Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Rob Greene.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) For the 15 years since inception, CEO and cofounder Bush has run athenahealth end-to-end. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0 Visionary CEO.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. I [Reid] remember when Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky told me about the offer.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence, the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever, 20 books. Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?

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