Who is Nathan Blecharczyk? Everything You Need to Know

Quick Facts

Age: 41 Years, 41 Year Old Males

Family:

Spouse/Ex-: Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk

father: Paul Steven Blecharczyk

mother: Sheila Underwood Blecharczyk

Born Country: United States

Internet Entrepreneurs American Men

Height: 5'9" (175 cm), 5'9" Males

City: Boston

U.S. State: Massachusetts

Founder/Co-Founder: Co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb

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education: Boston Latin Academy, Harvard University

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Career

Nathan Blecharczyk completed his studies from Harvard University. For some time he worked for Microsoft, as a program manager. Later, he started working as an engineer for OPNET Technologies, a software business that used to provide performance management for computer networks as well as applications. Later, in 2007, he became a lead developer at Batiq.

In 2008, along with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, he co-founded Airbnb. The website was initially named Airbedandbreakfast.com. The three of them created the website offering short-term living quarters along with breakfast and a business networking opportunity, for people unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. The site launched officially on August 11th, in 2008. They got their first customers during the Industrial Design Conference that was held by Industrial Designers Society of America, where travelers had a difficult time in finding lodging. Blecharczyk, who was the company`s first chief technology officer, had coded the original website using Ruby on Rails.

As they were unable to raise much funding, the bought mass quantities of cereal, which was packaged branded as `Obama O`s`, and `Cap`n McCain`s`, in order to sell them at the Democratic National Convention held in Denver. The sold enough cereal, and earned $ 30,000. They also attracted the attention of Paul Graham, co founder of Y Combinator. He gave them $ 20,000 and also accepted them into his company`s seed funding program.

Nathan Blecharczyk has been credited with overseeing Airbnb`s expansion in Cuba in 2015. He eventually became chief strategy officer of Airbnb, in 2017, and he was also announced Chairman of Airbnb China. The same year, he was also named in the list of `The World`s Billionaires` by Forbes, where he was listed as the 474th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US $ 3.8 billion.

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Family & Personal Life

Nathan Blecharczyk was born in 1983; he hasn’t revealed his exact date of birth. His parents were Sheila and Paul Steven Blecharczyk. He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.

He studied at Boston Latin Academy. During high school, he made his own software business to earn money. He later studied at Harvard Univeristy, from where he got his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

He is married to Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk. They have two children.

Nathan Blecharczyk Biography