Connected

A fable

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Connected is a character-driven novel about Silicon Valley.

Celia Little, a successful venture capitalist, is named CEO of a social network, displacing its young founder a few months prior to its IPO.

Request a copy of Connected:

x

Sending your request...

Prospectus

Neither we, the selling stockholders, nor any of the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide you with any information or to make any representations other than as contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses we have prepared. Neither we, the selling stockholders, nor the underwriters take responsibility for, and provide no assurance about the reliability of, any information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or any sale of the Class A common stock. Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may have changed since that date.

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our Class A common stock. You should read this entire prospectus carefully, including “Strategy and Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before making an investment decision.


Strategy and Risk Factors

Our strategy is to invest in product innovation and take risks to improve our social networking platform. We do this in order to drive user engagement, which we can then monetize through advertising. We use the revenue we generate to fund future product innovation to grow our business and improve our user experience. We believe that the best way to compete for global online advertising revenue is innovating to create the most engaging products. New mobile software and digital communications technology are available to everyone immediately, and usually for free. While not all of our investments will pay off in the long run, we are willing to take risks in an attempt to create the best and most differentiated products on the market.

Due to the nature of our products and business, our ability to succeed in any given country is largely dependent on digital infrastructure and digital advertising markets. These factors influence our product performance, our hosting costs, and our monetization opportunity in each market. Our products often require intensive processing and generate high bandwidth consumption by our users. As a result, our users tend to come from developed countries with high-end mobile devices and high-speed cellular internet. These markets also tend to have cheaper bandwidth costs, meaning that it is less expensive to serve our community in these countries.

Substantially all of our revenue comes from advertising, so our ability to generate revenue in a particular country depends on the size of its advertising market. Global advertising spend—especially mobile advertising spend—is extremely concentrated, with over 70% of overall advertising spend and nearly 85% of mobile advertising spend coming from the top ten advertising markets. On average, over 60% of our Daily Active Users come from these countries.

...