Ranjan: Google built an internal precursor to Pinterest that failed
Peeyush Ranjan · S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan · May 14, 2026 · at 1:24:49
Peeyush Ranjan, former Google engineering executive, discusses an internal project that explored saving and browsing collections before Pinterest succeeded.
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“Favorite failed idea, favorite of mine, which failed, but became useful, but not because of us is Pinterest. I was at Google. This was one of the problems which we were thinking about of how do people look at collection of things. It was a project which failed, never saw the light of the day.”
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