Pinterest Growing, Raising Money, Adding Users

 

lisha Slaughter goes onto Pinterest at least once a week in order to organize different pieces of her life. She "pins" Web images with information on gardening, interior design ideas, holiday crafts, recipes, patterns for her family's clothes, and search engine optimization strategies to help with her marketing business.

"It's kind of like what you would do with magazines in the olden days," said Slaughter, an Aptos, Calif., resident who has been using Pinterest for four years. "You'd see an article or ad and say, 'Oh, I want to remember this,' and you'd rip it out."
Pinterest, a privately held, San Francisco-based social media company, was launched in March of 2010 by co-founders Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra. The site helps people collect and organize images and other visual material they find on the Web.