Tech companies

At over 150 years old, it has jumped into many markets, including ramen noodles and hotels and hand-painted playing cards. Today its main business is games.

• Nintendo

• Shopify

• Nokia

• YouTube

In 2005 Twitter was Odeo, a podcasting site. When Apple announced it was entering the podcast space, Odeo knew it ____________.

• couldn‘t compete

• was bought out

• had to go public

• was on the right track

In 1945, the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute designed a simple wooden rice cooker to help post-war Japan cook with electricity. It was not a MVP and never went to market. What is the companyˋs name today?

• Sony

• Nintendo

• Honda

• Mitsubishi

• Toyota

Since its founding in 1938, Samsung has conducted business in everything from dehydrated fish to insurance. It pivoted to electronics in 1970 and now has the second-largest _____ for smartphone sales in North America.

• market share

• smart factory

• vendor network

• web presence

In 2004 Facemash was the first iteration of Facebook attracting more than half of Harvard‘s graduates in one month. In 2006, as Facebook, it ____ and allowed anyone with an email address to sign up.

• pivoted

• began trading publically

• got its first like

• changed its tagline

Tech‘s ______ philosophy is key to business evolution and the pivot.

• failing fast

• overengineering

• quaility first

• competing teams

While some tech companies _______ quickly and follow obvious trajectories, others follow winding paths full of twists and potholes.

• take off

• come over

• put up

• set on

To create a market for personal computers, Apple donated 9000 computers to schools. Donations weren’t pure charity. Apple ________ the mindshare of a young user base.

• was capturing

• was discounting

• was rejecting

• was ignoring

In 2005 YouTube _______ with the vision of being a dating site with the tag line “Tune in, Hook up”.

• launched

• pivoted

• traded publically

• paid women 50 dollars to upload a video

In 2006, Youtube _________ by tech giant Google for one point six billion dollars.

• was acquired

• was sold

• was valued