# Airbnb cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk speaks at the Sharing Economy Summit at NYU Stern

1 School News June 10, 2014 ![Entrepreneur logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033740.jpg?itok=QGgEe5Xk)>

Excerpt from [Entrepreneur](http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234709) -- "Success as an entrepreneur is 'less about the idea and more about the person,' Blecharczyk told an audience at a conference on the sharing economy at New York University’s Stern School of Business last week. 'All along the way, people said, "No, this isn’t going to work, don’t do this."'"

[Read more](http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234709)

Additional coverage appeared on [Entrepreneur](http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/234804), [Fox Business](http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/starting-a-business/2014/06/20/airbnb-co-founder-if-rejection-slows-down-entrepreneurship-isnt-for/) and [Yahoo! News](https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/airbnb-co-founder-were-rejected-194500237.html).