
To invite funds for their business, Chesky and his co-founders came up with an innovative idea and made special-edition cereals called ‘Obama O’s’ and ‘Cap’n McCains’ based on presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Each co-founder took over unique roles and Chesky became the leader and chief executive officer. Harvard graduate and technical architect, Nathan Blecharczyk joined as the third co-founder of Airbnb in February 2008. They came up with the idea of ‘Airbed and Breakfast’ and bought three air mattresses for the three guests who stayed at their place the first night. As the duo was finding it difficult to pay their rent, they decided to rent their apartment for money to the guests of the conference. During this conference, all the hotel rooms were booked. He was sharing his apartment with Gebbia when the Industrial Designers Society of America was hosting its conference in San Francisco. It was in the year 2007 that the whole idea of Airbnb came to Chesky. Later, he moved to San Francisco and started sharing an apartment with his friend Gebbia. CareerĪfter completing college, Brian Chesky was working in Los Angeles at 3DID as an industrial designer and strategist. Gabe Newell is an American computer programmer and businessman, best known as the co-founder of ‘Valve Corporation.’ This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, family, personal life, career, etc. There are many reasons for his success and one of the most important reasons is the fact that he gave more importance to his customers and the services they needed rather than the ideas of the developers. Ultimately, this led to the birth of Airbnb which grew gradually and gave better opportunities to travelers looking for a place to stay. Chesky and his roommates needed cash so they decided to rent their apartment. On a similar note, he got the idea for Airbnb in 2007 when he faced some financial difficulties. They transformed the team and brought a new mascot as the team’s logo which helped to revitalize it. When his hockey team was cancelled at the last moment, he and his teammates began re-branding their team.

Chesky began his journey as an entrepreneur during his college days when he used to run a hockey team. He also serves as the CEO of Airbnb, and was listed in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2015’.

Brian Joseph Chesky is an American entrepreneur who started Airbnb-an online service for booking accommodations for travelers-along with his partners.
