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DigitalOcean Holdings Inc

For the period ended Mar 31, 2025. Filed May 6, 2025.

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Mar 31, 2025 · Filed May 6, 2025

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Previous report: 10-Q

Period ended 2024-09-30; filed 2024-11-04.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Current report: 10-Q

Period ended 2025-03-31; filed 2025-05-06.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.

Compared 125 previous paragraphs and 125 current paragraphs.

44 unchanged; 42 reworded; 36 added; 36 removed; 3 previous and 3 current paragraphs rearranged.

Tables are not compared: 17 previous and 12 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.

A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.

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Current report

DigitalOcean is a leading cloud computing platform, offering simple, scalable and approachable on-demand cloud and AI services for digital native enterprises around the world. Our platform simplifies cloud computing, enabling our customers to rapidly accelerate innovation and productivity. Our customers include digital native enterprises across numerous industry verticals ranging from gaming to fintech to cybersecurity, among many others, and leverage our platform for a wide variety of use cases, such as building and hosting websites, developing new web and mobile applications, integrating AI into their businesses, and building AI products and applications, among many others. We believe that being simple, scalable and approachable are our key differentiators, driving a broad range of customers around the world whose needs are not being fully met by larger cloud providers to build and grow their businesses on our platform.

Current report

We serve a large number of customers that range in size from growing or scaled businesses that generate millions of dollars in revenue and serve millions of their own customers to individual developers testing or learning new technology for their own development. Thousands of new users come to DigitalOcean every month with some users intending only to utilize our platform for a discrete task, and other users are part of new or existing businesses that intend to operate their production and test workloads on our platform to support their business. Given the wide range of users and their associated spend, we classify customers based on their spend in a given month, which we have found to be a good proxy that distinguishes between casual users and substantial enterprise customers.

Current report

Our annual run-rate (ARR, as further described in “ARR” below), as of March 31, 2025 was $843 million, up from $739 million as of March 31, 2024.

Current report

We believe there is a substantial opportunity to further expand our customer base. We are investing in strategies that we believe will drive adoption by new Higher Spend Customers, including new marketing initiatives that further optimize our self-service revenue funnel to identify potential Higher Spend Customers, enhanced research and development to build our product roadmap around the needs of Higher Spend Customers, the creation of a new migration services team to support migration to our platform from other cloud providers, and a dedicated AI sales team with deep AI expertise to help prospective customers understand our offerings and the process to onboard onto our platform.

Current report

We have a history of, and will continue to invest significantly in, delivering innovative products, features and functionality for our Higher Spend Customers. Our product strategy is anchored in addressing the needs of our Higher Spend Customers and other digital native enterprises and on continuously innovating to meet those needs in a simple, scalable and approachable way. We have accelerated the pace of product innovation and made disciplined investments to expand our offerings for our IaaS and PaaS offerings, as well as our newer AI/ML offerings. In 2024, we released a number of new products and product features, including GPU Droplets, our GenAI platform, Autonomous on our Managed Hosting offering to automatically scale resources based on website traffic, and enhancements to our role-based access control functionality and Backups offering.

Current report

The market opportunity for our services continues to expand and we expect to make additional investments to offer an enhanced and tailored suite of IaaS, PaaS/SaaS and AI/ML offerings that address the changing needs of our customers.

Current report

We attract a large number of developers to our website and platform and we are committed to supporting and expanding this community of innovators and technologists by continuing to produce high-quality educational content and hosting developer-focused programs and events around the world. Supporting and educating the developer community is not only one of our values, but it also fosters brand loyalty, expands our customer base and drives increased adoption of our products.

Current report

Augmenting our Platform though Strategic Partnerships and Acquisitions

Current report

In addition to organic growth, we believe that strategic partnerships and acquisitions will allow us to accelerate our key platform, product and marketing initiatives. In recent years, we completed acquisitions of Paperspace, which launched our AI/ML offerings, and Cloudways, which added our Managed Hosting offering to our platform. In addition, we have entered into partnerships to augment our product offerings. For example, in 2024, we announced a partnership with Hugging Face, which allows customers to quickly and easily deploy the most popular third-party models on GPU Droplets and significantly simplifies the model deployment process for our customers. We intend to actively pursue both strategic partnerships and acquisitions that we believe will be complementary to our business, accelerate customer acquisition, increase usage of our platform and/or expand our product offerings in our core markets.

Current report

(1)Customer count. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024, we changed our methodology for calculating customer count and our customer categories. Prior periods have been recast to reflect the effects of the changes.

Current report

(2)Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024, we changed our methodology for calculating ARR. Prior periods have been recast to reflect the effects of the change.

Current report

Customers are classified in the following categories based on the amount of their spend in a given month and individual customers may fall within different categories within a reporting period:

Current report

•Scalers: users that spend more than $500 and less than or equal to $8,333 in a month.

Current report

Users that spend less than or equal to $50 in a given month and have been on our platform for three months or less are considered “Testers.” Users that spend less than or equal to $50 in a given month and have been on our platform for more than three months are considered “Learners.” We have not disclosed the number of Testers and Learners on our platform in our regular disclosures since the second quarter of 2022 and fourth quarter of 2024, respectively, since we do not consider these customers to comprise a meaningful part of our customer base or be a good predictor of future growth.

Current report

As indicated in Note 2. in our condensed consolidated financial statements, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2024, we reclassified personnel costs including salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation related to our customer support employees, and certain other costs from sales and marketing and research and development to cost of revenue in order to better reflect the cost of supporting our growing customer base, and to improve comparability with peers.

