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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 10-Q
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT 1934
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2021
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
Commission File Number: 001-37806
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TWILIO INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware26-2574840
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
101 Spear Street, First Floor
San Francisco, California 94105
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(415) 390-2337
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per shareTWLOThe New York Stock Exchange
As of July 23, 2021, 166,931,325 shares of the registrant’s Class A common stock and 10,218,422 shares of registrant’s Class B common stock were outstanding.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes x  No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).  Yes x  No o
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 Smaller reporting company
  Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.    o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes   No 




TWILIO INC.
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “may,” “can,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “forecasts,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, but are not limited to, statements about:
the impact of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (“COVID-19”) pandemic on the global economy, our customers, employees and business;
our future financial performance, including our revenue, cost of revenue, gross margin and operating expenses, ability to generate positive cash flow and ability to achieve and sustain profitability;
anticipated technology trends, such as the use of and demand for cloud communications;
our ability to continue to build and maintain credibility with the global software developer community;
our ability to attract and retain customers to use our products;
the evolution of technology affecting our products and markets;
our ability to introduce new products and enhance existing products;
our ability to comply with modified or new industry standards, laws and regulations applying to our business, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Schrems II decision invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other privacy regulations that may be implemented in the future, and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (“SHAKEN”) and Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (“STIR”) standards (together, “SHAKEN/STIR”) and other robocalling prevention and anti-spam standards and increased costs associated with such compliance;
our ability to optimize our network service provider coverage and connectivity;
our ability to manage changes in network service provider fees that we pay in connection with the delivery of communications on our platform;
our ability to work closely with email inbox service providers to maintain deliverability rates;
our ability to pass on our savings associated with our platform optimization efforts to our customers;
the impact and expected results from changes in our relationship with our larger customers;
our ability to attract and retain enterprises and international organizations as customers for our products;
our ability to form and expand partnerships with technology partners and consulting partners;
our ability to successfully enter into new markets and manage our international expansion;
the attraction and retention of qualified employees and key personnel;
our ability to effectively manage our growth and future expenses and maintain our corporate culture;
our ability to compete effectively in an intensely competitive market;
the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents to meet our liquidity needs;
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our anticipated investments in sales and marketing, research and development and additional systems and processes to support our growth;
our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our intellectual property;
our ability to successfully defend litigation brought against us;
our ability to service the interest on our 3.625% senior notes due 2029 (“2029 Notes”), our 3.875% notes due 2031 (“2031 Notes,” and together with the 2029 Notes, the “Notes”), and repay such Notes;
our customers and other platform users violation of our policies or other misuse of our platform;
our expectations about the impact of natural disasters and public health epidemics, such as COVID-19 on our business, results of operations and financial condition and on our customers, employees, vendors and partners;
our ability to successfully integrate and realize the benefits of our past or future strategic acquisitions or investments, including our acquisition of Segment.io, Inc. (“Segment”).
We caution you that the foregoing list may not contain all of the forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We have based the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q primarily on our current expectations and projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors described in “Summary of Risk Factors and Uncertainties Associated with Our Business” below, in Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors”, and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We cannot assure you that the results, events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur, and actual results, events or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments we may make.
