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Wists-ful thinking: lessons from a prelude to Pinterest

• drumdance 14y ago
  "Wists was also too early. The big social networks weren’t in place yet for the site to leverage off of." This. A few years ago a friend of mine had just joined a company called Groupon. He showed me the sharing component and I knew right away it would be successful. I remember first encountering the group buying idea around 1999. It was a good idea but lacked the distribution channel that Facebook and Twitter provide.