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CHAPTER ONE

Beginnings

I n just three short years, a small project with barely 5,000 users became one of the most popular websites on the Internet. The man behind this website had absolutely no background in business or technology before getting started. He did, however, have a very strong drive to succeed. Ben Silbermann began developing Pinterest in 2009 with the help of Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra. Together, they became the three co- founders of the website. It took just a few months for the first version of Pinterest to be built. The idea for Pinterest came to Ben shortly after he started his own company, Cold Brew Labs. He wanted to build something unique that the whole world could find useful. Most of the social networking sites available at the time were all