Pinterest Hires Francoise Brougher as Chief Operating Officer, Effective from March 12, 2017
February 28, 2018 at 06:30 am EST
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Pinterest has hired Francoise Brougher, a former Google executive as its first chief operating officer. She was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB
global sales and operations at Google. Brougher, whose appointment is effective March 12, 2017 will be based out of Pinterest's headquarters in San Francisco and report to Chief Executive Officer Ben Silbermann.
Pinterest, Inc. is a visual search and discovery company. The Companyâs primary service, Pinterest, can be accessed through its mobile application or the Web. People use Pinterest to find ideas. As they browse Pinterest content, Pins, they fine-tune their tastes and find the idea. Users interact with the platform in multi-session journeys to find inspiration, curate their latest look, plan their next project and shop from brands. It has approximately 498 million monthly active users across the world. Content on Pinterest comes from a variety of sources, including retailers, brands, creators, publishers and users. It acquires that content via a range of methods, including product catalog uploads, direct publishing, and user curation. Content formats include images that allow the user to click into an idea to learn more, videos that provide the steps of an idea, and products that brands and merchants upload from catalogs.
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