{"id":235,"date":"2018-04-02T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/crunchbase-on-twitter-when-founding-the-highest\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:47:08","slug":"crunchbase-on-twitter-when-founding-the-highest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/crunchbase-on-twitter-when-founding-the-highest\/","title":{"rendered":"crunchbase on Twitter: &#8220;When founding the highest valued company to graduate from @ycombinator thus far, the @Airbnb team nearly failed before YC\u2019s @paulg accepted them into the program.\n\nAirbnb now boasts a reported valuation of $31 billion and is working on going public.\n\n\ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/jYxmzA5cPj\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/Ai4Im2JvvS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/crunchbase\/status\/980603225731723265?s=12'>crunchbase on Twitter: &#8220;When founding the highest valued company to graduate from @ycombinator thus far, the @Airbnb team nearly failed before YC\u2019s @paulg accepted them into the program.<\/p>\n<p>Airbnb now boasts a reported valuation of $31 billion and is working on going public.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/jYxmzA5cPj\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/Ai4Im2JvvS&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>See Marc Andreessen: \u201cSo one of the cautionary lessons of venture capital is, if you don\u2019t invest in the bases with serious flaws, you don\u2019t invest in most of the big winners. And we can go through example after example after example of that. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>crunchbase on Twitter: &#8220;When founding the highest valued company to graduate from @ycombinator thus far, the @Airbnb team nearly failed before YC\u2019s @paulg accepted them into the program. Airbnb now boasts a reported valuation of $31 billion and is working on going public. \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/jYxmzA5cPj\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/Ai4Im2JvvS&#8221; See Marc Andreessen: \u201cSo one of the cautionary lessons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airbnb","tag-ycombinator","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}