Martinez claims she came up with key concepts, including allowing users to create inspiration-style pinboards reflecting their tastes in fashion, travel, design and other interests, and technology enabling people to purchase the wares featured there. — Photo by Szabo Viktor on Unsplash
A woman with five million followers on Pinterest Inc claimed in a lawsuit that founders of the company, Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra, used her ideas to help create the social-media platform and never compensated her.
Christine Martinez, a digital marketing strategist who lives in Oakland, California, said in a state court filing on Monday that she was friends with Silbermann when he asked her to help “salvage a failed shopping app”, which would later become Pinterest.
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