Pinterest CEO Silbermann Defends Site's User Base, Promises Improvements to Mobile Apps

Pinterest's user base skews female and Midwestern, which would make co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann the class loser to the Silicon Valley set if he weren't so darned successful.

Pinterest’s user base skews female and Midwestern, which would make co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann the class loser to the Silicon Valley set if he weren’t so darned successful.

If you hear one thing about Pinterest, you hear that there are more women on it than on sites like Reddit, Alexis Madrical began his interview of co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann at a tech conference in San Francisco today.

Is that something innate about the site, or was it something about the seed group of users being balanced in different way?

Several women in the audience laughed,

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