Startup Digest Reading List: Semiconductor Demand and a Deep Dive into Coinbase’ S-1 Filing

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Big Tech News Last Week

In a cowardly move SolarWinds blames its hack on their intern.
Semiconductors are in a boom market with demand outstripping supply.
End of an era, Fry’s Electronics is closing all of their stores.
Coinbase and Digital Ocean both filed their S-1’s to go public. More on Coinbase below.

Deep Dive into Coinbase’s S-1 Filing

Instead of my usual recap of deep dive posts, this week for fun I read through the whole Coinbase S-1 Filing and wanted to share some interesting tidbits I found along the way.

Summary:

Coinbase is the top US based digital asset exchange.
They are doing a direct listing and expected to price at a market cap of $100B.

Company Details

Coinbase did $1.3B in revenue for 2020, and $530M in 2019.
Transaction revenue (from retail consumers) constitutes 96% of their revenue.
Coinbase has 43M “verified users” of which 2.8M are active (monthly transacting users).
Trading volume is variable based on the volatility of the crypto market. Institutional investors have become a bigger share of Coinbase’s trading volume. However, this is a double edged sword because the majority of Coinbase’s revenue is generated via retail traders.
The “assets on platform” is $90B, which is a huge number. However digging into the filing, more “custodial funds do to customers” is only $2.8B. My guess is the Coinbase custody product has low penetration, and the majority of assets are via consumer wallets.

Cap Table

The largest holders and biggest winners for this IPO will be Andreesseen Horowitz (A16Z - $11B), Union Square Ventures (USV - $5.1B), and Ribbit Capital ($4.4B) - assuming the price of the last secondary market sale.
USV conducted 4 secondary transactions selling a portion of their shares to A16Z and Paradigm.
Ribbit conducted 2 secondary transactions selling a portion of their shares to A16Z and Paradigm.

Interesting Tidbits

Coinbase is the only company I know of that lists its corporate headquarters as “Address Not Applicable” and instead refers to itself as a remote first company.
The filing sends a copy to “1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa” which is the bitcoin genesis address owned by Satoshi Nakamoto.

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