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Five things I wish i knew before I started my first company. Pt 3
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Five things I wish i knew before I started my first company. Pt 3

My initial idea is always wrong!!!

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Gerald Vanderpuye
Jan 18, 2023
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Did you know that Airbnb's original idea was to provide their customers airbeds so they could rent their living room to strangers and then make them breakfast in the morning? AirBedandBreakfast.

Well, that idea sucked. Business was terrible for two years. So eventually, they ditched their assumptions, left their original idea (and their egos) behind, and…

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