Airbnb started with an idea that was like, Hey, VR is the future. I guess let's make some VR headsets. And it makes sense. They had this sense that that was what a startup should be. It is whenever the current zeitgeist of was popular. But at the end of the day, they really understood other founders, other people in the YC batch. If they weren't founders, if they hadn't gone through this themselves, it'd be much harder to hire some PM at a big company to build all these solutions.

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