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Ben Silbermann (born July 14, 1982) is an American Internet entrepreneur. [1] He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Pinterest , a visual discovery engine [ 2 ] which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things.
Pinterest emerged from an earlier app created by Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra called Tote [10] which served as a virtual replacement for paper catalogs. Tote struggled as a business, significantly due to difficulties with mobile payments. At the time, mobile payment technology was not sophisticated enough to enable easy on-the-go ...
Sciarra worked at the venture capital firm Radius Ventures, LLC. In 2003 he quit his job, along with Ben Silbermann, to create Cold Brew Labs. [2] That same year, Sciarra, Silbermann and Evan Sharp launched Pinterest, and Sciarra became the President and CEO. [3] [2] In 2012, he left the company but remained on as an advisor. [4] [5] [6]
Sharp met Ben Silbermann in New York through a mutual friend in 2009 and they immediately connected over their love of the Internet. [11] [12] Together with third cofounder Paul Sciarra, the three built the very first version of Pinterest from a small apartment in New York City on West 103rd Street. [13]
The company's investors and co-founder Ben Silbermann try to encourage a New York-based magazine publishing company to buy Pinterest but the publisher declines to meet with the founders. [1] 2010: May 24–26: Publicity: Pinterest participates in the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.
Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate. [1] From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. [2] He is also an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning executive producer of such shows ...
Eileen Chang (张爱玲, a.k.a. 张煐) – writer. Kang-i Sun Chang (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar. Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Victoria Chang – poet, children's writer, and essayist. Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer. Frank Chin (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright ...
Silbermann. Alphons Silbermann (1909–2000), German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist. Ben Silbermann (born 1982), co-founder of Pinterest. Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), German builder of pipe organs. Andreas Silbermann (1678–1734), German builder of pipe organs, older brother of Gottfried.