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"Many"? Article only mentions 2: from life broadcasting to web broadcasting, then to twitchtv (specialized game broadcasting).

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There were a huge number of smaller pivots that didn't make the article. They didn't go into the period where JTV had its own internet talk show, for example. There was also a ton of strategic pivoting behind the scenes concerning the business model and revenue -- but that's not the sort of thing that's going to make a FastCompany article.

The most amazing thing about JTV is that everyone just kept going, even when the circumstances made you want to roll over. Twitch and SocialCam are an object lesson in tenacity.

We had a lot of ideas / pivots that were released or almost released and never made it: leaving video messages for your friends on Facebook (when the first platform came out in '07), a live streaming API, a gaming site for live video streams (yes, we actually pivoted to TwitchTV twice), CamTweet (a way for you to share live video on Twitter), and more that I probably can't remember.

As Tim noted, props are due to the JTV team, who stuck around and kept building things where reasons to continue were scant, which was often.

Moderators should note that I'm commenting on a disparity between the article contents and its title. If you know that there are more pivots that's all fine and dandy, but the article only mentions 2 and that's not enough not warrant the "many" in the title, imho.

It mentions the three I commented about, or three and a half if you include SocialCam.

Good point, I missed the calendar app.

Calendar -> Self-streaming -> Streaming site for others -> esports (Twitch)

If you count Socialcam and Exec as pivots of some sort, that makes it at least 4.

I thought Exec was a separate company?

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