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Someone gets engaged. Almost every day between that day and their wedding will be on pinterest to get great ideas on every single item / food / clothing involved.
It's like amazon referrals on steroids
You know when you hear about a lot of insane valuations and your jaw sort of drops in disbelief? I feel the opposite when I think about Pinterest. My immediate reaction here is "yeah, makes sense." I guess it must stem from my marketing agency days. I had SO MANY clients begging me to get them into Pinterest ads when they released. I also sit at home and see how much time my wife spends on the site and how dedicated…
Every bride uses Pinterest (and now most wedding vendors and bloggers).
My mother-in-law uses it every day to plan all her home remodeling projects and she's 60-something.
You know when you hear about a lot of insane valuations and your jaw sort of drops in disbelief? I feel the opposite when I think about Pinterest. My immediate reaction here is "yeah, makes sense." I guess it must stem from my marketing agency days. I had SO MANY clients begging me to get them into Pinterest ads when they released. I also sit at home and see how much time my wife spends on the site and how dedicated…
seriously while I appreciate your comment, none of what you've said has anything to do with any financial numbers, even to within an order of magnitude. . . it's nice that this is your reaction but don't you think an analysis of... something should enter the equation at some point? there are 3.5 billion women in the world, so you're valuing every user past and present that you've described, at $3. Why not $10 and call it 35b in revenue for a nice 110B valuation at a fair multiple of earnings.
seriously shouldn't we be looking at...something here? these numbers are literally astronomical. (as in, getting up there with the number of stars in the galaxy.)
nearly a million per employee. what the heck do they plan on using that much capital for... especially with forthcoming ad revenue.
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The pre-business model unicorn thing still confuses me. The kicker in your comment -- scratching the surface of profitability -- is what I find interesting. What if they start digging to find there's no depth behind this surface? http://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-fo...
I'm not sure what your point is? 1) Youtube isn't profitable, but it's taking more and more "hours watched" out of the TV market. Google can keep it running at break even for as long as they want, and then adjust the ad prices up very, very slightly and start making profit based on the huge audience. 2) Video watching (usually) has very little commercial intent, especially in terms of some kind of "commercial value p…
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I think Pinterest is way more valuable than Dropbox. They have a great product, very large dedicated user base, and a very clear path to monetization.
Isn't Pinterest more like del.icio.us in the sense that if something better comes along they are screwed? I understand that Facebook is hard to replace because you need to get everyone to migrate. Does that apply to Pinterest?
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I think Pinterest is way more valuable than Dropbox. They have a great product, very large dedicated user base, and a very clear path to monetization.
Isn't Pinterest more like del.icio.us in the sense that if something better comes along they are screwed? I understand that Facebook is hard to replace because you need to get everyone to migrate. Does that apply to Pinterest?
That said, they have a very large library of existing content, a large number of producers who have devoted a fairly large amount of time to Pinterest, and also... a space in which it would be hard to distinguish yourself by pure feature competition. How do you make a website that is substantially better than Pinterest at showing pictures and letting people bookmark them? If you create incrementally better search/recommendation technology, I think it would be hard to communicate your tech advantage to the average user, particularly before you develop a deep content library.
For anyone who thinks this is high: when my wife (and lots of other women in her social group) is in the market for clothes, or wedding ideas, or baby/nursery ideas, she goes to Pinterest first. That is huge potential for monetization from advertising and affiliate sales. Pinterest is where shopping starts for tons of young women (primarily) with money.
we are talking about ten thousand times higher than that. still on 'potential'...
Good. In the age when the planet is faced with overpopulation, climate change, pollution and a myriad of other issues, including the shadow of ww3, the investors bet on a photo-sharing startup. Down-voters rejoice, but I couldn't care less about pinterest and what it offers. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe being a parent gives me a different perspective, but 11B for nicely arranged list of photos is idiotic. I'm sure…