Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find and save ideas for projects and interests, from recipes and home decor to fashion and travel. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, it lets users organize images called Pins into themed collections called boards, and increasingly acts as a shopping-and-discovery engine powered by visual search and AI. Publicly traded on the NYSE, Pinterest reached roughly 631 million monthly active users and $4.2 billion in 2025 revenue, earning nearly all of that from advertising.

Carl Eschenbach is a technology executive and investor who scaled VMware from $30M to $7B as President and COO, led transformative growth investments at Sequoia Capital including Zoom and Snowflake, and served as CEO of Workday. A former Division I wrestler inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he brings a competitive blue-collar work ethic to Silicon Valley's boardrooms, serving on the boards of Palo Alto Networks, Aurora, Snowflake, UiPath, and Zoom while counseling executives on his "4 C's" leadership framework.