Current report

As a result, the condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 has been recast to reflect the effects of the changes in cost of revenue, gross profit, sales and marketing, research and development and total operating expenses. There was no change in income from operations, net income attributable to common stockholders or net income per share attributable to common stockholders for the three months ended March 31, 2024 as a result of these reclassifications. The condensed consolidated balance sheets, condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income, condensed consolidated statements of stockholders’ deficit, and the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows were not affected by changes in the presentation of these costs.

Current report

(1) Amounts have been recast to reflect the effects of the changes in cost of revenue, research and development and sales and marketing for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Refer to Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Prior Period Reclassification, in our condensed consolidated financial statements for further details.

Current report

(1) Amounts have been recast to reflect the effects of the changes in cost of revenue, research and development and sales and marketing for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Refer to Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Prior Period Reclassification, in our condensed consolidated financial statements for further details.

Current report

(1)Amounts have been recast to reflect the effects of the changes in cost of revenue, research and development and sales and marketing for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Refer to Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Prior Period Reclassification, in our condensed consolidated financial statements for further details.

Current report

Research and development expenses increased $6.7 million, or 20%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The change is primarily due to increases of $3.2 million in personnel costs mainly driven by increased headcount as well as annual merit-based salary increases, $2.6 million in professional services costs, $0.5 million in software costs and $0.4 million in other costs.

Current report

Sales and marketing expenses increased $0.5 million, or 3%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The change is primarily due to increases of $0.5 million in personnel costs and $0.5 million in professional services costs partially offset by decreases of $0.3 million in depreciation and amortization and $0.2 million in advertising expenses.

Current report

General and administrative expenses decreased $13.0 million, or 28%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The change is primarily due to decreases of $11.2 million in personnel costs, primarily due to costs incurred in the first quarter of 2024 related to acquisition-related deferred compensation and executive reorganization, including the reversal of stock-based compensation from forfeited RSUs and other related costs, $0.8 million in professional services costs and $1.5 million in other operating expenses.

Current report

Net cash provided by operating activities was $64.1 million and $66.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The change was primarily driven by decreases of $10.5 million in payments for leases, $5.5 million in unfavorable working capital changes, $3.4 million in stock-based compensation, $2.7 million in depreciation and amortization, and $2.6 million in net accretion of discounts and amortization of premiums on investments, partially offset by an increase of $24.1 million in net income attributable to common stockholders.

Current report

Net cash used in financing activities of $67.2 million and $11.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The change was primarily due to increases of $50.3 million in repurchases and retirement of our common stock, $3.7 million in proceeds related to the issuance of common stock under our 2021 Plan and $1.9 million in employee payroll taxes paid related to net settlement of equity awards.
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Previous report

DigitalOcean is a leading cloud computing platform offering on-demand infrastructure and platform tools for startups and growing digital-native businesses. We were founded with the guiding principle that the transformative benefits of the cloud should be easy to leverage, broadly accessible, reliable and affordable. Our platform simplifies cloud computing, enabling our customers to rapidly accelerate innovation and increase their productivity and agility.

Previous report

The lifecycle of a customer typically begins with users coming to our platform to explore a new technology or test an idea. Thousands of users come to DigitalOcean every month, paying a small amount to learn and to complete their discrete tasks. In many cases, these early users do not intend to remain on our platform beyond their initial testing. We refer to these users that spend less than or equal to $50 per month and utilize our platform for three months or less as “Testers”. Given their short time on our platform and their relatively small individual and aggregate spend, we do not consider Testers to be a meaningful part of our customer base. Once a user has remained on our platform for longer than three months, or spends greater than $50 per month, we consider them to be active and ongoing customers that have the intention to remain on our platform and to potentially scale their utilization of our products. We divide this customer population into the following three categories:

Previous report

•Learners: users that both (i) spend less than or equal to $50 for the month-end period and (ii) have been on our platform for more than three months.

Previous report

•Scalers: users that spend greater than $500 for the month-end period.

Previous report

As of September 30, 2024, we had approximately 638,000 Learners, Builders and Scalers using our platform to build, deploy and scale applications. We view Learners, Builders and Scalers as the most appropriate measure of our customer population, and Testers have therefore been excluded from the total customer population count.

Previous report

Our users include software engineers, researchers, data scientists, system administrators, students and hobbyists. Our customers use our platform across numerous industry verticals and for a wide range of use cases, such as web and mobile applications, website hosting, e-commerce, media and gaming, personal web projects, managed services, and, most recently, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications, among many others. We believe that our focus on simplicity, community, open source and customer support are the four key differentiators of our business, driving a broad range of customers around the world to build their applications on our platform.

Previous report

Our future success depends in large part on the continuing adoption of cloud computing, proliferation of cloud-native start ups and businesses and the increasing importance of developers, all of which are driving the adoption of our developer cloud platform. We believe our market opportunity is large and that these factors will continue to drive our growth.

Previous report

We believe there is a substantial opportunity to further expand our customer base to attract more businesses that can scale on our platform. We are investing in strategies that we believe will attract Builders and Scalers, including new marketing initiatives that further optimize our self-service revenue funnel to help customers expand their usage and partnership initiatives to identify potential Builders and Scalers. In addition, our Cloudways and Paperspace acquisitions added a significant number of Builders and Scalers as these offerings provide premium managed services and high value AI/ML offerings, respectively.

Previous report

We have a history of, and will continue to invest significantly in, delivering innovative products, features and functionality targeted at our core customer base. The market opportunity for our core IaaS services of compute, storage and networking continues to expand and we are making targeted investments to expand our IaaS revenue. Beyond IaaS, we continue to see large growth opportunities in the PaaS, SaaS and AI/ML markets and, accordingly, we have expanded our portfolio of products and offerings over the last few years. In addition, we may pursue both strategic partnerships and acquisitions, such as our acquisitions of Cloudways and Paperspace, that we believe will be complementary to our business, accelerate customer acquisition, increase usage of our platform and/or expand our product offerings in our core markets. Our results of operations may fluctuate as we make these investments to drive usage and take advantage of our expansive market opportunity.

