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Apr. 15, 2016

With chief biz and legal officer, Airbnb adds general counsel

Rental startup Airbnb Inc. selected Robert C. Chesnut to be the next general cousne lafter promoting the first one to chief business and legal affairs officer last year.

By Kibkabe Araya
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Mired in litigation, rental startup Airbnb Inc. named Robert C. Chesnut, former deputy general counsel at eBay Inc., as its general counsel Tuesday.

Chesnut, who most recently served as general counsel at Santa Clara-based education startup Chegg Inc., will oversee the global legal and compliance teams and report to Belinda J. Johnson, who was Airbnb's original general counsel until her promot...

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