WRBY Warby Parker Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2022

 

Registration No. 333-

 

UNITED STATES 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER 

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Warby Parker Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware		80-0423634
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

233 Spring Street, 6th Floor East 

New York, New York 10013 

(646) 847-7215 

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code) 

 

Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan 

Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan 

(Full title of the plans)

 

 

Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer 

Dave Gilboa, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer 

Warby Parker Inc. 

233 Spring Street, 6th Floor East 

New York, New York 10013 

(646) 847-7215 

(Name and address of agent for service) (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

With copies to: 

Steven Miller

Hyung Bak

Lindsay Buxbaum

Warby Parker Inc.

233 Spring Street, 6th Floor East

New York, New York 10013

(646) 847-7215

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ¨	Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer x	Smaller reporting company ¨
	Emerging growth company x

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for comply with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of Securities Act. ¨

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 5,735,463 shares of Warby Parker Inc.’s (the “Registrant”) Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Class A common stock”), to be issued pursuant to the Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan (the “2021 Plan”) and an additional 1,147,092 shares of the Registrant’s Class A common stock to be issued pursuant to the Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2021 ESPP”) and for which a Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form S-8 relating to the same employee benefit plans is effective.

 

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

 

The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-259703), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, relating to the 2021 Plan and the 2021 ESPP, are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 8.            Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.1		Specimen Class A common stock certificate of Warby Parker Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-259035) filed on August 24, 2021)
4.2		Twelfth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Warby Parker Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-259704) filed on September 22, 2021)
4.3		Amended and Restated Bylaws of Warby Parker Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-259704) filed on September 22, 2021)
5.1*		Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP
23.1*		Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
23.2*		Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1*		Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
99.1		Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan and related form agreements (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-259035) filed on September 9, 2021)
99.2		Warby Parker Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-259035) filed on September 9, 2021)
107.1*		Filing Fee Table

 

*           Filed herewith.

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on March 18, 2022.

 

	WARBY PARKER INC.
	By:	/s/ Neil Blumenthal
		Neil Blumenthal
		Co-Chief Executive Officer
	By:	/s/ Dave Gilboa
		Dave Gilboa
		Co-Chief Executive Officer

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Neil Blumenthal, Dave Gilboa, and Steven Miller, or each of them singly, with full power to act without the other, such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement and any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments to this registration statement, and to file the same, with exhibits and schedules thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary or desirable to be done in connection therewith as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Neil Blumenthal		Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director (Co-Principal Executive Officer)		March 18, 2022
Neil Blumenthal
/s/ Dave Gilboa		Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director (Co-Principal Executive Officer)		March 18, 2022
Dave Gilboa
/s/ Steven Miller		Chief Financial Officer		March 18, 2022
Steven Miller		(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Andrew Hunt		Director		March 18, 2022
Andrew Hunt
/s/ Jeffrey Raider		Director		March 18, 2022
Jeffrey Raider
/s/ Teresa Briggs		Director		March 18, 2022
Teresa Briggs
/s/ Joel Cutler		Director		March 18, 2022
Joel Cutler
/s/ Youngme Moon		Director		March 18, 2022
Youngme Moon
/s/ Gabrielle Sulzberger		Director		March 18, 2022
Gabrielle Sulzberger
/s/ Ronald A. Williams		Director		March 18, 2022
Ronald A. Williams