Ben Silbermann Quotes

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

Just build things and find out if they work.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

Don't take too much advice.

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.

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

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.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

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.

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.

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

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.

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 lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.

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.