Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Pinterest, I was originally in charge of building a new acquisition loop built on top of Google. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another. When I arrived at Eventbrite, the company was a lot more mature than when I started at Pinterest.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

Buffer Resources

APRIL 15, 2024

I’m willing to bet that Pinterest isn’t the first platform that comes to mind when you think of monetizing your social media presence.    Sure, TikTok , Instagram , and YouTube all offer excellent ways to make money online, but few other platforms have users with the buying intent that Pinterest does. 

Social Media 93

Social Media Business Merchant Services Branding 93

Buffer Resources

JULY 10, 2023

Available Channels Tailwind offers only three social channels: Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Channels available on Buffer Channels available on Tailwind Instagram Instagram Twitter Pinterest Pinterest Facebook Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Google Business Profiles Mastodon  YouTube (coming soon) Shopify (analytics)   2.

Social Media 77

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Marketing AI 77

Casey Accidental

MARCH 29, 2022

On the growth team at Pinterest, Kaisha Hom and Lindsay Norman on the growth design team intuited this, but had trouble convincing a very metric-oriented team on the value of this investment. On the growth team at Pinterest, we were struggling with some performance issues of our home grown frontend framework.

Investment 139

Investment Underperforming Technical Team User Experience Scale 139

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Google Lens vs. Pinterest Lens. Pinterest offers a similar feature, called Pinterest Lens. Just like Google Lens, Pinterest Lens allows users to shop for products from third-party retailers. So what’s the difference between Google Lens and Pinterest Lens? Have you heard about Google Lens or Pinterest Lens?

Merchant Services 123

Merchant Services AI Search Social Media Technology 123

Buffer Resources

MAY 30, 2023

2) Flexibility on Channels Later requires paid users to purchase "social sets" that include one of each social channel (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn), which may not suit every user's needs. Buffer is also an official partner of Meta, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Social Media 77

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Management Technical Review 77

Neil Patel

JANUARY 12, 2021

Pinterest for Local Businesses. Then it’s time to tap into the power of Pinterest. Why Pinterest Is a Good Replacement to Google Plus. Pinterest, on the other hand, has exploded its e-commerce capabilities. However, before you head on over to Pinterest, know the site is not for everyone.

Social Media 111

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Pinterest, for example, started as more of a tool for individual users to collect cool things from the internet before it could become a real recommendation engine for things related to your interests based on the wisdom of the crowd. For some products, this takes a massive amount of time.

Product Marketing 131

Product Marketing Marketing Scale Software Review 131

SaaStr

JULY 23, 2020

If you squint as you read TechCrunch, you’ll notice a pattern in a bunch of articles about Hot Startups. “Bob worked at Pinterest for 8 months before he …” or “after a stint as senior something engineer at Facebook [12 months], Bill joined …” etc. It’s the one-year job culture.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Here are a few starting points: Browse sites that provide a variety of visuals, my favourites include Dribble, Pinterest, Sidebar, and the App Store. Pinterest boards and dribble collections are also a good way to build a collection of ideas and concepts to draw on. Collect and save the designs you like.

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Transportation Innovation User Experience Technology 283

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It’s an incredible group, and they are already setting up 1:1 and other meetings with top enterprise CEOs.

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AWS Enterprise Cloud 220

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’ll then walk through how to become verified on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , LinkedIn , YouTube , Pinterest , and Snapchat. Here’s how you can get verified on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, and Snapchat. Get a Verified Account on Pinterest. Why Getting Verified on Social Media Matters.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

It can be frustrating in many ways to be part of a large venture firm, be the junior guy that “found”/sourced Facebook-Snapchat-Pinterest-Twilio-Zoom-WhateverUnicorn, convinced the founder to take the money … and then see the General Partner take all the credit. What is the role of a “General Partner” at a VC Fund? Well … yeah.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The growth teams at consumer tech companies such as LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Lyft use the product rather than people to drive users through an adoption funnel. He advises bringing these features to a B2B growth team and then shares mistakes that B2B companies make while adding go-to-market (GTM) to PLG. This adoption funnel goes through: .

