People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights.
BEN SILBERMANNI always just want to move along to the next step.
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There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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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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Don’t take too much advice.
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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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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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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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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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Just build things and find out if they work.
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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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I always just want to move along to the next step.
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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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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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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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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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