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Airbnb has hired a new chief technology officer: Aristotle (Ari) Balogh, previously a Google executive and Yahoo's CTO, replacing co-founder Nate Blecharczyk who shifted his focus to strategy last year. 

Yes, but: The home-sharing company lost its CFO in February and is still looking for a new one, despite hopes to go public as early as next summer.

Airbnb gets new chief technology officer

Ari Balogh was previously a Google executive and Yahoo's CTO, among other jobs.

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Airbnb has hired a new chief technology officer: Aristotle (Ari) Balogh, previously a Google executive and Yahoo&#x27;s CTO, replacing co-founder Nate Blecharczyk who shifted his focus to strategy last year. Yes, but: The home-sharing company <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="lost its CFO" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/airbnb-no-ipo-2018-e8f81ae7-60df-4969-a6d1-a8128db37b1a.html" data-vars-content-id="e58244a5-6320-4b92-8632-06a61130e3c2" data-vars-headline="Airbnb gets new chief technology officer" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/airbnb-no-ipo-2018-e8f81ae7-60df-4969-a6d1-a8128db37b1a.html" target="_self">lost its CFO</a> in February and is still looking for a new one, despite <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="hopes to go public as early as next summer" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/airbnb-seeks-to-appease-employees-while-waiting-to-go-public-7fc49416-d265-4b44-9a4e-c2dca1c6c0a7.html" data-vars-content-id="e58244a5-6320-4b92-8632-06a61130e3c2" data-vars-headline="Airbnb gets new chief technology officer" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/airbnb-seeks-to-appease-employees-while-waiting-to-go-public-7fc49416-d265-4b44-9a4e-c2dca1c6c0a7.html" target="_self">hopes to go public as early as next summer</a>.

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Airbnb gets new chief technology officer

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