. Struggle for funding :

Ben met too many investors and all of them rejected his idea. Personally if Ben came to me during the early days of Pinterest i think i wouldn't have found the idea appealing. In other words Ben was trying to market an idea that wasn't receiving a warm welcome from anyone. He hired a designer named Evan  away from Facebook. To convince Sharp away from a secure job at one of the industry's most valuable companies, Silbermann, Sciarra, and Pinterest's board agreed to give him the title "cofounder" - even though he joined three years after the company was founded.