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						<p>Airbnb filed for its long-awaited initial public offering revealing widening losses and falling revenue as the pandemic has kneecapped the travel industry.</p>
<p>In a so-called <strong>S-1 securities filing on Monday</strong>, the home rental company admitted that its loss for the first nine months of the year more than doubled to $697 million as revenue plummeted to $2.5 billion from $3.7 billion a year earlier.</p>
<p>Giving public investors their first-ever peek into its financials, Airbnb also said it has managed to achieve positive cash flow during a few select quarters in recent years, including the second and third quarters of 2018 and the third quarter of 2019.</p>
<p>The San Francisco-based startup is now set to make its stock market debut on the Nasdaq in December, under the &#8220;ABNB&#8221; ticker, arriving at a time when US capital markets are in the middle of a stunning recovery.</p>
<p>Reuters reported last week that even the recent major surge in Covid-19 cases won&#8217;t scuttle Airbnb&#8217;s plans. Its business has shown signs of recovery of late.&nbsp;Airbnb said in July guests had booked more than 1 million nights in a single day for the first time since March 3.</p>
<p>In April, the company raised $2 billion in two rounds of debt from investors.&nbsp;One of the funding rounds included warrants that can be exercised at an $18 billion valuation, well below the $26 billion Airbnb cited as an internal valuation in early March.</p>
<p>Airbnb in May announced that it would be <strong>laying off some 1,900 workers</strong>, or 25 percent of its workforce, as well as suspending all of its marketing as a cost-saving measure in the face of the pandemic.</p>
<p>It is already a blockbuster year for IPOs, with the likes of record label Warner Music Group, data analytics firm Palantir&nbsp;and data warehouse company Snowflake going public in 2020.</p>
			
					
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