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Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by ryanisnan »

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #18

Absolute legend, rocket ship human Mitchell Hashimoto. I still remember the excitement from Vagrant back in the day (which I think started it all). Here's the 1.0 announcement in 2012. [1] The tools and vision they created after, just amazing coming from a small scrappy startup crew. Which, IMO, is totally wild given the offerings clearly tend to target bigger Enterprise who have bigger teams/apps/ops demand. Then to…

Newb investor here, but huge hashi user. Do you have any insight as to when stocks become available after an IPO?

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by robertwt7 »

Omg I still remember vagrant as the state of art for the job back then.

Great job Mitchell, one of the company that I have respect on goes public!! Good luck!!

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by awad »

sam0x17 wrote: post #6
jaxxstorm wrote: post #4

Lots of interesting tidbits in here, not least that Armon Dadgar, who basically built most of the their revenue generating software, is paid considerably less than their CRO.

Also interesting to learn that a CRO is a thing. I swear there is a new C-level title invented every few seconds.

It's actually a very common role that encompasses far more than the traditional "head of sales" role

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by LambdaComplex »

mike_d wrote: post #96
ksec wrote: post #42

Holly mother of God. Mitchell was still on HN yesterday, as he was replying something about Backblaze IPO and its business. Today it is his IPO, $259 million revenue. 2100+ Customers, 1500+ employees, $10 Billion Valuation......... I mean I felt it wasn't that long ago Vagrant was "the" tool for the job. How it all started, the submission on HN [1], quote: > This project has been the love child of myself and John Ben…

> 1500+ employees According to LinkedIn the average tenure of employees is a little over a year (likely to hit the vesting cliff and bounce). Two months ago they didn't have the staff to review pull requests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425849 You can love the product, but investors are ultimately betting on the company - which seems shaky.

An additional data point (read: anecdote): I applied for a job at Hashicorp in early July of this year. I have yet to receive any reply, including a "thanks but no thanks"

For reference, I also have a friend who applied there in late 2019; he apparently _did_ get a "thanks but no thanks" email about a month later.

Perhaps all of the company is short-staffed, rather than just engineering.

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by phonon »

TekMol wrote: post #70
ac29 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This S1 does not say how many shares they expect to sell, so at this time its unclear what percentage of the company new investors will hold. Presumably before the IPO date, it will be updated so investors have an understanding of what they are buying.

Thanks. How does one find the complete S1 when it is updated? For example, how can this information be found for Coinbase?

SEC/Edgar

Hashicorp

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/dateRange=custom&ciks=000...

Coinbase

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/dateRange=custom&ciks=000...

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by nodesocket »

ryanisnan wrote: post #141
WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #18

Absolute legend, rocket ship human Mitchell Hashimoto. I still remember the excitement from Vagrant back in the day (which I think started it all). Here's the 1.0 announcement in 2012. [1] The tools and vision they created after, just amazing coming from a small scrappy startup crew. Which, IMO, is totally wild given the offerings clearly tend to target bigger Enterprise who have bigger teams/apps/ops demand. Then to…

Newb investor here, but huge hashi user. Do you have any insight as to when stocks become available after an IPO?

You can buy the stock on the first day of trading. If you want to try and get an allocation of shares at IPO price, various brokerages have different processes where you apply. I use E*Trade mostly, but Robinhood does have the best IPO center of any brokerage I have seen.

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by nodesocket »

shironandon wrote: post #140

I have actively used Vagrant, Consul, Terraform, and Vault and I really have never understood all the fanboyism for Hashicorp. Their products are OK but easily replaceable and often redundant in modern cloud providers. Wish them luck on their attempt to cash in but I for one do not intend to buy any stock.

You are missing the point. They are the de-facto standard in DevOps tooling from one person startups to gigantic public tech FAANG companies.

My prediction, HashiCorp after IPO'ing will get acquired.

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

adamsvystun wrote: post #73

Love HashiCorp, though not sure what to think about Sales&Marketing to R&D ratio, which is 2:1 (141kk vs 65kk in 2021). Maybe people who read S1s more often can tell if this a normal ratio? Seems pretty high to me.

Why does it seem high to you and what is it based on?

Re: HashiCorp – S1

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Post by antoinealb »

nodesocket wrote: post #147
shironandon wrote: post #140

I have actively used Vagrant, Consul, Terraform, and Vault and I really have never understood all the fanboyism for Hashicorp. Their products are OK but easily replaceable and often redundant in modern cloud providers. Wish them luck on their attempt to cash in but I for one do not intend to buy any stock.

You are missing the point. They are the de-facto standard in DevOps tooling from one person startups to gigantic public tech FAANG companies. My prediction, HashiCorp after IPO'ing will get acquired.

Which FAANG is public about using one of those?
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