Which company operates the Pinterest service?

The company that operates the Pinterest service is Pinterest, Inc.

Pinterest, Inc. is the corporate entity behind Pinterest, the visual-discovery service where users collect and organize images, videos, products, recipes, and ideas into boards. The distinction matters because “Pinterest” can refer either to the consumer platform or to the publicly traded company that runs it; the quiz’s answer names the company.

Pinterest began as a startup founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. The service was launched in the late 2000s, and Pinterest, Inc. later became publicly traded in April 2019. Its Class A shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PINS.

Pinterest, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco. It earns most of its revenue from advertising, while the service itself remains free for ordinary users. Alphabet, Snap, and Meta operate competing or adjacent internet products, but none of those companies operates Pinterest.