“Collecting tells a lot about who you are,” he said, and when they looked at the web “there wasn’t a place to share that side of who you were.”

“if Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.”

“The exciting thing for me about Pinterest is what we can do as this graph of people and what they’re interested in grows.”

“The people who used the product early were designers and bloggers, and they really set the tone.”

When it came to making money though, Silbermann says that they didn’t want to commodify someone’s actions as that would cheapen the experience of using Pinterest.