Ben Silbermann attended Yale and he liked to collect things like stamps, insects, or anything else you can name. he studied medicine and political science in college. Silbermann and his college friends Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp starting working on a site on which people could show collections of things they were interested in, on a interactive pin-board format. Pinterest has 20 million unique visitors a month and 138 million in funding. They started on Pinterest in November 2009. Silbermann and his friends coded dozens of versions of the pin screen before selecting and launching Pinterest in 2010. Nine months after Pinterest launched there was still under 10,000 users on the site and a lot of them were not using it every day. Who does Pinterest host on their site? Pinterest host men’s style enthusiasts, architects, yogis, and suburban moms pinning diy projects and ruffled bloomers on chubby toddler butts. Silbermann is the CEO of one of the worlds top social networks, Pinterest which is valued at 1.5 billion dollars. A study founded Pinterest to surpass Facebook in terms of retail outlets or brands that fans “follow” or “like”. A survey was conducted by PriveGrabber, a price comparison site, and this survey found out that 21% of Pinterest users polled had purchased items they spotted on the site. More than 250 million people each month are now using Pinterest to discover and do what they love. Pinterest helps people find an inspiration for everything from a hobby to a new look. People on Pinterest rate ads on Pinterest 1.4 times more relevant and useful than those on other platforms. Pinterest has created a platform which people love to go on and do not mind ads and the ads are more helpful them usual. People can also find things that interest them and save them and potentially buy that product because it was on Pinterest.