Christine Martinez is accusing Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra of idea theft
Christine Martinez, a designer who says she helped Pinterest founders conceive the concept for the site, is suing two of the platform’s three male cofounders for neither crediting nor compensating her for her contributions.In Monday’s suit, Martinez says cofounders Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra—close friends of hers—made verbal agreements to compensate her for “core” concepts, which included her ideas about organizing the site, naming its categories, and enabling online purchases.
“I always expected that when they could compensate me, they would,” Martinez told the outlet. “There was never a doubt in my mind.” But nonetheless: “I couldn’t take this to my grave,” she said., paying out $22.5 million to former chief operating officer Françoise Brougher. Brougher accused Pinterest’s executives of retaliating against her after she confronted higher-ups about what she called “the rampant discrimination, hostile work environment, and misogyny that permeates Pinterest.
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