Previous report

We offer mission-critical solutions across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including our Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), including our Managed Database and Managed Kubernetes offerings; Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), including our Managed Hosting and Marketplace offerings; and AI/ML, including our Machines, Notebooks and Deployments offerings. We recognize revenue based on the customer utilization of these resources. Customer contracts are primarily month-to-month and generally do not include any minimum guaranteed quantities or fees. Fees are billed monthly, and payment is typically due upon invoicing. Revenue is recognized net of allowances for credits and any taxes collected from customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.

Previous report

Restructuring and other charges consist primarily of personnel costs, such as notice period, employee severance payments and termination benefits, as well as stock-based compensation related to vesting of certain equity awards. The restructuring plan was substantially completed by the end of the third quarter of 2023.

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(1) Amount includes $31.3 million of recognized stock-based compensation related to our former CEO’s MRSUs that was estimated to be forfeited and therefore reversed for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.

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Cost of revenue increased $8.7 million, or 12%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to increases of $5.4 million in depreciation and amortization due to our continued investment in AI/ML offerings and infrastructure, $1.9 million in co-location costs and $1.1 million in third-party license fees. Gross profit remained consistent at 60% for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, primarily due to decreases in co-location costs and bandwidth expenses as a percentage of revenue as a result of our ongoing cost optimization efforts, offset entirely by our continued investment in AI/ML offerings.

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Research and development expenses increased $4.8 million, or 15%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to increases of $6.0 million in personnel costs and $0.3 million in professional services costs, partially offset by higher capitalized internal-use software development costs of $1.8 million.

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Sales and marketing expenses decreased $2.0 million, or 10%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease is primarily due to a $2.8 million decrease in personnel costs, largely due to the reversal of stock-based compensation from forfeited RSUs, partially offset by a $0.6 million increase in advertising expenses.

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General and administrative expenses increased $20.4 million, or 101%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to a $31.3 million reversal of stock-based compensation attributed to our former CEO’s forfeited MRSUs during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and a $2.0 million increase in other operating costs, partially offset by decreases of $8.7 million in personnel costs and $4.4 million in professional service costs.

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There were $0.4 million in Restructuring and other charges during the three months ended September 30, 2023 and no such charges during the three months ended September 30, 2024. These charges were primarily due to one-time severance and benefit payments, as well as stock-based compensation related to vesting of certain equity awards in connection with the restructuring we announced in February 2023, which was substantially completed by the third quarter of 2023.

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Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 and 2023

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Research and development expenses decreased $4.1 million, or 4%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease is primarily due to $4.5 million of higher capitalized internal-use software development costs and a $0.4 million decrease inpersonnel costs, partially offset by a $1.2 million increase in professional services costs.

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Sales and marketing expenses increased $4.6 million, or 9%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to increases of $3.7 million in advertising expenses, $1.4 million in amortization of acquired intangibles assets and $0.8 million in other operating costs, offset by a $1.3 million decrease in personnel costs largely due to the reversal of stock-based compensation from forfeited RSUs.

Previous report

General and administrative expenses increased $9.2 million, or 8%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to a $31.3 million reversal of stock-based compensation attributed to our former CEO’s forfeited MRSUs during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 , an increase of $2.0 million in other operating costs and an increase of $1.1 million in payment processing costs due to revenue growth, partially offset by decreases of $22.6 million in personnel costs and $3.4 million in professional services costs.

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There were $20.9 million in Restructuring and other charges during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and no such charges during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The 2023 charges were primarily due to one-time severance and benefit payments, as well as stock-based compensation related to vesting of certain equity awards in connection with the restructuring we announced in February 2023, which was substantially completed by the third quarter of 2023.

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Other income, net decreased $2.1 million, or 17%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to a decrease in interest income from marketable securities as they were reallocated at maturity to cash and money market funds during the three months ended March 31, 2024, offset by gains from foreign currency fluctuations from our operations.

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Income tax expense decreased $7.3 million, or 75%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily as a result of higher excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation and utilization of research and development credits taken in 2024.

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Net cash provided by operating activities was $211.4 million and $154.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in cash collections from higher revenues. These increases were partially offset by payments for leases, acquisition related compensation and cash bonuses.

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Net cash used in financing activities of $41.0 million and $473.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, was primarily due to the repurchase and retirement of our common stock for $29.9 million and $475.0 million, respectively.

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(1)For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $0.1 million as it is presented in Restructuring related charges. There were no reclassifications of stock-based compensation for the three months ended September 30, 2024. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $31.3 million, reversal related to the former CEO’s forfeited MRSU award that is reported in Restructuring related charges.

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(2)For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, primarily consists of executive reorganization charges. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily consists of the $31.3 million reversal of stock- based compensation related to the former CEO’s forfeited MRSU award, partially offset by salary continuation charges, executive reorganization charges including severance, CEO search firm fees, and other legal and professional service costs.
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Previous wording

We offer mission-critical solutions across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including our Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), including our Managed Database and Managed Kubernetes offerings; Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), including our Managed Hosting and Marketplace offerings; and AI/ML, including our Machines, Notebooks and Deployments offerings. Our cloud platform was designed with simplicity in mind to ensure that startups and growing digital-native businesses can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth. Improving the developer experience and increasing productivity are core to our mission. In just minutes, developers can set up thousands of virtual machines, secure their projects, enable performance monitoring and scale up and down as needed.

Current wording

We offer mission-critical solutions across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”), including our Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), including our Managed Hosting, Managed Database, Managed Kubernetes and Marketplace offerings; and artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI/ML”), including our GPU Droplets, Bare Metal GPUs, and GenAI Platform offerings. We continue to invest in our platform to further penetrate the growing markets in which we operate.

