I'm surprised that people would throw another $150M on this particular bonfire. Like so many other bookmarking sites before it, Pinterest is overreaching. Their best outcome (for investors, not users) is likely an acquisition by Facebook.
I'm notorious for taking on too many projects. Time to sleep when I'm dead.
I guess I should but I also love to have some time alone before the rest of my family wakes up (and before people turn up at work).
This constant need to grow really irks me.
1) Growing for the sake of growth - buying users, anti-user lock-in features, dark patterns, etc.
2) Growing as technology improves - the cost of creating/publishing videos has decline massively in the last few years for the average user, thus products that utilize video to create better experiences should be built.
That's what Twitter should have done as well. Pinterest won't do it, for the same exact reason Twitter didn't, making the same business mistake with predictable consequences. They all want to be the next goliath and none of them are going to be (and when that reality sets in, they all become reactionaries under pressure from a dozen angles, working from a position of weakness).