Projects that yield great results often wouldn't seem promising to a rational person. Fortunately some people have a compensating irrationality: they're so interested in the project that they'll work on it for its own sake.
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Y Combinator itself was an instance of this pattern. We had no idea if it would make money. But it seemed like a cool thing to try. And being an instance of this pattern helped us to see it in startups that applied.
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Airbnb for example. What rational person would work on such an unpromising idea? But we could see that they were like us in being really into their apparently unpromising idea, so we suspended our disbelief.
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Who wants a social network that only displays ridiculous square pictures? 1 billion people
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Sounds like a great argument for Medicare for all.
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There are so many ideas that are so incredibly great, but give pause: Wait, can I make others understand why this is so great? AirBNB is exactly that type of idea. I love the world that allows for ideas like it to manifest. TY!
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This is a great reason to be a founder - and not be a founders employee. I find that employees in a startup also have to explain to the founder in this fashion - which is maybe why in many startups innovation can only come from the founder
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Bezos may beat this. AWS was so out of left field...
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You make a judgment on the people, and give a halo to their toy
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I thought AirBNB sounded promising the first time I heard about it
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My impression when I first heard about Airbnb was: “one of the businesses you don’t want run by amateurs, is hospitality”. I decided to try it anyway, and found that my first impression was accurate.
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