Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on early rejection, customer focus & AI’s future in hospitality | E1735
This Week in Startups
00:00
The Importance of Early Adopters
Michael Sabi: I was just get it was venture list at the time you know i open angel form there like maybe you could make a list of maybe twenty five angel investors in the valley and half of them said no to us already. 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. So weird like people had these ideas like oh the only way it's gonna work is if you're from Stanford you're from rizdee Like what is that like a yeah one developer in two designers. Yeah makes a difference between two developers in one designerlike obviously these are not
Transcript
Play full episode
