Ben Silbermann Inspirational Quotes
Ben Silbermann was born in 1982, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, and he is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a social media network and self-described ‘visual discovery engine,’ which lets users organize images, links, recipes, and other things.
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Now, Ben Silbermann’s inspirational quotes. Enjoy and leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
- “I looked for people I wanted to work with and that I thought were talented.”
- “People think culture is like architecture where it’s actually a lot more like gardening.”
- “You plant some seeds and pull out weeds that aren’t working.”
- “I looked at 3 or 4 things that I really valued in people. I looked for people that worked hard, and seemed high integrity and low ego.”
- “I looked for people that were creative, and that usually meant they were really curious and had all these different interests.”
- “…really creative quirky people that are excited about many disciplines and are extraordinary at one, tend to build really great products.”
- “Learning what good and bad is during the interview process is extremely expensive.”
- “Really great people want to do things that are hard. They want to solve tough problems.”
- “I think it’s really important even as companies get bigger that you don’t whitewash the risks.”
- “You’re very very transparent about why you think it’s an amazing opportunity. But you lay out in gory detail why it’s going to be hard.”
- “I’ll try to ask something that makes the question which is very soft, feel a little bit more quantitative and calibrate that over time.”
- “In evaluating this person in this dimension, are they in the top 1% of people you’ve ever worked with, the top 5% in the top 10%?”
- “References are also a tremendous source of new recruits.”
- “We would always try to remind people like where we wanted to go someday. It’s really when you first join to drop someone into a problem.”
- “The goal is to make the teams feel as autonomous and nimble as possible within the constraints of having a large organization”
- “That means that over time we’re always trying to make it feel like a startup of many startups, rather than this monolithic organization”
- “1 of the big benefits of working at a startup is that you can be handed a challenge that no one else would be crazy enough to give you.”
- “As the company goes farther along, your aspirations therefore get bigger.”
- “There’s all this startup wisdom that sounds really reasonable, but it’s only useful if it works in your particular circumstance.”
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