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'''Nathan Blecharczyk''' (born 1983) is an American [[billionaire]] businessman. He is the co-founder and [[chief strategy officer]] of [[Airbnb]], and chairman of Airbnb China.<ref name="airbnb china"/> Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer.<ref name="bloomberg">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/airbnb-enters-the-land-of-profitability |title=Airbnb Enters the Land of Profitability |last1=Stone |first1=Brad |last2=Zaleski |first2=Olivia |date=26 January 2017 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> He had an estimated net worth of US$9.3 billion in July 2021.
'''Nathan Blecharczyk''' (born 1983) is the co-founder and [[chief strategy officer]] of [[Airbnb]], and chairman of Airbnb China.<ref name="airbnb china"/> Blecharczyk was also the company's first [[chief technology officer]].<ref name=enters>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/airbnb-enters-the-land-of-profitability | title=Airbnb Enters the Land of Profitability |last1=Stone | first1=Brad | last2=Zaleski | first2=Olivia | work=[[Bloomberg News]] | date=January 26, 2017 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> Blecharczyk is the 203rd richest person in the world according to ''[[Forbes]]'', with a net worth of $9.4 billion,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/nathan-blecharczyk/ | title=Nathan Blecharczyk | work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> mostly due to his ownership of 62 million shares of [[Airbnb]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1559720/000119312524102960/d636281ddef14a.htm | title=Airbnb, Inc. 2023 Form 14-A Proxy Statement | publisher=[[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]] | date=April 19, 2024}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Blecharczyk was born in 1983,<ref name="Forbes profile"/> the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk, who is [[Polish-American]].<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/brattleboro/obituary.aspx?n=floyd-j-underwood&pid=1333702& Brattleboro Reformer: "Floyd Underwood"] August 21, 2003</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=649275518001373184|user=nathanblec|title=@JacekBereznicki yes I'm half polish; my ancestors came over around the time of World War I<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=September 30, 2015}}</ref> He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. He attended [[Boston Latin Academy]]. During high school, he made money by creating his own software business.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9525267/Airbnb-The-story-behind-the-1.3bn-room-letting-website.html |title=Airbnb: The Story Behind the $1.3Bn Room-Letting Website |last=Salter |first=Jessica |date=7 September 2012 |newspaper=The Telegraph}}</ref> His web-hosting business provided services to spammers and was once listed on the [[The Spamhaus Project|Spamhaus's]] "Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)" which lists the top spamming services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-co-founder|title=The Seedy, Spammy Past of Airbnb's Co-Founder|first=Ryan|last=Tate|date=|website=gawker.com|accessdate=11 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/spammers.lasso?-database=spammers.db&-layout=detail&-response=roksodetail.lasso&recno=1145&-clientusername=guest&-clientpassword=guest&-search|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030512215305/http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/spammers.lasso?-database=spammers.db&-layout=detail&-response=roksodetail.lasso&recno=1145&-clientusername=guest&-clientpassword=guest&-search|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 May 2003|title=The Spamhaus Project - Data-Miners.net - Nathan Blecharczyk|author=|date=12 May 2003|accessdate=11 October 2018}}</ref> He continued writing programs while attending [[Harvard University]] in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in [[computer science]], and made enough money to pay his tuition before abandoning his web-hosting business to focus on his studies in 2002.<ref name="99billion">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-uber-airbnb-99-billion-idea/ |title=The $99 Billion Idea |last=Stone |first=Brad |date=26 January 2017 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> He was also on the business staff of ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' during his time at [[Harvard College|Harvard]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com:80/about.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040609234027/http://www.thecrimson.com/about.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 9, 2004 |title=About The Harvard Crimson |date=June 9, 2004 |work=The Harvard Crimson |accessdate=October 17, 2018 }}</ref>
Blecharczyk was born in 1983, the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk, who is [[Polish-American]]. His ancestors came to the United States around the time of [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/brattleboro/name/floyd-underwood-obituary?id=32529202 | title=Brattleboro Reformer: "Floyd Underwood" | work=[[Brattleboro Reformer]] | via=[[Legacy.com]] | date=August 21, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=649275518001373184|user=nathanblec|title=@JacekBereznicki yes I'm half polish; my ancestors came over around the time of World War I |date=September 30, 2015}}</ref> He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. He attended [[Boston Latin Academy]], graduating in 2001.<ref name=gifted>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/10/21/boston-latin-academy-gifted-1-mil-from-alumnus-airbnb-co-founder/ | title=Boston Latin Academy gifted $1 mil from alumnus, Airbnb c0-founder | first1=Alexi | last1=Cohan | first2=Sean Phillip | last2=Cotter | work=[[Boston Herald]] | date=October 21, 2019 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> During high school, he made money by creating a software business.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9525267/Airbnb-The-story-behind-the-1.3bn-room-letting-website.html | title=Airbnb: The Story Behind the $1.3Bn Room-Letting Website |last=Salter | first=Jessica | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=September 7, 2012}}</ref> His web-hosting business provided services to spammers and was once listed on [[The Spamhaus Project]] "Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)" which lists the top spamming services.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gawkerarchives.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-co-founder |title=The Seedy, Spammy Past of Airbnb's Co-Founder |first=Ryan | last=Tate | work=[[Gawker]] | date=October 27, 2011}}</ref>

