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Airbnb is a good example of how the best startup ideas tend to seem crazy at first. When we first met the Airbnbs, we loved the founders, but we had a hard tim
by pg 17y ago
Airbnb is a good example of how the best startup ideas tend to seem crazy at first. When we first met the Airbnbs, we loved the founders, but we had a hard time believing this would be popular. In fact it is massively popular. Few startups we've funded have grown so fast.
- fraXis 17y agoPaul, Were they accepted the first time they applied?
- pg 17y agoYes. IIRC they got a really good recommendation from the Justin.TV founders. Then once we met them we were sold too.
- replicatorblog 17y agoPaul, have any other teams been accepted to YC with the AirBNB team composition of 2 non-tech/1 tech founders? It makes sense in their case in that it is more of a social engineering than tech challenge, but it is an interesting case.
- pg 17y agoYes. As long as there are people who can do each thing that needs to be done, we don't care what the ratio is.