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We generate revenue from the usage of our cloud computing platform by our customers. We recognize revenue based on the customer utilization of our offerings. Our pricing is primarily consumption-based and billed monthly in arrears, making it easy for our customers to track usage on an ongoing basis and optimize their deployments.

Current wording

We generate revenue primarily from the usage of our cloud computing platform by our customers. We recognize revenue largely based on the customer utilization of our offerings. While our pricing is primarily consumption-based and the majority of our customers use our platform on a month-to-month basis, a growing number of customers are using our platform for larger workloads and some of these customers are opting to enter into committed contracts, committing to a minimum spend on our platform.

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Growing our Builders and Scalers is a critical focus for us, and we have successfully increased the number of these customers and their percentage of our total revenue. We had approximately 18,000 Scalers as of September 30, 2024, up from approximately 16,000 as of September 30, 2023. We had approximately 145,000 Builders as of September 30, 2024, up from approximately 138,000 as of September 30, 2023. Revenue from Builders and Scalers increased 7% and 19%, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 from the three months ended September 30, 2023. Revenue from Builders and Scalers as a percentage of total revenue was 88% in the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 86% in the three months ended September 30, 2023.

Current wording

We refer to our Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ customers collectively as our Higher Spend Customers (as further described in "Higher Spend Customers" below). Growing our Higher Spend Customers is a critical focus for us, and we have successfully increased the number of these customers and their percentage of our total revenue. Revenue from our Higher Spend Customers as a percentage of total revenue was 88% as of March 31, 2025, up from approximately 87% as of March 31, 2024. We had approximately 171,000 Higher Spend Customers using our platform to build, deploy and scale applications as of March 31, 2025, up from approximately 157,000 as of March 31, 2024.

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Our average revenue per customer (consisting of the aggregate revenue and customer counts for our Learners, Builders and Scalers, but excluding revenue and customer counts for Testers), or ARPU, has increased from $92.06 in the three months ended September 30, 2023 to $102.51 in the three months ended September 30, 2024. We had no material customer concentration as our top 25 customers made up approximately 9% and 7% of our revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Our annual run-rate revenue, or ARR, as of September 30, 2024 was $798 million, up from $713 million as of September 30, 2023. ARR as of the end of each month represents total revenue for that month multiplied by 12.

Current wording

Our average revenue per customer (ARPU, as further described in “ARPU” below), has increased from $95.13 in the quarter ended March 31, 2024 to $108.56 in the quarter ended March 31, 2025. We had no material customer concentration as our top 25 customers made up approximately 9% and 7% of our revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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We have a highly efficient self-service customer acquisition model, which we complement with a sales force focused on inside sales, targeted outside sales and partnership opportunities to drive revenue growth. Our model enables customers to get started on our platform very quickly and without the need for assistance. We focus heavily on enabling a self-service, low-friction model that makes it easy for users to try, adopt and use our products. For each of the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, our sales and marketing expense was approximately 9% and 11% of our revenue, respectively. The efficiency of our go-to-market model and our focus on the needs of startups and growing digital-native businesses has enabled us to drive organic growth and establish a truly global customer base across a broad range of industries.

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We have a highly efficient self-service customer acquisition model, which we complement with a sales force focused on inside sales, targeted outside sales and partnership opportunities to drive revenue growth. The efficiency of our go-to-market model and our focus on the needs of digital native enterprises have enabled us to drive organic growth and establish a truly global customer base across a broad range of industries. We focus on customer acquisition, our self-service acquisition funnel, customer support and success, community education, inside sales, targeted outside sales, and partnership and channel development. For each of the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 our sales and marketing expense was approximately 9% and 10% of our revenue, respectively.

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Our customers are spread across approximately 190 countries and around two-thirds of our revenue has historically come from customers located outside the United States. For the three months ended September 30, 2024, 39% of our revenue was generated from North America, 28% from Europe, 23% from Asia and 10% from the rest of the world.

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Our customers are spread across approximately 190 countries and around two-thirds of our revenue has historically come from customers located outside the United States. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, 37% of our revenue was generated from North America, 28% from Europe, 24% from Asia and 11% from the rest of the world.

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Our existing customer base represents a significant opportunity for further sales expansion through increased usage of our platform and adoption of additional product offerings. We are highly focused on gaining a better understanding of the needs and growth plans of our existing customers. This deeper relationship with our customers will help us identify opportunities to educate our customer base on ways to utilize the platform more effectively for their individual use cases, as well as provide a feedback loop to inform our product roadmap. We are focusing our sales and support teams to prevent customer churn by ensuring that our products and services provide a high level of value. Our goal is to continue to increase our revenue from existing customers through the introduction of new products and features tailored to our customer base in addition to expanded customer outreach, focused on larger customers and specific use cases.

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Our existing customer base represents a significant opportunity for further sales expansion through increased usage of our platform and adoption of additional product offerings. We are highly focused on gaining a better understanding of the needs and growth plans of our existing customers, increasing our feature velocity and shaping our product roadmap around the needs of Higher Spend Customers, and introducing an account management function to provide more direct coverage of our top spending accounts. This deeper relationship with our customers will help us identify opportunities to educate our customer base on ways to utilize the platform more effectively for their individual use cases, as well as provide a feedback loop to inform our product roadmap, in order to build trust with customers and encourage them to run more of their critical cloud workloads on our platform. We closely monitor our net dollar retention (NDR), which reflects our ability to retain and grow revenue from our existing customers. NDR increased from 97% during the three months ended March 31, 2024 to 100% during the three months ended March 31, 2025 driven by improved net expansion. We expect to increase our revenue in the future from existing customers through the introduction of new products and features tailored to our Higher Spend Customers through expanded customer outreach, and targeted services to support our customers in migrating additional workloads from other cloud providers to DigitalOcean.

