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Kevin Yuann
Kevin Yuann is the CEO of Peerspace, the leading marketplace for hourly venue rentals with over 45,000 unique spaces across seven countries. A veteran operator who spent a decade at NerdWallet - including as Chief Business Officer through a 15x revenue growth period and the company's 2021 IPO - Yuann brings a rare combination of consumer finance expertise and marketplace instincts to Peerspace. He holds a BA in Business Economics and Visual Arts from Brown University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson, and he took the helm at Peerspace in May 2024 as the platform crossed $500 million in total sales and one million bookings.
Peerspace
Peerspace is an online marketplace for hourly venue rentals - meetings, productions, parties, and offsites in spaces you couldn't book through a hotel concierge. Often described as the 'Airbnb for hourly spaces,' it has grown from a San Francisco experiment in 2014 into a network of 45,000+ listings across seven countries, surpassing one million bookings and $500M in cumulative gross sales.