Chris Sacca passed on Airbnb fearing "blood on your hands" from crime
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Chris Sacca is the founder of Lowercase Capital and Lowercarbon Capital. He explains how focusing on worst-case scenarios caused him to miss out on investing early in Airbnb.
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“It was a lack of optimism that cost me some money in the beginning when I met the Airbnb guys and I pulled them aside and was like, look, somebody's going to get raped or murdered and the blood is going to be on your hands.”
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