Eric Sung

VP of Product and Principal

2022

Product Lead

2016 - 2022

Launched the Today Tab to showcase the best ways to use Pinterest through daily editorial recommendations - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/introducing-the-today-tab-for-daily-inspiration Launched the More Ideas tab, a place to plan projects on Pinterest - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/a-new-way-to-discover-more-ideas-for-your-boards Launched seven tools to help organize your content - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/new-tools-for-organizing-pins-boards-and-sections-on-pinterest Launched Pinterest Lens, a new visual discovery product - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/and-you-get-lens-and-you-get-lens-and-you-get-lens Launched food features for search - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/whats-for-dinner-we-got-you-covered-with-new-food-features Launched Samsung visual search partnership - https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/pinterest-visual-discovery-across-the-samsung-galaxy-s8 Doing work everyday to make Pinterest a source of inspiration for people to create a life they love.

Investment Team Partner

2014 - 2016

Invested in 25 fantastic startups. Backed by the good people at First Round Capital.

Product Marketing MBA Intern

2015 - 2015

Weaved some crafty stories about Facebook Search. Hacked on a side project that ended up shipping during my MBA summer.

Consulting Intern

2014 - 2014

Advised an enterprise technology company's growth strategy for a summer.

Co-founder

2008 - 2013

Founded and led operations for a leading local search / discovery company that was acquired by Groupon in 2013. We raised $2.2m in capital from 500 Startups and other angels. Had some nice people write about us in TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, CNET, GigaOm, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Technorati, and more. Learned how to survive on ramen and little sleep.