Nate Blecharczyk, Airbnb’s technical cofounder, created the $110 billion lodging phenom’s software and marketplace blueprints. Now he’s using his engineering mindset and an army of data scientists to solve the company’s most challenging problems.
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The magnitude did not sit well with Airbnb's financial team, who were wary of unforeseen problems that could arise from Chesky's version of economic stimulus. So once again, Blecharczyk, Airbnb's tech-savvy cofounder, had to turn Chesky's big idea into a workable plan. over the last 13 years, he turned the ambitious ideas of his art-school-trained cofounders into functioning Airbnb products. CEO Chesky is the hard-charging leader who directs customer experience, fundraising and publicity. Cofounder Joe Gebbia is the artist who runs Airbnb's new design studio Samara and its charity Airbnb.org.
As an engineer, I've always been good at taking something that's high level and abstract and boiling it down into a program.By then, Blecharczyk was majoring in computer science at Harvard. The business taught him two valuable lessons. He could teach himself any tech skill he wanted, and could build products that people wanted."It gave me tremendous confidence and set me on this path of entrepreneurship.
"I ask, what are the critical problems for the long-term success of the Airbnb where context, credibility, data, and tech are going to be crucial."s Airbnb grew, Blecharczyk moved from engineering head to Chief Strategy Officer."You should always strive to hire someone better to put yourself out of a role, especially in a fast-growing organization where there's no shortage of things to do.
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