He continued writing programs while attending [[Harvard University]] in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in [[computer science]], and made enough money to pay his tuition before abandoning his web-hosting business to focus on his studies in 2002.<ref name="99billion">{{Cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-uber-airbnb-99-billion-idea/ | title=The $99 Billion Idea | last=Stone | first=Brad | work=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=January 26, 2017 | url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was also on the business staff of ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' during his time at [[Harvard College]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.universityherald.com/articles/76925/20191127/founders-top-start-up-companies-universities-where-graduated.htm | title=Founders Of Top Startup Companies And The Universities Where They Graduated | work=University Herald | date=November 27, 2019}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Blecharczyk began his career as an engineer at [[OPNET|OPNET Technologies]] in 2005. He served as a lead developer at Batiq in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wealthx.com/articles/2015/nathan-blecharczyk/|title=Nathan Blecharczyk|publisher=Wealth-X}}</ref> In 2008, Blecharczyk partnered with [[Brian Chesky]] and [[Joe Gebbia]] to found Airbnb, he served as the company's first chief technology officer and coded the company's original website using [[Ruby on Rails]].<ref name="99billion"/> Later that year, after failing to raise funding, the founders bought mass quantities of cereal, designed packaging branded as '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Originally intended as a marketing ploy, the company sold enough cereal to raise $30,000, and eventually attracted the attention of [[Y Combinator (company)|Y combinator]] co-founder [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]] who gave them $20,000 in early 2009 and accepted the company into the Y Combinator's seed funding program.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/inc/tca-how-airbnb-got-out-of-the-trough-of-sorrow-20161019-story.html|title=How Airbnb Got Out of The "Trough of Sorrow"|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|first=Tess|last=Townsend|date=October 19, 2016}}</ref>
Blecharczyk began his career as an engineer at [[OPNET]] in 2005. He was a lead developer at Batiq in 2007. Blecharczyk moved into an apartment with [[Brian Chesky]] after seeing an ad on [[Craigslist]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/airbnb-cofounder-nathan-blecharczyk-cto-work-family-decomposing-body | title=Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk: 'A body? It's unusual, but it wasn't as if it was in the front yard' | first=Paula | last=Cocozza | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> In 2008, Blecharczyk partnered with [[Brian Chesky]] and [[Joe Gebbia]] to found Airbnb, and was the company's first chief technology officer and coded the company's original website using [[Ruby on Rails]].<ref name="99billion"/> Later that year, after failing to raise funding, the founders bought mass quantities of cereal, designed packaging branded as '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Originally intended as a marketing ploy, the company sold enough cereal to raise $30,000, and attracted the attention of [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]], who invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session of his startup incubator, [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]], which provided them with training and $20,000 in funding in exchange for a 6% interest in the company.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/inc/tca-how-airbnb-got-out-of-the-trough-of-sorrow-20161019-story.html | title=How Airbnb Got Out of The "Trough of Sorrow" | work=[[Chicago Tribune]] | first=Tess | last=Townsend | date=October 19, 2016}}</ref> In the early years of the company, Airbnb overcame attempts to ban the service in New York City and San Francisco and eventually agreed to pay hotel taxes.<ref name=scrappy>{{Cite news | url=https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/airbnb-nathan-blecharczyk-leaning-back-into-the-companys-scrappy-roots.html |title=Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk Is Leaning Back Into the Company's Scrappy Roots | first=JENNIFER | last=CONRAD | work= [[Inc. (magazine)|Inc.com]] | date=July 14, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208144748/https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/airbnb-nathan-blecharczyk-leaning-back-into-the-companys-scrappy-roots.html | archive-date=February 8, 2024 | url-status=live}}</ref>


