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by dglassan 5169 days ago
Not $2 Billion. Pinterest is valuable because the site's users show interest in products by pinning or liking them. That's a marketing goldmine for brands and advertisers. Not to mention Pinterest is driving huge amounts of traffic to e-commerce sites.

Sure, Reddit get insane amounts of traffic but cat pictures and comics aren't nearly as monetizable.