Pinterest Just Acquired Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone’s Jelly
Stone will join Pinterest as a special adviser to co-founder and chief product officer Evan Sharp
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced that Pinterest has acquired Jelly, the visual search and discovery platform he launched in January 2014 with Ben Finkel.
Stone will join Pinterest as a special adviser to co-founder and chief product officer Evan Sharp, while Finkel will be added to the social network’s growth product team.
Stone said in his blog post announcing the acquisition that the fate of the Jelly site and applications was still being determined. He wrote:
Ben Finkel and I co-founded Jelly four years ago to create a human-powered search engine.
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