INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Airbnb head of engineering will leave the company before the end of 2018 to pursue other projects and focus on his family
The news was first reported by The Information and later confirmed to TechCrunch by Airbnb.
Curtis joined the home-sharing platform in 2013
after about two years as the director of engineering at Facebook.
Airbnb will work withHeidrick Struggles to find his successor, who will
be named chief technology officer, a title some at the company had expected Curtis to receivelast year, per The Information
Airbnb has several other holes in its C-suite; it also in the process of hiring a chief marketing officer and a chief financial
officer.
Airbnb wants to give its hosts equity in its business
For a while, Mike has been thinking about making this change to take a long
break,& an Airbnb spokesperson told TechCrunch
&After discussing this change with [CEO] Brian Chesky, they agreed that Mike would step down after helping the company choose his
successor.
Curtis may be feeling the early-stage itch
When he joined Airbnb nearly six years ago, he told TechCrunch he was particularly excited about how early the company was: ''the
opportunity with where we can take it is limitless,& he said.
But Airbnb is no longer a little startup, it one of the most valuable private
tech companies in the world.
In Curtis& tenure alone, the engineering team grew from 40 people to more than 1,000 and the company raised
more than $4 billion andgarnered a $31 billion valuation
Now, it gearing up to go public in 2019.
Airbnb aims to be ‘ready& to go public from June 30, 2019, creates cash bonus program for
