. Struggle in the starting :

In August 2008, Paul Sciarra quit his job at New York venture capital . His college friend Ben Silbermann quit his job at Google. They started a company called Cold Brew Labs. There was a third cofounder  but he was a student still, and he quit the company after a couple weeks to go back to school. if there is a "Mark Zuckerberg" or "Steve Jobs" of Pinterest it's Ben Silbermann. Ben always had the habit of collecting stuff like stamps and so he thought about creating a website that allows people to do the same thing. He started Pinterest after quitting his job at Google but after few month of trying Ben only got around 200-300 users. Silbermann is reserved, mild-mannered, almost nerdy, and  somewhat socially awkward. Yes, at the time of starting the company, no one believed in Ben's idea. Intact only a few understood what he was actually trying to convey. In one interview Ben said that many people didn't get the site when they first saw it and it didn't have many fans back then. Ben said that he sent messages to all of his friends (around 300) but only a few of them seemed to have grasped the idea of Pinterest (less than 10 people i think) Ben wasn't just struggling with a site that is hard to understand but he also had serious problems attracting new users. For the first year Pinterest only got 9000 users.