| Birth Place | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Businessman, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Airbnb |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Sheila Underwood Blecharczyk Paul Steven Blecharczyk |
Nathan Blecharczyk's net worth is anticipated to reach an impressive $8 billion by 2024. As a prominent figure in the technology industry in the United States, Blecharczyk has made significant contributions to the field. With a keen entrepreneurial spirit and innovative mindset, he has played a crucial role in the success of numerous ventures. Known for his involvement in co-founding Airbnb, an internationally renowned home-sharing platform, Blecharczyk has truly made a name for himself in the tech world. His remarkable achievements and immense wealth speak to his exceptional abilities and unwavering dedication to the industry.
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Blecharczyk was born in 1983, the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Boston, Massachusetts. During high school, he made money by creating his own software Business. His web-hosting Business provided services to spammers and was once listed on the Spamhaus's "Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)" which lists the top spamming services. He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and made enough money to pay his tuition before abandoning his spam-hosting Business to focus on his studies in 2002.
Blecharczyk began his career as an Engineer at OPNET Technologies in 2005. He served as a lead developer at Batiq in 2007. In 2008, Blecharczyk partnered with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to found Airbnb, he served as the company's first chief Technology officer and coded the company's original website using Ruby on Rails. Later that year, after failing to raise funding, the founders bought mass quantities of cereal, designed packaging branded as '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Originally intended as a marketing ploy, the company sold enough cereal to raise $30,000, and eventually attracted the attention of Y combinator co-founder Paul Graham who gave them $20,000 in early 2009 and accepted the company into the Y Combinator's seed funding program.
Blecharczyk is credited with overseeing Airbnb's 2015 expansion into Cuba. On June 1, 2016, Blecharczyk, Chesky and Gebbia joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' 'The Giving Pledge', a select group of billionaires who have committed to give the majority of their wealth away.
In early 2017, Blecharczyk transitioned to chief strategy officer at Airbnb. He was listed as the 474th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of US$3.8 billion according to Forbes 2017 "The World's Billionaires List". Blecharczyk was announced as the chairman of Airbnb China, also known as Aibiying, in October 2017.
