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BenS

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June 3, 2008 (18y ago)
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Founder & CEO @ Pinterest.com. Former Googler. Former Iowan. Amateur cook.
  1. DJI Electrical Drive Unit for Mountain Bikes (dji.com)
    1 points 0
  2. The Most Beautiful Wedding Website (jessandruss.us)
    3 points 0
  3. Your Startup's 10 Most Important Metrics (tomasztunguz.com)
    5 points 0
  4. Apple is so big that analysts are stripping it from the S&P 500 (finance.yahoo.com)
    10 points 1
  5. YC is One of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies (fastcompany.com)
    130 points 35
  6. From Provo to Palo Alto: Why I Joined a Startup (blog.pinterest.com)
    32 points 1
  7. Time's 50 Best Websites of 2011 (time.com)
    5 points 0
  8. Color: Using royal wedding to market (color.com)
    1 points -1
  9. Our Choice: The First Book from Push Pop Press (pushpoppress.com)
    6 points 0
  10. What's the story behind the :putnam: Facebook Chat emoticon? (quora.com)
    1 points 0
  11. 2010 Crunchies Finalists (techcrunch.com)
    1 points -1
  12. Facebook Announces Skype Integration (venturebeat.com)
    1 points 0
  13. Ask HN: Redemption rate on beta invites?

    I currently have a web product in closed beta. People sign up on our landing page and we send invites out weekly. Current users can also send out invites to their friends. I was wondering what redemption rates other…

    4 points 4
  14. I'm surprised @Apple was available on Twitter. (twitter.com)
    1 points 0
  15. Gesture Based Computing Gloves (web.mit.edu)
    37 points 8
  16. Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler (joeyroth.com)
    1 points 0
  17. IE9 Preview with hardware acceleration (blogs.msdn.com)
    25 points 5
  18. Bump and PayPal release mobile payments app (9to5mac.com)
    1 points 0
  19. Firefox 4 Mac Theme Mockups (wiki.mozilla.org)
    3 points 0
  20. The 99 Percent: A Site About Making Ideas Happen (the99percent.com)
    14 points 1
  21. Free chicken for hungry hackers (and everyone else) (unthinkfc.com)
    6 points 5
  22. Ask HN: Vesting Schedule on Founders Shares?

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows what vesting schedule is 'typical' for founders shares. I know that for employee options, 4 year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff is standard. Is it the same for founders shares?

    4 points 7
  23. Why were comments disabled from the scribd post?

    I'm just curious. Comments in this community are very valuable.

    34 points 21
  24. What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Shigeru Miyamoto (byben.org)
    2 points 0
  25. Ask HN: Subversion client recommendations for OSX and PC?

    I'm looking for svn clients for mac and pc. My 2 criteria are quality and price (read: i'm very cheap). Any recommendations?

    1 points 2