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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

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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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 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
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
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
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
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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
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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
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
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
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

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