Pinterest's Halloween Message: We're Not Frighteningly Perfect

In a Happy Halloween message on the company’s blog post and on the company board, Pinterest staff posted photos of costume and jack-o’-lantern ideas that they’d created themselves. But if you are expecting clever, perfectly executed objects and attire, you’re in for a surprise.

In a Happy Halloween message on the company’s blog post and on the company board, Pinterest staff posted photos of costume and jack-o’-lantern ideas that they’d created themselves. But if you are expecting clever, perfectly executed objects and attire, you’re in for a surprise.

One pumpkin is uncarved, and simply features the word Pinterest in glued-on metal studs.

The team also posted photos of themselves in costume, many of them dressed as one another.

The images, taken in the company’s new offices near Zynga in San Francisco, seem determined to depict Pinterest as a rough-hewn startup, rather than a glitzy established social network, even though, in reality, it is both.

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