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Danny Maloney

Danny Maloney is the CEO and Co-founder of Tailwind, the Pinterest marketing platform he started in 2011 to help small businesses grow through visual discovery. Before Tailwind, Danny led New Initiatives at Google Maps and YouTube and served as General Manager of AOL Video. He has spent over a decade building tools that make Pinterest marketing accessible to businesses of every size.

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