what quality does a true story show
Answers
Answer:
What true story shows a quality you think is essential for great entrepreneurs?
Save taxes, get guaranteed* returns and a life cover!
I don't know many stories about "great entrepreneurs" but I do have a badass story about the day I found out I had the right cofounder.
and I started Stonehenge in June 2012. It was a dorm for international kids and students (and whoever else wanted to come) who needed a short-term place to stay in the bay area. Most people thought we were nuts starting this, so we were financed completely with money from our own pockets. Less than a month in, we suddenly had a pair of french residents book with us asking to move in the same night. We didn't think anything of it.
It turns out the two french kids had recently been staying at a house on Airbnb where another Airbnb guest had died. This was apparently Airbnb's first death of a customer using the service. For reasons which are not clear to me, the host cancelled all the bookings of the remaining guests before finding out what caused their other resident to die, which scattered them all over the place.
It turns out the death was from , an uncomfortably contagious and deadly disease for people who live in close proximity. Most Americans who attended a 4-year college are immunized for one kind of meningitis when they go to college because dorms are a great place to spread it, but international students are not always immunized and there are other varieties. This meant it was possible that the two french residents had brought it with them to our dorm and if they had, we all had uncomfortable odds of getting sick.
I was out at a meeting when I got the news. I remember walking outside and sitting down with Garrett on the curb of the parking lot, paging through Mayo Clinic and Wikipedia articles on our phones trying to get some grasp on what had just happened. I knew I had been immunized, but Garrett wasn't sure if he had been. He was remarkably calm for somebody who might die as we made lists of everybody we had been in contact with over the last few days.
Answer:
I started Stonehenge in June 2012. It was a dorm for international kids and students (and whoever else wanted to come) who needed a short-term place to stay in the bay area. Most people thought we were nuts starting this, so we were financed completely with money from our own pockets. Less than a month in, we suddenly had a pair of french residents book with us asking to move in the same night. We didn't think anything of it.
It turns out the two french kids had recently been staying at a house on Airbnb where another Airbnb guest had died. This was apparently Airbnb's first death of a customer using the service. For reasons which are not clear to me, the host cancelled all the bookings of the remaining guests before finding out what caused their other resident to die, which scattered them all over the place.
It turns out the death was from , an uncomfortably contagious and deadly disease for people who live in close proximity. Most Americans who attended a 4-year college are immunized for one kind of meningitis when they go to college because dorms are a great place to spread it, but international students are not always immunized and there are other varieties. This meant it was possible that the two french residents had brought it with them to our dorm and if they had, we all had uncomfortable odds of getting sick.
I was out at a meeting when I got the news. I remember walking outside and sitting down with Garrett on the curb of the parking lot, paging through Mayo Clinic and Wikipedia articles on our phones trying to get some grasp on what had just happened. I knew I had been immunized, but Garrett wasn't sure if he had been. He was remarkably calm for somebody who might die as we made lists of everybody we had been in contact with over the last few days.
Finally, we both got in his car and went home. We explained the situation to the residents, offered them to let them continue to stay in the house as long as they liked for free until they were cleared to be not infected or contagious, and offered to pay for take-out from our own pockets for them so they wouldn't go outside and infect people. We asked everybody to cancel any appointments they could and stay home, and we stopped any new guests from making bookings. Strangely, that was one of the hardest things for us to do emotionally: we'd gambled a lot on starting this project, and we knew we were facing failure if we went too long without income.
Everybody was pretty panicked so we opened all the nice wine in the house and passed it around. It seemed hospitable, we might die so we might as well drink the nice wine, and panicking wasn't helping anybody so here was a nice depressant to chill people's nerves. I had a bottle of that I particularly liked and most of the residents hadn't had before. We put with Bob Ross (the old PBS show where the man with the giant red fro paints happy little trees) on the TV as a marathon because it is really hard to be anxious while watching Bob Ross. All the residents sat in the living room with their laptops and watched with us. It was really quiet in that room. Everybody was trying to behave themselves and not start a panic, but none of us even knew enough about meningitis to make reasonable guesses about what was going to happen next.
It felt like ages until the CDC called us though it was really under 2 days, and they didn't want to talk to us, only to the french kids. That was maddening. We had so many questions about what was happening, but the professionals wouldn't speak to us. The french kids tried to relay as much as they could remember but there wasn't a lot to say. It was less than a day after that until they were declared not infected or contagious.