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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 5 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source
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sixQuarks ◴[07 Feb 19 15:53 UTC] No.19105943[source]▶
Ouch, number 2 employee at Pinterest - a $10 billion company that’s about to go public this year.

He probably would have been worth an easy 100-200 million.

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1. shereadsthenews ◴[07 Feb 19 16:45 UTC] No.19106359[source]▶
Pinterest is a malignant tumor on the face of the Web that exists to trick people who are trying to search for images. Being rich off that would be worse that toiling in obscurity.
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2. locklock ◴[07 Feb 19 16:46 UTC] No.19106371[source]▶
People actually do use Pinterest to collect images, I think, but I agree with you on the other points
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4. fsloth ◴[07 Feb 19 17:25 UTC] No.19106662[source]▶
Uh - can you elaborate? I often search for images and sometimes from pinterest - but I don't find pinterest interfering with my searches when not using it.
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5. rchaud ◴[07 Feb 19 19:16 UTC] No.19107607[source]▶
The poster is likely referring to how Pinterest links now dominate Google image search results. Clicking on the Pinterest link takes you to the Pinterest website, and not the actual image source. Pinterest will often block you from viewing the page unless you sign in or create an account.