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

Ben Silbermann

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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
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
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 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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
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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People Thinking Want
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
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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
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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
I always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps Want
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 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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Interesting People Smart

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