Airbnb

“That company had an exit to Airbnb. It was I think it was okay. Didn't lose money. But I also, I think only put in a thousand dollars and yeah, and I think the one of the founders is still at Airbnb.”

“You know, one person said to me that the businesses that you roll your eyes at, right, are the ones that ultimately are the best. The people that have the most ridiculous ideas are the ones that you should pay attention to the most.”

“And we interviewed 200 people, and 197 of them said yes.”

“Airbnb hasn't, they haven't even doubled their business since then.”

“And, ah, one note there that I'm really excited about actually is Jillian put me in touch with The general counsel of Airbnb. he's actually joining our round, and he put me in touch with the head of insurance.”

“We went to the Airbnb host conference a few months later to validate this idea, and we built a prototype, and it was an iPhone app, and we said, if you had a guidebook that you could send to your guests, like a digital guidebook like this, like, would you pay …”

“If we think about it, Chewy.com is in the world of Amazon. They're doing amazing. Rover is in the world of Airbnb. So if those guys can do it, then yeah, Spot On has a space in Uber and Lyft's world as well.”