Brian Chesky

Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008.Chesky is CEO of Airbnb, which has been used by more than 300 million people in 81,000 cities in 191 countries.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.