<story><title>Pinterest S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519083544/d674330ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_moscow</author><text>I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent &amp;quot;death curve&amp;quot; according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;q=pinterest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;q=p...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owens99</author><text>Because you are clearly wrong.&lt;p&gt;Forgive me for being blunt, I just think it’s a bit obvious: they have grown through means other than someone going to google.com and typing “Pinterest.”&lt;p&gt;I can think of a dozen reasons why that would be the case. Google Trends does not match 1:1 popularity, usage, or growth of all products.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I’m only a casual Pinterest user and have no stake in this, but the service has gotten a lot better over the last couple years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pinterest S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506293/000119312519083544/d674330ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_moscow</author><text>I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent &amp;quot;death curve&amp;quot; according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;q=pinterest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;q=p...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuckermi</author><text>The story looks different (albeit short of YoY +60%) if you look at Trends for Image Search: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all_2008&amp;amp;geo=US&amp;amp;gprop=images&amp;amp;q=pinterest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=all_2008&amp;amp;geo=U...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>