PBwiki started as a lean startup in 2002 with no funding and only one employee for the first two years. It rapidly iterated through many ideas and products before finding product-market fit with its wiki product. While data provided some guidance, the founder relied heavily on customer feedback, creativity, and gut feelings to guide decisions around pivots, features, pricing, and business model. This lean process of testing many ideas, dropping failures quickly, and evolving the successful concept based on customer input allowed PBwiki to grow organically over many years.