Tech: Interested in Pinterest?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Another unicorn is going public! We take a look at Pinterest's prospectus and explain how the social media company has turned DIY pics into a $12B business.
Stocks: PINS, FB, GOOG, GOOGL
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Friday, March 29th, and we're pinning another company to our 2019 IPO board. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I've got Fool.coms, Brian Frolli on Skype. |
| 0:17.6 | Brian, what did you think of that little intro pun there? |
| 0:19.9 | That was wonderful. |
| 0:21.1 | That is 100% of reason to listen to the show for those wonderful puns. |
| 0:25.0 | I do what I can. |
| 0:27.0 | Listeners, we're going to be talking about Pinterest today. |
| 0:29.0 | One of many tech companies that are going to be going to be going public in 2019. |
| 0:34.7 | Kind of an interesting one because this one has been around for quite some time. |
| 0:37.8 | The business model is a little bit more mature and I think a lot of people are probably pretty |
| 0:41.7 | familiar with this name. |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, this is a company that I have personally had on my radar for several years now because my wife |
| 0:48.1 | has been an avid Pinterest user and I have personally used Pinterest to find gift ideas for her. |
| 0:55.0 | So I know that there is a lot of power in the engine and I've been very interested in digging to the numbers behind this company. |
| 1:01.0 | For the uninitiated, I think Pinterest could maybe best be |
| 1:04.2 | described as a combination of a like Facebook Instagram and |
| 1:10.1 | Etsy type you know if you look for the Venn diagram between all those social media platforms, |
| 1:15.4 | that's kind of where you find Pinterest. |
| 1:16.7 | It's a lot of makers, DIYs, people that are looking for some inspiration through a visual |
| 1:21.8 | medium. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, it's kind of a. |
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