Pinterest CEO dreams of a kinder, gentler social media | Fortune

Pinterest should make users' real lives better, he says.

Good morning, At Fortune ’s dinner in San Francisco on Tuesday, a seasoned CEO at one point opined: “Social media may be the most destructive invention in the history of mankind.” That gave me pause. Surely others could vie for that honor? (ChatGPT points to the atomic bomb.) But the sentiment is not uncommon. Social media has become the new tobacco. Recommended Video Does it have to be that way? I spent some time before the dinner visiting with still-relatively-new Pinterest CEO Bill Ready at his San Francisco offices. His goal is to turn the social media site, which lags well behind the gian

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