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

- Ben Silbermann

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…

- Ben Silbermann

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

- Ben Silbermann

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 …

- Ben Silbermann

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…

- Ben Silbermann

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…

- Ben Silbermann

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

- Ben Silbermann

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

- Ben Silbermann

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…

- Ben Silbermann