by The presentation includes everything a startup needs. After this pitch deck, and the 4 years of hard work that preceded it — Airbnb raised $119M. That was five years ago. Not 2 weeks, not 6 months, not a year. Five years! If you have absolutely nothing else to do, you could finish university in that time.
So I have one question: “Where?” Where are all these thousands of startup pitch decks from 2015 that are at least on par with that five-year-old deck?
1. People “buy” other people, not the project
2. Ideas have no value — execution is what counts
3. VC funds ability to “spot breakthroughs” is greatly exaggerated
— Brian Chesky, CEO AirBnB, о запуске AirBnB
