The wave of unicorn IPOs

Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by jedberg on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:34PM (#19744218)

Another article about tech IPOs pointed out that this year the number of public companies headquartered in San Francisco will double. Apparently there are only four now, and at year's end they expect nine.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by harryh on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:08PM (#19744418)

Existing Public Companies with SF HQs:

  - DocuSign
  - Dropbox
  - Eventbrite
  - Fitbit
  - LendingClub
  - LiveRamp
  - New Relic
  - Okta
  - Salesforce
  - Splunk
  - Square
  - Twilio
  - Twitter
  - Yelp
  - Zendesk
  - Zynga
  - Wells Fargo
  - Charles Schwab
  - First Republic
  - Pacific Gas & Electric
  - Gap
  - Williams-Sonoma
  - Dolby
  - McKesson (thx khuey; though apparently moving to Dallas soon)
  - Castlight Health

IPOed This Year:

  - Stitch Fix
  - PagerDuty
  - Lyft
  - Pinterest
  - Levi Strauss (thx mykowebhn)

Expected to IPO This Year:

  - Slack
  - Uber
  - AirBnB
  - DoorDash (maybe?)
  - Postmates (maybe?)
  - Instacart (maybe?)
  - Asana (maybe?)

I'm sure I'm missing some....

EDIT: adding new ones as I/others think of them

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by ummonk on Thursday April 25, 2019 @02:04AM (#19745453)

Asana CEO has stated they won't be IPO'ing this year.

Also, Stitch Fix IPO'd in 2017.

But yes, there are a ton of public companies in SF, both long term and recent IPOs.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by cubecul on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:39PM (#19744560)

DoorDash may also go this year

aside: anyone else think Uber should buy DoorDash?

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by ackbar03 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:26PM (#19744714)

I think they're too expensive to buy now, DoorDash will just have to dump on the unexpecting retail investors to cashout

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by burlesona on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:43AM (#19745042)

With an asterisk, Atlassian is public (NASDAQ) and its US HQ is in the financial district.

Asterisk is the Global HQ is in Sydney.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by jedberg on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:53PM (#19744831)

Apparently they meant going public this year. From four to nine. They didn’t count Levi’s.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by mykowebhn on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:34PM (#19744535)

I believe Levi's plans on IPOing as well.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by mykowebhn on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:41PM (#19744571)

Correction: Levi's already IPOed.

Add: Marin Software

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by mykowebhn on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:46PM (#19744592)

@harryh True. With the direction its revenue is going (downwards), I wouldn't be surprised if it gets delisted.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by harryh on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:44PM (#19744584)

While technically Marin Software is public it only has a market cap of about 30M so......

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by randomacct3847 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:33PM (#19744531)

Levi’s, Williams Sonoma, Gap/Old Navy

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by stevenhuang on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:07AM (#19744895)

Zoom, earlier this week.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by stevula on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:21AM (#19744954)

Zoom HQ is in San Jose, not SF.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by dpriddle on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:59PM (#19744860)

Pivotal

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by wtvanhest on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:43PM (#19744577)

Okta

Autodesk

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by harryh on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:54PM (#19744617)

I had Okta (good one though!).

Autodesk HQ is in San Rafael.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by khuey on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:20PM (#19744482)

McKesson

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by wtvanhest on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:46PM (#19744588)

They are here, but moving to dallas

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by hkmurakami on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:08PM (#19744424)

Four can't be accurate. Salesforce, square, Twitter, event brite, Wells Fargo is already five.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by chx on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:08PM (#19744416)

If Lyft employees put their IPO cash into real estate, they could buy every for-sale home in San Francisco. From https://www.redfin.com/blog/lyft-ipo-san-francisco-real-esta...

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by djcapelis on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:39PM (#19744764)

The people who IPO try that each time—that's why the prices are what they are.

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Re:The wave of unicorn IPOs by wavefunction on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:22PM (#19744699)

Buying every home is one thing but maintaining them too?

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