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The Initial Public Offerings of privately held unicorn tech companies with valuations over $1 billion from the last decade are going to be available to markets in 2019. Big name tech companies such as ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft, hospitality service Airbnb, and cloud-based messaging service Slack will, or already are, trading publicly. Last April, the social media site Pinterest was welcomed to the markets. The IPO rush of tech unicorns to market has shown a battle between the listing venues, New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, for an important segment of the U.S. economy.