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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 6: Al Milukas, and Zahra Aljabri and James Faghmous

Steve Blank

As a new founder, Al will be calling the perseverance he used to make it in radio. Here’s how he knew he’d finally won his father over: Probably when I got the New York City job, because he knew what a big market it was. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. … It’s all the rage now. They make whiskey.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

Brian Chesky : And I've lived in cities for much of my life and when you're around people a lot, they kind of become ubiquitous and you kind of take it for granted and you don't really want to deal with people. I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of.