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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

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Boards Way

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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Trying Use
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 Phones
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
Don’t take too much advice.

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Don’t take too much advice.
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Levers
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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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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Kids
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Starting
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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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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Feelings
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 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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Looks
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.

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If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
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Made
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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Lucky
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
People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights.

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People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It’s actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights.
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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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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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