Blecharczyk oversaw Airbnb's 2015 expansion into Cuba.
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Blecharczyk oversaw Airbnb's 2015 expansion into Cuba.<ref name= "Forbes profile"/> On June 1, 2016, Blecharczyk, Chesky and Gebbia joined [[Warren Buffett]] and [[Bill Gates]]' '[[The Giving Pledge]]', a select group of billionaires who have committed to give the majority of their wealth away.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://fortune.com/2016/06/01/airbnb-cofounders-join-buffett-and-gates-giving-pledge/ |title=Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates' 'Giving Pledge' |magazine=Fortune |date=June 1, 2016 |accessdate=October 10, 2016 }}</ref>


In early 2017, Blecharczyk transitioned to chief strategy officer at Airbnb.<ref name="bloomberg"/> Blecharczyk was announced as the chairman of Airbnb China, also known as Aibiying, in October 2017.<ref name="airbnb china">{{Cite web|url=https://skift.com/2017/10/19/airbnb-co-founder-nathan-blecharczyk-named-chairman-of-airbnb-china/|title=Airbnb Co-Founder Nathan Blecharczyk Named Chairman of Airbnb China|work=Skift|author=Ting, Deanna|date=October 20, 2017 }}</ref>
In early 2017, Blecharczyk transitioned to chief strategy officer at Airbnb.<ref name=enters/> Blecharczyk was announced as the chairman of Airbnb China, also known as Aibiying, in October 2017.<ref name="airbnb china">{{Cite web | url=https://skift.com/2017/10/19/airbnb-co-founder-nathan-blecharczyk-named-chairman-of-airbnb-china/ | title=Airbnb Co-Founder Nathan Blecharczyk Named Chairman of Airbnb China | work=[[Skift]] | last=Ting | first=Deanna | date=October 20, 2017 }}</ref>


In summer 2019, [[Sean M. Joyce|Sean Joyce]], then a senior Airbnb official, raised concerns after Chinese government officials asked Airbnb for enhanced data sharing in China. ''The Wall Street Journal'' reported Blecharczyk responding that the company was not there to "promote American values."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Grind|first=Dustin Volz and Kirsten|date=2020-11-20|title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Airbnb Executive Resigned Last Year Over Chinese Request for More Data Sharing|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-executive-resigned-last-year-over-chinese-request-for-more-data-sharing-11605896753|access-date=2020-11-22|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
In summer 2019, after [[Sean M. Joyce]], then a senior Airbnb official, raised concerns after Chinese government officials asked Airbnb for enhanced data sharing in China Blecharczyk responded that the company was not there to "promote American values."<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-executive-resigned-last-year-over-chinese-request-for-more-data-sharing-11605896753 | last2=Grind | first1=Dustin | last1=Volz | first2=Kirsten |date=November 20, 2020 | title=Airbnb Executive Resigned Last Year Over Chinese Request for More Data Sharing | work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | url-access=subscription | issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

