You guys are missing the point. AirBnB didn't screw me over - this wa any first deal and I screwed around debating stupid points. I was disappointed they didn't do the deal but this whole post is about lessons learned. And one of the biggest ones was move fast once you have conviction. At the time of this Airbnb event I was just learning. I thought an investor had to worry about all these little details, negotiate tons of clauses, etc. but post Airbnb I realized all that detail was stupid. After that event I learned to move fast.

Example: When I met Peter (Contextlogic now known as Wish) I wrote him a physical check within a day (pretty sure it was his first) as I planned to take whatever terms he ended up negotiating. And then I immediately started brining in other investors, introductions to engineers, etc

So don't take this post as a "Brian screwed me" / the screwing was all self inflicted and a very important lesson