9 Quotes on Entrepreneurship and Growth From Pinterest Co-Founder Ben Silbermann For some motivation, check out these quotes from the Pinterest entrepreneur.
By Rose Leadem •
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Ben Silbermann is the brains behind the highly addictive social media site Pinterest. Born and raised in the Midwest, Ben Silbermann graduated from Yale University in 2003 before working in advertising at Google.
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Silbermann quickly branched off and began designing smartphone apps with his college friend, Paul Sciarra. After their app, Tote, failed, Silberman and Sciarra partnered up with Evan Sharp to eventually launch Pinterest.
With Silbermann as its CEO, Pinterest has gained more than 175 million active users, with more than 50 billion pins and 1 billion Pinterest boards. By way of these numbers, it's safe to say Pinterest -- and Silberman -- are highly successful.
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To learn more, here are nine quotes from Silberman on entrepreneurship, growth, leadership and more.
EntrepreneurOn entrepreneurship
"It takes time to figure out how to not go to your job in the morning. All of a sudden you have a lot of time and no structure." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn ideas
"If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn time
"We just felt like if every day we were getting a little bit closer to something that we would be really proud of, we would never regret the time we'd invested." -- Ben Silbermann
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EntrepreneurOn getting started
"Just build things and find out if they work." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn progress
"I always just want to move along to the next step." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn growth
"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." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn hiring
"I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems." -- Ben Silbermann
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EntrepreneurOn success
"There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful." -- Ben Silbermann
EntrepreneurOn leadership
"One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback." -- Ben Silbermann
