No. 249United States
Brian Chesky
Airbnb · San Francisco, California
Net worth
$12.6B
Today
−$268M−2.07%Past month
+$1.3B+11.17%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008; Chesky is CEO. Chesky owns nearly 11% of Airbnb. In 2022, Chesky announced he would start living on Airbnb full time, moving to a different city or town every few weeks. 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.
Net worth over time
+11.17%+$1.3B over the past month
$13B$12B$11B
Oct 12Nov 11
Principal holdings
2 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Airbnb, Inc NASDAQ: ABNB | Technology | 97.1% | $12.3B |
Private and other holdings | Technology | 2.9% | $366M |
Also known for
- Broke and faced with rising rents, Gebbia and Chesky initially bought an air bed for their apartment and rented it out.
- The founders, who went to the Democratic Convention in 2008 to promote Airbnb, also sold $40-a-box Obama & McCain-themed breakfast cereal to pay off debt.
“We had a saying that you would do everything by hand until it was painful. So Joe and I would photograph homes until it was painful, then we get other photographers. Then we'd manage them with spreadsheets until it was painful. Then we got an intern.”