Airbnb’s Chip Conley to Leave Global Head of Hospitality and Strategy Role
Photo Credit: Airbnb Global Head of Hospitality and Strategy, Chip Conley, is leaving the company after nearly four years. Here, he speaks with Skift co-founder Jason Clampet at Skift Global Forum in September 2016. Skift
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We've always seen Conley as the adult in the room at Airbnb, someone who can explain the meaning of hospitality to the upstarts while also having enough creative entrepreneurial experience to fit in at a startup.
Chip Conley, who has held the role of Global Head of Hospitality and Strategy at Airbnb since April 2013, is cutting back his involvement with the short-term rental giant, Skift has learned.
Conley's diminished role was confirmed by Airbnb and by Conley himself.
"When I was asked almost four years ago by the [Airbnb] founders to join them to help them demonstrate hospitality with Airbnb, it was supposed to be a part-time role," Conley told Skift. "It was very clear, very quickly, there wasn't a part-time role at Airbnb and it was very immersive. At this point, I feel really good about the accomplishments we've made there. There's a chapter here that's ending, but I'm still just as passionate and committed to Airbnb. I'm not leaving entirely, but cutting back to a strategic advisor role where I'll be a consultant to the company with much more limited hours."
In a press statement from Airbnb, the company said: "In his four years at Airbnb, Chip has always taken on new opportun
