Ben Silbermann Quotes

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

What people want is a seamless Web experience.

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.