1. Organization and Description of Business
Twilio Inc. (the "Company") was incorporated in the state of Delaware on March 13, 2008. The Company provides a Cloud Communications Platform that enables developers to build, scale and operate communications within software applications through the cloud primarily as a pay-as-you-go service. The Company's product offerings fit three basic categories: Programmable Voice, Programmable Messaging and Programmable Video. The Company also provides use case products, such as a two-factor authentication solution.
The Company's headquarters are located in San Francisco, California and the Company has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Estonia, Ireland, Colombia, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bermuda and Spain.
Initial Public Offering
In June 2016, the Company completed an initial public offering ("IPO") in which the Company sold 11,500,000 shares of its newly authorized Class A common stock, which included 1,500,000 shares sold pursuant to the exercise by the underwriters of an option to purchase additional shares, at the public offering price of $15.00 per share. The Company received net proceeds of $155.5 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses paid by the Company, from the sale of its shares in the IPO. Immediately prior to the completion of the IPO, all shares of common stock then outstanding were reclassified as shares of Class B common stock and all shares of convertible preferred stock then outstanding were converted into 54,508,441 shares of common stock on a one-to-one basis, and then reclassified as shares of Class B common stock. See Note 12 for further discussion of Class A and B common stock.
Follow-on Public Offering
In October 2016, the Company completed a follow-on public offering ("FPO") in which the Company sold 1,691,222 shares of its Class A common stock, which included 1,050,000 shares sold pursuant to the exercise by the underwriters of an option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $40.00 per share. In addition, another 6,358,778 shares of the Company's Class A common stock were sold by the selling stockholders of the Company, which included 906,364 shares sold pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options by certain selling stockholders. The Company received aggregate proceeds of $64.4 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses paid and payable by the Company. The Company did not receive any of the net proceeds from the sales of shares by the selling stockholders.