Nathan Blecharczyk Biography
Nathan Blecharczyk born Nathan “Nate” Blecharczyk is an American billionaire businessman known for being the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China.
His web-hosting company provided spammers with services and was once listed on the “Registry of Established Spam Operators (ROKSO)” of Spamhaus, which lists the top spamming services. During his time at Harvard, he was also on the business staff of The Harvard Crimson.
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Nathan Blecharczyk Age
Blecharczyk was born in 1983 in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is 37 years old as of 2020.
Nathan Blecharczyk Family
He is the son of Sheila Underwood Blecharczyk and Paul Steven Blecharczyk. It is not known whether he has any siblings or not. Blecharczyk grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, in an upper middle-class family. Prior to being a teenager, he discovered work. He searched through his dad’s bookshelf when he was 12, off school sick and feeling bored, and alighted on a computer manual.
Nathan Blecharczyk Wife
He is married to Elizabeth Morey Blecharczyk, a doctor at Stanford Children’s Health Centre. The couple has a daughter. Speaking of his marriage, he said that he together with his wife try to have a date night once a year. “It’s all about having a pattern to follow, so it’s not a bunch of wild decisions, and mapping out the personal side,” he said.
Nathan Blecharczyk Education
He attended the Latin Academy in Boston. He made money during high school by developing his own software company. His web-hosting company provided spammers with services and was once listed on the “Registry of Established Spam Operators (ROKSO)” of Spamhaus, which lists the top spamming services. In pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, he began writing programs while attending Harvard University and made enough money to pay his tuition before leaving his web-hosting company to concentrate on his studies in 2002.
Nathan Blecharczyk Height
His house is in the United States of America. Due to his and his family’s security, details and pictures of his house are not available
Nathan Blecharczyk Net Worth
Blecharczyk has an estimated net worth of $3.3bn. He is one of the world’s youngest billionaires. He has made his great wealth from his career as a businessman. He was listed as the 474th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of US$3.8 billion according to Forbes 2017.
Nathan Blecharczyk Workout
He goes to the gym two or three days a week, which helps to understand why he looks much healthier than this lifestyle appears to afford.
Nathan Blecharczyk Airbnb
TBlecharczyk is the co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chairman of Airbnb China. In driving key strategic strategies across the global organization, Nathan plays a leading role. He previously supervised the establishment of engineering, data, science, and performance marketing teams for Airbnb. Blecharczyk joined with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2008 to found Airbnb, acting as the first chief technology officer of the company and coding the initial website of the company using Ruby on Rails.
The founders purchased mass quantities of cereal, crafted packaging marketed as “Obama O’s” and “Cap’n McCain’s” cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, later that year, after struggling to raise money. Originally intended as a marketing tactic, the company sold enough cereal to raise $30,000 and ultimately attracted the attention of Paul Graham, co-founder of Y combinator, who gave them $20,000 in early 2009 and welcomed the company into the seed funding program of Y Combinator.
Blecharczyk is credited with overseeing the expansion of Airbnb into Cuba in 2015. On June 1, 2016, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates entered ‘The Giving Pledge’ by Blecharczyk, Chesky and Gebbia, a small group of billionaires who have committed to giving away the majority of their wealth.