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Brian Chesky, CEO and founder of the company, stopped by last week to shoot a GigaOM Start-Up Sessions (video above), during which he shared the story of AirBnB and the lessons he learned in three years of chasing a dream.

Chesky has already learned some lessons he wants to share with his fellow entrepreneurs:

  1. Conventional wisdom is overrated.
  2. Being broke brings an incredible amount of discipline and focus.
  3. What your company does in its childhood has a big impact on its future.
  4. In solving your own problems, you solve problems for other people, and wthrough this, an opportunity often arises.