Joe Gebbia

Joe Gebbia

Board Member at Tesla
Company Tenure: 1 year
Education:
Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A.)
Biography:

Mr. Gebbia has been a member of the Board since 2022. Mr. Gebbia co-founded Airbnb, Inc. in 2008 and has served on Airbnb’s board of directors since 2009. In 2022, Mr. Gebbia launched Samara, which produces fully customized, factory-made homes designed to create rental income, house family, support work from home, or bundled together, to form new types of housing communities. Mr. Gebbia received dual degrees in Graphic Design and Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he currently serves on the institution’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Gebbia is the Chairman of Airbnb.org, and also serves on the Olympic Refuge Foundation and leadership councils for UNHCR, Tent.org and Malala Fund. Mr. Gebbia is a sought-after speaker on design and entrepreneurship, and has been named in Business Week’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Inc. Magazine’s Thirty-under-Thirty, Fortune’s Forty-under-Forty, and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.

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Affiliated Companies

Tesla

Tesla

Key Statements

"The topics that you're talking about today are crucial for the future of our societies and for the planet. Sustainable development, the digitization of industry, climate change, inclusive education, and global citizenship."

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"We support the goals of the United Nations, the OECD and the European Parliament, who are all committing to real change and helping to ensure our economies work for everyone and for the planet and for the future."

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"We've established incredible partnerships with different government agencies and others. And so recently, in the summer of 2021, as the Afghan situation was unfolding, with all the evacuations, the very next problem that they have is they come to the United States and where are they going to stay? And so we were able to partner with different parts of the government, with all the resettlement agencies, and we made a commitment as a company to help. And so our commitment was to house 20,000 Afghan families coming to the United States. And just in the last couple of months, we. Are already up to 15,000 people who have found shelter through Airbnb.org."

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