I’ve worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the ‘site down’ notice, but it doesn’t matter. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn’t a social network. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
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. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
I really think that even though Pinterest isn’t a lot of people’s idea of hard technology, it helps make everyday things a little bit better. And I believe that for most people, everyday things, those are everything. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
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 figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
I always describe Facebook and Twitter to some extent as ‘them time’: it’s time about the world and what’s outside of you. Pinterest, for a lot of users, is ‘me time.’ What do I want my future to be? Who am I? What are the things I want to do? Ben Silbermann Read Quote
No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn’t be so bad if we hadn’t started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t left my job to start a company in May 2008. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It’s cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I’m not one of those people. Ben Silbermann Read Quote
