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Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008; Chesky is CEO.

Chesky owns nearly 14% of Airbnb.

In 2022, Chesky announced he would start living on Airbnb full time, moving to a different city or town every few weeks.

A former bodybuilder, Chesky attended Rhode Island School of Design where he met Gebbia.

Chesky is the son of two social workers; he made $40,000 a year as an industrial designer in Los Angeles before Airbnb took off.