Joe Gebbia
Founder of Samara
Joe Gebbia
Founder of Samara
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2022 - Current
Board Member
2022
Co-founder of Airbnb and Chairman of Airbnb.org
2008
Airbnb is a place where what's inspiring about every person, and every home, in every country, can be shared. People share extra rooms, entire houses, castles, treehouses, boats, and even igloos. What began in my San Francisco apartment has spread to 80,000 cities in over 192 countries, creating a new economy for millions of people around the world.
Board Member
2013 - 2024
Founder & Lead Designer
2005 - 2010
Designed, developed, and patented a new product for a portable seat cushion. Marketed to both niche and mass market sales channels, including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC & SF), Solutions Catalog (35MM viewer reach), and Gaiam wellness products. CritBuns has been exhibited in 3 countries, and was sold in over 30 stores worldwide, with fulfillment running out of my garage.
Co-founder
2006 - 2010
Partner, interface designer, and strategist for an online sustainable materials community that connects designers with sources of eco-materials, and with other green-minded designers. Developed our GreenBox subscription into a profitable service that shipped material samples quarterly to design firms and universities internationally, allowing them to build out a sustainable materials library.
Founder
2005 - 2009
Oversee freelance product, graphic, and web ventures.
Industrial Designer
2006 - 2007
Design lead for new package design and format initiatives across marcom, book, and gift lines. Aided in retail store experience design, and trade show experience design. Responsible for ideation, material selection, graphic and industrial prototyping, and presentation quality images and models.
Industrial Designer
2005 - 2005
Product design and ideation for LG Electronics.
Intern
2005 - 2005
Product design and ideation for Staples, Inc.