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Asana files to go public via direct listing

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Re: Asana files to go public via direct listing

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Congrats to the team - I've been an Asana user since day 1 when it looked like a glorified spreadsheet and was essentially a nice wrapper around Facebook Tasks (FB's internal task management tool.)

Ultimately I think they have the right ideas and long-run roadmap, but will have a lot of challenges executing in such a crowded space. Excited to see what they do next!

Re: Asana files to go public via direct listing

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What does filing "Confidentially" mean? How are buyers supposed to see what they're buying?

They will still eventually need to disclose, a confidential filing allows them to work with the SEC on details before releasing public info. https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/public-offerings-how-c...

Re: Asana files to go public via direct listing

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post #5

Congrats to the team - I've been an Asana user since day 1 when it looked like a glorified spreadsheet and was essentially a nice wrapper around Facebook Tasks (FB's internal task management tool.) Ultimately I think they have the right ideas and long-run roadmap, but will have a lot of challenges executing in such a crowded space. Excited to see what they do next!

We used asana for a while. I love the clean UI, and we thought the calendar view was really helpful/good, etc.

The one thing we really missed though, was just first class support for being able to keep break down tasks into smaller ones through many levels. We've been trying out https://subtask.co for that, and finding it to be pretty good. It has its own shortcomings too, but seems to be an interesting new contender in this crowded space.

Re: Asana files to go public via direct listing

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post #5

Congrats to the team - I've been an Asana user since day 1 when it looked like a glorified spreadsheet and was essentially a nice wrapper around Facebook Tasks (FB's internal task management tool.) Ultimately I think they have the right ideas and long-run roadmap, but will have a lot of challenges executing in such a crowded space. Excited to see what they do next!

We used asana for a while. I love the clean UI, and we thought the calendar view was really helpful/good, etc. The one thing we really missed though, was just first class support for being able to keep break down tasks into smaller ones through many levels. We've been trying out https://subtask.co for that, and finding it to be pretty good. It has its own shortcomings too, but seems to be an interesting new contender…

It might be a newer feature, but Asana does support arbitrary levels of subtasks.
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