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Nathan Blecharczyk is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Airbnb, the world's largest hospitality platform. A self-taught programmer who built a million-dollar software business in high school, Blecharczyk coded Airbnb's original website and led its engineering, data science, and payments teams. Known for the infamous cereal box fundraising stunt that kept Airbnb alive in 2008, he now oversees the company's global strategy and chairs Airbnb China. With a net worth of $9.4 billion and a commitment to The Giving Pledge, he's transformed from a Boston kid tinkering with his father's old machines into one of tech's most influential builders.