I never got this... Why go public if you literally say you won't make money?
Who would buy stock in something that will not return a positive?
Are they starving for money and hope some public trading gets them a boost?
Edit: It seems to be following the same pattern as the other tech IPOs recently, just to cash out the early investors.
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You have quite the fitting user name.
The admission that "we've never made money and there's a good chance we never will" being boilerplate S-1 copy is monstrously troubling.
When no one needs to see that a company can made a dollar before investing because profit is for suckers and this company's probably going to be a unicorn, maybe that's the stock tip from the shoeshine boy.
For a business to really give a positive, something needs to change, otherwise they stay negative.
Edit:
> and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future
That is not a common statement.
It doesn't "literally say" they won't make money, that's you twisting it that way.
They have $88 million in working capital as of June 30, 2019 and are on track to lose another $40 million before the end of the year, so they need more capital. With $330 million carrying value of preferred stock, I think it's go public, somehow issue 100s of millions of dollars in debt or die.
cough uber... cough