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33-422: Chesky may refer to: People [ edit ] Brian Chesky (born 1981), American businessman, co-founder of Airbnb David Chesky (born 1956), American musician and record label owner Norman Chesky , American music producer and record label owner Evelyn Chesky (born 1933), American politician Larry Chesky (1933–2011), Polka band leader and manager of

66-502: A bed and breakfast , providing air mattresses for guests to sleep on and Pop-Tarts for breakfast during the Industrial Designers Society of America conference, when hotel rooms were scarce. The business became Airbnb . Chesky became the chief executive officer of Airbnb. He has solicited ideas for improving Airbnb directly from customers and has implemented ideas based on his personal experiences as both

99-867: A rescue dog named after the Airbnb logo, Bélo. He attended the 2023 Met Gala with Brazilian fashion model and social media personality Isabelle Boemeke . Gebbia is on the board of directors of Airbnb and Airbnb.org, a non-profit foundation; Samara, an accessory dwelling unit startup and Tesla Inc. He is also a member of The Style Council of Mr. Porter. Gebbia is among the youngest members to join The Giving Pledge committing to give more than half his wealth to philanthropic causes. Gebbia has made donations to service-led companies and projects, including Thorn and Educate Girls. A former scholarship recipient, in 2014, Gebbia donated $ 300,000 to his alma mater, RISD, to create an endowed fund that will make

132-513: A 6% interest in the company. In December 2020, Airbnb became a public company via an initial public offering . In 2015, Chesky was included on the Forbes list of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. Chesky was recognized on the Time 100 for 2015. In May 2015, President Barack Obama named Chesky a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship . In 2016, Chesky was also named in

165-413: A designer for Chronicle Books . There, he was the only industrial designer in a company of 200 people who focused on graphic design. He also founded Ecolect, a green-design website. In 2007, Brian Chesky , his classmate at RISD, moved in with him, and they both quit their jobs to start a company together. That same week, their landlord raised rent by 20%, to an amount they could not afford. Knowing that

198-498: A group of billionaires who have committed to giving the majority of their wealth away. Chesky donated $ 10 million to nonprofit organizations supporting frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. In 2022, Chesky was ranked No. 20 by contributions on the list of the 50 most prolific philanthropists in the United States by The Chronicle of Philanthropy . In May 2022, Chesky pledged $ 100 million over 5 years to

231-528: A guest and a host on the platform. To receive funding, Chesky and his co-founders created special-edition cereals called "Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCains", based on presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain . Impressed by the cereal boxes, computer programmer Paul Graham invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session of his startup incubator, Y Combinator , which provided them with training and $ 20,000 in funding in exchange for

264-542: A network of mentors. Joe Gebbia Gebbia was born August 21, 1981, in Atlanta, Georgia , the son of Eileen and Joe Gebbia, independent health food sales representatives. Gebbia is of Italian and Irish ancestry. He grew up in Lawrenceville, Georgia and has one sister, Kimberly. As a child, Gebbia was passionate about aesthetic and design, music, and athletics, crediting his parents for their support. He

297-408: A part of New York City’s design week. The LEGO-like collection earned featured recognition in publications like Designboom, the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture and design culture, Quartz, Dezeen , and Interior Design. Gebbia supported the newly formed Eames Institute for Infinite Curiosity, aimed at broadening the influence of Ray and Charles Eames through exhibitions from

330-482: A poor job of presenting the listing. Leveraging Gebbia’s background in design, they rented a camera and took high-resolution photos of the listings. Gebbia offered complimentary professional photography services sourced from a community of over 2,000 freelancers. As a result, Airbnb's revenue in the city doubled and the Airbnb Photography Program was created. In March 2009, the name of the company

363-460: A semester-long project aiming to produce 12-inch scale works of a famous artist or designer. Gebbia decided he wanted to create life-size models so he could use them afterwards, but his professor dismissed the idea and told to stick to the achievable. Gebbia set out to prove his professor wrong and produced sixteen full-sized chairs for his final project. He refers to this anecdote as one of several examples that allowed him to transcend beliefs of what

