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Pinterest's Evan Sharp: Guys are on Here, Too
Evan Sharp (born 1982) is an American Internet entrepreneur, the co-founder and chief product officer of Pinterest.
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- Pinterests Evan Sharp Guys are on Here Too
- Evan sharp pinterest co founder york suburban grad returns
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Evan sharp pinterest co founder york suburban grad returns
Early life
Sharp was raised in York, Pennsylvania and attended York Suburban School District. He studied architecture at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Prior to that, he received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Chicago.
Career
In 2009 Sharp met Ben Silbermann (who would become Pinterest’s CEO) in New York through a mutual friend. He soon thereafter moved to California, where he worked as a product designer at Facebook before joining Silbermann and Paul Sciarra to focus on Pinterest full-time. Sharp is credited with designing and coding Pinterest and the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch in March 2010. Today he oversees all growth, international, product and design efforts at the San Francisco-based company.
Personal life
He married Christina McBride in 2014. The couple met while attending college together.
