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In 2008, Airbnb tried raising $150K at a $1.5M valuation. But a VC rejected them because “the market is too small”. Today, Airbnb is worth $80 billion. The greatest founders expand their market.

Parag Gulhane

Hey I am on Medial • 1m

Looking back it is easy to point the missed opportunity by investor. At that point in time the decision that investors would have taken would be based on the available data and a layer of human gut feel based decision upon it. We all know it isn't math. So...

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