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What you collect says so much about who you are.

Ben Silbermann

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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Experience Honest Lucky Team
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
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
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Entrepreneur Google Ideas
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
I always just want to move along to the next step.
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Moving Steps Want
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
Don’t take too much advice.
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Advice Entrepreneur Levers
One of the things I’ve learned is to be receptive of feedback.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learn
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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Anyone Thinking Yesterday
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
What you collect says so much about who you are.
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Collect Much Say
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
Just build things and find out if they work.
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Entrepreneur Starting Work
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
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
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

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