I'm not sure how many people realize this, but Airbnb would not exist without @mwseibel. The company would have died without YC, and they wouldn't have applied to YC if Michael hadn't told them to.
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OK, thanks. That makes sense, but it doesn't mean we might not have had another company just as successful in essentially this space; it just wouldn't have been these people.
Yes, there would have been some other company, but it's unlikely to have been quite as good. The match between the founders and the idea in this one is exceptional, and has a lot to do with Airbnb's unique character.
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That's undoubtedly true here, in the case of one of the biggest winners. But, logically, it's also possible that in YC there are some companies that succeed and end up winning their space where if they had failed someone else would have come along and done better.
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Yes, that's true. In fact, the better a job YC does, the more true it is.
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