Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

Re:Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation by nchuhoai on Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:58AM (#3985508)

Two points people should be thinking about:

Yes, Pinterest has a good monetization scheme compared to Facebook (http://cdixon.org/2012/05/15/facebooks-business-model/), because of the natural placement of affiliate links and purchase intent.

But, Pinterest is so new (relatively), we don't really know whether it's just a fad or something to stay and I oftentimes feel like that risk of being replaced or simply forgotton about is not taken into account. We have seen dozens of growing companies that ended up nowhere, the sheer number of users just covers that up these days.

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Re:Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation by notatoad on Thursday May 17, 2012 @01:38AM (#3985612)

>But, Pinterest is so new (relatively), we don't really know whether it's just a fad or something to stay

i think we can confidently say that it's a fad. social content aggregators don't last. it's just a fact of the industry. kudos to pinterest for collecting some cash while they're hot, but it's only a matter of time before they go the same way as all their predecessors.

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Re:Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation by emmett on Thursday May 17, 2012 @01:45AM (#3985640)

Would you care to set any kind of specific timeline on your very confident sounding prediction? Put your (reputational) money down?

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