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There’s a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

Ben Silbermann

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.
BEN SILBERMANN

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

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