Airbnb Shakes Up Hosting Management While Resuming Plans to Go Public
Photo Credit: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The Airbnb co-founder shuffled management, said the company rekindled plans to go public. Skift
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Tapping one person to head "hosting" for both homes and experiences isn't the most savvy of moves. Airbnb has a ton of work to do to mend relations with alienated home rental hosts. Experience hosting is likewise complex — and a very different animal.
Airbnb is reshuffling key positions in its executive lineup as it makes good on an earlier pledge to reboot its relationships with hosts. The moves this week come as the homesharing giant rekindles plans to go public, maybe even this year.
Greg Greeley, who became head of Airbnb's Homes division in 2018 after an 18-year run at Amazon, where he helped create Amazon Prime, is out at Airbnb, according to published reports. The Information and the Financial Times also reported that onetime Disney executive Catherine Powell will become head of hosting, whether it's for homes or her existing Airbnb portfolio, experiences.
In other developments, according to these reports, Apple veteran Hiroki Asai becomes head of marketing after a nearly two-decade career at Apple where h
