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History. 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.
Before Pinterest (which launched in March 2010), Silbermann worked at Google in the online advertising group. However, after a short time with the company he left and started designing his own iPhone apps with friends.
October 2006 - The product is presented as her invention and founded by Jackie Beverly while working at In Zone Brands, Inc. She has yet to be paid as the true inventor and founder. August 2008 – December 2009: Conception
Pinterest was founded in 2008 as a visual discovery platform where users can search and save ideas. Over the years, the company has evolved into offering users shoppable content.
The first desktop version of Pinterest was launched in March 2010 from a makeshift office — a two-bedroom apartment in the heart of Palo Alto that they shared with another start-up. Sharp is credited with designing and coding Pinterest and the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch in March 2010.
1980 or 1981 (age 43–44) [1] Nationality. American. Alma mater. Yale University. Known for. Co-founding Pinterest. Paul Sciarra (born c. 1981) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Pinterest .
Pinterest, a photo-sharing website, launches. 2010 Acquisition AOL sells ICQ to Mail.Ru (formerly known as Digital Sky Technologies) for $185 million. 2010 Acquisition Bebo is sold by AOL to Criterion Capital Partners. 2010 Launch Instagram, a photo/video sharing and social media service, launches. 2010 Launch
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Nupedia was founded upon the use of qualified volunteer contributors and a considered multi-step peer review process. Despite its mailing list of over 2000 interested editors, and the presence of Sanger as full-time editor-in-chief, [19] the production of content for Nupedia was extremely slow, with only 12 articles written during the first year.
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. The company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories.