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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.

Ben Silbermann

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 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
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’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
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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 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
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 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
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
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

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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