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When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

Ben Silbermann

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
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
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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 kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody’s going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there’s also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
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Engineering People Thinking
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet’s still so abstract… To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.
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Boards Way World
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
I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.
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Joy Looks Thinking
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
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
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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
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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.
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Business Giving Thinking

When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

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When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

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