Ben Silbermann

Motivational and business savvy are two words that describe the keynotes of Ben Silbermann.

The business-savvy entrepreneur had an ambitious start with aspirations to become a physician as per his family's professional tradition. He was admitted into the prestigious Research Science Institute, a competitive research program for high school seniors. Continuing with his streak of academic success, he attended Yale and graduated in 2003 with a degree in Political Science.

Silbermann's career took off when he moved to Silicon Valley and held a position with Google. However, the beginning of his unabashed success was not until he left Google to develop his own start up. After many attempts, Pinterest was born and is now one of the top social networking sites that rivals titans like Facebook and Twitter.

The keynotes of Ben Silbermann, contain insight into succeeding with a strong work ethic and resilience throughout to attain ambitious goals.