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396-447: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brian Chesky 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, mostly due to his ownership of 67 million shares of Airbnb. Brian Chesky

429-619: The 2008 Democratic National Convention . Impressed by the cereal boxes, computer programmer Paul Graham invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session of his startup incubator, Y Combinator , which provided them with training and $ 20,000 in funding in exchange for a 6% interest in the company. Gebbia helped early hosts present their listings. When the company was struggling to gain traction in New York City, Gebbia and Chesky booked with two-dozen hosts and discovered that many hosts were taking low-quality photos that did

462-551: The Atlanta College of Art on weekends. In high school, he also was a finalist of the Georgia Governor's Honors Program , where he spent a summer taking college-level art courses. There, one of his professors encouraged him to go to Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and he spent the following summer taking courses on the campus. In one of his first courses at RISD, Gebbia took a 3D foundations class with

495-476: The Obama Foundation to launch a scholarship program for students pursuing careers in public service. The Voyager Scholarship aims to support students in their junior and senior year of college with up to $ 50,000 in financial aid, a $ 10,000 stipend, and free Airbnb housing to pursue a summer work-travel experience; a $ 2,000 travel credit every year for 10 years following graduation; an annual summit; and

528-781: The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in industrial design . While studying at RISD, Chesky was influenced by the works of Charles Eames , Ray Eames , and Walt Disney . He was captain of the RISD hockey team and was a competitive bodybuilder. Chesky was also the designer of the unofficial mascot of RISD, Scrotie . After graduating from RISD, Chesky moved to Los Angeles to work as an industrial designer. In October 2007, he moved to San Francisco to live with RISD classmate Joe Gebbia . Chesky did not have enough money to pay his rent, and they opened their house to short-term renters as

561-496: The 2008 election. They found a small manufacturer in Berkeley who agreed to fabricate 1,000 cartons in exchange for a cut of the royalties. The team bought generic Cheerios and Chex , and placed the cereal into their boxes. The boxes, which cost $ 40 each, received coverage from CNN and Good Morning America; Katy Perry auctioned off an autographed box to her fans. The promotion netted Airbnb $ 30,000; sales were strong at

594-582: The Eames Collection. On December 10, 2020, Airbnb became a public company via an initial public offering , raising $ 3.5 billion. In January 2022, Gebbia acquired a minority ownership stake in the San Antonio Spurs , joining billionaire Michael Dell and San Francisco-based global investment firm Sixth Street Partners as fellow investors. In July 2022, Gebbia stepped down from his full-time operating role at Airbnb, while remaining on

627-548: The Industrial Design Society of America conference was to be hosted in San Francisco and many hotels were fully booked, Gebbia came up with the idea of renting out airbeds in their apartment to conference-goers. They marketed the beds by creating a website called "AirBed & Breakfast” and emailed design blogs to garner interest. They received three bookings and were able to pay their rent to stay in

660-952: The Youngest Forbes 400 list. Chesky was named one of the "World's Greatest Leaders" in 2017 by Fortune . He received an honorary doctorate from RISD that year. In 2018, Chesky was named the Bay Area Executive of the Year by American City Business Journals . In June 2022, Chesky was featured among the 100 Most Powerful People in Global Hospitality by the International Hospitality Institute. American computer scientist Paul Graham praised Chesky's management style, describing it as "founder mode". On June 11, 2016, Chesky joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates ' The Giving Pledge ,

693-568: The apartment. In 2008, another of Gebbia's roommates, Harvard graduate and technical architect Nathan Blecharczyk , became the third cofounder. He said he was inspired to co-found Airbnb due to a landlord increasing the rent on the San Francisco apartment he shared with a roommate, believing that there should be competition to this practice. While struggling to find initial angel investors, Gebbia and Chesky created two boxes of cereals, Obama O’s and Cap’n McCain’s, to sell online before

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726-488: The board of directors in an advisory role. In September 2022, Gebbia was appointed by Tesla, Inc. to its board of directors. Samara, formerly a research and development unit of Airbnb established in 2016, became an independent accessory dwelling unit (ADU) startup in 2022. Gebbia announced the launch of its first product in November 2022, a net-zero tiny house called Backyard. Gebbia has invested in: In 2020, Gebbia

