Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09)

Re:Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09) by pg on Friday July 24, 2009 @04:37PM (#722359)

Airbnb is a good example of how the best startup ideas tend to seem crazy at first. When we first met the Airbnbs, we loved the founders, but we had a hard time believing this would be popular. In fact it is massively popular. Few startups we've funded have grown so fast.

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Re:Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09) by fraXis on Friday July 24, 2009 @07:02PM (#722632)

Paul,

Were they accepted the first time they applied?

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Re:Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09) by pg on Friday July 24, 2009 @09:58PM (#722839)

Yes. IIRC they got a really good recommendation from the Justin.TV founders. Then once we met them we were sold too.

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Re:Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09) by replicatorblog on Saturday July 25, 2009 @07:30AM (#723179)

Paul, have any other teams been accepted to YC with the AirBNB team composition of 2 non-tech/1 tech founders? It makes sense in their case in that it is more of a social engineering than tech challenge, but it is an interesting case.

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Re:Travel like a human (Airbnb, YC W09) by pg on Saturday July 25, 2009 @05:23PM (#723700)

Yes. As long as there are people who can do each thing that needs to be done, we don't care what the ratio is.

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