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Common Stock, Capital Shares Reserved for Future Issuance, Annual Increase, Percent of Outstanding Shares

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Monetary Cap

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Six Month Purchase Periods

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Offering Period Duration

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Aggregate number of common shares reserved for future issuance.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the stock plan during the period.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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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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The highest percentage of annual salary that an employee is permitted to utilize with respect to the plan.

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The highest quantity of shares an employee can purchase under the plan per period.

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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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The number of shares under options that were cancelled during the reporting period as a result of occurrence of a terminating event specified in contractual agreements pertaining to the stock option plan.

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An excess of the fair value of the modified award over the fair value of the award immediately before the modification.

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The floor of a customized range of exercise prices for purposes of disclosing shares potentially issuable under outstanding stock option awards on all stock option plans and other required information pertaining to awards in the customized range.

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Purchase price of common stock expressed as a percentage of its fair value.

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Per share or per unit amount of equity securities issued.

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Number of shares issued during the period to an employee benefit plan, such as a defined contribution or defined benefit plan.

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EQUITY AWARD PLANS - Additional Information (Details)			1 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
EQUITY AWARD PLANS - Additional Information (Details)	Apr. 05, 2017 USD ($) shares	Aug. 16, 2016 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) purchase_period $ / shares shares	Jul. 31, 2016 $ / shares	Apr. 30, 2017 USD ($) shares	Oct. 31, 2016 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2015 shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares issued price per share (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares						$ 16.00
Compensation not yet recognized \| $					$ 292,600,000
Period for recognition (in years)					2 years 1 month 28 days
Tender Offer
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Incremental compensation cost \| $		$ 3,400,000
Exercise price be considered for conversion (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares				$ 8.41
Options, cancelled in period (in shares)		1,361,317
2016 Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares reserved for future issuance (in shares)					81,873,371
RSUs
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)					11,543,670
RSUs \| Tender Offer
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)		911,489
Employee Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percent of eligible compensation (up to)			15.00%
Monetary cap \| $			$ 25,000
Share cap (in shares)			1,000
Offering period duration (in months)			12 months
Number of six-month purchase periods \| purchase_period			2
Purchase price of common stock, percent			85.00%
Shares purchased (in shares)	1,246,054
Purchase amount \| $	$ 16,900,000
Common Class A \| 2016 Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares reserved for future issuance (in shares)							22,400,000
Annual increase (in shares)			18,000,000
Annual increase, percent of outstanding shares			5.00%
Number of shares available for grant (in shares)					15,177,347
Common Class A \| Employee Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares reserved for future issuance (in shares)			3,800,000
Annual increase (in shares)			3,800,000
Annual increase, percent of outstanding shares			1.00%
Shares issued price per share (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares			$ 16.0
Common Class B \| 2016 Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares reserved for future issuance (in shares)					38,667,284