I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been ….

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 busine….

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

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better..

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..

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 you're actu….

Don't take too much advice..

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 all his stu….

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 relations….

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 t….

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

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better..

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 ….

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 ….

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 decide….

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….

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….

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..

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

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

What you collect says so much about who you are..