Headline October 06, 2018/ '' ' PINTEREST AND PINOCCHIO ' ''

'' ' PINTEREST AND PINOCCHIO ' ''

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And The World Students Society stops to pay respects to all the great teachers that we all had the honor to learn from :

President Donald J Trump, Prime Minister Imran Khan, Mr. Sultan Abbasi, Mr. S. Wajid Shah, Scientist Munawwer, Dr Scientist. Masud Reza, Dr. M Jawad Khan,

Technologist Amin Malik/US, Engineer Shahid Shakoor, Engineer Imran Basit, Mr. Wadood Mughal/ Singapore.

Dr. Engineer Imran Bukhari, Mr. M Fahim Khan/  Mr.  M .Hamad Khan/UK,  Dr. Mustanser Tanoli, Mr. Alamgir Khan, Mr. Saqib Naveed, Mr. Naveed Iqbal Querishi, Engineer Zafar Sami-

Mr. Qazi  Amjad Manzur,  Mr. Saqib Kayani,  Mr. Nusrat H Mangi. Mr. Faraz Majeed, Mr. Ali Hassan,   and Engineer Saleem Khan Kasuriya,  Mr. Haider Naqvi, Mr. Rumi Shumyail, Technologist Hanif Ghaniwala, and Imran Khan/Europe/Global Head Capital Markets.

The World Students Society, and yet again, gives these great teachers a standing ovation.

TECH companies usually reflect the personalities of their founders. Mark Zuckerberg infused  Facebook with a ''move fast and break things'' hacker mentality. Uber's founder, Travis Kalanick, pushed a ''toe-steppin'' and ''hustling'' culture at Uber.

Mr. Silbermann, 36 grew up in Des Moines in a family of doctors and assumed he would also go to  ''medical school. But his first encounter with high speed Internet at Yale in 1999, changed his mind.

''You could find your people there and really explore inside yourself,'' he said.

He has tried to instill that same thinking at the company. Pinterest values ''knitting,'' a term its employees use to describe collaboration among groups. ''We believe innovation happens when disciplines knit,'' the company's website says.

In the beginning, when Pinterest was desperate to hire engineers as quickly as possible, Mr. Silbermann screened potential hires for their values before even considering their technical skills.

Mr. Silbermann is someone who ''measures twice, cuts once,'' said Rick Heitzmann, a managing director at FirstMark Capital and early investor in Pinterest.

''Perfectionist doesn't overstate it,'' said Jeff Jordan, a general partner at Andreesen Horowitz and a Pinterest board member.

Pinterest offices in San Francisco display the sort of cutesy, self-referential bric-ab-bric that's common at startups - a giant statue of a pushpin made of Legos, a Pinterest surfboard. But Mr. Silbermann's demeanor is serious and reserved.

In conversation, he listens carefully and responds with sincerity, qualifying statements as his own opinion, rather than declaring them as facts.

He also doesn't focus on Pinterest's image in the business world. Instead, he dedicated an outsize amount of time to meeting with Pinterest users, going on six tours a year and holding weekly lunches at Pinterest's offices.

There's a meaningful time commitment for the chief executive of a 1,500 person organization.

If Pinterest addresses the needs and desires of its users, he said, ''the business will take care of itself.''

THE ANTI-UNICORN : Pinterest has always confounded Silicon valley insiders. Its first users were not teenagers - the typical early adapters of digital services - but Midwestern women.

And Mr. Silbermann and his co-founder, Evan Sharp were not engineers, a prerequisite for many venture capital investors.

''From the beginning the the company did things differently from how most storybook Silicon Valley companies have operated,'' said Jeremy Levine, a partner at  Bessemer Venture Partners, Pinterest's largest shareholder.

The company's growth exploded by 2011, just a year after its service went live, spawning countless copycats - for families, for music, for pornography, for Lady Gaga fans - and clones in every major country.

It seemed possible that Pinterest could be as successful as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or YouTube - maybe even Google. The market for social media advertising was still young and up for grabs.

A Forbes cover story about Pinterest declared ''Mover over, Zuck.''

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