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Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale | Blitzscaling 18

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How to Survive and Not Die

The first stage is I think survival, meaning you're not meant to survive. No one actually kills you, you just fade away, you stop working on it. And then once you get through the survival and some of the initial firefighting, you've gained the luxury of having all these other people now decide to copy you and try to destroy you. So we got to the point where we started getting successful only to have all these people basically copy us. In 2011, the hottest startup in the world was Groupon. We didn't know it was up. Have the Ryan Airbnb.

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