USA Today interviewed Justin Edmund, an early employee at Pinterest. The 24-year-old engineer first caught Silicon Valley's attention with a candid personal essay about growing up black, where he said he had "not seen a single technology leader," besides Jack Dorsey "acknowledge the crisis in Ferguson. And why would they bother?"

Cannes Lions—the Science and Technical Oscars of the French Riviera—can be an embarrassing trip for American tech executives trying to woo advertisers. Not so with Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann, who managed to reverse "the roles of supplicant and master" because he always knew he wanted to run a profitable business.

One of forces responsible for getting reluctant tech corporations to release their diversity data was Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou, who started collecting the numbers herself. Chou will be featured in an upcoming documentary "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap."

Pinterest's new San Francisco headquarters is "all but dead." The move was blocked by the city over concerns their new landlord was exploiting a zoning loophole to evict dozens of tenants to make room for the startup.

Pinterest moved into new offices two years ago, but thanks to venture capital-fueled growth, the San Francisco-based company is already planning another relocation. Only this time, the move would be into an already occupied building, forcing dozens of home design businesses out.

Remember The Unicorn Club of startups that secured an esteemed $1 billion valuation? Might as well be The Garbage Club now, full of trifling companies with worth the kind of coin one chucks out the window from the backseat of an Uber. Why, in the past 24 hours alone, Pinterest and Uber reportedly increased their valuations by a collective $8.7 billion.

Pinterest and Snapchat have two very important things in common: they were both recently, insanely valued by investors at around $4 billion, and neither of them has made a single dime in the entirety of their existence. How is this not a bubble, and why aren't more people saying this is crazy?

This week when Nextdoor, the social networking app for neighbors—a retrograde cross between a neighborhood watch and a neighborhood billboard—announced that it had raised $60 million, CEO Nirav Tolia made certain the tech press knew his startup didn't actually need those millions.

Like Instagram, Pinterest was never going to be a free ride forever—you're not paying for it with money, so you'll pay with your eyeballs instead. Here come the advertisements, and you all better start buying some tote bags and twine balls real fast.

You may have forgotten about Pinterest, but CEO Ben Silbermann hasn't forgotten that his investors need an exit. The company, which has raised $338 million, will be "experimenting" with "tasteful" promoted pins "from a select group of businesses."

Pinterest, the aspirational, consumer-oriented social network that was quickly adopted by Midwestern moms and Mormons, is facing the same vile problem as other almost every other platform before it. Utah's Internet Crimes Against Children task force is currently investigating "12 separate cases of users posting child pornography on Pinterest boards," according to the Deseret News.