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How We Scaled Pinterest From Zero Users To A $2 Billion Valuation

Megan Rose DickeyApr 23, 2013, 17:02 IST

Flickr/Pinterest HQBen Silbermann, CEO at PinterestPinterest engineers Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner recently shared some insights and lessons learned while developing and scaling the company.

Pinterest is a site for collecting and sharing photos of interesting objects around the web.

In a little over three years, Pinterest has grown from zero page views a day to billions per month. The most recent tally: 3.4 billion monthly page views from its 25 million members worldwide.

Today, Pinterest is valued at $2.5 billion following a $200 million financing round earlier this year.

This slideshow talks about the software and hardware Pinterest used to get where it is today. Warning: It's for geeks only!