#ThursdayTool - Pinterest

Music service profile: Pinterest

Name: Pinterest, inc.

Synopsis:

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas") on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards. The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, and had 433 million global monthly active users as of July 2022. It is operated by Pinterest, Inc., based in San Francisco.

Type of business: Public

Type of site: Social media service

Traded as: NYSE: PINS

Founded: December 2009

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, U.S.

Founder(s): Ben Silbermann Paul Sciarra Evan Sharp

Key people: Bill Ready (CEO) Ben Silberman (Executive Chairman)

Industry: Internet

Employees: 3,225 (2021)

URL: www.pinterest.com

Users: 436.8 million