The origin story of Blackbird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn’t begin with air travel. It was prompted by car sickness. Blackbird CEO and founder Rudd Davis, who was getting his pilot’s license at the time, asked his flight instructor if he would fly his family to […]
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Pinterest taps former Athleta exec as first CMO
Andréa Mallard, the former chief marketing officer of Athetla, has joined Pinterest as its first-ever CMO.
View More Pinterest taps former Athleta exec as first CMOPinterest hires former Square and Google exec Francoise Brougher as its first COO
Pinterest today is adding another executive to its upper c-suite with the hire of Francoise Brougher, who was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google, as its first chief operating officer. Both of those previous positions are probably going to be of particular interest to Pinterest, as someone with Brougher’s experience… Read More
View More Pinterest hires former Square and Google exec Francoise Brougher as its first COO