Back to all pivots

Tech pivot story / founded 1911

IBM pivot story

Scales and tabulators became enterprise computing.

IBM logo

Office machines -> computing giant

Before

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company made scales, clocks, and tabulating machines.

to

After

Computers, enterprise software, and services.

The pivot story

IBM evolved from business machines into mainframes, PCs, and enterprise technology services.

Why it worked

It understood business operations and kept moving up the stack as computing changed.

Known for

Enterprise computing

More company pivots

Keep digging

Browse all stories

Tech

Android

Camera software became the world's dominant phone OS.

Read the pivot story

Tech

Nokia

A paper mill became a mobile phone icon.

Read the pivot story

Tech

Samsung

A grocery trading company became an electronics giant.

Read the pivot story

Made by a human on the internet

Big companies were weird once too.

Designed and developed by Vishva Variya. Weird ideas into code, one oddly specific experiment at a time.

PortfolioLinkedInX.comBuy Me a Coffee

No spam. Only tiny internet experiments when they ship.