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It's weird how HN has become so negative about every recent tech companies IPO. You would think this would be the one place on the internet where people would be excited and positive about this sort of thing. I don't get it, is it jealousy about missing the boat?
I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent "death curve" according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available? [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?…
Forgive me for being blunt, I just think it’s a bit obvious: they have grown through means other than someone going to google.com and typing “Pinterest.”
I can think of a dozen reasons why that would be the case. Google Trends does not match 1:1 popularity, usage, or growth of all products.
Personally, I’m only a casual Pinterest user and have no stake in this, but the service has gotten a lot better over the last couple years.
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Maybe, but America has relatively low taxes and high income. This is an anecdote, but I was looking at developer jobs in Europe and the salaries are pathetic. 65k Euros for a senior engineer with a 50% tax rate? Are you fucking kidding me? I can make 250k in the US at a 35% rate. It’s absurd. No wonder Europe has a brain drain problem...
Developers earn 250k USD/year in the US? Any reference to the european "brain dead"-problem?
https://voxeu.org/article/european-brain-drain is fairly comprehensive, but the idea is that highly skilled people generally go where they're paid the most for their skills.
I hate what Pinterest does to google image searching. Sometimes I really just want to paste an image src in an online discussion without having to drill into devtools.
How does it manage to rank so well? I'm not a user of it but whenever it appears in searches it feels like endless popups and walled content that tries to make you sign up. I would have thought Google would discourage links like this.
I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent "death curve" according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available? [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?…
I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent "death curve" according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available? [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?…
Facebook has the same trend. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...
I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent "death curve" according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available? [0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?…
Facebook has the same trend. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...
I didn't know pinterest was a thing, I'm not sure anyone in France use it, is that only used in the US?
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What about this then? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p... It maps closely to Instagram's steady rise, and Snapchat's slow demise.
People search for Instagram profiles and content that get's reported as news i.e. "did you see X on Y's Instagram". Same for Snapchat, which requires searching for username discovery. Pinterest doesn't have either of those traffic catalysts.
Anyone going to pick up stock at IPO?