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements
TWILIO INC.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(Unaudited)
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$1,799,602 $933,885 
Short-term marketable securities4,125,583 2,105,906 
Accounts receivable, net301,548 251,167 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets146,955 81,377 
Total current assets6,373,688 3,372,335 
Property and equipment, net206,354 183,239 
Operating right-of-use asset233,449 258,610 
Intangible assets, net913,308 966,573 
Goodwill4,664,185 4,595,394 
Other long-term assets142,601 111,282 
Total assets$12,533,585 $9,487,433 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$105,998 $60,042 
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities331,804 252,895 
Deferred revenue and customer deposits98,723 87,031 
Operating lease liability, current46,760 48,338 
Total current liabilities583,285 448,306 
Operating lease liability, noncurrent205,997 229,905 
Finance lease liability, noncurrent17,804 17,856 
Long-term debt985,219 302,068 
Other long-term liabilities47,168 36,633 
Total liabilities1,839,473 1,034,768 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock  
Class A and Class B common stock176 164 
Additional paid-in capital12,297,415 9,613,246 
Accumulated other comprehensive income707 9,046 
Accumulated deficit(1,604,186)(1,169,791)
Total stockholders’ equity10,694,112 8,452,665 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$12,533,585 $9,487,433 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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TWILIO INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
Revenue$668,931 $400,849 $1,258,919 $765,717 
Cost of revenue337,684 191,718 629,368 363,051 
Gross profit331,247 209,131 629,551 402,666 
Operating expenses:
Research and development181,280 120,701 356,080 235,040 
Sales and marketing238,058 129,823 448,648 246,545 
General and administrative114,183 61,251 224,436 116,421 
Total operating expenses533,521 311,775 1,029,164 598,006 
Loss from operations(202,274)(102,644)(399,613)(195,340)
Other (expenses) income, net(24,293)3,015 (32,606)1,897 
Loss before provision for income taxes(226,567)(99,629)(432,219)(193,443)
Provision for income taxes(1,286)(294)(2,176)(1,271)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders$(227,853)$(99,923)$(434,395)$(194,714)
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted$(1.31)$(0.71)$(2.55)$(1.39)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted173,407,187 141,618,541 170,275,609 140,512,351 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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TWILIO INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Net loss$(227,853)$(99,923)$(434,395)$(194,714)
Other comprehensive (loss) income:
Unrealized (loss) gain on marketable securities(979)17,895 (5,155)8,520 
Foreign currency translation(66) (276) 
Net change in market value of effective foreign currency forward exchange contracts (2,908) (2,908) 
Total other comprehensive (loss) income(3,953)17,895 (8,339)8,520 
Comprehensive loss attributable to common stockholders$(231,806)$(82,028)$(442,734)$(186,194)
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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TWILIO INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders Equity
(Unaudited)
Common Stock
Class A
Common Stock
Class B
Additional Paid-In CapitalAccumulated Other Comprehensive IncomeAccumulated DeficitTotal Stockholders’ Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmount
(In thousands, except share amounts)
Balance as of December 31, 2020153,496,222 $151 10,551,302 $13 $9,613,246 $9,046 $(1,169,791)$8,452,665 
Net loss— — — — — — (206,542)(206,542)
Exercises of vested stock options248,008 — 211,371 — 11,564 — — 11,564 
Vesting of restricted stock units913,966 1 — — (1)— — — 
Value of equity awards withheld for tax liability(6,989)— — — (2,774)— — (2,774)
Conversion of shares of Class B common stock into shares of Class A common stock419,371 — (419,371)— — — — — 
Equity component from partial settlement of 2023 convertible
senior notes
1,158,381 2 — — 80,047 — — 80,049 
Donated common stock22,102 — — — 9,405 — — 9,405 
Issuance of common stock in connection with a follow-on public offering, net of underwriter discounts4,312,500 4 — — 1,766,396 — — 1,766,400 
Costs related to the follow-on public offering— — — — (727)— — (727)
Issuance of restricted stock awards24,697 — — — — — — — 
Unrealized loss on marketable securities— — — — — (4,176)— (4,176)
Foreign currency translation— — — — — (210)— (210)
Stock-based compensation— — — — 141,542 — — 141,542 
Balance as of March 31, 2021160,588,258 $158 10,343,302 $13 $11,618,698 $4,660 $(1,376,333)$10,247,196 
Net loss— — — — — — (227,853)(227,853)
Exercises of vested stock options294,430 — 63,164 — 20,351 — — 20,351 
Vesting of restricted stock units839,472 1 — — (1)— — — 
Value of equity awards withheld for tax liability(5,498)— — — (1,882)— — (1,882)
Conversion of shares of Class B common stock into shares of Class A common stock188,044 1 (188,044)(1)— — — — 
Equity component from partial settlement of 2023 convertible
senior notes
3,688,584 4 — — 255,590 — — 255,594 
