Airbnb, Doordash, Wish ... a new salvo of unicorns goes public

For the rising stocks of the digital economy, going public seems to become a necessary step.

The year 2019 was marked by the entry on Wall Street of companies like Uber, Lyft, Zoom or Pinterest.

2020 is no exception.

Snowflake (cloud data management), Palantir (data analytics) and Unity (3D creation engine) debuted on the stock market in September.

And this month of December turns into a rush: Airbnb, Wish (e-commerce at a very low price), Roblox (free video game platform for children), Doordash (home meal delivery) and Affirm (fintech specializing in credit simplified for consumption, founded by one of the creators of Paypal) are all preparing to take the plunge.

According to the

, Airbnb is targeting a stock market valuation of $ 35 billion, while Doordash hopes for $ 30 billion, Wish, $ 25 billion and Roblox, $ 8 billion.

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