A U.S. judge upheld a lawsuit filed by Christine Martinez against Pinterest Inc. in September, Bloomberg reports.
Pinterest co-founders Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra allegedly deprived Martinez of compensation for her critical ideas regarding the platform.
The court denied Pinterest’s motion to dismiss the suit. However, it eliminated co-founder Sciarra as a defendant because he left Pinterest a decade ago.
Martinez was friends with Silbermann when he asked her to “salvage a failed shopping app” that later became Pinterest, she claimed.
Martinez developed some of the main concepts for the platform, including features that helped users create “pinboards” reflecting their cultural tastes, and made a marketing plan to enlist bloggers to recruit users….