Chief Financial Officer, Airbnb.
Joined Airbnb in 2013 after finance roles at Netflix (2006 to 2013); previously Airbnb's Vice President of Finance. Sits on the boards of DoorDash and Netflix.
Why their word counts: CFO, responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting and investor relations, so Mertz owns the reported financial numbers; Mertz also has an interest in presenting results favorably to investors.
Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.
we don't need to grow our headcount. at levels that we did in the past because we're getting so much more output and speed from our existing workforce
Ellie MertzChief Financial Officer · Executive, 
Airbnb
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), August 6, 2026.
it obviously does assume a material increase in terms of the AI spend over the course of the year
Ellie MertzChief Financial Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), August 6, 2026.