Browsing: Brian Chesky

Google has asked staffers who may have been affected by a new executive order on immigration to return to the US quickly, joining a growing number of technology executives voicing concerns over restrictions that could

Airbnb took a first step toward shifting its identity from a home-rental business to a full-service travel company, unveiling additions to its website and mobile applications that will give travellers tools to plan

“Don’t go to Paris. Don’t tour Paris. And please don’t do Paris.” The advice, offered by home-sharing app Airbnb in a series of television commercials that have been airing in seven countries, promotes a vision of

For all the attention garnered by Uber, with given cars being impounded, drivers being attacked and politicians being confused at how to regulate, there’s another disruptor rapidly – but quietly – being embraced in South Africa: Airbnb. And here there aren’t

Controversial child visa laws in South Africa have not hurt fast-growing Internet accommodation sharing service Airbnb’s business in the country. This is according to Airbnb’s GM for the Middle East and Africa, Nicola D’Elia. In June

Internet accommodation sharing service Airbnb has played down fears that regulation could impact its business in South Africa similar to that experienced by Uber. Ride-sharing service Uber has come under regulatory pressure in South Africa

Fast-growing online lodging service Airbnb has outlined plans to expand its presence in South Africa. The company’s CEO, Brian Chesky, who was in Johannesburg on Monday, said South Africa is

For the better part of a decade, the US has been in a slump. Its unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, its growth rate even more stubbornly low. Its government is deadlocked, its debt is rising quickly and its populace is largely gloomy about the future. And yet, at least in one city, the ­optimism is palpable

Brian Chesky doesn’t have a home. He has spent the last three years sleeping on strangers’ couches, in spare rooms and in vacant holiday homes. In 2010, he decided that the best way to improve Airbnb’s service was a tried and trusted method called “eating your own dogfood” – in other words