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Stockholders' Deficit
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure
10. Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
Redeemable Convertible and Convertible Preferred Stock
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. In addition, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation filed in September 2020 in connection with the Direct Listing authorized the issuance of 2,000,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock.
 
Common Stock
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, and 1,005,000 shares of Class F common stock. Additionally, 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 December 31, 2020.
Holders of the 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 December 31, 2020.
During the year ended December 31, 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.
The following represented the total authorized, issued, and outstanding shares for each class of common stock:
 
  
As of December 31, 2020
 
As of December 31, 2019
  
Authorized
 
Issued
 
Outstanding
 
Authorized
 
Issued
 
Outstanding
       
Common stock:
    
Class A
  20,000,000,000  1,542,057,292  1,542,057,292  2,200,000,000  315,615,753  309,223,182
Class B
  2,700,000,000  249,077,252  249,077,252  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  1,792,139,544  1,792,139,544  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 December 31, 2020, the Company held no shares as treasury stock.