Airbnb 詳細（に述べる）s years of losses ahead of planned IPO
Airbnb was losing money even before the pandemic struck and 削減（する） its 歳入 by almost a third, the home-株ing company 明らかにする／漏らすd in 文書s とじ込み／提出するd Monday ahead of a planned 初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing of its 在庫／株.
The San Francisco-based company has yet to 始める，決める a date for the IPO but it is laying the 基礎 by とじ込み／提出するing 財政上の 記録，記録的な／記録するs with U.S. 安全s regulators.
The 文書s show that 主要な up to the coronavirus 突発／発生 earlier this year, Airbnb was spending ひどく on 科学（工学）技術 and marketing to grow its 商売／仕事. The company said it was 拡大するing its 操作／手術s and 追加するing new programs, like 小旅行するs and other experiences that 旅行者s could 調書をとる／予約する through its website.
Its 歳入 jumped 32% to $4.8 billion in 2019, but it 報告（する）／憶測d a 逮捕する loss of $674 million that year. The company also lost money in 2018 and 2017.
This year, Airbnb said, 歳入 fell 32% to $2.5 billion in the first nine months as 旅行者s 取り消すd their 計画（する）s after the pandemic 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうd travel and 軍隊d lockdowns around the world.
The pandemic 軍隊d a 財政上の reckoning, the company said. In May, Airbnb 削減（する） 1,900 従業員s, or around 25% of its 全労働人口, and 削除するd 投資s in programs, like movie 生産／産物, not 関係のある to its 核心 商売／仕事.
FILE - This Feb. 22, 2018, とじ込み／提出する photo shows an Airbnb logo during an event in San Francisco. Airbnb was losing money even before the pandemic struck and 削減（する） its 歳入 by almost a third, the home-株ing company 明らかにする／漏らすd in 文書s とじ込み／提出するd Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, ahead of a planned 初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing of its 在庫／株. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, とじ込み／提出する)
Airbnb 基金d 操作／手術s with $2 billion from さまざまな sources, 含むing a $1 billion 投資 from 私的な 公正，普通株主権 会社／堅いs Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners.
Now, the company said, 需要・要求する is 回復するing as some 旅行者s see home 賃貸しのs as safer than （人が）群がるd hotels. The number of nights and experiences 調書をとる／予約するd, which 急落するd more than 100% in March and April, were 負かす／撃墜する 28% in July, August and September.
Airbnb said that 示すs its 商売／仕事 model is resilient and can adapt to 未来 travel needs, 含むing an 増加する in 商売／仕事 旅行者s who want to work from a 賃貸しの home.
"We believe that the lines between travel and living are blurring, and the 全世界の pandemic has 加速するd the ability to live anywhere," the company said.
Airbnb said it 現在／一般に has 7.4 million listings run by 4 million hosts 世界的な. Eighty-six パーセント of its hosts are outside the U.S. and 55% are women, the company said.
The company said it had 54 million guests in 2019.
Airbnb was 設立するd 12 years ago by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia - cla ssmates at the Rhode Island School of Design - and Nate Blecharczyk, a ソフトウェア engineer. Their first 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing was Chesky and Gebbia´s apartment in San Francisco.
Chesky, Airbnb's CEO, will receive a multi-year 公正，普通株主権 認める 価値（がある） an 概算の $120 million in lieu of a salary, the company said. The award will vest if he 会合，会うs 在庫／株-price 的s over the next １０年間.
Airbnb's 大規模な growth hasn't been without 複雑化s.
The company has 怒り／怒るd some cities that 告発する／非難する it of 促進するing overtourism and making 近隣s いっそう少なく affordable by taking 住宅 off the market. Cities like Los Angeles, Barcelona, Paris and even Airbnb´s home city of San Francisco have passed 法律s 制限するing its 賃貸しのs.
The company has tried to clean up its couch-surfing 評判 by 追加するing 高級な 賃貸しのs and 約束ing to 立証する each of its 所有物／資産／財産s to make sure the photos on its website match the accommodations.
It has also been 割れ目ing 負かす／撃墜する on parties since a 2019 狙撃 at an 違法な Airbnb house party in California. The 狙撃 left five people dead.
In the 合間, 関係s with its hosts have いつかs frayed. Earlier this year, hosts were infuriated when Airbnb 許すd guests to 取り消す and get 十分な refunds まっただ中に the pandemic. Airbnb later 約束d $250 million to hosts to （不足などを）補う the 不足（高）.
More recently, the company said it will 始める，決める aside 9.2 million 株 for a host endowment, which will 基金 事業／計画（する）s for hosts when its value 最高の，を越すs $1 billion. It also 指名するd a 15-member host 諮問委員会 to 分配する those 基金s and 会合，会う 定期的に with Airbnb leadership.
