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.
BEN SILBERMANNWe’re trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
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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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Don’t take too much advice.
BEN SILBERMANNDon’t take too much advice.
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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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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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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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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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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.
BEN SILBERMANNAs 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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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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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
BEN SILBERMANNMost people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
BEN SILBERMANNIf Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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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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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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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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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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One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANNOne of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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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.
BEN SILBERMANNWhen 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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