--- title: Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an... description: Pinterest's CFO Julia Donnelly is departing on October 30 after roughly three years to join an early-stage private company, sending shares down as much as 3.8%... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pinterest-cfo-julia-donnelly-is-leaving-to-join-an-early-stage-company-9o4gzjw6y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company | daily.dev og:description: Pinterest's CFO Julia Donnelly is departing on October 30 after roughly three years to join an early-stage private company, sending shares down as much as 3.8%... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pinterest-cfo-julia-donnelly-is-leaving-to-join-an-early-stage-company-9o4gzjw6y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9o4gzjW6Y.png og:image:alt: Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pinterest CFO Julia Donnelly is leaving to join an early-stage company **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pinterest's CFO Julia Donnelly is departing on October 30 after roughly three years to join an early-stage private company, sending shares down as much as 3.8% in after-hours trading. Vikram Naidu, currently VP of finance and business operations, will step in as interim principal financial officer while Pinterest runs an external search for a permanent replacement. Donnelly's tenure included eleven consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth, but her successor inherits a slowing growth outlook (13-15% projected for Q3 versus 18% in Q2), a $4 billion AWS cloud partnership, and an active $2 billion-plus share buyback program. Pinterest posted $1.18 billion in Q2 revenue, 640 million monthly active users, and strong free cash flow despite a GAAP net loss driven by share-based compensation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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