Elissa Patel also known as Elissa Rabbit is the long time girlfriend of billionaire Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky who she met on Tinder. She works as an artist and is based in San Francisco, California.

She has previously worked as a community marketing manager at Frontback.

Before that she worked as a marketing operations consultant at Mercatus and an account executive at WePay.

Elissa graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor's degree in Marketing in 2012. She also studied international business at the Imperial College London and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2010.