The drive to achieve something and not giving up, trying every other alternative as they did in airbnb and pivot between different business models and markets...
"They probably have the best attitude of any startup we've funded." — me to Michael Arrington about Airbnb, March 4 2009
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Describe please.
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So you invest in the person's attitude over his product? What if he would be faking it?
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Yes. Good startup ideas often seem like bad ideas at first. What saved us (in this case, and in general) was to put more weight on the founders' characters. Plus
@jesslivingston is pretty hard to fool. - Show replies
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I remembered it was all about the creativity behind a cereal box. You made a right choice
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Have you funded Startups that were more promising than airbnb, which failed ?
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What if the person's attitude changes over time?
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Cereal Entrepreneurs too
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