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Unfavorable conditions in the economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from changes in gross domestic product growth, supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, volatility in the capital markets, liquidity concerns at, and failures of, banks and other financial institutions, international trade relations, political turmoil, political instability and transitions of power in regions where we operate, natural catastrophes, outbreaks of contagious diseases, warfare and terrorist attacks on the United States, Europe or elsewhere, including military actions affecting Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in business investments in information technology and negatively affect the growth of our business and our results of operations.

Current wording

Unfavorable conditions in the economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from trade tension and/or the imposition of trade tariffs (including recent U.S. tariffs imposed or threatened to be imposed and any retaliatory actions taken by other countries), changes in gross domestic product growth, supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, volatility in the capital markets, liquidity concerns at, and failures of, banks and other financial institutions, international trade relations, political turmoil, political instability and transitions of power in regions where we operate, natural catastrophes, outbreaks of contagious diseases, warfare and terrorist attacks on the United States, Europe or elsewhere, including military actions affecting Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in business investments in information technology and negatively affect the growth of our business and our results of operations.

Previous wording

We utilize the key metrics set forth below to help us evaluate our business and growth, identify trends, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions. We are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating these key metrics, and other companies may not calculate similarly titled metrics in a consistent manner, which may hinder comparability. The table below includes the impact of our acquisitions beginning in the period in which they were acquired with respect to the metrics disclosed.

Current wording

We utilize the key metrics set forth below to help us evaluate our business and growth, identify trends, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions. We are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating these key metrics, and other companies may not calculate similarly titled metrics in a consistent manner, which may hinder comparability.

Previous wording

While we believe the total number of these customers is an important indicator of the growth of our business and future revenue opportunity, the trends relating to our Builders and Scalers is of particular importance to us as these customers represent a significant majority of our revenue and revenue growth, and they are representative of the startup and growing digital-native business customers that grow on our platform and use multiple products.

Current wording

We refer to our Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ customers collectively as our Higher Spend Customers. We believe the total number of our Higher Spend Customers is an important indicator of the growth of our business and future revenue opportunity, and the trends relating to our Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ is of particular importance to us as these customers comprise a significant majority of our revenue and revenue growth, and are representative of growing digital native enterprises that scale on our platform and use multiple products. We calculate customer count as the average number of customers as of the last day of the month for each month in the most recent quarter.

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•Builders: users that spend greater than $50 and less than or equal to $500 for the month-end period.

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•Builders: users that spend more than $50 and less than or equal to $500 in a month.

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We believe that our average revenue per customer, which we refer to as ARPU, is a strong indication of our ability to land new customers with higher spending levels and expand usage of our platform by our existing customers. We calculate ARPU on a monthly basis as our total revenue from Learners, Builders and Scalers in that period divided by the total number of Learner, Builder and Scaler customers determined as of the last day of the reported period. For a quarterly or annual period, ARPU is determined as the weighted average monthly ARPU over such three or 12-month period.

Current wording

We believe that our average revenue per customer, which we refer to as ARPU, is a strong indication of our ability to acquire new customers with higher spending levels and expand usage of our platform by our existing customers. We calculate ARPU on a monthly basis as our total revenue from Learners, Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ in that period divided by the total number of Learners, Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ customers determined as of the last day of that month. For a quarterly or annual period, ARPU is determined as the weighted average monthly ARPU over such three or 12-month period.

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Given the recurring nature of our business, we view annual run-rate revenue as an important indicator of our current progress towards meeting our revenue targets and projected growth rate going forward. We calculate ARR at a point in time by multiplying the revenue of the last month of the reported period by 12. For our ARR calculations, we include the total revenue from all customers, including Testers, Learners, Builders and Scalers.

Current wording

Given the recurring nature of our business, we view annual run-rate revenue as an important indicator of our current progress towards meeting our revenue targets and projected growth rate going forward. We calculate ARR by multiplying the revenue for the most recent quarter by four. For our ARR calculations, we include the total revenue from all customers, including Testers, Learners, Builders, Scalers, and Scalers+.

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Our ability to maintain long-term revenue growth and achieve profitability is dependent on our ability to retain and grow revenue from our existing customers. We have a history of retaining customers for multiple years and in many cases increasing their spend with us over time. To help us measure our performance in this area, we monitor our net dollar retention rate. We calculate net dollar retention rate monthly by starting with the revenue from customers, including Testers, Learners, Builders and Scalers, for our IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings during the corresponding month 12 months prior, or the Prior Period Revenue. We then calculate the revenue from these same customers as of the current month, or the Current Period Revenue, including any expansion and net of any contraction or attrition from these customers over the last 12 months. The calculation also includes revenue from customers that generated revenue before, but not in, the corresponding month 12 months prior, but subsequently generated revenue in the current month and are therefore reflected in the Current Period Revenue. We include this group of re-engaged customers in this calculation because our customers frequently use our platform for projects that stop and start over time. We then divide the total Current Period Revenue by the total Prior Period Revenue to arrive at the net dollar retention rate for the relevant month. For our net dollar retention rate calculations, we include the total revenue from customers, including Testers, Learners, Builders and Scalers, for our IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings. For a quarterly or annual period, the net dollar retention rate is determined as the average monthly net dollar retention rates over such three or 12-month period.

