When we started Airbnb, no one wanted to invest. I felt like a failure so many days. It was small, it wasn't growing... A sane person probably would have quit. But we kept going through obscurity, through rejection. We couldn't raise money — but over time, it started growing.
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Brian Chesky
Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb
United States · b. 1981
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Co-founded Airbnb in San Francisco in 2008 with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, and has led it as chief executive since. Trained as an industrial designer at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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