Top 20 Evan Sharp Quotes

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I've always been a good student, made good enough grade

I’ve always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn’t until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.
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Pinterest is a positive, optimistic place online. You spend time on what you want, not what you share with others.
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I just got a dog, and I never thought about using it to look up toys you get for the dog and walks to take the dog on, but there’s so much stuff about that on Pinterest!
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I think a lot of what we want to do with both the product we’re building and the brand is help people make better decisions in their everyday lives by giving them access to new ideas and new possibilities.
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When we talk about Pinterest, we typically talk about use cases like cooking, or decorating your home… these are all very much project-oriented, goal-oriented behaviors.
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We think of Pinterest as a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas, and that discovery part is a really a core part of what we work on every day.
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The biggest product thing for international is connecting you with local people, local content.
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The problem with images is obvious, they are two dimensional. Our vision at Pinterest is to use what’s great about images, use the users taste to make good decisions but also to make sure to give them that information to make sure they get a more holistic understanding of what they are looking for.
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I’m this real creative guy who was really good at design and coding stuff, but wasn’t that kind of manager. I spent too much time in self-doubt and limiting my impact because I was trying to be somebody I wasn’t.
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If we’re not doing better, it’s almost always our own inability to execute, not because someone else is stealing our market share or something.
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I was in school for architecture and when you’re in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of inspiration from other people. The more you’re exposed to architecturally, the better you can develop your own language out of that history of architectural thought.
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Best of all, as you’re creating a board on Pinterest, other people can get inspiration from your ideas, so there’s this cycle where what you’re creating for yourself also helps other people make their lives.
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I spent an unreasonable amount of time drawing things on the computer and trying to mess up the computer. I developed this passion for building and structuring things.
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The things people use Pinterest for tend to be universal. The core usage is every day, common, universal things. What am I going to eat for dinner? How should my house look? What gift should I get for my partner? What should my kid’s birthday party look like?
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When you’re the co-founder you get to pick the people. So by definition for me it’s one of the best companies to work at because I made the company and it’s a reflection of me in some ways.
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At its best Pinterest really does help lots of people with everyday things. Those things can seem really small. It’s not like you’re curing cancer, but all of those things together become really important.
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I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.
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The bread and butter of any internet service is user behavior.
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Apple’s proven to be really good at taking what we’re capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.
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When I have free time, which I wish I had more of, playing frisbee is a great way to get outdoors and have a bit of fun.
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