pins-20201017

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): October 17, 2020

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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

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Delaware

001-38872

26-3607129

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

San Francisco, California 94107

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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading Symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, $0.00001 par value	PINS	New York Stock Exchange

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On October 17, 2020, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Pinterest, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from 9 to 10 directors and appointed Salaam Coleman Smith to the Board as a Class III director to fill the resulting vacancy, with a term effective from October 31, 2020 and expiring at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. Concurrent with her election as a director of the Company, Ms. Smith, an independent director, was appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Smith and any other persons pursuant to which she was selected to serve a director. Additionally, there are no transactions involving the Company and Ms. Smith that the Company would be required to report pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Ms. Smith will be entitled to receive compensation for her Board service in accordance with the Company’s standard compensation arrangements for non-employee directors pursuant to the Company’s Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy (the “Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy”), which is filed as an exhibit to Amendment No. 2, filed April 8, 2019, to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No, 333-230458). As set forth in the Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, in connection with her appointment, Ms. Smith will be granted restricted stock units, in respect of shares of the Company’s Class A common stock under the Company’s 2019 Omnibus Incentive Plan, which shall vest in three equal annual installments, subject to her continued service as a non-employee director through each such vesting date. Ms. Smith will enter into an indemnification agreement with the Company in the same form as entered into with other directors, which is filed as an exhibit to Amendment No. 2, filed April 8, 2019, to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No, 333-230458).

On October 20, 2020 the Company issued a press release relating to Ms. Smith's appointment. This press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits


Exhibit Number			Description
99.1			Press Release issued by Pinterest, Inc., dated Octo ber 20 , 2020.
104			Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	PINTEREST, INC.


Date: October 20, 2020	By:	/s/ Christine Flores
		Christine Flores
		General Counsel and Secretary