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Business Wars Daily

Work Management App Asana Files for IPO as Productivity Tools Soar

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today is Tuesday, September 1, and we’re looking at Asana vs  SmartSheet.

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... From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday. Happy September, friends.

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If ever there was a word that became a cliche overnight, it's the word unprecedented.

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For a second, allow me to step Bowley into the cliche swamp. When it comes to work life, we're in unprecedented times.

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There we have it. Millions of us are still working from home, making managing projects and teams more challenging than ever before. We can't just pop into Dave's

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cubicle and say, hey, have you finished that code yet? Even before the pandemic, productivity and

1:33.9

project management tools were on the rise. But COVID-19 has caused some tools, particularly those

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intended for teams, to skyrocket. Soaring sales prompted at least one such business, San Francisco-based Asana,

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to file for an initial public offering. Asana is a work collaboration app in a world filled

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with productivity tools designed to help overwork professionals hold chaos at bay. It was founded in

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2008 by Justin Moskowitz, the much lesser-known multi-billionaire co-founder of Facebook.

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