Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky had other plans for IPO and ‘wild, crazy’ year
Share sale cements the fortunes of Chesky and co-founders Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk
10 December 2020 - 18:47
Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky had an idea of what the company’s first stock-trading day would look like — and this isn’t it.
He was not in New York to ring the Nasdaq Stock Exchange’s opening bell. Instead, the CEO will be sitting in front of his laptop at his apartment in San Francisco, walking distance from the unremarkable four-storey townhouse at 19 Rausch Street where the company was born 13 years ago...
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