Go get a job as a busboy or something so you find something you're really passionate about because it's a lot of work.

And I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

It is so hard. You pour so much your life into this thing. there are such rough moments in time that most people give up.

I don't blame them. It's really tough. And it consumes your life. I mean, if you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, it's, I can't imagine how one could do it.

I'm sure it's been done, but it's rough. I mean, because it's a pretty much, you know, an 18 hour a day job, seven days a week for a while.

So unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're going to not survive. You're going to give it up.

So you've got to have an idea or a problem or a wrong that you want to write that you're passionate about.

Otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

And I think that's half the battle right there.

The journey of Airbnb, of being able to build Airbnb, has been unbelievable.

It's been the great joy of my lifetime. And if people could experience

what I had experienced, I would say to them it would be the most unbelievable ride of a lifetime.

And I wouldn't want to change a ton because it's been amazing. But if they're about somebody's

listening and they're about to go on this journey, I would forewarn them about some things that no one told me,

and no one told me when I started this journey,

is two things.

The first thing is how lonely it would be,

and it doesn't have to be, but it's almost like by default.

You see, when I started Airbnb B, I started with my friends, to my friends.

Then we hired people.

And those people, there were our employees, but they were also kind of our friends.

And this notion that I was the boss, there was the power and balance,

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