441 company report-Asana-Xin Zhang

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Empower  teams  to  do  great  things  together  

Company  Report  Xin  Zhang  (zxstella)

Sample  Product  

$1.2  million  angel  round  -­‐  Spring  2011    $9  million  Series  A  round  -­‐  Nov  2011  $28  million  Series  B  round  -­‐  Jul  2012  

ValuaKon  of  the  Series  B  $280  million  

~100  peers

Financial  Info  

“Revenue  is  in  the  low  10s  of  millions  of  dollars  per  year,  just  3  years  aRer  launching  the  product.”  

“Millions  of  people  have  signed  up  for  the  free  version  of  the  product.”  

-­‐  JusKn  on  Quora

Financial  Info  

Dus$n  Moskovitz  

Mark  Zuckerberg’s  roommate  Co-­‐founder  of  Facebook  (2004)

Jus$n  Rosenstein  

Facebook  +  Google  Co-­‐inventor  of  the  Like  Bu_on,  Facebook  Pages,  Gmail  Chat  and  Google  Drive

Founders  

History  

Problem:  work  about  work

History  

Solu$on:  internal  task  management  tool  (in  facebook)

Problem:  work  about  work

History  

Moskovitz  and  Rosenstein  leR  Facebook  in  2008  to  start  Asana,  which  officially  launched  out  of  beta  in  November  2011.

Secret  Sauce  -­‐  Mission  

Clarify  of  purpose

Clarify  of  plan

Clarify  of  responsibility

Secret  Sauce  

“Asana  is  simple  yet  efficient.”  

“Although  Asana  has  a  limited  feature  set,  it  does  some  things  very,  very  well.”

Compe:tors  

Predic:on  

-­‐ Good  future  

-­‐ “  We’re  on  track  to  be  profitable  in  the  next  2  or  3  years”  ?  

-­‐ Size  of  business?