According to ''Forbes'', he had an estimated net worth of US$9.3 billion in July 2021.<ref name="Forbes profile">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/nathan-blecharczyk/ |title=Forbes profile: Nathan Blecharczyk |website=Forbes.com |accessdate=18 July 2021}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Blecharczyk resides in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name="Forbes profile"/> He is married to Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk, a [[neonatologist]].<ref>[https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/elizabeth-morey-blecharczyk Stanford medicine: "Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk"] retrieved May 8, 2016</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/airbnbs-co-founders-commit-half-of-33-billion-fortunes-to-charity_us_57505ef3e4b0ed593f138a6e |title=Airbnb Co-Founders Commit Half Their Fortunes to Charity |last=Goldberg |first=Eleanor |date=2 June 2016 |work=Huffington Post}}</ref> They have two children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2017/06/18/fathers-day-2017-usa-when-is-airbnb-parental-leave-dads/|title=Why Fathers Need Parental Leave Too|work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]|accessdate=5 August 2017}}</ref>
Blecharczyk resides in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name=scrappy/> He is married to Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk, a [[neonatologist]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/elizabeth-morey-blecharczyk | title=Stanford medicine: "Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk | work=[[Stanford University]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/airbnbs-co-founders-commit-half-of-33-billion-fortunes-to-charity_n_57505ef3e4b0ed593f138a6e | title=Airbnb Co-Founders Commit Half Their Fortunes to Charity | last=Goldberg | first=Eleanor | work=[[HuffPost]] | date=June 2, 2016}}</ref> They have two children; Blecharczyk has been a supporter of [[parental leave]] for fathers.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://fortune.com/2017/06/18/fathers-day-2017-usa-when-is-airbnb-parental-leave-dads/ |title=Why Fathers Need Parental Leave Too | first=NATHAN | last=BLECHARCZYK | work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] | date=June 18, 2017}}</ref>

===Philanthropy===
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Blecharczyk joined [[Warren Buffett]] and [[Bill Gates]]' '[[The Giving Pledge]]', a select group of billionaires who have committed to give the majority of their wealth away.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://fortune.com/2016/06/01/airbnb-cofounders-join-buffett-and-gates-giving-pledge/ |title=Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates' 'Giving Pledge' | first=LEIGH | last=GALLAGHER | magazine=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] | date=June 1, 2016}}</ref>

In 2019, he donated $1 million to his alma mater, Boston Latin Academy.<ref name=gifted/><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/airbnb-cofounder-nate-blecharczyk-boston-latin-academy-donation/ | title=Airbnb Co-Founder Donates $1M To Boston Latin Academy | work=[[CBS Boston]] | date=October 21, 2019}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 14:30, 3 August 2024

Nathan Blecharczyk
Blecharczyk in 2022
Born1983 (age 40–41)
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BS)
OccupationChief strategy officer of Airbnb
Known forCo-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb
SpouseElizabeth Morey Blecharczyk
Children2

Nathan Blecharczyk (born 1983) is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China.[1] Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer.[2] Blecharczyk is the 203rd richest person in the world according to Forbes, with a net worth of $9.4 billion,[3] mostly due to his ownership of 62 million shares of Airbnb.[4]

Early life and education

[edit]

Blecharczyk was born in 1983, the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk, who is Polish-American. His ancestors came to the United States around the time of World War I.[5][6] He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Boston Latin Academy, graduating in 2001.[7] During high school, he made money by creating a software business.[8] His web-hosting business provided services to spammers and was once listed on The Spamhaus Project "Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)" which lists the top spamming services.[9]

He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, and made enough money to pay his tuition before abandoning his web-hosting business to focus on his studies in 2002.[10] He was also on the business staff of The Harvard Crimson during his time at Harvard College.[11]

Career

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Blecharczyk began his career as an engineer at OPNET in 2005. He was a lead developer at Batiq in 2007. Blecharczyk moved into an apartment with Brian Chesky after seeing an ad on Craigslist.[12] In 2008, Blecharczyk partnered with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to found Airbnb, and was the company's first chief technology officer and coded the company's original website using Ruby on Rails.[10] Later that year, after failing to raise funding, the founders bought mass quantities of cereal, designed packaging branded as '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Originally intended as a marketing ploy, the company sold enough cereal to raise $30,000, and attracted the attention of Paul Graham, who invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session of his startup incubator, Y Combinator, which provided them with training and $20,000 in funding in exchange for a 6% interest in the company.[13] In the early years of the company, Airbnb overcame attempts to ban the service in New York City and San Francisco and eventually agreed to pay hotel taxes.[14]

Blecharczyk oversaw Airbnb's 2015 expansion into Cuba.

