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

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 that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

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

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 to be a part of it even in a small way.

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.

What you collect says so much about who you are.