Airbnb
Company Growth (employees)
Airbnb was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, US
Key People at Airbnb
Brian Chesky
Co-Founder & CEO
Joe Gebbia
Co-Founder & CPO
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-Founder & CSO
Michael Curtis
VP Engineering
Joe Zadeh
VP Product
Hong Ge
VP of China Operations
Airbnb Office Locations
Airbnb has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and in 37 other locations
San Francisco, US (HQ)
888 Brannan Street
Airbnb Data and Metrics
Summary Metrics
Founding Date | 2008 |
Total Funding | $4.4 b |
Latest funding size | $447.8 m |
Time since last funding | 6 months |
Investors | Altimeter Capital, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Jeff Jordan, Alfred Lin, TCV, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Geodesic Capital, Brand Capital, Sequoia Capital, FirstMark Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, CapitalG, Y Combinator |
Airbnb's latest funding round in March 2017 was reported to be $447.8 m. In total, Airbnb has raised $4.4 b. Airbnb's latest valuation is reported to be $31 b.
Airbnb Financial Metrics
Airbnb's revenue was reported to be $1.5 b in 2016 which is a 67% increase from the previous period.
USD
Revenue (Y, 2016) | 1.5 b |
Revenue growth (Y, 2015 - Y, 2016), % | 67% |
Market valuation | 31 b |
| USD | Y, 2009 | Y, 2010 | Y, 2011 | Y, 2012 | Y, 2013 | Y, 2014 | Y, 2015 | Y, 2016A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revenue | 1 m | 7 m | 25 m | 100 m | 250 m | 500 m | 900 m | 1.5 b |
Revenue growth, % | 600% | 257% | 300% | 150% | 100% | 80% | 67% | |
EBIT | (150 m) | |||||||
EBIT margin, % | (17%) |
- Source: WSJ
- A: The Information
| USD | Y, 2016 |
|---|---|
Revenue/Employee | 357.8 k |
Airbnb Operating Metrics
Airbnb's Rooms was reported to be 3 m in Jun, 2017. Airbnb's Users was reported to be 100 m in Jul, 2016
- Source: WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Skift, Huffington Post
Airbnb Acquisitions / Subsidiaries
| Acquired Company | Date | Deal Size |
|---|---|---|
| Trooly | June 16, 2017 | |
| Tilt | February 23, 2017 | $12 m |
| Luxury Retreats | February 10, 2017 | $200 m |
Airbnb Job Categories
Airbnb Median Salaries
Source: 300 public H-1B filings from Airbnb
Market Position of Airbnb
Traffic Overview of Airbnb
Airbnb Online and Social Media Presence
Airbnb News and Updates
May 11, 2017
Truepic fights photo fraud on apps like Tinder and Airbnb
“Is that what they really look like?” “Did they Photoshop the pics of the house we’re renting?” “Is this actually what I’m buying or just a photo ripped off the Internet?” These are the questions Truepic wants to answer with the startup’s photo verification technology. Today Truepic unveils its SDK…
May 04, 2017
Airbnb’s San Francisco Deal Puts Storyline Over Bottom Line
In San Francisco, Airbnb became a prime target of the anti-tech backlash. As it approaches a possible IPO, it would like to be seen as a good neighbor. The post Airbnb's San Francisco Deal Puts Storyline Over Bottom Line appeared first on WIRED.
May 02, 2017
Crunch Report | Airbnb Hugs It Out in San Francisco
Aurea acquires Jive for $462 million, Airbnb settles lawsuit with the City of San Francisco over unfair overregulation of short-term rentals, Theranos settles a lawsuit with one of its investors and Verizon backs Renovo. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
May 01, 2017
Airbnb settles lawsuit with San Francisco
Airbnb Head of Global Policy Chris Lehane announced today that the company has settled its lawsuit with the city of San Francisco. Last year, Airbnb sued San Francisco over the city’s new rental legislation. Read More
April 27, 2017
New Patent Reveals Airbnb’s China Ambitions
Using our patents search engine, we have unearthed a newly-published patent application from Airbnb, which was originally filed in October 2016. The patent application, titled “Beam Device Architecture,” describes a system to compress cellular data, allowing people to more easily … Continued
April 25, 2017
Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch
Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team spent its time on the opposite — putting the paintbrush in the hands of the engineer.
Everyday enginee…