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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.

Ben Silbermann

Don’t take too much advice.
BEN SILBERMANN

Advice Entrepreneur Levers
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
BEN SILBERMANN

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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
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 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 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
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
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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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’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
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
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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Analysis Ideas Want
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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work

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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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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