Two struggling co-founders study and discuss other successful founders. With focus during the founding stage of each company.
Learnings: zero to one in theory vs in practice. They didn’t know that they wanted to replace US currency when they founded the company. They had several iterations.
Learnings - They tried another idea for finding roommates before Airbnb - It took a bit less than a year of raw work before YC - They weren't fully focused on Airbnb full time. Only in YC did they work from 8-12 daily
Important points: - He builds fast because he gets bored easily - He likes to have fun. Fun is more important than money - He builds a lot of things - He didn't really have a grand vision. thefacebook just happened to catch on and he thought it was fun