Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work. — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful. — Ben Silbermann Business Copy Share Image
No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually. — Ben Silbermann Change 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
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better. — Ben Silbermann 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 Copy Share Image
I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site… — Ben Silbermann 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
For me, Google was the coolest place. It was the coolest place. People there were so smart. And they were all doing… — Ben Silbermann 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
I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a… — Ben Silbermann Book Copy Share Image
So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in… — Ben Silbermann 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
One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize… — Ben Silbermann Advice 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 Copy Share Image
The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
I really believe that the raw ingredient of any creative business is the set of experiences that the team has, the set… — Ben Silbermann 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 Customer Copy Share Image
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones… — Ben Silbermann Business Copy Share Image
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better. — Ben Silbermann 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
From the outside, there's a perception Silicon Valley is full of really young, geeky guys. The reality is there are lots of… — Ben Silbermann 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
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
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
The biggest thing about Pinterest is that people are there saving ideas for their personal lives. Not to rile up other people… — Ben Silbermann 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 Copy Share Image
The whole reason Pinterest exists is to help people discover the things that they love and then go take action on them,… — Ben Silbermann Action 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 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
