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Another way in which Pinterest is an outlier in this list is that its user base skews heavily female (>80% according to one source: https://www.omnicoreagency.c

Another way in which Pinterest is an outlier in this list is that its user base skews heavily female (>80% according to one source: https://www.omnicoreagency.com/pinterest-statistics/ https://www.omnicoreagency.com/pinterest-statistics/). I wonder whether some "Moneyball Factor" could be at work, in that this led to it being underpriced for its potential. Snapchat users also skew somewhat female, but they are also quite young compared to other sites, and "youth" may lead to it being highly priced. [Being an old dude, I never use either of these]

thrav 7y ago
Don’t want to overgeneralize, but women seem to be more likely consumers (of things) & regular users of social media. [I’m sure niche exceptions abound] I don’t know if anyone has run the numbers, but I’d expect ladies to more valuable on all kinds of KPIs of a good customer. My feel is that men gravitate towards large purchases around a hobby or two (bikes, outdoors, cars, computers, video games). While women are more likely to spend in smaller amounts across a wide variety of categories. I also may just be full of shit.
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- Shounak 7y ago
  The stats do back you up on this point. Women make about 80% of purchasing decisions in the US [0]. [0] https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-make-80--of-purchasing-decisions--yet-13--of.html https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-m...
  - ac29 7y ago
    That article is specifically about healthcare, where women are 65% of the workforce (according to the same link).
- chocolatebunny 7y ago
  I think I tend to agree with you. I think a lot of stock traders are generally men, which I think explains why the IPO was undervalued compared to the other stocks.
- mrhappyunhappy 7y ago
  My own observations of women around me seems to indicate as much. Many smaller purchases while I empty our accounts :)
swarnie_ 7y ago
Young women are paying dividends apparently, check out the Becky / Basic index - performance year on year is spectacular.
- twic 7y ago
  A rare case where r/investing and r/wallstreetbets are in alignment: https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9n31xf/introducing_the_white_girl_index/ https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9n31xf/introduci... https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a1jokv/becky_etf_is_in_motion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a1jokv/beck... Mugatu off of finance twitter calls this "white chick beta": https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1102678639366287361 https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1102678639366287361
pascalxus 7y ago
I went to Pintrest once on mobile, a long while back. It was an ungodly awful experience. Probably the worst mobile web experience i've ever had. And it kept trying to log me in, plus all kinds of loading and display problems and ads everywhere. i guess some people like that sort of thing.

thrav 7y ago

Don’t want to overgeneralize, but women seem to be more likely consumers (of things) & regular users of social media. [I’m sure niche exceptions abound] I don’t know if anyone has run the numbers, but I’d expect ladies to more valuable on all kinds of KPIs of a good customer. My feel is that men gravitate towards large purchases around a hobby or two (bikes, outdoors, cars, computers, video games). While women are more likely to spend in smaller amounts across a wide variety of categories. I also may just be full of shit.

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Shounak 7y ago
The stats do back you up on this point. Women make about 80% of purchasing decisions in the US [0]. [0] https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-make-80--of-purchasing-decisions--yet-13--of.html https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-m...
- ac29 7y ago
  That article is specifically about healthcare, where women are 65% of the workforce (according to the same link).
chocolatebunny 7y ago
I think I tend to agree with you. I think a lot of stock traders are generally men, which I think explains why the IPO was undervalued compared to the other stocks.
mrhappyunhappy 7y ago
My own observations of women around me seems to indicate as much. Many smaller purchases while I empty our accounts :)

swarnie_ 7y ago

Young women are paying dividends apparently, check out the Becky / Basic index - performance year on year is spectacular.

twic 7y ago
A rare case where r/investing and r/wallstreetbets are in alignment: https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9n31xf/introducing_the_white_girl_index/ https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/9n31xf/introduci... https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a1jokv/becky_etf_is_in_motion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a1jokv/beck... Mugatu off of finance twitter calls this "white chick beta": https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1102678639366287361 https://twitter.com/SuperMugatu/status/1102678639366287361

pascalxus 7y ago

I went to Pintrest once on mobile, a long while back. It was an ungodly awful experience. Probably the worst mobile web experience i've ever had. And it kept trying to log me in, plus all kinds of loading and display problems and ads everywhere. i guess some people like that sort of thing.