#Airbnb and its great IPO debut

​There's a lot of excitement about Airbnb and its stock market debut. It was up 112% in it's first day of trading.

But it wasn't all $100B valuations for the founders of Airbnb...

...They had 7 rejections for a capital raise back in 2008 when $150,000 could have bought 10% of Airbnb.

...Brian Chesky, Airbnb founder, published the rejection here: https://lnkd.in/eCMDPca

Failure and rejection are are the rungs up the ladder of success. Remember the iceberg analogy.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gregkaplan1_airbnb-activity-6743215946179129345-Gp4_​