Square files publicly for an IPO on $560.6M revenue and $77.6M loss for first half of 2015, seeks listing on NYSE under symbol SQ
SQUARE, INC. Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal : Square Discloses IPO Plans Ruth Reader / VentureBeat : Square officially files for IPO Fortune : Square files for its long-awaited IPO Rachel King / ZDNet : Square files IPO paperwork, plans to trade under ticker symbol ‘SQ’ New York Times : Square, the Mobile Payments Company, Files for I.P.O. Ben Fox Rubin / CNET : Square publicly files for IPO Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed : Square Files For Long-Awaited Public Offering Jason Del Rey / Re/code : Square's IPO Filing: It's Complicated Jon Fingas / Engadget : Square bets big on payments as it becomes a public company PE Hub Blog : Square Inc files for IPO with Dorsey dual role in focus: Reuters Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Square's IPO Filing Lists Jack Dorsey's CEO Role At Twitter As A Risk Factor Bloomberg Business : Square Files for IPO as CEO Dorsey Juggles Twitter Revamp Maya Kosoff / Business Insider : SQUARE FILES FOR IPO Seeking Alpha : Square files for IPO, reports strong growth and big losses Seth Fiegerman / Mashable : Square files for $275 million IPO Reuters : Jack Dorsey's Square Inc. files for IPO silicontap.com : Square Files For IPO Tweets: @square : We publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of securities for sale. Legend here http://squ.re/1Lb9Sy0 @mikeisaac : one big takeaway from this S-1 is that that Starbucks deal suuuuuuucked for Square Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : After all the talk about how important Capital is to $SQ — “We earn nearly all of our revenue from payments and POS services” Henry Blodget / @hblodget : Prediction... Jack will resign 6-12 months after Square prices and join Twitter full time. https://twitter.com/... Ryan Jones / @rjonesy : Jack has 24.4%. Vinod Khosla has 17.3%. Mary Meeker has 3%. (Roelof Botha has 5.4%!?) pic.twitter.com/9PoNK6U72v Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Dorsey's double-duty is listed as a risk factor for Square's IPO $TWTR $SQ pic.twitter.com/uTzS8Oa8yV Eliot Brown / @eliotwb : From Square's S1 ( http://1.usa.gov/1LbbTum ) -Starbucks transaction revenue: $62 M -Starbucks transaction costs: $77 M Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Square Net Revenue 2012 — $203M 2013 — $552M 2014 — $850M Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Square Net Loss 2012 — ($85M) 2013 — ($104M) 2014 — ($150M)