I was born in the East of England and moved to San Francisco in 2010. I then moved to Seattle and now reside in the magical town of Louisville, Colorado.
I love Louisville and I'm delighted that my kids get to grow up in such a wonderful environment. My kids attend Peak to Peak technology school, I wish I did!
I am interested in 3d-printing, e-bikes, design, computer things, dogs, hiking, skiing, music, all sorts of things!
Some non-professional things I am currently learning and working on:
- Being more emotionally present
- Learning Bridge
- Learning to ski moguls
- Advanced (for a tall stiff guy!) yoga poses
I support the following football teams:
- Ipswich Town Football Club
- Tottenham Hotspur.
Peter Clark, the professional
I am currently a Senior Staff Product Manager at Pinterest. I have been at Pinterest since early 2023, and am focussed on content ecosystem and content crawling.
I am currently the Product Leader for Pinterestbot, the #11 web crawler based on global request volume from Cloudflare.
A large focus for me is the intersection of crawlers and LLMs.
I have been through Y Combinator twice:
- 2011: Userfox — a B2B email marketing platform
- 2021: Journey — a generative AI slide platform.
When not being a founder I've been a Product Manager/Leader at various companies:
- AdRoll
- Juul
- Snapdocs
- and presently, Pinterest.
I am very proud that I believe you can message anyone that has worked at any of these companies, and if they had happened to have worked with me, they'd say loosely the same things — Peter is authentic, willing to fight for the product/user to executives, and values fun collaboration with minimal nonsense.
I love design — I am not sure if you've noticed, but my blog is quite esoteric. (as an example, posts can have tags, and each tag gets given a randomly generated hex colour, those hex colours then appear when you hover over my "From the computer of Peter Clark...")
My Skills
I'm really proud that I am very fluent in design tools like Figma. I can code, although I invest incredibly heavily in Claude (for example my starter repo) so am pretty out of practice now.
I have worked on all sorts of sales and business development pitches — I once flew to Japan to pitch Rakuten on a joint venture. I am very proud to have made dozens of friends (through collaboration and cheap beer) in sales and revenue generating teams, particularly at AdRoll.
Finally, I also had the fortune of spending a year or so at AdRoll reporting to Adam Berke, the CMO. In this time I learnt all the nuances of marketing — from demand gen, to product marketing, to growth marketing. I like to think I am a very solid product marketer, and feel comfortable saying this since I have not only been a Product Manager working on a marketing team, but also a Product Manager at a marketing tech company, and finally the 2 companies I founded were deeply connected to marketing.
Between product, design, engineering, marketing and sales, I like to think I am quite versatile at driving product outcomes — I also believe this gives me a great amount of empathy for people working in these roles.
My goal
I love building products, and despite my interest in ML/AI consider myself a "Y Combinator Founder" first and foremost: make something people want! I like to think my non-founder career is defined by being a "new bets" or "zero to one" style PM.
My current professional goal is to be the PM owner on a product/feature that gets a shout out on an earnings call.
I'd be remiss to not leave you with my projects portfolio