Current wording

Our ability to maintain long-term revenue growth and achieve profitability is dependent on our ability to retain and grow revenue from our existing customers. We have a history of retaining customers for multiple years and in many cases increasing their spend with us over time. To help us measure our performance in this area, we monitor our net dollar retention rate. We calculate net dollar retention rate monthly by starting with the revenue from all customers, including Testers, Learners, Builders, Scalers and Scalers+ for our IaaS and PaaS/SaaS offerings during the corresponding month 12 months prior, or the Prior Period Revenue. We then calculate the revenue from these same customers as of the current month, or the Current Period Revenue, including any expansion and net of any contraction or attrition from these customers over the last 12 months. The calculation also includes revenue from customers that generated revenue before, but not in, the corresponding month 12 months prior, but subsequently generated revenue in the current month and are therefore reflected in the Current Period Revenue. We include this group of re-engaged customers in this calculation because some of our customers use our platform for projects that stop and start over time. We then divide the total Current Period Revenue by the total Prior Period Revenue to arrive at the net dollar retention rate for the relevant month. For a quarterly or annual period, the net dollar retention rate is determined as the average monthly net dollar retention rates over such three or 12-month period.

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Cost of revenue consists primarily of fees related to operating in third-party co-location space at data center facilities, personnel expenses for those directly supporting our co-location facilities and non-personnel costs, including amortization of acquired technology, amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs, and depreciation of our data center equipment. Third-party co-location facility costs include data center rental fees, power costs, maintenance fees, network and bandwidth. Personnel expenses include salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation.

Current wording

Cost of revenue consists primarily of fees related to operating our data center facilities, personnel costs of our employees providing customer support or operating our facilities, and partnership expenses. Cost of revenue includes depreciation of our data center equipment and amortization of acquired technology and capitalized internal-use software development costs. Data center facility fees include data center rental fees, power costs, maintenance fees, network, bandwidth and ancillary equipment. Personnel costs include salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation.

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Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs including salaries, bonuses, benefits and stock-based compensation. Research and development expenses also include amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs for research and development activities, which are amortized over three years, and professional services, as well as costs related to our efforts to add new features to our existing offerings, develop new offerings, and ensure the security, performance, and reliability of our global cloud platform. We expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in our platform and product offerings.

Current wording

Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs including salaries, bonuses, benefits and stock-based compensation. Research and development expenses also include amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs for research and development activities, which are amortized over three years, professional services, software, as well as costs related to our efforts to add new features to our existing offerings, develop new offerings, and ensure the security, performance, and reliability of our global cloud platform. We expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in our platform and product offerings.

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Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our sales, marketing and customer support employees including salaries, bonuses, benefits and stock-based compensation. Sales and marketing expenses also include costs for marketing programs, commissions, advertising and professional service fees. We expect sales and marketing expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we enhance our product offerings and implement new marketing and sales strategies.

Current wording

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our sales and marketing and customer success employees, including salaries, bonuses, benefits, commissions and stock-based compensation. Sales and marketing expenses also include costs for marketing programs, advertising, amortization of acquired customer relationships and professional services. We expect sales and marketing expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we enhance our product offerings and implement new marketing and sales strategies.

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General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our human resources, legal, finance and other administrative functions including salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expenses also include provision for expected credit losses, software, payment processing fees, business insurance, depreciation and amortization expenses, rent and facilities costs, impairment of long-lived assets, acquisition related compensation, and other administrative costs. General and administrative expenses may increase in absolute dollars as we continue to grow our business.

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General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our human resources, legal, finance and other administrative functions, including salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expenses also include payment processing fees, provision for expected credit losses, professional services, software, business insurance, depreciation and amortization expenses, rent and facilities costs, acquisition-related compensation, and other administrative costs. General and administrative expenses may increase in absolute dollars as we continue to grow our business.

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Other income, net consists primarily of accretion/amortization of premium/discounts and interest income from our marketable securities, amortization of deferred financing fees on our convertible notes, loss on extinguishment of debt, and gains or losses on foreign currency exchange.

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Other income, net consists primarily of interest income on our money market funds, amortization of deferred financing fees on our Convertible Notes, and gains or losses on foreign currency exchange.

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Income tax (expense) benefit is attributable to the mix of income in the jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the deferred assets will not be realized. We regularly assess all available evidence, including cumulative historic losses and forecasted earnings. Given our current earnings and anticipated future earnings, we believe that there is a reasonable possibility that sufficient positive evidence may become available in a future period to reach a conclusion that the U.S. valuation allowance will no longer be needed. Release of all, or a portion of, the valuation allowance would result in the recognition of U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets and a corresponding decrease to income tax expense in the period the release is recorded.

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Income tax expense is attributable to the mix of income in the jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the deferred assets will not be realized. We regularly assess all available evidence, including cumulative historic losses and forecasted earnings. Given our current earnings and anticipated future earnings, we believe that there is a reasonable possibility that sufficient positive evidence may become available in a future period to reach a conclusion that the U.S. valuation allowance will no longer be needed. Release of all, or a portion of, the valuation allowance would result in the recognition of U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets and a corresponding decrease to income tax expense in the period the release is recorded.

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Revenue increased $21.4 million, or 12%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase was primarily driven by a 11% increase in ARPU to $102.51 from $92.06, and a 15% increase in revenue from Builders and Scalers. The increase in ARPU was primarily driven by continued adoption of our products by our customers leading to higher average usage on our platform.

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Revenue increased $26.0 million, or 14%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by a 14% increase in ARPU to $108.56 from $95.13, and a 16% increase in revenue from our Higher Spend Customers. The increase in ARPU was primarily driven by continued adoption of our products by our existing customers leading to higher average usage on our platform.

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Cost of revenue increased $17.3 million, or 8%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase is primarily due to increases of $13.2 million in depreciation and amortization from acquired finance leases and acquired developed technology, as well as our continued investment in AI/ML offerings and infrastructure, $3.0 million in co-location costs, $2.2 million in third-party license fees and $2.0 million in partnership costs, partially offset by decreases of $2.3 million in bandwidth expenses and $1.0 million in ancillary equipment. Gross profit increased to 61% for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 from 59% for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to decreases in co-location costs, ancillary equipment and bandwidth expenses as a percentage of revenue as a result of our ongoing cost optimization efforts, offset by our continued investment in AI/ML offerings.

