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MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

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Re: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

#11

I have never heard of a confidential IPO, how does this differ from any other IPO that is in the news?

Starting with the JOBS Act (in 2012), certain smaller companies under a revenue threshold were allowed to file their initial draft registration statements with the SEC confidentially. It was meant to encourage startups to go public and avoid the public eye while they negotiated their registration statements with the SEC. It all goes public before the IPO.

Re: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

#13

They've made their share of mistakes, but they've stuck it out and have definitely improved their product over the years. I wish them all the best for their IPO. What would be really good to see As a measure of their business health is an indication of how their cloud business is doing with respect to their enterprise sales business. A healthy cloud business would signal less volatility in the face of high revenue ga…

I haven't used MongoDB but I've listened to those who are pushing for it. Yes, that's unfortunate that mistakes have been made (especially when it comes to databases). But, better to find that mistake early on rather than later. And it speaks to the founders dedication to the project that they navigated the rough waters and saw it through.

Re: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

#16

A side note: MongoDB now dominates the famous framework benchmark in the read benchmarks. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

With 1.4% more performance than PostgreSQL, and far less guarantees w.r.t. schema.

Yeah, that's not hard. It's surprising it took them this long.

EDIT: The performance comparison that was linked, and that I was referring to: http://i.imgur.com/Thk5DlU.png

Re: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

#18
post #15

Get ready for another SNAP!

I don't see why. SNAP hasn't really figured out how to make money and their features were easy to copy (and copy better) in Facebook's properties.

MongoDB is far longer established, has a large enterprise business and likely has a sizable cloud business. These are not "features" you slap onto another product and then simply have users come flooding to you. No, databases are pretty critical pieces of infrastructure.

As long as the business is solid this IPO should work out well, IMO.

Re: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

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post #14

Wow I had no idea they were a for profit corp, rather than an open source project. And my startup uses mongo. Mind blown! Good for them.

There's no reason a for profit company can't ship an open source project. :)

MongoDB is an open source project, and the MongoDB company is a for profit corporation that ships the database and sells support and services related to it.

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