This, in itself, means nothing. If you need to read things like this in order to understand that not everybody is going to love you or your idea and to help dea

This, in itself, means nothing. If you need to read things like this in order to understand that not everybody is going to love you or your idea and to help deal with rejection, most likely you are not be cut out to be an entrepreneur. Every investor has stories of ideas that they passed on that they shouldn't have (in retrospect of course) and every entrepreneur (or guy dating in high school) also knows of investors or dates that they felt made the wrong decision. Pushes all the right buttons, but keep in mind that those investors also rejected vastly more ideas that most likely never went anywhere. That was their take on airbnb at the time. With respects to Airbnb, Fred Wilson of USV passed on the opportunity as well and posted emails showing where Paul Graham personally spent quite a bit of time trying to convince him otherwise. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html