they communicated with investors and teams, and how they charted a new course forward.
Each episode offers honest insights and lessons from those who’ve faced the uncertainty of a pivot and emerged with a new path.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers themes such as entrepreneurial decision-making, crisis management, and strategic redirection, featuring episodes that delve into personal narratives of company pivots. For example, episodes include Oren Charnoff discussing the implications of a competing product launch at Shopify and Yaakov Zar detailing his experience with significant layoffs after a funding round.
The Hard Pivot is a podcast where founders share their pivot stories -0 the tough decisions, challenges, and turning points that reshaped their companies.
Inspired by the responses I got after publicly sharing Draftboard’s pivot journey, this podcast dives into the critical moments of change: when founders realized something was wrong, how they communicated with investors and teams, and how they charted a new course forward.
Each episode offers honest insights and lessons from those who’ve faced the uncertainty of a pivot and emerged with a new path.
Eman Pahlavani, Co-Founder of Hungry, has a story to tell – and it’s worth hearing.
2x founder, 2x pivots and a spinout along the way – Eman tells us about the early days of Hungry as a food delivery platform leveraging at-home chefs, and how that first $1,000 corporate order changed their business overnight from consumer to B2B.
Growth took off and everything was smooth sailing – until COVID lockdowns changed everything. And yet somehow, despite months of no revenue, they exited 2020 with a business doing millions each month in revenue – and kept growing from there.
This story is a doozy – you won’t want to miss it.
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