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I always just want to move along to the next step.

Ben Silbermann

I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It’s all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned all his stuff on it. So it was nice to discover that I wasn’t the only one.
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Book Collection Kids Nice Planned
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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
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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Meaningful Pinterest Want
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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
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 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
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
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
You think you’re going to Toledo but you’re actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren’t driving well
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Country Driving Enough Gas Someone
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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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

I always just want to move along to the next step.

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