Tag: Dave Stephenson

Home-renting company Airbnb has hired Amazon veteran Dave Stephenson as chief financial officer (CFO), ahead of a widely anticipated initial public offering next year. Stephenson's departure was followed by the exit of another Amazon veteran, Jason Warnick, who is leaving the e-commerce giant to become CFO at online brokerage startup Robinhood. Stephenson will start in early January, Airbnb said in a statement, and will replace Laurence Tosi, who left the company in February. Stephenson, who has worked at Amazon for 17 years, was most recently vice president and CFO of the online retailer's worldwide consumer organization, which is responsible for all of Amazon's global website sales including its Prime service. Airbnb, valued by private investors at $31 billion, has in recent ...