The Profile: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
The beleaguered Airbnb chief executive has seen his fortunes finally turn with the huge success of his web platform’s initial public offering
In brief:
Name: Brian Chesky
Age: 39
Appearance: perennially dressed in tech bro T-shirts, and usually smiling
Newsworthiness: Airbnb, the company he co-founded in 2008, went public last week
In depth:
Brian Chesky will likely always think of a cockroach when he looks back on the day his luck changed.
The insect, long hypothesised as being able to survive a nuclear winter, was the most appropriate analogy Paul Graham, a venture capitalist, could make when ...