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 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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One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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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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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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People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights.
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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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Just build things and find out if they work.
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Don’t take too much advice.
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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.
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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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What you collect says so much about who you are.
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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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We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
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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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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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