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  2. www.forbes.com › profile › brian-cheskyBrian Chesky - Forbes

    $50M (0.56%) Real Time Net Worth. as of 9/26/24. #306 in the world today. Photo by Jamel Toppin/The Forbes Collection. From the Editor. Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental...

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    • What Is Brian Chesky's Net Worth?
    • IPO
    • Early Life and Education
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    • Airbnb Founding
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    • Personal Life and Philanthropy

    Brian Chesky is an American internet entrepreneur and industrial designer who has a net worth of $9 billion. Brian Chesky earned his fortune as a co-founder and CEO of hospitality exchange service Airbnb. In 2015, he was named by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People" of the year. In 2020, Airbnb went public at a valuation of $10...

    Airbnb made its IPO debut on December 10, 2020. On December 9, the company's expected market cap was a little under $50 billion. By the morning of December 10, the company's market cap had exploded to $100 billion. At that level, Nathan, Brian and Joe were each worth around $11 billion on paper. When the company finally went public, it started trad...

    Brian Chesky was born on August 29, 1981 in Niskayuna, New York to social worker parents Robert and Deborah. He is of Polish ancestry on his father's side and Italian descent on his mother's side. Chesky has a younger sister named Allison. Growing up, he demonstrated a passion for art and design; this soon led to an interest in landscape architectu...

    Following his graduation from RISD, Chesky became an industrial designer and strategist at the Los Angeles-based company 3DID. Subsequently, in 2007, he moved to San Francisco, where he roomed with his former college classmate Joe Gebbia.

    In late 2007, the Industrial Designers Society of America was hosting a conference in San Francisco. Because of this, hotel rooms in the city were totally booked. In response, the cash-strapped Chesky and Gebbia decided to rent out their apartment for money. The pair bought a few air mattresses and marketed their service as Airbed and Breakfast. In...

    Airbnb continued to grow in success over the years, accumulating millions of dollars in seed funding. Throughout 2011 and 2012, the company opened offices in cities around the world, including London, Paris, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Moscow, São Paulo, and Sydney. In 2015, Airbnb raised $1.5 billion in Series E funding. Over the subsequent two years, ...

    During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Airbnb bookings dropped sharply in many cities. In response, the company raised $1 billion in equity from the firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners. Shortly after this, Chesky announced the layoff of around 1,900 Airbnb employees. Later in the year, the company went public. Airbnb has been plagued by many...

    Chesky's success with Airbnb has resulted in a number of honors for the entrepreneur. In 2015, he was named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" of the year, and was also named one of "America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40" by Forbes. Also in 2015, Chesky was named an Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship by President Obama. Late...

    Previously, Chesky was in a romantic relationship with artist Elissa Patel. On the philanthropic side of things, Chesky has joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett'sGiving Pledge, through which billionaires commit to donating the majority of their wealth during their lifetimes. Additionally, Chesky gave a $100 million gift to the Obama Foundation to e...

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  4. Overview. Chesky is co-founder and chief executive officer of Airbnb, the homestay and vacation services company with more than 5 million hosts worldwide. The San Francisco-based publicly traded...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Brian_CheskyBrian Chesky - Wikipedia

    Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American businessman and industrial designer and the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Chesky is the 355th richest person in the world according to Forbes, with a net worth of $7.8 billion, [1] mostly due to his ownership of 67 million shares of Airbnb. [2]

  6. Dec 11, 2020 · The massive initial public offering drove the 39-year-old’s net worth up to about $11 billion, giving him a larger fortune than record executive David Geffen and hedge-fund tycoon Steve...

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  7. May 6, 2023 · As of May 2023, Airbnb’s market capitalization is $74.9 billion, and its 42-year-old CEO has a real-time net worth estimated at $9.3 billion. However, things were not always rosy for Brian...

  8. Dec 10, 2020 · Brian Chesky is now the “host” of a multibillion-dollar fortune thanks to his company Airbnb’s massive IPO. The popular home-sharing platform began trading at a whopping $146 per share on...