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

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.

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.

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

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

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