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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 ...
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]
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]
Silverman was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.He was raised in a Reform Jewish family in Manhattan where he attended Rodeph Sholom School. [4] [5] [6] Silverman is a 1992 magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in history and belonged to the Epsilon Theta chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity.
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. The product is conceived by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra as part of Cold Brew Labs.
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.