Ben Silbermann

Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that. ”

I really believe that the raw ingredient of any creative business is the set of experiences that the team has, the set of skills. I think a simple fact is that if you have a different set of experiences based on how you grew up or how other people perceive you, or if you have a different set of skills, that will produce a better company. ”

At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order. ”

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. ”

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

One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently. ”

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. ”

The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network. ”

Don't take too much advice. ”

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. ”