<story><title>Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20120516/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Well I&apos;m going to head off the predictable and boring &quot;bubble&quot; comments and say this:&lt;p&gt;Pinterest has real value and a clear path to monetization through affiliate and/or advertising revenue. It&apos;s really a stupidly simple idea (essentially scrapbooking on the Web) executed incredibly well.&lt;p&gt;Is it worth $1.5B? I don&apos;t know. I would say it&apos;s definitely worth more than Instagram for whatever that&apos;s worth (not a lot). I guess we&apos;d need stats on number of active users, engagement and revenue to make that determination--something we&apos;re not likely to get.&lt;p&gt;The only concerning point to me is that that it&apos;s foreign money, only because foreign money seems to be less discerning, at least based on DST and similar investments.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, congrats to the team. They&apos;ve done exceptionally well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stroboskop</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Well I&apos;m going to head off the predictable and boring &quot;bubble&quot; comments and say this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saying that predictably gets you upvotes for sure. But it&apos;s not about &quot;bubble&quot; comments being &quot;boring&quot; or not. The question is whether bubble claims have any substance. If they have, the bubble won&apos;t simply go away just because some people wish it would.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Is it worth $1.5B? I don&apos;t know. I would say it&apos;s definitely worth more than&lt;/i&gt;...&lt;p&gt;Comparisons like this are inflationary. It seems you really don&apos;t care about bubbles. But a bubble would affect many people here at HN.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t matter whether bubble comments are boring or not, it&apos;s about the importance of a bubble.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20120516/exclusive-japans-rakuten-wins-the-heart-of-pinterest-founder-in-funding-race/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Well I&apos;m going to head off the predictable and boring &quot;bubble&quot; comments and say this:&lt;p&gt;Pinterest has real value and a clear path to monetization through affiliate and/or advertising revenue. It&apos;s really a stupidly simple idea (essentially scrapbooking on the Web) executed incredibly well.&lt;p&gt;Is it worth $1.5B? I don&apos;t know. I would say it&apos;s definitely worth more than Instagram for whatever that&apos;s worth (not a lot). I guess we&apos;d need stats on number of active users, engagement and revenue to make that determination--something we&apos;re not likely to get.&lt;p&gt;The only concerning point to me is that that it&apos;s foreign money, only because foreign money seems to be less discerning, at least based on DST and similar investments.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, congrats to the team. They&apos;ve done exceptionally well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&quot;Essentially scrapbooking on the Web&quot;&lt;p&gt;A better analogy is probably delicious for women, at least in terms of having a mental framework to estimate the value.</text></comment>