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Ben Silbermann

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
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
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
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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 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
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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
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
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
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
I always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps Want
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas

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