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Pinterest is at a bit of a crossroads.

According to a report by , the online scrapbooking platform that was in talks last year to sell to Paypal, and has been dealing with a sharp drop in users, slow ad revenue growth and a mass exodus of talent.

On the other side of the coin, it's on a hiring spree. One company representative told The Information it’s grown its headcount 30% in the past year. Recent additions to the team include its newest Chief Content Officer Malik Ducard, who previously ran Content Partnerships at YouTube.

Here is a roundup of the seven execs who have left Pinterest in the past few months.

Gary Johnson - Head of Corporate Development

Gary Johnson, Pinterest’s Head of Corporate and Business Development, is the latest to depart and his exit will definitely be felt.

Johnson Pinterest from Facebook in late 2017 in preparation for the company’s IPO. He reported to CFO Todd Morgenfeld, who joined in October 2016. Pinterest officially went public on

The loss of a Head of Corporate and Business Development is notable, considering that t in late 2021.

Omar Seyal - Head of Core Product

The Information’s report has also identified Omar Seyal, the Head of Core Product, among those leaving. Pinterest has had a hard time growing new users and downloads. The app saw an increase in downloads in 2020, but in the U.S. its monthly active users have dropped 10% in Q3 of last year. in December 2021 for the fourth straight month in a row.

Seyal has worn several hats at the company since he joined as a product manager in . He’s led several growth and product teams until his most recent role leading the core product, product marketing management and international go-to-market teams.

Colleen Stauffer - Global Head of Creator Marketing

Stauffer joined in 2017 as a senior lead on the creator and business marketing team. A marketing and digital media veteran who worked as the Global Marketing Director at the Clorox Company, Stauffer spent the past four years at Pinterest trying to market to new creators to join the platform.

Ravi Adusumilli - Global Head of Business Development and Partnerships

Another signal of shaky corporate growth at Pinterest is the departure of Ravi Adusumilli. Audsumilli joined Pinterest in 2018 after a previous stint as Facebook’s Head of Partnerships.

His next venture will be at Airwallex as its SVP of Business Development, according to Adusumilli’s

Silvia Ovideo Lopez - Global Head of Content and Creators

Lopez has been with Pinterest for the past eight years, primarily working with content creators and innovating ways to bring them to the platform.

She leaves Pinterest to join Canva as a general manager of its marketplace initiative and to develop its own creator ecosystem.

Celestine Maddy - Global Head of Consumer and Brand Marketing

While only with Pinterest for two years, Maddy brought an impressive resume in marketing (she previously led marketing teams at Reddit and FourSquare) to the app to specifically market the brand and pitch the product to consumers.

Pinterest only commands a fraction of ad revenue dollars that other top social platforms receive. Its share of the U.S. ad market is roughly 1%—a figure that has held steady since 2019, according to Its ad revenue growth could slow to about in 2022.

Maddy now works as Managing Director for the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ social change organization focused on education, immigration reform, the environment, media and health.

Meredith Guerriero - VP of Sales and Partnerships

Guerriero was VP of Sales and Partnerships at Pinterest for five years. She’s had an extensive ; she spent over 10 years at Google working on a range of teams, from automotive to programmatic platforms. She also worked as a director for health, grocery, drugstore and politics at Facebook.

She just started a new role as Chief Operating Officer at Klover, a Chicago-based fintech that focuses on paycheck advances without consumer fees.