Who Is Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp?

Who is Ben
Silbermann
 Ben Silbermann (born 1982) is an American, a soft-spoken Iowa native. Growing up,
Ben Silbermann
and Evan liked to collect things: stamps, insects, you name it. At Yale, he
studied medicine and political science. After college, he got a job as a consultant in
Sharp? D.C. Ben Silbermann wasn’t from a technical back ground. But he
Washington,
worked for Google before he built the Pinterest.
He even got his heart transplanted when he was in his junior years. His
interest in technology woke up after his graduation. He worked for Google as an ad
designer at first. There he was exposed to the thoughts of doing big things. He built
products and ideas in his mind, seeing people working in Google, but they were
always put down because he was not from an engineering back ground.
Ben quit Google and got punched to the idea of doing something of his own.
He talked to one of his friends Paul Sciarra, they started working together. Ben
learned to build iOS apps, and they started to build apps for iPhone. They built
various apps which went down over nights and all ended in a failure. It was then
when he was hit with the idea of Pinterest.
 Evan Sharp (born 1982) raised in Pennsylvania. His father had a Macintosh, and
he was an enthusiastic hobbyist for computers. During childhood, Evan spent a
lot of time playing with his father’s Mac IIci. He also used to play with LEGOs
which added to his creative instincts. Starting from setting icons for programs
like MS Word, he went on to skin MP3 players. This is where he received his
designing skills. He received graduate degree in History from University of
Chicago, and then joined Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning &
Preservation to study architecture.
While studying architecture, Evan met Ben Silbermann who would later
become the CEO of Pinterest. Back then, he designed Pinterest to bookmark his
history architecture images. Then he joined FaceBook as a product designer,
and then joined Paul Sciarra and Silbermann to focus full-time on Pinterest.
Here, Evan is responsible for coding and designing the site, and overseeing its
design efforts.
What are their
contribution in
 Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system
the world of
designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and
on a shorter scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul
internet?
Sciarra and Evan Sharp. Pinterest has reached 200 million monthly active users as
of September 2017.
 Development of Pinterest began in December 2009
 Early in 2010, the company's investors and co-founder Ben Silbermann tried to encourage a New
York-based magazine publishing company to buy Pinterest but the publisher declined to meet with
the founders.
 The Pinterest iPad app was launched August 2011. Pinterest Mobile, launched the following
month, is a version of the website for non-iPhone users
 On August 10, 2011, Time magazine listed Pinterest in its "50 Best Websites of 2011" article. In
December 2011, the site became one of the top 10 largest social network services, according
to Hitwise data, with 11 million total visits per week.
 Pinterest has reached 200 million monthly active users as of September 2017.
What is the
 Pinterest also allows businesses to create pages aimed at promoting their
purpose of
companies online. Such pages can serve as a "virtual storefront. It is a free website
that requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images
Pinterest?
—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known
as pinboards.
What are the

 Pins
features of that has been linked from a website or uploaded. Pins saved from
A Pin is an image
one user's board can be saved to someone else's board, a process known as
"repinning." In 2016, Pinterest renamed the "Pin it" button to "Save." The purpose
behind the renaming was due to international expansion, making the site more intuitive
to new users. In October 2013, Pinterest began displaying advertisements in the form of
“Promoted Pins.” Promoted Pins are based on an individual user’s interests, things done
on Pinterest, or a result of visiting an advertiser’s site or app.
 Boards
Boards are collections of pins dedicated to a theme such as quotations, travel, or
weddings.
 Exploring
Pinterest uses a feature called Guided Search, which gives keyword suggestions
when entering a search term, narrowing down results. The home feed is a collection of
Pins from the users, boards, and topics followed, as well as a few Promoted Pins and
Pins Pinterest has picked. On the main Pinterest page, a "pin feed" appears, displaying
the chronological activity from the Pinterest boards that a user follows.
In the recent months, Pinterest introduced visual search as part of their latest feature.
This search feature allows users to take a photo of existing pins, zoom into existing
parts of a photo or take new photos. Then, users could click into any of the assigned
circles and multiple suggestions will pop up in the guided search below the photo. If the
item is in Pinterest's database, it will direct the user to the shop or pins that are similar.
This feature incorporates the guided search feature as it gives keyword suggestions and
narrowing down the results for the photo.
 Following
Following users and boards fills the home feed with content. Users can follow and
unfollow users as well as boards. Similar to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Pinterest
contains verified accounts. A verified account will contain a checkmark next to their
domain in the search results. The verified profile will also contain a full website URL and
checkmark.

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