Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze e….

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

Just build things and find out if they work..

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

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about tha….

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

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 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….

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….

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 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….

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

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 want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world..

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

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….

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..

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

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 ….

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….

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