In early 2017, Blecharczyk transitioned to chief strategy officer at Airbnb.[2] Blecharczyk was announced as the chairman of Airbnb China, also known as Aibiying, in October 2017.[1]

In summer 2019, after Sean M. Joyce, then a senior Airbnb official, raised concerns after Chinese government officials asked Airbnb for enhanced data sharing in China Blecharczyk responded that the company was not there to "promote American values."[15]

Personal life

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Blecharczyk resides in San Francisco, California.[14] He is married to Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk, a neonatologist.[16][17] They have two children; Blecharczyk has been a supporter of parental leave for fathers.[18]

Philanthropy

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Blecharczyk joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' 'The Giving Pledge', a select group of billionaires who have committed to give the majority of their wealth away.[19]

In 2019, he donated $1 million to his alma mater, Boston Latin Academy.[7][20]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ting, Deanna (October 20, 2017). "Airbnb Co-Founder Nathan Blecharczyk Named Chairman of Airbnb China". Skift.
  2. ^ a b Stone, Brad; Zaleski, Olivia (January 26, 2017). "Airbnb Enters the Land of Profitability". Bloomberg News.
  3. ^ "Nathan Blecharczyk". Forbes.
  4. ^ "Airbnb, Inc. 2023 Form 14-A Proxy Statement". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. April 19, 2024.
  5. ^ "Brattleboro Reformer: "Floyd Underwood"". Brattleboro Reformer. August 21, 2003 – via Legacy.com.
  6. ^ @nathanblec (September 30, 2015). "@JacekBereznicki yes I'm half polish; my ancestors came over around the time of World War I" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ a b Cohan, Alexi; Cotter, Sean Phillip (October 21, 2019). "Boston Latin Academy gifted $1 mil from alumnus, Airbnb c0-founder". Boston Herald.
  8. ^ Salter, Jessica (September 7, 2012). "Airbnb: The Story Behind the $1.3Bn Room-Letting Website". The Daily Telegraph.
  9. ^ Tate, Ryan (October 27, 2011). "The Seedy, Spammy Past of Airbnb's Co-Founder". Gawker.
  10. ^ a b Stone, Brad (January 26, 2017). "The $99 Billion Idea". Bloomberg News.
  11. ^ "Founders Of Top Startup Companies And The Universities Where They Graduated". University Herald. November 27, 2019.
  12. ^ Cocozza, Paula (March 4, 2016). "Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk: 'A body? It's unusual, but it wasn't as if it was in the front yard'". The Guardian.
  13. ^ Townsend, Tess (October 19, 2016). "How Airbnb Got Out of The "Trough of Sorrow"". Chicago Tribune.
  14. ^ a b CONRAD, JENNIFER (July 14, 2023). "Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk Is Leaning Back Into the Company's Scrappy Roots". Inc.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024.
  15. ^ Volz, Dustin; Grind, Kirsten (November 20, 2020). "Airbnb Executive Resigned Last Year Over Chinese Request for More Data Sharing". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660.
  16. ^ "Stanford medicine: "Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk". Stanford University.
  17. ^ Goldberg, Eleanor (June 2, 2016). "Airbnb Co-Founders Commit Half Their Fortunes to Charity". HuffPost.
  18. ^ BLECHARCZYK, NATHAN (June 18, 2017). "Why Fathers Need Parental Leave Too". Fortune.
  19. ^ GALLAGHER, LEIGH (June 1, 2016). "Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates' 'Giving Pledge'". Fortune.
  20. ^ "Airbnb Co-Founder Donates $1M To Boston Latin Academy". CBS Boston. October 21, 2019.
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