Airbnb has hired Fred Reid, the founding CEO of Virgin America, as its global head of transportation.
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The Wing gets $75M from Sequoia, Airbnb
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Airbnb has poached another Amazon executive. This time, it’s Dave Stephenson, who’s been hired to lead its upcoming IPO as Airbnb’s chief financial officer.
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Airbnb’s head of engineering will leave the company before the end of 2018 to pursue other projects and focus on his family. The news was first reported by The Information and later confirmed to TechCrunch by Airbnb. Curtis joined the home-sharing platform in 2013 after about two years as the director of engineering at Facebook. […]
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View More How Airbnb went from renting air beds for $10 to a $30 billion hospitality behemothAirbnb CEO said company will ‘be ready to IPO next year’ but might not
Airbnb brings in billions of dollars of revenue annually and is profitable on an EBITDA basis, so many wonder if and when the home-sharing company will go public. At the Code Conference today, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company will “be ready to IPO next year, but I don’t know if we will.” He […]
View More Airbnb CEO said company will ‘be ready to IPO next year’ but might notAirbnb wants to assure you its vision is ‘good for society’
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In an open letter, the head of Airbnb talked about being a relevant, useful, and purposeful company — and most importantly, one that doesn’t destroy society.
CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky laid out the company’s vision in the letter, and stressed the importance of appeasing not just employees and shareholders, but also the wider community outside of the Airbnb bubble — presumably including people who’ve accused the company of pushing rents higher in tight housing markets.
Without naming certain social media platforms (ahem, Facebook), he voiced concerns over the widening political divide. Read more…
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In February of this year, Airbnb acquired social payments startup Tilt. Today, the fruits of that acquisition are being passed along to Airbnb users. Starting now, Airbnb users have the ability to split payments with their fellow travelers. Befor…
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