He’s a billionaire, but Nathan Blecharczyk still likes to host on Airbnb. He has a guest there right now, he says, though the guest doesn’t know who his host is. He is waking in Blecharczyk’s San Francisco home, unaware that the pleasant quarters with separate entrance and electronic locks belong to one of the three co-founders of Airbnb itself. Hopeful visitors, however, will struggle to discover Blecharczyk’s listing. “You’re not going to find me on the website very easily,” he warns. “For obvious reasons, I don’t want people to know where I live.”
What, because some stalker might seek him out?
“Yeah, you never know. You just never know.”
His admission is surprising, because the premise of Airbnb is that you do always know, and that there are no nasty surprises. But sometimes there are. This week, a group of Airbnb renters staying in Palaiseau, France, were walking the groundswhen they found a decomposing body. The details were gory. The woman had been covered with branches. She was “hunched in a dug-out area, her head against the ground”.
Blecharczyk – pronounced Bletch-are-zik – is Airbnb’s chief technology officer. He had just arrived in London when he picked up the email, and was headed for the company’s Clerkenwell office: a sort of live-in kitchen with jar upon jar of cereal, tea and too many pot plants. Dead bodies in hotel rooms are a trope of crime fiction, but a body in an Airbnb seems particularly horrifying. The business is built on good faith, persuading renters and landlords alike that it is safe to trust themselves to the goodness of strangers in a shared domestic space. And now there’s an Airbnb corpse ...
Read more @ http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/airbnb-cofounder-nathan-blecharczyk-cto-work-family-decomposing-body
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