Rhode Island School of Design, one of the world's most prestigious art and design schools, whose alumni include Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia — whose shared RISD training directly shaped Airbnb's design-first product philosophy.
Produced a generation of designer-entrepreneurs who brought rigorous visual and user-experience thinking to technology companies — the Chesky/Gebbia case being the most commercially significant outcome of design education in startup history.
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