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Technical Advisors Scale Compensation 233

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Zoom and Pinterest have positive trajectories. The leftmost column is the price of the shares at IPO, followed by the share price on the first day close, followed by Friday’s price. There are all kinds of patterns in the data. The first day close is higher than the IPO price, and today’s price is higher still.

Startup 201

Startup Marketing Pricing Trends 201

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2019

A deep analysis of how it really works when a company sells for almost $100m … But has raised more than that in equity and debt: “But last month when Pinterest announced its IPO, the company’s cloud spend raised eyebrows. You see, the company is spending $750 million a year on cloud services, more specifically to AWS.

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Cloud AWS Enterprise SaaS 152

Neil Patel

JULY 9, 2019

From Facebook to Pinterest , they all command billions of eyeballs per year. To answer these questions and more, I polled 483 companies who are all leveraging Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. But what was surprising is the amount of traffic Pinterest drives. The social web is huge. But I was wrong.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

#socialmediamarketing #contentbatching #smallbusinessmarketing #contentideas #contentplanning ♬ original sound - Rachel Pedersen Pinterest Trends Price : Free Description : Pinterest Trends is a hidden gem of a tool that tracks the popularity of different terms on Pinterest, much like its Google counterpart.

Payment Services 125

Payment Services Payments AI Search Payment Methods 125

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Using Pinterest Top Hashtags for Paid Ads. Pinterest can show you what’s hot right now. With Pinterest, hashtags aren’t as critical and promoted as they are on other platforms. So, just searching around for popular topics on Pinterest and exploring the top posts may prove just as useful. And a search for “#Hygge:”.

Social Media 145

Social Media Trends Mobile Data 145

Neil Patel

JANUARY 7, 2021

Here’s an email from Pinterest, recommending certain boards to follow. But, other than that, Pinterest fails to impress with its UTM implementation. So, Pinterest doesn’t even know which of their “Follow Boards” buttons work well. It’s the email service provider that Pinterest uses and they are already aware of that.

Social Media 145

Social Media Advertising Marketing Data 145

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Revamped Zapier Integration 🙌 We added support for Pinterest, publishing multiple images and video, creating Ideas and Drafts in Buffer, and support for Alt-text—all via Zapier. You can manage your creative output, track the success of different types of content, and build a searchable library of content.

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ChatGPT AI Mobile Engagement 102

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The best platforms for this are usually Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and TikTok. Pinterest , on the other hand, is now the third-largest social platform in the U.S., Product pins on Pinterest should link directly to your product pages on your site, for instance. The campaign increased engagement by 3.7%.

Branding 138

Branding Marketing Social Media Technical Review 138

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As for YouTube and Pinterest, (28% and 35% respectively) said they planned on increasing their budgets. 33% (YouTube) and 29% (Pinterest) plan to maintain their ad spend because their ads are profitable. The main response to increasing is that their campaigns are profitable so they plan on scaling.

Marketing 144

Marketing AI Search Software Review Social Media 144

Casey Accidental

JANUARY 2, 2018

For Pinterest, a Pinner receives value if we showed them something cool related to their interests. For example, at Pinterest, they originally wanted me and my team to work on SEO. Clicking on a Pin could show enough interest in Pinterest for you to want to sign up. At Pinterest, we simplified the signup and onboarding flow.

Underperforming Technical Team 111

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Retention Engineering 111

Buffer Resources

JUNE 12, 2023

Buffer, however, connects with two extra channels, helping users publish on Mastodon and Pinterest and analyze their analytics on Shopify.

