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We’re trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

Ben Silbermann

Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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
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’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
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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 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
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 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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
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
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
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say

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