Garry Tan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When he came to do his YC interview, Paul Graham said like, what?
People are going to stay in each other's homes?
And we don't think about that so much anymore.
We just say, oh, that's an Airbnb.
My favorite story about Brian Chesky is
When they started it, it wasn't called Airbnb.
It was called Airbed and Breakfast.
And it was literally an airbed, and they had to provide breakfast.
And at some point when it was starting to take off, someone came in and said, well, I don't have an airbed, but could I do a real bed?
And he said, well, we are Airbed and Breakfast.
What if you buy an airbed and put it on top of the bed?
At some point I was like, oh, no, no, no.
Yeah, it's just, yeah, go for it.
And, you know, that turned out to be the much bigger market.
Are you ever surprised by what the YC founders can accomplish?