{"id":119259,"date":"2020-10-13T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371791"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:06:00","slug":"roblox-quietly-submits-draft-registration-for-proposed-public-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/roblox-quietly-submits-draft-registration-for-proposed-public-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblox quietly submits draft registration for proposed public offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roblox has submitted a draft registration statement for a proposed public offering, effectively confirming it intends to go public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371237\/Report_Roblox_readies_to_go_public_in_early_2021.php\">A Reuters report published earlier this month<\/a> claimed Roblox, which runs a popular game creation platform (also called <em>Roblox<\/em>), was working with investment banks to list on the U.S. stock market in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corp.roblox.com\/2020\/10\/roblox-announces-confidential-submission-draft-registration-statement-proposed-public-offering\/\">In a short announcement<\/a>, the company said it would &#8220;commence the public offering following completion of the SEC review process, subject to market and other conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that the number of shares of Class A common stock that would be sold along with the price range of the proposed offering haven&#8217;t been determined as yet. In the Reuters report, however, it was suggested that going public would double Roblox&#8217;s recent $4 billion valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roblox has submitted a draft registration statement for a proposed public offering, effectively confirming it intends to go public. A Reuters report published earlier this month claimed Roblox, which runs a popular game creation platform (also called Roblox), was working with investment banks to list on the U.S. stock market in 2021. In a short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}