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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 Silbermann

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
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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 always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps Want
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 kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody’s going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there’s also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.
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Engineering People Thinking
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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
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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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 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
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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Anyone Thinking Yesterday

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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