Pinterest company profile - Office locations, jobs, key people, competitors, financial metrics, news, company life

Technology messaging photo sharing social networks

Pinterest, Inc. provides a visual discovery tool that helps users to discover ideas for various projects and interests on the Internet. Its platform allows posting content, including photos, comments, links, news and updates, and other materials. The company’s platform also helps people around the world to find and save recipes, parenting hacks, style inspiration, and other ideas to try; and businesses to get discovered by people looking for ideas to try, buy, and do. In addition, it offers tools, such as brand guidelines, buyable pins, pinterest analytics, promoted pins, rich pins, browser button, and widget builder for developers.

Company Growth (employees)

Type

Private

San Francisco, US

Founded

2009

Size (employees)

1,734 (est)+3%

Website

pinterest.com

Pinterest was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, US

Key People at Pinterest

Ben Silbermann

Co-Founder, CEO

Todd Morgenfeld

CFO

Vanja Josifovski

CTO

Evan Sharp

Co-Founder

Paul Sciarra

Co-Founder

Tim Kendall

President

Matt Crystal

Online Partnerships

Jure Leskovec

Chief Scientist

Gene Alston

Head of Business Development

Pinterest Office Locations

Pinterest has offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, São Paulo and in 10 other locations

San Francisco, US (HQ)

808 Brannan St.

São Paulo, BR

São Paulo State Of São Paulo

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Pinterest Data and Metrics

Summary Metrics

Founding Date	2009
Total Funding	$1.5 b
Latest funding size	$150 m
Time since last funding	about 1 month
Investors	Slow Ventures, Manatt Venture Fund, Rakuten, Brian Cohen, Valiant Capital Partners, Rick Heitzmann, Ronald Conway, A.Capital Ventures, Max Levchin, Hank Vigil, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Goldman Sachs, Shana Fisher, Fritz Lanman, SV Angel, GSV Ventures, Fidelity Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, blisce/, Innovation Department, Kevin Hartz, Michael Birch, Jack Abraham, Scott Belsky, Alexandre Mars, Jeremy Stoppelman, William Lohse, FirstMark Capital, Acequia Capital (Acecap), New York Venture Partners, Wellington Management, New York Angels, Bessemer Venture Partners

Pinterest's latest funding round in June 2017 was reported to be $150 m. In total, Pinterest has raised $1.5 b. Pinterest's latest valuation is reported to be $12.3 b.

Pinterest Financial Metrics

Pinterest's revenue was reported to be $300 m in 2016 which is a 200% increase from the previous period.

Summary

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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl..., Mahesh Vellanki, Redpoint, via Twitter

Income Statement

USD	Y, 2015	Y, 2016
Revenue	100 m	300 m
Revenue growth, %		200%

Source: Mahesh Vellanki, Redpoint, via Twitter

Ratios

USD	Y, 2016
Revenue/Employee	269 k

Pinterest Operating Metrics

Pinterest's Registered Users was reported to be 176 m in Jan, 2015. Pinterest's Monthly Active Users was reported to be 175 m in Apr, 2017

	Jan, 2015	Oct, 2015	Oct, 2016	Apr, 2017
Registered Users	176 m
Monthly Active Users	88 m	100 m	150 m	175 m
Monthly Active Users (US)			70 m

Pinterest Acquisitions / Subsidiaries

Acquired Company	Date	Deal Size
Instapaper	August 23, 2016
Tote	June 22, 2016
Fleksy	June 15, 2016
URX	May 03, 2016
The Hunt	December 08, 2015
Kosei	January 21, 2015
Icebergs	July 30, 2014
VisualGraph	January 06, 2014
Hackermeter	October 11, 2013
Livestar	March 20, 2013
Punchfork	January 03, 2013