Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Pinterest, Inc. is a public, ad-supported AI-powered visual discovery, search, shopping and planning platform where people discover ideas, save Pins to boards, and move from inspiration to action. At year-end 2025 it reported 619 million monthly active users and $4.22 billion revenue; Q2 2026 reached 640 million MAUs and $1.18 billion quarterly revenue.
Primary product
Pinterest visual discovery and search platform (web and mobile), including Pins/boards, visual search, shopping/product discovery, Pinterest Assistant and advertising products.
Founded
2008
Headquarters
651 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California 94107, United States
Team size
5,000–6,000 full-time employees (5,265 at 2025-12-31)
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology / internet
Sub-industry
Visual discovery, social media, digital advertising, ecommerce enablement and AI search
Offices
Business model
Stage
Public company; post-IPO equity financing / growth stage
Total raised
$1.5B
Latest round
Post-IPO equity · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$1B
Mar 2026 · Elliott Management
Jan 2018 · Founders Future
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Founder and Executive Chair
Julia Donnelly
Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy King
Chief Technology Officer
Andrea Wishom
Lead Independent Director
Founders
Evan Sharp
Co-founder; former Chief Design and Creative Officer
Pinterest describes its culture around positivity, creativity, inclusion, growth, wellbeing and helping people create a life they love. PinFlex combines autonomy for virtual work with recurring in-person collaboration. Public career materials also emphasize responsible AI, safety and emotional wellbeing.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Pinterest publicly signals competitive compensation, equity, benefits and health/wellness programs. Specific pay ranges vary by role and geography; no single company-wide compensation figure is supported here.
Benefits
Pricing
Free for users; monetized primarily through advertiser spending, including promoted Pins, performance advertising, measurement and related business products. Advertiser pricing is auction/performance based rather than a consumer subscription.
Differentiators
Estimated revenue
$4B–$5B annual revenue; reported 2025 revenue was $4.22B
Estimated monthly visits
1.2B
Pinterest announced a global restructuring expected to affect less than 15% of its workforce, reallocating resources toward AI-focused roles, AI products and a transformed sales/go-to-market approach; office-space reductions were also reported.
SourcePinterest completed/acquired tvScientific, a connected-TV advertising platform, to extend advertiser reach beyond social media; the transaction also appears in company-deal databases and was reflected in 2026 guidance.
SourcePinterest Investor Relations · Aug 2026
Q2 revenue reached $1.18B, up 18%; global MAUs reached a record 640M, up 11%; Pinterest highlighted AI, Pinterest Assistant and Performance+.
Reuters · Aug 2026
Pinterest guided to 13%–15% Q3 growth amid intensifying competition from Meta, Google, Reddit and other advertising platforms; shares fell after the outlook.
Pinterest Engineering · Jun 2026
Pinterest Engineering described distributed foundation-model training using AWS EFA, PyTorch, TorchRec, Triton and Distributed Checkpoint, supporting recommendation systems for more than 600M users.
Reuters · Feb 2026
226 jobs at Pinterest
Jun 2017
May 2015 · Wellington
May 2014
Oct 2013 · Fidelity Management & Research
Feb 2013
May 2012 · Rakuten
Oct 2011 · Andreessen Horowitz
May 2011 · Bessemer Venture Partners
Nov 2010
Paul Sciarra
Co-founder
Investors
Technology
Customers
Competitors
The tvScientific acquisition contributed to Pinterest’s revised Q1 2026 revenue forecast and broadened its connected-TV advertising opportunity.
Reuters · Jan 2026
Pinterest announced a restructuring affecting less than 15% of employees, reallocating resources to AI and reducing office space.
Pinterest forecast slower Q3 2026 revenue growth of 13%–15% versus Q2 growth of 18%, citing intensifying digital-ad competition and pressure from cross-border retailers/regulatory actions.