Leigh Gallagher
Business journalist and author
Leigh Gallagher is a Fortune editor and business journalist who wrote The Airbnb Story, a book about how the Silicon Valley hospitality startup began and grew.
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About Leigh Gallagher
Leigh Gallagher is a journalist who has been an assistant managing editor at Fortune, and she has hosted Fortune Live. She is originally from Media, Pennsylvania. She has co-chaired the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. She also speaks often on business and economic topics and appears as a guest on programs such as Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, CNBC and Marketplace. Her book The Airbnb Story was published in February 2017 and looks at the origins, growth and impact of the company. It followed her first book, The End of the Suburbs, which came out in 2013.