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#Airbnb just filed for its #IPO, and it named the ongoing #pandemic and steadily declining revenue growth in a lengthy list of risk factors

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After over 12 years in business, #Airbnb is finally going public!

The home-rental company filed a form S-1 for its #IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That included disclosing a trove of information that was previously unknown. For starters: #Airbnb is over $2 billion in debt.

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But that's far from all the filing document has to offer — a section labeled "Risk Factors" details the major issues #Airbnb believes it could face. We break down the most important of those potential issues below.

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1. The #CoronavirusPandemic has hurt Airbnb, and could continue to hurt the company.

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2. Revenue growth is slowing, and the company expects it to continue to slow going forward.

#Airbnb enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity, and it's unlikely to return to those levels of growth anytime soon.

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3. Laws and regulations regarding temporary home rental vary from region to region, and are always in flux, and that could hurt #Airbnb's business.

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4. #Airbnb is deeply in debt, to the tune of nearly $2 billion.

With a revenue of $2.52 billion and a net loss of $696.9 million for the first nine months of 2020, Airbnb isn't exactly stacking up a war chest.

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5. The company has never earned a profit and it lost more money during the first 9 months of the #pandemic than it did in each of the previous 3 years.

For #Airbnb, the focus has always been on user acquisition & growth. That focus has come at the expense of becoming profitable.