Ben Silbermann

Left Google to build something of his own. He talked to one of his friends Paul Sciarra, they started working together. They built various apps which went down over nights and all ended in a failure.

Ben and Paul teamed up with Evan Sharp to build Pinterest The development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched the prototype as a closed beta in March 2010.

The company held its IPO in April 2019 which valued the company around 12 billion dollars