> Success itself is whether the idea had merit and a solid team is built. Even the concept of an idea being meritable is relative -- it depends on who is makin

> Success itself is whether the idea had merit and a solid team is built. Even the concept of an idea being meritable is relative -- it depends on who is making the assessment. Fred Wilson didn't think AirBnB had merit, in fact he thought the whole thing was ridiculous [0], no matter how hard pg tried to convince him otherwise [1]. [0] https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/ https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/ [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html