Donohue: Only 16% of Instapaper URLs appeared on Pinterest on day one
Brian Donohue · Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator · Nov 14, 2018 · at 43:53
Brian Donohue (President of Instapaper and Pinterest engineering manager) discusses failed attempts to integrate Instapaper's news ranking signals into Pinterest's recommendation system.
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“And what I found is that on day, on the first day that we saw those links, only 16% of those links were in Pinterest. So we actually see like a much different set of URLs on a given day. And then over time, I think within seven or eight days, Pinterest gets to like 60, 70, 80% of the links that, that we're seeing.”
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