Post by @technooptimist

@Brian Chesky on why you should prototype before you scale: "You want to basically make the problem as small as possible, understand the user, put yourself in their shoes, blow their mind, do things you've never thought before, do them by hand, make them unscalable, don't worry how much it costs, just prove the model. In other words, it's like R&D. This is what we call prototyping. Before you manufacture something, you prototype. You make prototype after prototype after prototype until you make something that you love for yourself." — Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of @airbnb, on Invest Like the Best podcast #airbnb #startupadvice #brianchesky #ycombinator #founders