Airbnb’s CEO, Brian Chesky, releases his 7 rejection emails from 2008 when he approached some well known investors in Silicon Valley. Fast forward to today, and Airbnb has now IPO’ed! Great reminder to never give up! “We were attempting to raise $150,000 at a $1.5M valuation. That means for $150,000 you could have bought 10% of Airbnb. Below you will see 5 rejections. The other 2 did not reply.”