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AIRBNB
Marketplace for short-term stays and travel experiences.
Marketplace, Travel, Consumer Internet
04 - Investors
Invested in Airbnb.
Peter ThielInvested in AirbnbPeter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. He has served as Palantir’s chairman since its founding and has backed category-defining technology companies including Facebook, Airbnb, SpaceX, LinkedIn, and Stripe. Earlier in his career, Thiel co-founded Confinity/PayPal, led PayPal as CEO and chairman through its sale to eBay, founded Clarium Capital, and later established Founders Fund.
Sam AltmanInvested in AirbnbSam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, Sora, Codex, and frontier AI model families. Before OpenAI, he co-founded Loopt, joined Y Combinator as a partner, and served as YC president from 2014 to 2019. He is also a prominent startup investor, with publicly reported stakes in companies including Reddit, Stripe, and Helion Energy.
05 - The story
Marketplace for short-term stays and travel experiences.
Marketplace for short-term stays and travel experiences.
Company links
Company links
Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.com