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 business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

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

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 that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

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.

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

Just build things and find out if they work.

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 relationship with me.