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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on early rejection, customer focus & AI’s future in hospitality | E1735
This Week in Startups
The Importance of Early Adopters
There wasn't a much capital and like i just. don't remember hundreds of people i could contact to get money there really angel list i don't think existed or. I was just get it was venture list at the time you know i open angel form therelike maybe you could make a list of maybe twenty five angel investors in the valley and half of them said no to us already so. Clearly and we raise money. Jason our first actual round which is a series a was in this is when we had product market fit. And then we raise six hundred fifteen thousand dollars at a three million dollar post money valuation. It's crazy and you just like look at the signaling at that time yeah
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