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Baxley: Slack and Pinterest Struggled Because They Lacked Long-Term Vision
“Slack and Pinterest, I think are examples of companies products that became companies, but neither one of those places really knew what to do next because they didn't have a bigger vision of the change they were trying to see in the world.”
Rachitsky: Pinterest is in trouble as AI visual search emerges
“Pinterest is in trouble. Feels like this is what people use Pinterest for. Here's all the inspiration. Now it's just AI doing it all.”
Baxley: Meta Is Still a Startup, But Amazon Is Not
“I had this other theory that a startup is still a startup until the founder moves aside. So by my definition of even meta is still a startup in a way that Amazon's not. And, you know, an Airbnb is still a startup in a way that Pinterest is not because Ben's mo…”
Tavel: Pinterest's 'Picked for You' may be first algorithmic social feed
“It was actually, it may have been the first algorithmic feed that was in a social product because suddenly your home feed wasn't just things, people that you followed.”
Baxley: Startups frequently outgrow the emotional and developmental capacity of their executives
“I came to think that the job of a startup was to grow the founder so they could continue to lead the startup. And I think what's true for founders is also true for a lot of other folks in the executive staff. It's very hard to grow emotionally and developmenta…”
Kapoor: Airbnb and Pinterest led tech by differentiating on interface design
“Companies like Airbnb and Pinterest
Were leading an industry, and they were leading not just because they, like, built technology and made it accessible, but because they were really using the interface layer to differentiate.”
Tavel: Pinterest users who pinned had over a 90% next-week return rate
“What we saw was that if you pin something, repin something, which is finding something on Pinterest, I'm using those synonymously or click through, you had an incredibly high probability that you would come back. So if someone's pinning something, they're comi…”
Luc Levesque: UGC and marketplace sites scale SEO faster than smaller sites
“And then there's other ones with 1010 of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of pages, which are either user generated content. Like TripAdvisor and Pinterest and others, or marketplaces like Thumb Attack and other types of websites like that. Those are…”
Winters: Pinterest growth stalled due to Facebook and SEO algorithm changes
“We were a fast growing startup that stopped growing due to some changes in, in the market related to Facebook. And then actually, once we had switched to growing primarily through SEO, there was an algorithm change that severely impacted our growth at one poin…”
Belsky: Pinterest solved site speed perception by preloading pin background colors
“I remember the early days when Pinterest started to scale in, like, 2011, 2012, and the team was, like, racing to keep this product up and running. There was this big road map, you know, of how to get scalability and performance and improve performance of the …”