759-568: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic . Gebbia also executive produced a documentary titled We Dare to Dream , in partnership with XTR , following the 29-athlete Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympics before, during and after the 2020 Summer Olympics . Gebbia lives in Austin, Texas , where, in 2020, he bought a 6,000 square foot, $ 10 million home, designed in the minimalist style. Gebbia has

792-465: The product was featured in I.D. and was sold by many retailers. In 2005, Gebbia graduated from RISD with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Industrial Design. Gebbia took supplementary business-related classes at Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while attending RISD. After graduating from RISD, Gebbia moved to San Francisco to work as

825-600: The record label Rex Records Other [ edit ] Chesky Records , an American record label company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chesky . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chesky&oldid=1218991046 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

858-578: The school accessible for students in need of financial assistance. Gebbia is a "term trustee" of RISD. In 2017, Gebbia brought Yeonmi Park , a North Korean refugee as his guest to the Met Gala to bring attention to the issue of global-refugee security. Park was featured on the front page of the style section of The New York Times following the event. In 2019, Gebbia donated to the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation which

891-526: Was a ball boy for the Atlanta Hawks . Gebbia was known as the "art guy" in grade school when he started his first business selling illustrations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to his classmates. Gebbia attended Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia , where he took classes in ceramics, photography, and jewelry metalsmithing . He also took classes in figure drawing and painting at

924-414: Was an executive producer on the documentary film Universe , which follows jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney , a protégé of Miles Davis , as he convenes an orchestra to perform a rediscovered orchestral jazz suite by Wayne Shorter —written in 1966 for Miles Davis but never before performed. The film premiered weeks after Roney died from complications of COVID-19 , making it one of the first films portraying

957-822: Was born on August 29, 1981, in Niskayuna, New York , the son of Deborah and Robert Chesky; His father is of Polish and his mother of Italian origin. Chesky's parents were both social workers. He has a younger sister, Allison. Chesky enjoys sketching and bonsai . As a child, Chesky's first hobby was ice hockey . He developed an interest in art in his teens and cited Leonardo da Vinci as an early inspiration. He drew replicas of paintings and redesigned toys and shoes. In an interview with The New York Times , he said he watched friends of his parents redesign their backyard, which led to an interest in landscape architecture and later urban planning . Chesky graduated from Niskayuna High School in 1999 and graduated from

990-588: Was included on the list of America's 50 Biggest Charity Donors by The Chronicle of Philanthropy . In May 2022, while Gebbia was the graduation speaker at his alma mater, Brookwood High School, he pledged 22 shares of Airbnb stock to each of the 890 graduates, a gift worth a total of $ 2.1 million. In February 2023, Gebbia made a $ 25 million gift to The Ocean Cleanup , the organization's largest private donation to date. The gift expands climate health and ocean sustainability operations across oceans, rivers, recycling, and research. Funds particularly support deployment of

1023-508: Was possible. Around this time, Gebbia also became inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames and switched his studies from painting to industrial design. One of his first design-business ventures was CritBuns—soft, foamy cushions to keep art students’ pants clean during their hours-long critique sessions, known as "crits". He developed the idea at RISD and the design was selected as the senior gift for his graduating class of 800 students. After two years developing his sales pitch and story,

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1056-468: Was shortened to Airbnb.com, and the site's content had expanded from air beds and shared spaces to properties including entire homes, apartments, and private rooms. In May 2017, Gebbia launched Neighborhood, a modular designed office furniture business. The furniture was created for Bernhardt Design , a furniture company that has worked with emerging designers. It was launched at the ICFF furniture fair as

1089-690: Was used to redevelop basketball and tennis courts at playgrounds in Hayes Valley, San Francisco . In 2020, he and his team launched Airbnb.org, a non-profit that enables hosts on Airbnb to house people in times of crisis. In December 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , Gebbia made a $ 25 million donation to benefit two San Francisco charities working to end homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area : Rising Up—Larkin Street Youth Services and All Home. In 2021, Gebbia

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