Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

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Made

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
I always just want to move along to the next step.

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I always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps
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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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
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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Trying Use
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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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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Feelings
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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We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

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We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
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Pinterest
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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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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Looks
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Starting
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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Collection Kids Nice Planned
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
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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Lucky
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.

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If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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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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Long Phones
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

BEN SILBERMANN

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

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