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Justine Palefsky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kindred, a global home swapping community she launched in 2021 with co-founder Tasneem Amina. Prior to Kindred, Justine was on the early teams at Opendoor and Homebound and began her career at Bain & Company. She holds a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University. Raised in San Francisco in a home where the family's studio apartment was always open to extended relatives and friends, Justine grew up seeing hospitality as a way of life – an early model of reciprocal travel that later inspired Kindred. She's based inSan Francisco but travels often to New York, Chicago, and Europe, and is an avid drawer, painter, and magical thinker.
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