Social Media 73

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Management AI 73

Unbounce

JUNE 28, 2022

Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest all offer in-app shopping experiences. Shoppable pins on Pinterest. Several social apps let businesses transact within their app without following any outside links. More brands are catching on and giving customers simple social commerce shopping experiences wherever possible.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Development Team Review Scale Social Media 144

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Uber, Zoom, Pinterest, PagerDuty, Crowdstrike, Slack, and many others made a great list. PE played less of role than 2018, when they spent 50% of the dollars, and strategics stepped up to fill the void, and then some. The IPO market remains open. The IPO market was open. It rewarded companies with better gross margins (typically above 50%).

Blockchain 166

Blockchain AWS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 166

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Search operators are advanced search commands that make it easier to filter search results based on what you do (or don’t) want to see in search results. to search a range of numbers OR : to combine searches Site : to search a specific site Related : to search for similar websites.

Social Media 127

Social Media Web Development Web Developers Engineering 127

Casey Accidental

APRIL 13, 2021

For Pinterest, it was saving a piece of content. For Pinterest, we eventually determined that people would browse sites for topics of interest on a weekly basis. Instagram and Pinterest only had a small part of their original visions work, so they pivoted to focus on just that element to build massive businesses.

Product Marketing 145

Product Marketing Marketing Scale Retention 145

Casey Accidental

APRIL 26, 2021

For example, at Pinterest, we thought about our value props as Discover, Save, and Do, and had different product pillars for each of those value props. For example, while Pinterest used the value prop structure for the core product team, it also had growth and monetization teams to balance the business needs of the company.

Scale 121

Scale Engineering Outsourced Development Innovation 121

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By Fareed Mosavat (Chief Development Officer at Reforge, formerly Slack, Instacart) & Casey Winters (CPO at Eventbrite, formerly Pinterest, Grubhub). By Casey Winters (CPO at Eventbrite, formerly Pinterest, Grubhub) and Kevin Kwok (Formerly Greylock Partners). Casey Winters , CPO at Eventbrite, formerly Pinterest, GrubHub.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO Scale 52

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 20, 2018

Finally, to put all this advice into perspective, we sit down with Greylock’s Casey Winters , who has helped companies like Pinterest and GrubHub retain millions of users. Next, we’ve included half a dozen retention messages you can start sending right away.

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Churn Retention Strategy Customer Lifetime Value 174

Nimble - Sales

JUNE 25, 2019

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and other platforms hold huge potential for brand promotion. What specific steps do you take to promote your brand? Some branding campaigns are completely built around Instagram. You probably noticed influencers promoting fitness clothes, apps, restaurants, and all kinds of brands on that network.

Social Media 103

Social Media Branding Business Marketing 103

Neil Patel

MARCH 18, 2021

Don’t forget platforms like Pinterest and Etsy. Thirty-five percent of Pinterest users are between 30 and 49 years of age, and 27 percent are aged 50 to 64. The content on Pinterest leans heavily toward their interests, including DIY, cooking, and home projects. The average Etsy seller is around 39 years old.

Software Review 127

Software Review Technical Review Social Media Advertising 127

Casey Accidental

APRIL 18, 2018

Some features should only target a small percentage of users e.g. businesses on Facebook or content creators on Pinterest. Some of our most valuable work at Pinterest was deleting features and code. Place Pins (RIP 2015): Pinterest tried to create a special Pin type and board for Pins that were real places.

Retention 99

Retention Mobile Acquisition Entertainment 99

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms. SoftBank reportedly hired restructuring and bankruptcy bankers to help revive WeWork | Markets Insider. 4k views · 3 upvotes. Cybersecurity Firm Sophos Jumps on $3.82 Billion Bid by PE Firm. views · 1 upvote. views · 7 upvotes.

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Cloud Sales Hiring Cybersecurity Finance 100

Casey Accidental

MAY 12, 2021

After building up a team and growing Grubhub over five and a half years into a public company, I took an IC role at Pinterest, instead of many executive offers. As someone who went through this issue after Pinterest, I did some deep reflection on what makes me feel fulfilled on a path to a personal mission.

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