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Cost of revenue increased $5.7 million, or 8%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The change is primarily due to increases of $5.7 million in co-location costs as a result of our data center expansion, $1.1 million in third-party license fees, and $1.0 million in costs related to our revenue share programs, partially offset by decreases of $2.6 million in depreciation and amortization partially due to our change in useful life of servers and related equipment from five years to six years effective October 1, 2024, and $0.3 million in other expenses. Gross profit increased to 61% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 from 59% for the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to an increase in revenue and a net decrease in depreciation and amortization resulting from the change in useful life of servers and related equipment, somewhat offset by an increase in depreciation and amortization associated with our continued investment in AI/ML offerings and our data center expansion.

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Other income, net increased $3.4 million, or 206%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, primarily due to gains from foreign currency fluctuations from our operations.

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Other income, net increased $1.0 million, or 38%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to increases of $2.8 million in gains from foreign currency fluctuations from our operations, partially offset by decreases of $1.6 million due to reduced interest income from our investments.

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Income tax benefit increased $21.2 million, or 118%, for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, primarily as a result of lower pretax income for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023, due to higher excess tax benefit taken from stock-based compensation and utilization of research and development credits in 2024 compared to 2023.

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Income tax expense increased $3.1 million, or 2,638%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily as a result of higher pretax income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 and lower NOL utilization in 2025 compared to 2024.

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We have funded our operations since inception primarily with cash flow generated by operations, private offerings of our equity and debt securities, borrowings under our existing credit facility and capital expenditure financings. Cash provided from these sources is used primarily for operating expenses, such as personnel and co-location costs, and capital expenditures, including our investments in AI/ML and core product offerings. From time to time, we may also use excess cash for share repurchases and investments in marketable securities and cash equivalents.

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We have funded our operations since inception primarily with cash flow generated by operations, private offerings of our equity and debt securities, borrowings under our existing credit facility and capital expenditure financings. Cash provided from these sources is used primarily for operating expenses, such as personnel and co-location costs, and capital expenditures, including our investments in AI/ML and other core product offerings. From time to time, we may also use excess cash and/or debt for share repurchases and investments in marketable securities and cash equivalents.

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We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, cash flow from operations and availability under our Credit Facility (as defined below) will be sufficient to support working capital and capital expenditure requirements and our outstanding contractual commitments for at least the next 12 months and in the long term.

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We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, cash flow from operations and availability under our new 2025 Credit Facility will be sufficient to support working capital and capital expenditure requirements and our outstanding contractual commitments for at least the next 12 months and in the long term. See Note 6. Debt in our condensed consolidated financial statements for a discussion of our new 2025 Credit Facility that we entered into on May 5, 2025, as well as the concurrent termination of our existing 2022 Credit Facility.

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In February 2024, our Board of Directors approved an additional repurchase program of up to an aggregate of $140 million of our common stock through fiscal year 2025. For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we repurchased and retired 795,191 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $29.6 million. The program will expire on December 31, 2025.

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We have historically repurchased our common stock pursuant to repurchase programs approved by our Board of Directors. In February 2024, our Board of Directors approved an additional repurchase program of up to an aggregate of $140 million of our common stock through fiscal year 2025. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we repurchased and retired 1,564,254 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $59 million. The program will expire on December 31, 2025.

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As of September 30, 2024, we had $167.3 million of estimated undiscounted fixed payment obligations for leases of co-location space at data center facilities and, to a lesser extent, office space, that have not yet commenced and were not included on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. These leases are expected to commence between October 2024 and August 2025, and have a weighted average lease term of 6 years.

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As of March 31, 2025, we had $28.1 million of estimated undiscounted fixed payment obligations for leases of co-location space at data center facilities that have not yet commenced and were not included on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. These leases are expected to commence between April 2025 and August 2025, and have a weighted average lease term of 4.9 years.

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As of September 30, 2024, we had $439.9 million in cash and cash equivalents. Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of cash and money market funds.

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As of March 31, 2025, we had $360.4 million in cash and cash equivalents. Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of cash and money market funds.

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We may from time to time seek to retire or purchase our outstanding equity or debt, including the repurchase of our common stock or the Convertible Notes, through cash purchases and/or exchanges for equity securities, in open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. Such repurchases or exchanges, if any, will depend on prevailing market conditions, our liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions, and other factors. The amounts involved in any such transactions, individually or in the aggregate, may be material. Further, any such purchases or exchanges may result in us acquiring and retiring a substantial amount of such indebtedness, which could impact the trading liquidity of such indebtedness.

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From time to time, we may seek to retire or purchase our outstanding equity or debt, including the repurchase of our common stock or the Convertible Notes, through cash purchases and/or exchanges for equity securities, in open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. Such repurchases or exchanges, if any, will depend on prevailing market conditions, our liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions, and other factors. The amounts involved in any such transactions, individually or in the aggregate, may be material. Further, any such purchases or exchanges may result in us acquiring and retiring a substantial amount of such indebtedness, which could impact the trading liquidity of such indebtedness. We plan to use a portion of the proceeds from our currently undrawn 2025 Credit Facility to repurchase, repay, acquire or otherwise settle a portion of our Convertible Notes.

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Our largest source of operating cash is cash collections from sales to our customers. Our primary uses of cash from operating activities are for personnel costs, co-location costs, payment processing fees, bandwidth and connectivity, server maintenance and software licensing fees.

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Our largest source of operating cash is cash collections from sales to our customers. Our primary uses of cash from operating activities are for personnel costs, co-location costs, payment processing fees, bandwidth and connectivity, server maintenance, software licensing fees, and taxes.

