Author Profile
Evan Sharp
1982 • American • Businessman
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Showing 35 quotesOur vision for Pinterest is to be a discovery engine for people to see the possibilities for their life, to make their life more meaningfully lived.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
The biggest product thing for international is connecting you with local people, local content.— Evan Sharp
Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.— Evan Sharp
Our public description, a visual bookmarking tool, tends to resonate with people. That's why we use it. When we talk to the tech press we tend to describe it as a company solving a discovery problem.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
When I started working in 2010 on Pinterest, I really thought of myself as like a construction worker, metaphorically, building like you build a shed. You put the brick on top of a brick, and then you're done.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
I think I spent the first many years of Pinterest trying to be a really good leader, like what I thought a good leader should be.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
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.— Evan Sharp
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!— Evan Sharp
Pinterest is not about sharing with your friends. It's about saving ideas for your future.— Evan Sharp
Great companies, I think, are the ones that see what they've built and can build on top of it and iterate their product.— Evan Sharp