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{{short description|American photo sharing and saving website}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Pinterest, Inc.
| type = [[Social media service]]
| company_type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{ubl|{{NYSE|PINS}} (Class A)|[[Russell 1000]] component}}
| logo = Pinterest Logo.svg
| screenshot = Pinterest home.png
| caption = The default page shown to logged-out users (the background montage images are variable)
| collapsible = yes
| industry = [[Internet]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|2009|12}}
| founder = [[Ben Silbermann]]<br>[[Paul Sciarra]]<br>[[Evan Sharp]]
| location = {{nowrap|[[San Francisco, California]], U.S.}}
| key_people = [[Ben Silbermann]]<br/>([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/ben-silbermann/|title=Ben Silbermann|website=Forbes}}</ref><br/>Todd Morgenfeld<br/>([[Chief financial officer|CFO]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://investor.pinterestinc.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=7f8d3ac6-a615-4b7d-99f1-ad03c9d85c84|title=Pinterest - Governance - Board of directors - Person details|website=investor.pinterestinc.com}}</ref>
| num_employees =
| website = {{URL|pinterest.com}}
| footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.refinery29.com/pinterest-office|title=Pinterest Office Tour \u2013 San Francisco Tech Headquarters|work=Refinery29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/08/pinterest-choses-seattle-for-itsfirst-engineering.html |date=August 9, 2016 |title=Pinterest chooses Seattle for its first engineering office outside the Bay Area |publisher=Puget Sound Business Journal |access-date=February 18, 2017 |first1=Casey |last1= Coombs |first2= Ashley|last2= Stewart |quote=Pinterest employs more than 800 employees worldwide, including 350 engineers.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en-gb/company|title=Company|website=Pinterest Newsroom}}</ref>
}}
'''Pinterest''' is an American [[image sharing]] and [[social media service]] designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/1579086/pinterest-is-distancing-itself-from-social-networks-as-it-goes-public/|title=Pinterest is distancing itself from social networks as it goes public|first=Dave|last=Gershgorn|website=Quartz}}</ref>) on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/pinterest-video/|title=New Pinterest features encourage brands and creators to upload more videos|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref> in the form of [[Bulletin board|pinboards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmssocial.com/social-media/how-pinterest-is-different-from-other-social-media-platforms/|title=How Pinterest Is Different from Other Social Media Platforms – CMS Social Media Company Miami FL|first=C. M. S.|last=Social}}</ref> The site was created by [[Ben Silbermann]], [[Paul Sciarra]], and [[Evan Sharp]] and had over 400 million [[monthly active users]] as of August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/more-400-million-users-around-world-connect-pinterest-153930499.html|title=More than 400 million users around the world connect to Pinterest each month (Number of the day)|last=Fiegerman|first=Seth|date=2019-08-01|website=CNN|access-date=2020-08-05}}</ref> It is operated by '''Pinterest, Inc.''', based in [[San Francisco]].
{{Infobox website
| name = Pinterest, Inc.
| type = [[Social media service]]
| company_type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{ubl|{{NYSE|PINS}} (Class A)|[[Russell 1000]] component}}
| logo = Pinterest Logo.svg
| screenshot = Pinterest home.png
| caption = The default page shown to logged-out users (the background montage images are variable)
| collapsible = yes
| industry = [[Internet]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|2009|12}}
| founder = [[Ben Silbermann]]<br>[[Paul Sciarra]]<br>[[Evan Sharp]]
| location = {{nowrap|[[San Francisco, California]], U.S.}}
| key_people = [[Ben Silbermann]]<br/>([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/ben-silbermann/|title=Ben Silbermann|website=Forbes}}</ref><br/>Todd Morgenfeld<br/>([[Chief financial officer|CFO]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://investor.pinterestinc.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=7f8d3ac6-a615-4b7d-99f1-ad03c9d85c84|title=Pinterest - Governance - Board of directors - Person details|website=investor.pinterestinc.com}}</ref>
| num_employees =
| website = {{URL|pinterest.com}}
| footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.refinery29.com/pinterest-office|title=Pinterest Office Tour \u2013 San Francisco Tech Headquarters|work=Refinery29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/08/pinterest-choses-seattle-for-itsfirst-engineering.html |date=August 9, 2016 |title=Pinterest chooses Seattle for its first engineering office outside the Bay Area |publisher=Puget Sound Business Journal |access-date=February 18, 2017 |first1=Casey |last1= Coombs |first2= Ashley|last2= Stewart |quote=Pinterest employs more than 800 employees worldwide, including 350 engineers.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en-gb/company|title=Company|website=Pinterest Newsroom}}</ref>
}}
'''Pinterest''' is an American [[image sharing]] and [[social media service]] designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/1579086/pinterest-is-distancing-itself-from-social-networks-as-it-goes-public/|title=Pinterest is distancing itself from social networks as it goes public|first=Dave|last=Gershgorn|website=Quartz}}</ref>) on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/pinterest-video/|title=New Pinterest features encourage brands and creators to upload more videos|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref> in the form of [[Bulletin board|pinboards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmssocial.com/social-media/how-pinterest-is-different-from-other-social-media-platforms/|title=How Pinterest Is Different from Other Social Media Platforms – CMS Social Media Company Miami FL|first=C. M. S.|last=Social}}</ref> The site was created by [[Ben Silbermann]], [[Paul Sciarra]], and [[Evan Sharp]] and had over 400 million [[monthly active users]] as of August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/more-400-million-users-around-world-connect-pinterest-153930499.html|title=More than 400 million users around the world connect to Pinterest each month (Number of the day)|last=Fiegerman|first=Seth|date=2019-08-01|website=CNN|access-date=2020-08-05}}</ref> It is operated by '''Pinterest, Inc.''', based in [[San Francisco]].
