When shares in Airbnb opened at 144.71ontheNasdaqinDecember2020,itmarkedoneofthemostsuccessfulIPOsinhistory.Therentalplatform’ssharesskyrocketedontheirfirstdayoftrading,rising11368 and the firm’s valuation jumped to around 103billion,comparedto18 billion after the firm’s last private funding round that April. To put that in context, Airbnb’s debut market capitalization was higher than those of the nation’s three largest hotel c ...