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Airbnb

The Platform Era · 2010s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.

The legends

Brian Chesky — Air Mattress to Empire

Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO
Started by renting air mattresses
Trained as a designer at RISD

Joe Gebbia

Co-founder
RISD-trained designer

Nathan Blecharczyk

Co-founder & CTO
The technical co-founder

Belinda Johnson

First COO
Built the legal and policy machine

Also on the roster

Sequoia / Greylock · Y Combinator

When Airbnb lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?

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