Later Silbermann went to work at Google and worked on a quiz website.
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But over the last 12 months, Chief Executive Ben Silbermann has built up Pinterest's employee ranks.
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After leaving his job, Silbermann first built an iPhone app called Tote for shopping on the phone.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
Investors were not interested, because Silbermann and his cofounder were not technical founders.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
Mr. Silbermann co-founded Cold Brew Labs Inc. in 2008 and launched Pinterest, the company's only product, the following year.
Among the other changes Friday, Mr. Silbermann said Pinterest will have "simpler tools" to report alleged copyright or trademark infringement.
By June 2010, the site had launched, but the response was not what Silbermann and his two cofounders hoped for.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
Now Pinterest, which Silbermann describes as a tool to find inspiration, is the third-largest source of referral traffic on the Web.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
While some people can start a company while still working a full-time job, Silbermann says that was a crutch for him.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
The site's co-founder, Ben Silbermann, sounds somewhat surprised by the growth.
Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann, in a blog post Friday, rolled out the site's updated terms of service, along with revamped acceptable-use and privacy policies.
In its first official press briefing, Chief Executive Ben Silbermann said on Tuesday the Android app was among the most requested items by users.
Swisher was asking about Pinterest's mobile efforts, and Silbermann suggested that in the very near future, asking such a thing would be borderline silly.
Meanwhile, Julie's oldest son, Scott (Jake Silbermann), is rethinking his life.
Mr. Silbermann was looking for help building a version of Pinterest for the iPhone and happened upon a data tracking app developed by the self-taught Mr. Lavingia.
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In June 2010, more than two years after Ben Silbermann left his job to start what became Pinterest, and three months after launching, the site had 3, 000 registered accounts.
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Sahil Lavingia was a freshman at the University of Southern California in 2010 when he got an email from Ben Silbermann, chief executive and co-founder of the fast-growing online scrapbook Pinterest.
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Silbermann had always done these projects on the side.
FORBES: Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Slowly Grew To Massive Scale
Figuring the young student "seemed like a go-getter, " Mr. Silbermann drove up to Berkeley from Silicon Valley to meet Mr. Lavingia, who was coming to the Bay Area for the USC-Berkeley football game.
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Silbermann has always been interested in tech startups.
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Also in attendance will be Chris Silbermann, president of top talent agency International Creative Management and an organizer of the event, who donated to Mr. Obama during the previous election cycle but hasn't yet done so this time around.
In studying which advertising system to introduce, Mr. Silbermann declined to go into detail, but one feature the company plans to unveil this year is called "suggestions, " which is a way for people who use Pinterest regularly to serendipitously discover other content, said Pinterest executives.
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