Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Underwood Blecharczyk (* 1984 in West Roxbury , Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Airbnb .
Career
At the age of 12 he started writing his first programs which he put on the Internet. When he was 14, he received a $ 1,000 offer to write a program. In 2001 he graduated from the Boston Latin Academy high school. He attended the elite Harvard University , where he received a bachelor's degree in computer science in 2005 . From 2005 he worked as an engineer at OPNET Technologies and in 2007 as chief developer at Batiq. He also worked as a program manager at Microsoft .
Role at Airbnb
When the two designers Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia wanted to found Airbnb in 2008, they needed a partner who could program. Gebbia remembered his former roommate Blecharczyk, who was a programmer, and so he became the engineer (CTO) responsible for the new company's website. To get an idea of how Airbnb customers feel, Blecharczyk is renting part of his San Francisco apartment today . He has already "sublet" to over 100 Airbnb guests. He also uses Airbnb himself on his own business trips and now estimates the proportion of business travelers to Airbnb at around 10 percent.
place of residence
Blecharczyk lives with his wife, a doctor, in San Francisco, California (USA). They have a daughter together who was born in 2014.
capital
Nathan Blecharczyk is a billionaire. According to the Forbes 2015 list, his net worth is approximately $ 1.9 billion. This puts him at number 1,006 on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world. In June 2016, it was announced that Blecharczyk, along with the other two co-founders of Airbnb, would join the Giving Pledge , pledging to donate more than 50% of its assets to charitable causes.
Web links
- Nathan Blecharczyk: The road trip that helped create Airbnb (Video, 2:20 minutes)
- Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk On Being The Only Engineer For The First Year (Video, 11:28 minutes)
- Disrupting Yesterday's Disruptors: Paving the Way For the Millennials - Nate Blecharczyk (Airbnb) (Video, 29:50 minutes)
- Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO of Airbnb on the future of the sharing economy (video, 19:40 minutes)
- "The Wednesday portrait ": Nathan Blecharczyk (sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de from April 15, 2015, accessed on December 6, 2015, page 18)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e [1]
- ↑ Nathan Blecarcyk in the Crunchbase
- ^ Nathan Blecharczyk: The road trip that helped create Airbnb , CNN, November 19, 2015
- ↑ a b Entrepreneur.wiki: Nathan Blecharczyk ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (entrepreneurwiki.com, accessed December 6, 2015)
- ↑ a b c Airbnb founder Blecharczyk: "Nobody took us seriously." In: stern.de . 19th September 2013
- ↑ Airbnb-ing in San Francisco? You could be staying with the founder. In: cnbc.com. September 20, 2015, accessed December 6, 2015
- ↑ Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk '01, MD ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The young rich. In: n-joy.de. Retrieved December 6, 2015
- ^ The Worlds Billionaires, # 1006 Nathan Blecharczyk. In: forbes.com. November 2015
- ↑ Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates' 'Giving Pledge'. In: fortune.com. Retrieved October 15, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blecharczyk, Nathan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blecharczyk, Nathan Underwood (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Roxbury , Boston , Massachusetts |