Jul 28, 2020
Editor's Notes:
This episode was recorded on April 21, 2020
Rob Chesnut has transitioned out of the role of Chief Ethics Offier of Airbnb since this recording.
In this episode, we talk to Robert Chesnut (Former Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb)as we discuss his early days at eBay, how he drives integrity into the culture of a company, and we dive deep into his book "Intentional Integrity".
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Rob has spent a 35-year legal career
exploring and helping to enforce rules that we all live by. Most
recently, Rob spent 4 years as Airbnb's General Counsel and Chief
Integrity Officer, helping Airbnb navigate a complex regulatory
framework across as it grew into one of the world's leading
hospitality companies. Today, Airbnb offers over 7 million
accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by
local hosts. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date,
and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions,
Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust
around the world.
While at Airbnb, Rob developed the company's unique ethics program,
"Integrity Belongs Here," that promotes an environment of ethics
and compliance within the company.
Prior to Airbnb, Rob helped transform Chegg, Inc., from an offline
textbook rental company into a multi-service digital learning
platform. As general counsel, he helped take the company public in
2013.
Prior to Chegg, Rob spent 10 years working for the global online
marketplace eBay. He joined the company in 1999 as the company's
third lawyer and was promoted to run the company's
North American legal division in 2001. He joined eBay's senior
executive leadership team in 2004 as the founder of the company's
Trust and Safety Department, where he was responsible for creating
and overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global
community of over 150 million users. Rob and his team of nearly
2000 employees built and operated eBay's fraud detection and
prevention infrastructure, the first such system for an Internet
person to person ecommerce site. Rob was eBay's spokesperson for
site policies and fraud, and he was interviewed in over 200
television, newspaper, radio, and magazine stories around the
world, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, for his pioneering role in
combating Internet fraud.
Rob's legal career began in the U.S. Justice Department, where he
worked for nearly 14 years
with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an
Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia. As a federal
prosecutor, Rob ran the Major Crimes unit for the district and
prosecuted a wide variety of cases, including bank robberies,
kidnappings, murder, and drug trafficking organizations. He handled
the prosecution of CIA, FBI and other employees of the intelligence
community for espionage, including CIA employees Aldrich Ames and
Harold Nicholson. He is a recipient of the Justice Department's
John Marshall award for litigation, and the CIA's Outstanding
Service Medallion.
Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of
Virginia. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife Jillian. He
has two children, Bianca and Cliff.
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