Ben Silbermann
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
United States
Pinterest, Self Made
$1,600,000,000
1425
#1425 Billionaires 2019
#12 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016
Ben Silbermann is the CEO of the photo bookmarking site Pinterest, which was valued at $12.3 billion after its latest fundraising round in June 2017. Silbermann, along with cofounders Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, launched the first desktop version of Pinterest in March 2010. Pinterest lets users save and share image collections from recipes to hairstyles to crafts and home decor through their mobile phones or computers.
Ben Silbermann grew up in Iowa and collected dried insects which he then would pin on cardboard. After graduating from Yale, Silbermann spent three years as a consultant. He joined Google in 2006 but quit to focus on his startup, Cold Brew Labs.
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