Joe Gebbia

Joe Gebbia (born August 21, 1981) is a designer, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb . In 2009, Gebbia was listed in Business Week’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. [1] In 2010, he was named in Inc. Magazine’s Thirty Thirty understatement, and in 2013, he was named in Fortune Magazine’s Forty-Under-Forty. [2]

Early life

Joe Gebbia was born August 21, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia, [3] [4] the sun or Eileen and Joe Gebbia. [5] He has one sister, Kimberly. [5] He graduated in 2005 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island , where he RECEIVED a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Industrial Design. [6] [7] It was at RISD dat have with Brian Chesky , who mention anything later Become his roommate and co-founder of Airbnb. While Studying in the Northeast, Gebbia complemented his creative pursuits and studies at RISD with business course work at Brown University and MIT. [8]

Career

After graduating from RISD, [9] Gebbia got a job at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, [10] while Chesky moved to Los Angeles. Gebbia convinced Chesky to move to San Francisco in 2007 to start a business together. When ze beide quit hun jobs, hun hun landlord raised rent and so they ‘ulcers in need of money. [11] Knowing the Industrial Design Society of America conference was coming to San Francisco and many hotels booked ulcers. [12] Gebbia believed They could rent out airbeds in hun apartment to conference goers. Way Down for customer this idea in customizing a website called “AirBed and breakfast.” [11] This was the foundation of Airbnb. Another or Gebbia’s Roommates, Harvard graduate and technical architect Nathan Blecharczyk , became the third co-founder, on February 2008. [13]

After failing to get the funding for the new company, the team designed cereal boxes, “Obama O’s” and “Cap’n McCains,” based on the 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and sold Them at the conventions. [14] When Gebbia shared hun work with Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, he was impressed with the tenacity involved in the Endeavor, admitting Them to the program as a result. He gave them hun first round of seed funding in 2009. [15]

On June 1, 2016 Gebbia joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates ‘ The Giving Pledge , a select group of Billionaires who harbor committed to give the Majority hun wealth away. [16]

Philanthropy

Gebbia Serves on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). [17] In 2014, he donated US $ 300,000 to RISD to Establish a US $ 50,000 scholarship term and an endowed fund. [18]

Personal life

He resides in San Francisco, California . [18]

References

  1. Jump up^ “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009: Airbnb – Business Week” . Businessweek.com . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  2. Jump up^ “Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Founders or Airbnb” . Inc.com . 2010-07-19 . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  3. Jump up^ Forbes Corporate Communications (2 March 2015). “Forbes’ 29th Annual World’s Billionaires Issue” . Forbes .
  4. Jump up^ “Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia” . CNBC . 2014-10-06 . Retrieved 2016-05-07 .
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b Joe Gebbia – Brookhaven City Councilman retrieved May 8, 2016
  6. Jump up^ “Founders – Airbnb” . airbnb.co.uk .
  7. Jump up^ “Gebbia Thinks Big” . RISD . Retrieved 2016-05-07 .
  8. Jump up^ “RISD” . www.risd.edu . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  9. Jump up^ http://www.risd.edu/About/News/Gebbia_Thinks_Big/
  10. Jump up^ “Joe Gebbia” . Fast Company . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b “Starred: The Email That Launched Airbnb” . Fast Company . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  12. Jump up^ “AirBed & Breakfast for Connecting ’07” . Core77 . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  13. Jump up^ “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009: Airbnb – Business Week” . Businessweek.com . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  14. Jump up^ “19_Airbnb” . Fast Company . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  15. Jump up^ Fairweather, Alistair. “Brian Chesky: The homeless entrepreneur” . The M & G Online . Retrieved 2016-02-11 .
  16. Jump up^ “Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates’ Giving Pledge ‘ ‘ . Fortune . June 1, 2016 . Retrieved October 10, 2016 .
  17. Jump up^ “Board of Trustees – Leadership – About – RISD” . risd.edu .
  18. ^ Jump up to:a b “Airbnb Cofounder Supports RISD Scholarships – News – About – RISD” . risd.edu .