Convertible debt fair value and carrying value disclosures.

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Financial asset or liabilities transfer in and out.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109259400&loc=d3e21475-112644

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Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Fair value portion of borrowing which can be exchanged for a specified number of another security at the option of the issuer or the holder, for example, but not limited to, the entity's common stock.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Value of outstanding derivative securities that permit the holder the right to purchase securities (usually equity) from the issuer at a specified price.

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Fair Value Measurements - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 09, 2021	Aug. 24, 2021	Jan. 08, 2021	Jan. 07, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	Sep. 25, 2020	Dec. 31, 2017	Nov. 30, 2016
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Exercise price of warrants (in dollars per share)					$ 0.10						$ 3.45	$ 2.61
Warrants outstanding	$ 0		$ 0						$ 97,782,000
Warrants outstanding (in shares)							38,533,271	38,533,271
Private Placement Warrants
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Warrants outstanding						$ 0
Warrants outstanding (in shares)						0
Level 3
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Estimated fair value of convertible securities	0		0						949,600,000
Financial asset or liabilities transfer in and out	0	$ 0	0	$ 0
Level 3 \| 2020 Convertible Note
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Estimated fair value of convertible securities										$ 20,000,000
Estimated fair value and carrying value of convertible securities	$ 21,600,000		$ 21,600,000						$ 20,400,000