While Pinterest is now the web's third-largest traffic referrer, the photo collection site wasn't always booming.
CEO Ben Silbermann told the latest Y Combinator class on Saturday that his site only had 3,000 users three months after its launch. A lot of people didn't understand Pinterest, and many VCs initially shot him down.
"There are lots of ways for investors to say no to you, and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard every single one,” AllThingsD's Liz Gannes quotes the young co-founder.
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