Anticipated ipos cnbc confirms that doordash and airbnb is expected to release the valuations in the upcoming s1 amendments and particularly door dash seems to be employing a technique that weve seen before from epic in doing this ipo pricing process and also getting quite bate of interest because of the pandemic right with so many more options like a three main options on the table now to go public, its interesting that door dash is forging its own way, elements of the traditional ipo with an auction process. Carl and jon, what is interesting about these two ipos, they were talking about this earlier, i heard leslie say something, benefitting in different ways from the pandemic also the strategy. They went to local smaller markets, particularly doordash going to the suburbs but, carl, you see airbnb, there were not many options to go to hotels or get great lodging in the smaller places thats all people want to do now. The they want to avoid the big cities and go, you know, outside of
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And films from the era, including the road to the wall. American history tv in prime Time Beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Hill, ar on Capitol House subcommittee held a hearing on fighting online sex trafficking and review the legislation that would allow the states and victims to sue websites. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Like so many of the districts that my colleagues represent, our home has been invaded by criminals lowering criminals n honorable women and children and forcing them into a life of sex slavery and unspeakable to abuse unspeakable abuse. You share my outrage that this is happening in our backyard, and i cannot thank you enough for rescuing the victims, then helping them heal, while seeking justice for their abusers. You are doing a superlative job. For the fifth year in a row, tennessee received an a on his report card on the protective innocents challenge, a comprehensive study of existing state laws compiled by shared Hope International. The challenge produ
Im sorry were a few minutes late in the beginning. We did have a vote in the floor and in the middle of it a colloquy concerning our schedule. This time i recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good afternoon and a warm welcome to each of our witnesses who are going to join us today. We are here on what has turned gorgeous day in washington d. C. But were here to talk about an ugly, sorted subject, and that is online sex trafficking. Or its the name of as the organization describeds it more bluntly, slavery. As the stings continue to proliferate, those that thought slavery was something that could never happen in 2017 america have had to confront the terrifying reality that not only is it happening, its on the rise and in large part because the internet, the technological master piece of our time has made it much easier to do. And both the house and the senate this year are facing up to the challenge with a long over due conversation driving towards effective actio