I'm actually one of the few percent of Pinterest users that are men, and I have used it for years for exactly those kinds of things: recipes, fashion (to some extent) and interior design. But these days I'm finding that it's much easier to just use the rest of the web. There's so much spam, and noise, repeated crap, and things which make nice pictures that would never work in real life.
What I have no idea about is how Pinterest will make money. Ultimately, Twitter could continue for years without making money, and there are a number of things they can charge for (larger tweets, a Pro service, tweet pipeline, user data, faster access to Tweets) (perhaps sell Trump's tweets to HFT firms, 500ms before the rest of the world sees them?) Meanwhile, Pinterest is full of shitty ads if you turn off your uBlock, and the only other revenue stream I can think of is Amazon affiliate stuff, which has probably dried up now that Amazon turned off that pipe.
I have the exact opposite view. Fundamentally, many people look at Pinterest for ideas about stuff they want to buy - that's usually the perfect spot to be if you want to make money on advertising.
If anything, just seems like Pinterest has big execution problems more than business-model problems.
500ms is nowhere near enough to discern the necessary qualitative insight (or lack thereof) from Trump tweets and translate it to quantitative arbitrage.
What I have no idea about is how Pinterest will make money. Ultimately, Twitter could continue for years without making money, and there are a number of things they can charge for (larger tweets, a Pro service, tweet pipeline, user data, faster access to Tweets) (perhaps sell Trump's tweets to HFT firms, 500ms before the rest of the world sees them?) Meanwhile, Pinterest is full of shitty ads if you turn off your uBlock, and the only other revenue stream I can think of is Amazon affiliate stuff, which has probably dried up now that Amazon turned off that pipe.