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Silicon Valley’s hottest social network isn’t Facebook: It’s Pinterest

March 3, 2012 /

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It’s a half-hour before the CEO of Silicon Valley’s hottest social network is set to take the stage and it’s already standing room only at the Startup Grind gathering in Palo Alto.

The bimonthly confab of tech entrepreneurs has nabbed some high-profile speakers in recent months. "The crowd was big for Kevin Rose," Dave Wamsley, a regular attendee, said of the Digg founder. "But now Elvis has entered the building."

Elvis, it turns out, is a baby-faced native of Iowa with a somewhat shy mien. Ben Silbermann is CEO of one of the fastest-growing websites in history — Pinterest http://pinterest.com/ , which lets its 12 million-and-counting monthly visitors collect and share digital images and link them to websites.

By Peter Delevett

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