Ben Silbermann Quotes

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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…
• People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but…
• If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.
• 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…
• There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.
• What you collect says so much about who you are,
• I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems,
• 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…
• 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…
• Just build things and find out if they work.
• 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.
• Don't take too much advice.
• Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
• I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned…
• 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…
• 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…
• I always just want to move along to the next step.
• 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.
• We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
• 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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