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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018
In this photo, Evan Sharp, Pinterest co-founder and chief product officer, poses for a photo stands beside a wall of pegs symbolizing the company logo at Pinterest headquarters in San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO >> Digital scrapbooking site Pinterest today filed for an initial public offering of stock.
It follows a similar filing with securities regulators earlier this month by ride-hailing company Lyft in what is shaping up to be a busy season for technology IPOs. Also expected to sell stock to the public in the coming weeks: Lyft rival Uber and messaging app Slack.
Pinterest said in its filing that it intends to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange using the ticker symbol “PINS.” The company hasn’t yet said how many shares it’s selling in the IPO or how much money it intends to raise.
The San Francisco-based company had revenue of $756 million and a loss of $63 million last year. Pinterest allows people to search for and “pin” images as inspiration for fashion, interior design, travel and more.
The company said it has more than 250 million users each month, and users have saved more than 175 billion pins since the site was launched.
Pinterest has raised nearly $1.5 billion in the private markets, and was last valued at $12.3 billion in 2017, according to PitchBook Data.
Pinterest has long shunned being labeled a social network. Because of that, it doesn’t push users to add friends or build connections. It also means it’s been able to avoid problems of its larger rivals like Facebook.
Pinterest was founded in 2010 by Ben Silbermann and Evan Sharp, who still serve as CEO and chief product officer, respectively.
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