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Net cash used in investing activities was $47.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to $248.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease in cash provided by investing activities was primarily driven by a $329.2 million reallocation of our marketable securities portfolio to cash equivalents and an increase of $65.8 million in cash payments for capital expenditures, partially offset by a $2.5 million decrease in cash activity for asset acquisitions.

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Net cash used in investing activities was $65.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to $46.4 million provided by investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The change in cash used in investing activities was primarily driven by a $91.7 million reallocation of our marketable securities portfolio to cash equivalents, and increases of $18.8 million in cash payments for capital expenditures and $1.0 million in purchases of intangible assets.

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Except as disclosed in Note 8. Commitments and Contingencies in our condensed consolidated financial statements, there have been no material changes to our obligations under our operating leases and purchase commitments as compared to those disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.

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There have been no material changes to our contractual obligations and commitments as compared to those disclosed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 other than that disclosed under Note 6. Debt, in our condensed consolidated financial statements.

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GAAP diluted net income per share. These measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Our calculations of each of these measures may differ from the calculations of measures with the same or similar titles by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited. Because of these limitations, when evaluating our performance, you should consider each of these non-GAAP financial measures alongside other financial performance measures, including the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP and our other GAAP results. A reconciliation of each of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is set forth below.

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To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, we provide investors with non-GAAP financial measures including: (i) adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin and (ii) non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted net income per share. These measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Our calculations of each of these measures may differ from the calculations of measures with the same or similar titles by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited. Because of these limitations, when evaluating our performance, you should consider each of these non-GAAP financial measures alongside other financial performance measures, including the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP and our other GAAP results. A reconciliation of each of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is set forth below.

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We define adjusted EBITDA as net income attributable to common stockholders, adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, interest expense, acquisition related compensation, acquisition and integration related costs, income tax expense, restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of long-lived assets, and other income, net. We define adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. We believe that adjusted EBITDA, when taken together with our GAAP financial results, provides meaningful supplemental information regarding our operating performance and facilitates internal comparisons of our historical operating performance on a more consistent basis by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. In particular, we believe that the use of adjusted EBITDA is helpful to our investors as it is a measure used by management in assessing the health of our business, evaluating our operating performance, and for internal planning and forecasting purposes.

Current wording

We define adjusted EBITDA as net income attributable to common stockholders, adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, interest expense, acquisition related compensation, acquisition and integration related costs, income tax expense (benefit), restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of certain long-lived assets, interest income and other income, net, revaluation of warrants, loss on extinguishment of debt, release of a VAT reserve, and other charges. We define adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue. We believe that adjusted EBITDA, when taken together with our GAAP financial results, provides meaningful supplemental information regarding our operating performance and facilitates internal comparisons of our historical operating performance on a more consistent basis by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. In particular, we believe that the use of adjusted EBITDA is helpful to our investors as it is a measure used by management in assessing the health of our business, evaluating our operating performance, and for internal planning and forecasting purposes.

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(1)For the nine months ended September 30, 2024, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $0.1 million as it is presented in Restructuring related charges. There were no reclassifications of stock-based compensation for the three months ended September 30, 2024. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $31.3 million, reversal related to the former CEO’s forfeited MRSU award that is reported in Restructuring related charges.

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(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2024, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $0.1 million as it is presented in restructuring related charges.

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(2)For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, primarily consists of executive reorganization charges. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, primarily consists of the $31.3 million reversal of stock-based compensation related to the former CEO’s forfeited MRSU award, partially offset by salary continuation charges, executive reorganization charges including severance, CEO search firm fees, and other legal and professional service costs.

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(2)For the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily consists of executive reorganization charges.

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(3)For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, primarily consists of interest and accretion income from our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities.

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(3)For the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily consists of interest income from our cash and cash equivalents. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily consists of interest and accretion income from our marketable securities.

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We define non-GAAP net income as net income attributable to common stockholders, excluding stock-based compensation, acquisition related compensation, amortization of acquired intangibles, acquisition and integration related costs, restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of long-lived assets, and other unusual or non-recurring transactions as they occur. We define non-GAAP diluted net income per share as non-GAAP net income divided by the weighted-average diluted shares outstanding, which includes the potentially dilutive effect of our stock options, RSUs, PRSUs, and Convertible Notes.

Current wording

We define non-GAAP net income as net income attributable to common stockholders, excluding stock-based compensation, acquisition related compensation, amortization of acquired intangibles, acquisition and integration related costs, restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of certain long-lived assets, loss on extinguishment of debt, revaluation of warrants, release of a VAT reserve, and other charges. We define non-GAAP diluted net income per share as non-GAAP net income divided by the weighted-average diluted shares outstanding, which includes the potentially dilutive effect of our stock options, RSUs, PRSUs, and Convertible Notes.

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We offer mission-critical solutions across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”), including our Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), including our Managed Hosting, Managed Database, Managed Kubernetes and Marketplace offerings; and artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI/ML”), including our GPU Droplets, Bare Metal GPUs, and GenAI Platform offerings. We continue to invest in our platform to further penetrate the growing markets in which we operate.

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(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2024, non-GAAP stock-based compensation excludes $0.1 million as it is presented in restructuring related charges.

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(2)For the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily consists of executive reorganization charges.
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

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Revenue increased $63.7 million, or 12%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The increase in revenue was primarily driven by a 10% increase in ARPU to $99.02 from $90.43; and a 14% increase in revenue from Builders and Scalers. The increase in ARPU was primarily driven by continued adoption of our products by our customers leading to higher average usage of our platform.

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To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, we provide investors with non-GAAP financial measures including: (i) adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin and (ii) non-GAAP net income and non-