Last Updated: 22 Jan, 2023 | Views: 1438
Age: 43
Profession: CEO
Other Profession(s): Internet Entrepreneur
Famous For: CEO and Co-founder, Airbnb
Higher Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts
About (Profile/Biography):
Brian Joseph Chesky, industrial designer and a businessman who was born on August 29, 1981. In addition to being the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, he also serves on its board of directors. Time Magazine named Chesky one of their "100 Most Influential People of 2015". His father is Polish and his mother is Italian. Both Chesky's parents were social workers. In his childhood, Chesky was fascinated by art, drawing replicas of paintings and designing shoes and toys.
Brian Chesky Career:
A former industrial designer and strategist at 3DID, Inc., Chesky worked as an industrial designer after graduating from college.
His first apartment in San Francisco was shared with Gebbia in 2007.
All hotel rooms were booked for the Industrial Designers Society of America's conference in San Francisco in October 2007.
The third co-founder of Airbnb was Harvard graduate and technical architect Nathan Blecharczyk in February 2008.
It was announced by Chesky in 2015 that Airbnb was an official sponsor of the Summer Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge, a group of billionaires who have pledged to give the majority of their wealth to charity, was signed by Chesky on June 11, 2016.
Brian Chesky Reorganizations:
2015: America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 by Forbes & Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People
2015: Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship
2016: Youngest Forbes 400 list
2018: Bay Area Executive of the Year by Business Times
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