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I think the thing that I’ve learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

Ben Silbermann

I always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps Want
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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
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 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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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
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’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 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
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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say

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