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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

Ben Silbermann

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.
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Anyone Thinking Yesterday
People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights.
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Night People Thinking
I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky – I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.
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Experience Honest Lucky Team
We’re trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
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Average Better Service Trying Use
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can’t say it came from hard-nosed business analysis… It was just something I really want to see built.
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Analysis Ideas Want
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I’ve read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it’s starting to become commonplace.
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Long People Phones
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.
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Interesting People Smart
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
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Average Pinterest Thinking
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It’s cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I’m not one of those people.
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Basketball Kids Player
I think the thing that I’ve learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.
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People Thinking Want
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.
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Entrepreneur Feelings People

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