John T. McKenna
+1 650 843 5059
jmckenna@cooley.com
September 18, 2017
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Washington, DC 20549
Attn: Larry Spirgel, Assistant Director
| Re: | Roku, Inc. | |
| Registration Statement on FormS-1 | ||
| Filed September 1, 2017 | ||
| FileNo. 333-220318 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Roku, Inc. (the “Company”), we are providing this letter in response to a comment (the “Comment”) received from the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) by letter dated September 11, 2017 with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on FormS-1, filed on September 1, 2017. The Company is concurrently filing Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on FormS-1, which includes changes that reflect the Comment (the “Registration Statement”).
Set forth below are the Company’s responses to the Comment. The numbering of the paragraph below corresponds to the numbering of the Comment, which for your convenience we have incorporated into this response letter. Page references in the text of the Company’s response correspond to the page numbers of the Registration Statement, as filed on the date hereof.
General
| 1. | We note your recently-announced plans to launch your ownad-supported movie channel on your platform called “The Roku Channel.” Please update your disclosure to provide details about this new channel, such as whether a revenue sharing agreement exists, and include any material information concerning how the Company plans to partner with content providers. Similarly, disclose any related risks, such as those associated with the Company managing its own programming and licensing content from other publishers. |
| The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s Comment and advises the Staff that it has revised the disclosure on pages 20, 21 and 94 of the Registration Statement. |
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Please contact me at (650)843-5059 with any questions or further comments regarding our responses to the Staff’s Comment.
Sincerely,
/s/ John T. McKenna
John T. McKenna
| cc: | Stephen H. Kay, Roku, Inc. | |
| David Oh, Roku, Inc. | ||
| Mark P. Tanoury, Cooley LLP | ||
| Seth J. Gottlieb, Cooley LLP | ||
| Alex K. Kassai, Cooley LLP | ||
| Alan F. Denenberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP |
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