We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better. — Ben Silbermann Average Copy Share Image
I really think that even though Pinterest isn't a lot of people's idea of hard technology, it helps make everyday things a… — Ben Silbermann Believe Copy Share Image
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better. — Ben Silbermann Average Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems, — Ben Silbermann Great people Copy Share Image
People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going… — Ben Silbermann Driving Copy Share Image
When you open up Pinterest, you should feel like you've walked into a building full of stuff that only you are interested… — Ben Silbermann Building Copy Share Image
The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network. — Ben Silbermann Challenge Copy Share Image
I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's… — Ben Silbermann Chef Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most… — Ben Silbermann Day Copy Share Image
I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?'… — Ben Silbermann Analytics Copy Share Image
I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of… — Ben Silbermann Experience Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were… — Ben Silbermann Always Copy Share Image
At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things,… — Ben Silbermann Business Copy Share Image
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work. — Ben Silbermann Made Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I… — Ben Silbermann Analysis Copy Share Image
I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day… — Ben Silbermann Joy Copy Share Image
A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords. Computer vision technology is going to… — Ben Silbermann Big Copy Share Image
My parents are doctors, both my sisters are doctors, so I figured I'd just be a doctor too. Sometime in my junior… — Ben Silbermann Doctor Copy Share Image
I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I… — Ben Silbermann Felt Copy Share Image
I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as 'them time': it's time about the world and what's outside of you.… — Ben Silbermann Always Copy Share Image
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at… — Ben Silbermann Abstract Copy Share Image
