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Court Supports Lawsuit Against Pinterest For Depriving Compensation

Court Supports Lawsuit Against Pinterest For Depriving Compensation

法院支持对Pinterest提起剥夺赔偿的诉讼
Benzinga Real-time News ·  2022/06/25 01:05
  • A U.S. judge upheld a lawsuit filed by Christine Martinez against Pinterest, Inc (NYSE:PINS) in September, Bloomberg reports.
  • Pinterest co-founders Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra allegedly deprived Martinez of compensation for her critical ideas regarding the platform.
  • The court denied Pinterest's motion to dismiss the suit. However, it eliminated co-founder Sciarra as a defendant because he left Pinterest a decade ago.
  • Martinez was friends with Silbermann when he asked her to "salvage a failed shopping app" that later became Pinterest, she claimed.
  • Martinez developed some of the main concepts for the platform, including features that helped users create "pinboards" reflecting their cultural tastes, and made a marketing plan to enlist bloggers to recruit users. 
  • Martinez claimed that Silbermann and Sciarra embedded her name in the platform's source code.
  • The court ruled that her claims stem from the company's 2019 initial public offering, a "transformative event" that would trigger the obligation to pay her.
  • Pinterest is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like recipes and home and style inspiration.
  • Pinterest sells targeted ads called "promoted pins" that appear at the top of users' feeds and search results. Users can save their favorite pins to boards to keep ideas organized and easy to find.
  • Price Action: PINS shares traded higher by 5.65% at $21.03 on the last check Friday.
  • 一名美国法官维持克里斯汀·马丁内斯对Pinterest,Inc.据彭博社报道,纽约证券交易所(NYSE:PINS)将于9月上市。
  • Pinterest的联合创始人本·西尔伯曼和保罗·夏拉据称剥夺了马丁内斯对该平台的批评意见的补偿。
  • 法院驳回了Pinterest提出的驳回诉讼的动议。然而,它排除了联合创始人西亚拉的被告身份,因为他在十年前离开了Pinterest。
  • 马丁内斯是西尔伯曼的朋友,当时西尔伯曼要求她“挽救一个失败的购物应用”,后来这个应用变成了Pinterest,她说。
  • 马丁内斯为该平台开发了一些主要概念,包括帮助用户创建反映他们文化品味的“插接板”的功能,并制定了招募博客作者来招募用户的营销计划。
  • 马丁内斯声称,西尔伯曼和夏拉在平台的源代码中嵌入了她的名字。
  • 法院裁定,她的索赔源于该公司2019年的首次公开募股(IPO),这是一次“变革性的事件”,将触发向她支付报酬的义务。
  • Pinterest是一个视觉发现引擎,用来寻找食谱、家居和风格灵感等想法。
  • Pinterest销售被称为“推广钉”的有针对性的美国存托股份,它们会出现在用户提要和搜索结果的顶部。用户可以将他们最喜欢的别针保存在电路板上,以保持想法的条理性和易用性。
  • 价格行动:在周五的最后一次检查中,Pins的股价上涨了5.65%,达到21.03美元。

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