RingCentral Inc

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. The forward-looking statements are contained principally in, but not limited to, the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by terms such as “anticipates”, “believes”, “could”, “seeks”, “estimates”, “expects”, “intends”, “may”, “plans”, “potential”, “predicts”, “projects”, “should”, “will”, “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

•our progress against short-term and long-term goals;

•our future financial performance;

•our anticipated growth, growth strategies and our ability to effectively manage that growth and effect these strategies;

•our success in our target markets and key verticals;

•anticipated trends, developments and challenges in our business and in the markets in which we operate, as well as general macroeconomic conditions and geopolitical conflicts;

•our ability to scale to our desired goals, particularly the implementation of new processes and systems and on-boarding new workers;

•the impact of competition in our industry and innovation by our competitors;

•our ability to anticipate and adapt to future changes in our industry;

•our ability to predict subscriptions revenues, formulate accurate financial projections, manage debt expense, and make strategic business decisions based on our analysis of market trends;

•our ability to anticipate market needs and develop new and enhanced products and solutions and subscriptions to meet those needs, and our ability to successfully monetize them;

•our ability to successfully incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning powered features into our solutions;

•maintaining and expanding our customer base;

•maintaining, expanding and responding to changes in our relationships with other companies;

•maintaining and expanding our distribution channels, including our network of sales agents and resellers, our partners, and global service providers;

•our ability to sell, market, and support our solutions and services, domestically and internationally, and continue to sell and expand our business with enterprise customers and within our key vertical markets;

•our ability to realize increased purchasing leverage and economies of scale as we expand;

•the impact of seasonality on our business;

•the impact of any failure of our solutions or solution innovations, including our innovations relating to AI;

•our dependency on third-party vendors of hardware, software and services that we offer and sell to our customers and our ability to effectively offer customers an alternate solution;

•the potential effect on our business of litigation to which we may become a party;

•our liquidity and working capital requirements;

•the impact of changes in the regulatory environment including with respect to AI;

•our ability to protect our intellectual property and rely on open source licenses;

•our expectations regarding the growth and reliability of public cloud and internet infrastructure;

•the timing of acquisitions of, or making and exiting investments in, other entities, businesses or technologies;

•our ability to successfully and timely execute on, integrate, and realize the benefits of any acquisition, investment, strategic partnership, or other strategic transaction we may make or undertake;

•our capital expenditure projections;

•our capital allocation plans, including expected allocations of cash and timing for any share repurchases, debt repayments, and other investments;

•our Credit Agreement, including both the Term Loan and the Revolving Credit Facility (each as defined below);

•our ability to comply with the operational and financial covenants in our debt agreements;

•the estimates and estimate methodologies used in preparing our consolidated financial statements;

•the political environment and stability in the regions in which we or our subcontractors operate;

•the impact of economic downturns on us and our customers;

•our ability to protect our systems and our customer information from fraud, social engineering breaches, and cyber-attack;

•our ability to prevent the use of fraudulent payment methods for our solutions;

•our ability to retain key employees and to attract qualified personnel;

•our ability to successfully implement or otherwise achieve our anticipated cost reductions; and

•the impact of foreign currencies on our non-U.S. business as we expand our business internationally.

Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be significantly different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We discuss these risks in greater detail in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Also, forward-looking statements represent our management’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. You should read this Annual Report on Form 10-K completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be significantly different from what we expect.

Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ significantly from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.