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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.

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
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
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
There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
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Entrepreneur Looks Successful
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
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
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made People Strategy
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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
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 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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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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