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Stockholders' Deficit
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure
9. Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
During September 2020, the Company filed an amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which became effective on the date of its filing. The amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorized the issuance of a total of 20,000,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, 2,700,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, 1,005,000 shares of Class F common stock, and 2,000,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock. Substantially concurrently with the filing and acceptance of the amended and restated certificate of incorporation in connection with the Direct Listing, each of the Founders exchanged 335,000 shares of their Class B common stock for an equivalent number of shares of Class F common stock.
The Company’s Class A, Class B, and Class F common stock all have the same rights, except with respect to voting and conversion rights. Class A and Class B common stock have voting rights of 1 and 10 votes per share, respectively. The Class F common stock has a variable number of votes and is convertible at any time, at the option of the holder thereof, into one share of Class B common stock. All shares of Class F common stock are held by a voting trust established by the Founders. The Class F common stock generally give the Founders the ability to control up to 49.999999% of the total voting power of the Company’s capital stock, so long as the Founders and certain of their affiliates collectively meet a minimum ownership threshold, which was 100.0 million of the Company’s equity securities as of September 30, 2020.
Holders of Class A, Class B, and Class F common stock are entitled to dividends when, as and, if declared by the Company’s Board of Directors, subject to the rights of the holders of all classes of stock outstanding having priority rights to dividends. No dividends have been declared as of September 30, 2020.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2020 the Company sold a total of 206,500,523 shares of its Class A common stock at a price of $4.65 per share, for aggregate proceeds of $942.5 million, net of issuance costs of $17.7 million. Included in these sales were 107,526,881 shares of Class A common stock sold to SOMPO, a partner investor in the Company’s equity method investee, Palantir Japan.

In connection with the Direct Listing in September 2020, all outstanding shares of redeemable convertible preferred stock and convertible preferred stock were converted into 4,017,378 and 793,725,807 shares of Class B common stock, respectively, and 1,005,000 shares of Class B common stock held by the Founders were exchanged for an equal number of shares of Class F common stock.
The following represented the total authorized, issued, and outstanding shares for each class of common stock:
 
 
  
As of September 30, 2020
  
As of December 31, 2019
 
  
Authorized
  
Issued
  
Outstanding
  
Authorized
  
Issued
  
Outstanding
Common stock:
 
  
   
  
   
  
   
Class A
  
 
20,000,000,000
 
  
 
1,320,584,721
 
  
 
1,320,584,721
 
  
 
2,200,000,000
 
  
 
315,615,753
 
  
 
309,223,182
 
Class B
  
 
2,700,000,000
 
  
 
405,096,034
 
  
 
405,096,034
 
  
 
1,800,000,000
 
  
 
272,273,934
 
  
 
272,273,934
 
Class F
  
 
1,005,000
 
  
 
1,005,000
 
  
 
1,005,000
 
  
 
—  
 
  
 
—  
 
  
 
—  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Total
  
 
22,701,005,000
 
  
 
1,726,685,755
 
  
 
1,726,685,755
 
  
 
4,000,000,000
 
  
 
587,889,687
 
  
 
581,497,116
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Treasury Stock
On April 30, 2020, the Board of Directors approved the retirement of all shares of treasury stock. Retirement of treasury stock was recorded as a reduction of common stock and additional
paid-in
capital. As of September 30, 2020, the Company held no shares as treasury stock.