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David Rosenthal: uncertainty

24 Apr 2019 Acquired The Pinterest IPO

“The other thing that they did, I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but the grid was oriented around vertical photos, not horizontal photos.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
24 Apr 2019
Publisher
Acquired

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…Oh, yeah. Now it doesn’t seem all that remarkable. You go to Pinterest and everything is laid out in a grid of images but at the time, this was really novel. The idea of laying out all these images in a grid in front of you but there were a couple of things. One, it was liquid and adaptable. Depending on the size of the images, the grid would readapt and make the images all look good instead of resized, to fitted, to very specific squares. The other thing that they did, I don’t know if this was intentional or not, but the grid was oriented around vertical photos, not horizontal photos. Oh, interesting. To allow sort of more of them to be across the screen at once.…

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