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Re: Asana S-1

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Post by josh2600 » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

ryanmccullagh wrote: post #8

In case anyone forgot, Asana was founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

And FB early employee Justin Rosenstein.

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by baron816 » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

Anyone else interested in filing to go public today?

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by encoderer » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

peter_l_downs wrote: post #19

Am I reading this correctly in that they had a net loss in 2019 of $50.1 (42.4 adjusted) million dollars, and then in 2020 a net loss of $118.6 (68.2 adjusted) million dollars? (bottom of page 58) And that their plan is to just continue trying to upsell and acquire new customers? Hmmmm

Yeah, what is going on at Asana?

R&D costs outpacing revenue in the year before IPO really surprises me (from ~54% to ~62%).

For comparison, Atlassian went from ~38% to ~36% in the year before IPO.

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by maximente » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #17

silentsea90 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guessing you don't use said labor exploiting services?

The only labor I exploit is my own.

my guess is that a detailed account of the consumer goods you have purchased - including possibly the device upon which you typed out and submitted this comment to this web property - would indicate otherwise

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by sdfhbdf » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

jasondc wrote: post #14

5 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today: - Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)

Maybe even more just these 5 are on HN homepage...

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by djohnston » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #17

silentsea90 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guessing you don't use said labor exploiting services?

The only labor I exploit is my own.

maybe, but probably not imo. the people who built my macbook are exploited, but i need it for work.

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by arkitaip » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

dmart wrote: post #18

I've found Asana to be a much, much nicer product to work with than Jira (at least as a developer, not sure about from the management side.) I genuinely wish them success and hope they're able to grow their marketshare.

What do you think about Trello?

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by victor106 » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

sdfhbdf wrote: post #25

jasondc wrote: post #14

5 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today: - Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)

Maybe even more just these 5 are on HN homepage...

Is there a centralized place that we can track all the upcoming ipos?

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by MattGaiser » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

jasondc wrote: post #14

5 IPOs (S-1 filings) from Silicon Valley today: - Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)

Record high market, so why not?

Re: Asana S-1

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Post by superfrank » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

victor106 wrote: post #28

sdfhbdf wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe even more just these 5 are on HN homepage...

Is there a centralized place that we can track all the upcoming ipos?

I believe this will have all acccepted S-1 filings https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=&CIK=&type=...