Evan Sharp

Our 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.

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.

The biggest product thing for international is connecting you with local people, local content.

Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.

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.

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.

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.

Images are really powerful in making us aware of what's possible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The bread and butter of any internet service is user behavior.

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.

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.

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!

Pinterest is not about sharing with your friends. It's about saving ideas for your future.

Great companies, I think, are the ones that see what they've built and can build on top of it and iterate their product.

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.

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.