A woman with five million followers on Pinterest Inc claimed in a lawsuit that founders of the company, Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra, used her ideas to help create the social-media platform and never compensated her.
Christine Martinez, a digital marketing strategist who lives in Oakland, California, said in a state court filing on Monday that she was friends with Silbermann when he asked her to help “salvage a failed shopping app”, which would later become Pinterest.