Pinterest

“Pinterest sends double the traffic to BuzzFeed as Twitter.”

“Pinterest is like a great, in fact, Ben Subberman is actually on the record as saying, had I read the Lean Startup book, I never would have done Pinterest, because it took us four years to figure it, If we had, if he had known about the Lean Startup thing, he …”

“We're not gonna end up with just Airbnb clones and Pinterest clones, right, eventually we'll start to get very interesting applications that are designed, you know, I'm a biologist, I'm working on cancer, this is purely for solving, for helping me solve cancer…”

“We have this weird case right now where our languages, Python, pick any language, right? Is actually designed to model computer interaction, right? It's designed to model how computers work. Like, I'm gonna send TCP messages, and so on and so forth. But if you…”

“The first Ben Silverman at Pinterest, nothing happened there for two, three years. Nothing. He was just, he just kept working for product market fit, you know, with his dozens of users and then a hundred users or whatever.”

“We have some experiment in-house. If you take a picture of yourself, and we learn your skin tone. But by the way, we can also learn from the pins you like, and we know there's certain style, certain shape of a model you like to see.”

“We are trained computer to learn why this image of the same living room, you take a picture of this way and that way, that looks so different. One just looks so inspirational. The other, like maybe just boring and the computer will start to learn those cues an…”

“When you talk to a designer, ask questions like, wow, I never thought about this. And the process of thinking about how to answer this and discover there's some hole in my logic or discover like maybe we were to, you know, go down this path and maybe we should…”

“In some way, this is different from Google. There's no right or wrong.”

“Right now, I will say a lot of domain is limited by the data. If you only have a limited data to teach, let's say fashion, how can we know this is a fashion that are high end and more for the runway instead of a daily? It's a lot of data because it is a subtle…”

“Most women in America have downloaded the Pinterest app.”

“Pinterest, when it goes to a new market, first of all, they figured out they need a lot of local Capitalized content to make it compelling to local users. The U.S. Corpus of images doesn't necessarily, is helpful in international markets, but isn't sufficient.”

“Yeah, these are, you know, Ben Silverman and Brian Chesky, these guys are, like, top end technical founders in addition to being, you know, good designers, great designers.”