He had always been a creator, not a manager. Learning to leadĪs head honcho, Sharp found himself second-guessing his ability to lead. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram are about what’s happening right now, he said, but Pinterest focuses on its users’ futures. Consequently, Sharp shuns the “social media” label. You spend time on what you want, not what you share with others,” he said. “Pinterest is a positive, optimistic place online. Seven years and 175 billion pins later, those values still stand. In the early days, Sharp and Silbermann had to figure out the type of company they wanted to be, a process that led them to model Pinterest after their own personalities: introverted, optimistic and positive. “If we were more responsible as entrepreneurs, we would’ve pivoted to something else.” “It took a while for us to take off,” Sharp said. He flew to San Francisco, and soon after, Facebook offered him a product designer position. In 2009, while studying architecture at Columbia University, he received an email from Facebook asking if he’d be interested in interviewing for a job. “I developed this passion for building and structuring things.” That passion remained as he held down jobs as an umpire, a Subway sandwich artist and an overnight fried food processor at a pretzel factory. “I spent an unreasonable amount of time drawing things on the computer and trying to mess up the computer,” Sharp said. Although he wasn’t raised in a very technological household - both his parents were park rangers - his father was a Macintosh hobbyist and always kept a computer around. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Sharp was drawn to computers and design. After building the service in 2009 and launching it a year later, he has seen the company grow to more than 250 million active monthly users who pin cookie recipes, wedding ideas, dream vacations and the like. He spent more than two decades at the tech giant before leaving in 2019, and led the design of the candy-colored iMacs that helped Apple re-emerge from near death in the 1990s as well as the design of the iPhone.Evan Sharp is co-founder and chief product officer of Pinterest, a web-based company with more than 1,500 employees that allows users to “pin” media they like from across the internet to virtual boards.
Ive was a close creative collaborator with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Its clients include home rental company Airbnb Inc (ABNB.O) and Italian luxury car maker Ferrari.
“LoveFrom is a creative collective”, the firm’s website says. Ive co-founded design firm LoveFrom with fellow designer Marc Newson. He will transition into an advisory role and continue to serve as a board member, the company said in a blogpost. Sharp founded the online scrapbook and photo-sharing platform along with Ben Silbermann, who is the company’s chief executive officer, and Paul Sciarra, who left in 2012. Sharp built Pinterest’s original platform and oversaw its rapid growth in the past decade, and most recently served as the company’s chief design and creative officer.
Pinterest Inc (PINS.N) said on Thursday co-founder Evan Sharp is leaving the company to join LoveFrom, a firm led by Jony Ive, the designer of many iconic Apple products.
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