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7 fact-checked facts about pivots in business, spreadsheets and sport, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.

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The basics

What does a pivot table do in a spreadsheet?

AnswerSummarizes and regroups data

Pivot tables aggregate rows into summaries by category.

In ballet, a full turn on one foot is called a what?

AnswerPirouette

A pirouette is a spin on one leg.

Going deeper

Which author popularized "pivot" in the book The Lean Startup?

AnswerEric Ries

Eric Ries made the pivot a core idea of the lean startup method.

Instagram grew out of a check-in app called what?

AnswerBurbn

The founders stripped Burbn down to its photo-sharing feature.

Slack grew out of an internal tool built at a company making what?

AnswerAn online game

Tiny Speck built Slack while developing the game Glitch.

Expert level

Twitter emerged from which podcasting company?

AnswerOdeo

Odeo's team created Twitter as a side project in 2006.

In which year was The Lean Startup published?

Answer2011

Eric Ries published The Lean Startup in 2011.

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