Settlement of capped call, net of related costs— — — — 225,233 — — 225,233 
Shares issued under ESPP100,107 — — — 23,699 — — 23,699 
Donated common stock22,102 — — — 6,789 — — 6,789 
Costs related to the follow-on public offering— — — — (50)— — (50)
Unrealized loss on marketable securities— — — — — (979)— (979)
Foreign currency translation— — — — — (66)— (66)
Net change in market value of effective foreign currency forward exchange contracts— — — — — (2,908)— (2,908)
Stock-based compensation— — — — 148,988 — — 148,988 
Balance as of June 30, 2021165,715,499 $164 10,218,422 $12 $12,297,415 $707 $(1,604,186)$10,694,112 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Common Stock
Class A
Common Stock
Class B
Additional Paid-In CapitalAccumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Accumulated Deficit
Total Stockholders Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmount
(In thousands, except share amounts)
Balance as of December 31, 2019126,882,172 $124 11,530,627 $14 $4,952,999 $5,086 $(678,812)$4,279,411 
Net loss— — — — — — (94,791)(94,791)
Exercises of stock options243,029 — 426,001 — 8,231 — — 8,231 
Vesting of restricted stock units849,763 1 23,107 — — — — 1 
Value of equity awards withheld for tax liability(8,726)— (4,692)— (1,674)— — (1,674)
Conversion of shares of Class B common stock into shares of Class A618,103 1 (618,103)(1)— — — — 
Donated common stock22,102 — — — 2,701 — — 2,701 
Unrealized loss on marketable securities— — — — — (9,375)— (9,375)
Stock-based compensation— — — — 72,021 — — 72,021 
Balance as of March 31, 2020128,606,443 $126 11,356,940 $13 $5,034,278 $(4,289)$(773,603)$4,256,525 
Net loss— — — — — — (99,923)(99,923)
Exercises of stock options1,590,891 2 459,010 — 45,230 — — 45,232 
Vesting of restricted stock units807,270 1 4,212 — — — — 1 
Value of equity awards withheld for tax liability(6,018)— — — (1,144)— — (1,144)
Conversion of shares of Class B common stock into shares of Class A983,005 1 (983,005)(1)— — — — 
Shares issued under ESPP190,642 — — — 16,473 — — 16,473 
Donated common stock22,102 — — — 3,972 — — 3,972 
Net unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities— — — — — 17,895 — 17,895 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 82,559 — — 82,559 
Balance as of June 30, 2020132,194,335 $130 10,837,157 $12 $5,181,368 $13,606 $(873,526)$4,321,590 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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TWILIO INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:(In thousands)
Net loss$(434,395)$(194,714)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization119,405 64,772 
Non-cash reduction to the right-of-use asset23,200 17,804 
Net amortization of investment premium and discount13,834 1,147 
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs5,081 12,356 
Stock-based compensation281,323 148,412 
Amortization of deferred commissions12,394 4,819 
Allowance for credit losses7,667 7,115 
Value of donated common stock16,194 6,673 
Loss on extinguishment of debt28,986  
Other adjustments646 534 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable(41,687)(47,766)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets(44,604)(12,001)
Other long-term assets(39,118)(19,774)
Accounts payable27,078 (11,523)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities65,923 47,435 
Deferred revenue and customer deposits7,615 2,994 
Operating lease liabilities(23,610)(16,340)
Other long-term liabilities290 1,968 
Net cash provided by operating activities26,222 13,911 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired and other related payments(94,178)(2,725)
Purchases of marketable securities and other investments(2,807,798)(443,816)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities754,466 621,754 
Capitalized software development costs(21,839)(17,651)
Purchases of long-lived and intangible assets(12,140)(12,797)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities(2,181,489)144,765 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from a public equity offering1,766,400  
Payments of costs related to public offerings(394) 
Proceeds from issuance of senior notes987,500  
Payments of debt issuance costs(1,362) 
Proceeds from settlement of capped call, net of settlement costs228,412  
Principal payments on debt and finance leases(6,658)(3,829)
Proceeds from exercises of stock options and shares issued in ESPP55,614 69,936 
Value of equity awards withheld for tax liabilities(4,656)(2,818)
Net cash provided by financing activities3,024,856 63,289 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash(143) 
NET INCREASE IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH869,446 221,965 
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH—Beginning of period933,885 253,735 
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH —End of period$1,803,331 $475,700 
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Cash paid for income taxes, net$3,240 $1,022 
Cash paid for interest$693 $1,078 
NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Purchases of property, equipment and intangible assets, accrued but not paid$5,254 $4,545 
Purchases of property and equipment through finance leases$5,266 $5,366 
Value of common stock issued to settle convertible senior notes$1,704,969 $ 
