Airbnb

Turo, founded in 2009, has stayed private now for 16 years.

Airbnb capped off a monthslong wait for its initial public offering, reaching a fully diluted valuation of more than $100 billion.

A week of mega-IPOs capped off a year that has refashioned the traditional bridge between public and private markets.

Airbnb’s long-awaited IPO filing is peppered with evidence that, despite the broad impact of the pandemic, the company fared well due to a combination of resilience and luck. But as global coronavirus cases surge, the company expects bookings to decline in the fourth quarter and continue to fluctuate.

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The vacation rental company’s CEO Brian Chesky told employees in a memo that its revenue forecast for 2020 is less than half of last year’s.

As Airbnb gets ready to go public, a startup called Neighbor is looking to breathe new life into the rapidly maturing sharing economy.

The future of shareholder value joins Visa’s $5.3 billion fintech takeover, Steph Korey’s return and KKR’s activist bent in our recap of the week.

As Airbnb prepares for an IPO in the not-too-distant future, its recent string of acquisitions and investments suggest a shift towards a more regulation-friendly stance.

As it works to expand its global reach, Airbnb has invested in Oyo, the largest hotel company in India and one of the biggest in South Asia overall.

A generation of VC-backed companies with massive valuations is preparing for what could be an industry-changing wave of IPOs. How did we get from the financial crisis to here?

Airbnb has acquired last-minute hotel booking service HotelTonight as an entryway into the hotel industry and a hedge against looming legal regulations.

Slack is part of an elite club of companies looking to IPO next year. We’ve created a graphic to visualize where their offerings would sit among the most valuable IPOs of the decade.

Sonder, a hospitality company you’ve probably never heard of, has raised $85 million that it’s using to expand around the world. The startup wants to provide an alternative to hotels—and to Airbnbs.

Airbnb appears to have learnt from past mistakes and is taking a more conciliatory approach after been told by EU regulators to become more transparent.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (pictured) have both said their companies may go public in 2019. If they do, the IPOs would be historically large—and overdue.

In the last week, three seasoned Amazon executives, including Amazon Prime chief Greg Greeley, were poached by Silicon Valley’s most notable unicorns: Uber, Airbnb and WeWork. Why?

Ian Logan has joined Drop, which just announced a $21 million Series A—one of the largest Series A rounds for a Canadian company so far this decade.