Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Startups are usually devoid of personality on Twitter, but Pinboard is a bookmarking site with attitude—skewering well-funded competitors and Silicon Valley culture. Behind the account is programmer, writer and painter Maciej Cegłowski, who created Pinboard out of frustration with Delicious' post-Yahoo redesigns. He bootstrapped the site with a crazy idea—take money from your users.
A written transcript of this talk is available from Maciej at static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm
Recorded in September 2013 at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love. For more, visit http://xoxofest.com.
Intro Music: Broke for Free, "Breakfast with Tiffany"
bit.ly/xo2013broke
Startups are usually devoid of personality on Twitter, but Pinboard is a bookmarking site with attitude—skewering well-funded competitors and Silicon Valley culture. Behind the account is programmer, writer and painter Maciej Cegłowski, who created Pinboard out of frustration with Delicious' post-Yahoo redesigns. He bootstrapped the site with a crazy idea—take money from your users.
A written transcript of this talk is available from Maciej at static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm
Recorded in September 2013 at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love. For more, visit http://xoxofest.com.
Intro Music: Broke for Free, "Breakfast with Tiffany"
bit.ly/xo2013broke
