SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest is taking a bold stand in the push to increase diversity in the technology industry.
The San Francisco company is setting ambitious goals to hire more women and minorities — and it's making those goals public to hold itself accountable.
This marks the first time that a major technology company has peeled back the veil of secrecy to this extent.
What's more: Pinterest is opening an experimental lab inside the walls of the company to apply the human ingenuity that has created so many modern marvels in Silicon Valley to testing new strategies for building more diverse, inclusive companies.
Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp says the company plans to share what works and what doesn't so the tech industry at large can learn from the effort.
"By sharing these goals publicly, we're holding ourselves accountable to make meaningful changes to how we approach diversity at Pinterest," Sharp said in a blog post released Thursday. "We'll also be sharing what's working and what isn't as we go, so hopefully other companies can learn along with us. Over time, we hope to help build an industry that is truly diverse, and by extension more inclusive, creative and effective."
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has pressed the reticent technology industry to make concrete commitments, commended Pinterest.
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