Airbnb once tried to give away 10% of the company for $150,000, and not one investor would take up the offer. Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, took to Medium yesterday to post some responses he received from potential investors way back in 2008, just as the company was setting out. Consider, for example, that Airbnb received seven rejections from potential investors in its early days, as co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky revealed in a Medium post. The response is a bit more than what you'd expect from someone who has been around since 2004.
Airbnb once tried to give away 10% of the company for $150,000, and not one investor would take up the offer. Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, took to Medium yesterday to post some responses he received from potential investors way back in 2008, just as the company was setting out. The response is a bit more than what you'd expect from someone who has been around since 2004.