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His fingerprints are on everything from iPhone to Apple Park in Cupertino. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says Jony Ive will collaborate with Airbnb as a design consultant, as part of a multi-year partnership with Ives firm LoveFrom Jony Ive retired from Apple about a year ago, following an almost 25 year tenure as head of Apple product design. Ive played a critical roll in shaping Apple's famed design language during his long tenure at the company. Later, Lauren Goode gets a new job as Kara's personal shopper, with some help from The Verge's holiday gift guide. Today's news comes ahead of Airbnb's initial public offering, which is currently targeted for December.Īfter nearly three decades at Apple, Ive departed the company in 2019 to set up independent design consultancy LoveFrom. Schleifer led the company's design team for six years. Ive helped flesh out Airbnb's logo in 2014, while Chesky wrote Ive's biography for Time magazine's top 100 most influential people in 2015.Īirbnb on Wednesday told employees that its chief design officer, Alex Schleifer, would step down to a part-time role, The Information reports. "I know he is particularly excited about a relationship that will evolve to become a deep collaboration with our creative team."Īs noted by The Information, Ive and Chesky have known each other for years. "Jony will also help us continue to develop our internal design team, which he believes to be one of the world's best," Chesky writes. It appears that he will report directly to Chesky, or collaborate on design initiatives with the CEO, throughout what is described as a "multi-year relationship." The company and its work are so hard to grasp that the first result in a Google search of “LoveFrom” is a fan site.Announced in a blog post from Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, Ive will work on next-generation "products and services" as a design consultant.

What’s more certain is that it helps raise the profile of the duo’s design firm which, until now, remained even more ethereal than Ive’s hardware designs for Apple. Maybe that’s worth more than connecting them to any one specific project. Ferrari and Exor are, at least in part, paying to attach their brands to the good design taste for which Ive and Newson are known.

Like with Airbnb, the one thing that can be guaranteed is an exchange of clout. The Apple design chief thinks the 33-year-old founder's 'audacity is fabulous' and for. Ive still counts Apple as a client, by the way, even though he left last November. Mike Nudelman/Business Insider Jony Ive is a big fan of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Maybe he can fix the company’s unfortunately shaped logo. But it seems just as possible LoveFrom creates a five-figure jacket or handbag instead. Ive and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky have apparently been friends for years, with Ive going so far as to pen a 2015 mini-profile of the Airbnb chief for Time Magazine, praising the company’s website design. When you are in someones home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Ferrari also has a connection to a current Apple executive in Eddy Cue Apple’s senior vice president of services sits on Ferrari’s board of directors.īoth Jony Ive and Marc Newson have well-documented opinions about modern cars - they’re “insipid” and “at the bottom of a trough” - so it would be fascinating to see what they would do with an electric Prancing Horse. The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. Sources for Airbnb CEO included the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Weiner and Jony Ive.

On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and. More to explore: On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why and how tech is changing everything. He dealt with the challenge using the method he calls ‘going to the source’ that is getting advice from top experts in the field. Host: Kara Swisher (karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large. The Financial Times reports that partnership includes contributions to Ferrari’s first electric car, which the company plans to introduce in 2025. Particularly, Brian Chesky had no business or entrepreneurial experience whatsoever. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has revealed his favourite place to stay in Australia The US billionaires top choice is the Pole House on the Great Ocean Road Perched 40m above the ocean, it gives the. Whatever LoveFrom works on, it’ll probably be expensive Chesky, Airbnbs CEO, is worth an estimated 3.1 billion these days.Brian Chesky didnt know much about tech before starting Airbnb.The now 39-year-old CEO majored in industrial design in college.