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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.

Ben Silbermann

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
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.
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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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
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
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
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
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
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 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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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
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 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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