Pinterest is fueling speculation over a possible IPO based on the firm’s appointment of its first chief financial officer. Todd Morgenfeld — whose previous position was VP of finance at Twitter — has nabbed the role, the company announced on Tuesday.
Morgenfeld has a background in the tech investment sector, having served at private equity firm Silver Lake for nine years, and before that as an investment banker in the technology, media, and telecommunications group at Goldman Sachs.
“We are excited that Todd is joining Pinterest as CFO,” CEO Ben Silbermann said in a statement. “Todd brings to the company a wide range of experience from HP to the military to a fast-paced environment like Twitter. He believes in our mission and the strong business opportunity it presents. We are committed to building our company for the long term and thrilled that Todd will be an integral part of continuing this growth.”
Seeing as Morgenfeld is the first individual to be named CFO at Pinterest, talk regarding a possible IPO was bound to follow. For its part, Pinterest has kept quiet on any plans to go public, instead directing the conversation toward its main goal of building a sustainable revenue model.
“’Public’ has never been the goal, instead it’s how can we build a company that can forward invest, and a lot of those resources should come from revenue,” Silbermann told Business Insider earlier this year.
Therefore, Morgenfeld may have been brought on board to put Pinterest’s financial house in order. In terms of generating revenue, the social bookmarking platform recently introduced video ads on its site, thanks to the launch of a native video player in July. It is also increasingly integrating AI into its visual search tool to help users find more buyable Pins.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?