📈 How 8 of the fastest-growing startups evolved

Most startup stories look obvious in hindsight. In reality, many of today's fastest-growing companies started with a very different product and only found their current direction after a major shift.

🖱 Replit started as a browser-based coding environment, then shifted into a vibe coding platform after launching Agent.

🖱 Sierra started by building AI agents for large enterprises, then moved into AI customer service and support automation.

🖱 Granola started as an AI meeting notebook, then became a memory and context layer for workplace AI agents.

🖱 Perplexity started as a Slack bot for answering questions, then evolved into an AI search engine and agent platform.

• Harvey started as an AI assistant for lawyers, then expanded into an enterprise platform for legal teams and large organizations.

🖱 Lovable started as a developer tool that turned prompts into code, then repositioned as a consumer platform for building apps from plain English.

🖱 Freepik started as a search engine and library for design assets, then transformed into a generative AI design platform.

🖱 Mercor started as a small outsourcing operation handling projects worth $500 per week, then became a marketplace for hiring contractors who create training data for AI.

The biggest startups often don't start with the right idea. They find it along the way.

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