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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 also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And by the way, we ended up raising $2 billion and the lead investor, Silver Lake.