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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 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
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
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
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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Joy Looks Thinking
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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 always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps 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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Analysis Ideas Want
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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
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

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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