It finally happened. Snapchat’s parent company Snap, Inc. filed for a $3 billion initial public offering on Thursday, offering the world a highly-anticipated look inside the secretive startup’s finances, operations, and plans for the future.
Snap declares itself a “camera company,” after all, so the US Securities and Exchange Commission filing was chock-full of images, diagrams, and charts.
We pulled out the the ones you need to see. Take a look:
The filing starts with Snap’s mission, declaring it’s a “camera company.”
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Next, a timeline of the rise of Snap from a picture messaging app in 2011. The company only launched video at the end of 2012.
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Stories, videos that all users’ contacts can see for 24 hours, just launched in 2013.
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Lenses launched in 2015, and billions of photos and videos of people with dog faces appeared.
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The company posted an annual revenue of $404.4 million in 2016, up from $58.6 million in 2015. But its losses are also growing — to $514 million in 2016, from almost $373 million a year earlier.
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Next, a walk-through of how the Snapchat app works. It took the company 10 figures to explain how to use it.
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“Snapchat opens directly into the Camera,” Snap says, “making it easy to create a Snap and send it to friends.”
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Snap hid a pretty funny joke in this image showing celebrities with ghost names. (Its mascot is a ghost.)
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All of the executive officers are under 50.
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Co founders Spiegel and Murphy controlled 44.3% of the voting power each before the IPO.
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If you’re an early adopter, you may remember when lenses cost money. Lens use spiked after the store charging users for lenses closed.
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These days, Snap makes nearly all of its money off ads. Snap spent a fair amount of time explaining the different types of ads they offer.
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If you’ve ever wondered the secret formula for when you’re going to see ads in stories, here it is.
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Snap sponsored lenses are one form of advertisement, like these ones from Taco Bell and X-Men: Apocalypse.
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Snap has a pretty cool way to measure whether it’s Geofilter ads are working are not, all based on the power of knowing users’ locations.
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The company bragged about being ranked No. 1 in the Advertiser Perceptions’ September 2016 Digital Campaign Management System Report.
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Snapchat boasted 158 million average daily active users as of the fourth quarter of 2016.
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Most users are still in North America, but they’re expanding all over the globe.
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These days, each user generates just over $1 per quarter on average.
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You can see how users have grown over time as the company has released different products.
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“We strive to provide products that empower our community to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together,” Snap writes about its new Spectacles product. “We believe that the camera is the starting point for the future of mobile interaction, entertainment, and education.”
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Welcome to the New York Stock Exchange, Snap!
Foto: A Snapchat sign hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 24, 2017 source REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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