Pinterest officially came to be in the year 2010. Three months after, the online image sharing platform only had around 3,000 registered accounts.

Pinterest focused on curating only images and not on real time content.

One of the major reasons this image platform became such a huge success was that in the beginning, the users would hold regular meetings with their limited users. While this in itself was an unusual practice, what helped the platform grow was the online network’s ability to absorb the changes given by their users.