Stock-based compensation capitalized in software development costs$9,740 $7,015 
Costs related to public offerings and investments, accrued but not paid$3,526 $ 
RECONCILIATION OF CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
Cash and cash equivalents$1,799,602 $475,700 
Restricted cash in other current assets2,620  
Restricted cash in other long-term assets1,109  
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$1,803,331 $475,700 
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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TWILIO INC.
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
1. Organization and Description of Business
Twilio Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on March 13, 2008. The Company is the leading cloud communications platform and enables developers to build, scale and operate real-time customer engagement within their software applications via simple-to-use Application Programming Interfaces (“API”). The power, flexibility and reliability offered by the Company’s software building blocks empower entities of virtually every shape and size to build world-class engagement into their customer experience.
The Company’s headquarters are located in San Francisco, California, and the Company has subsidiaries in Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
(a)Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. Therefore, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2021 (“Annual Report”).
The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, included herein, was derived from the audited financial statements as of that date, but may not include all disclosures including certain notes required by U.S. GAAP on an annual reporting basis.
In the opinion of management, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders equity and cash flows for the interim periods, but are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be anticipated for the full year 2021 or any future period.
(b)Principles of Consolidation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.
(c)Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. These estimates are used for, but not limited to, allowances for doubtful accounts and customer credit reserves; recoverability of long-lived and intangible assets; capitalization and useful life of the Company’s capitalized internal-use software development costs; fair value of acquired intangible assets and goodwill; accruals and contingencies. Estimates are based on historical experience and on various assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable under current circumstances. However, future events are subject to change and best estimates and judgments may require further adjustments, therefore, actual results could differ materially from those estimates. Management periodically evaluates such estimates and they are adjusted prospectively based upon such periodic evaluation.
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(d)Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and accounts receivable. The Company maintains cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities with financial institutions that management believes are financially sound and have minimal credit risk exposure although the balances will exceed insured limits.
The Company sells its services to a wide variety of customers. If the financial condition or results of operations of any significant customer deteriorates substantially, the Company's results of operations could be adversely affected. To reduce credit risk, management performs credit evaluations of the financial condition of significant customers. The Company does not require collateral from its credit customers and maintains reserves for estimated credit losses on customer accounts when considered necessary. Actual credit losses may differ from the Company’s estimates. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, no customer organization accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s total revenue.
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, no customer organization represented more than 10% of the Company’s gross accounts receivable.
(e)Changes to Significant Accounting Policies

Derivatives and Hedging

The Company is exposed to a wide variety of risks arising from its business operations and overall economic conditions. These risks include exposure to fluctuations in various foreign currencies against its functional currency and can impact the value of cash receipts and payments. The Company minimizes its exposure to these risks through management of its core business activities, specifically, the amounts, sources and duration of its assets and liabilities, and the use of derivative financial instruments. In the second quarter 2021, the Company started using foreign currency derivative forward contracts and in the future may also use foreign currency option contacts.

Foreign currency derivative forward contracts involve fixing the exchange rate for delivery of a specified amount of foreign currency on a specified date. These agreements are typically cash settled in U.S. dollars for their fair value at or close to their settlement date. Foreign currency option contracts will require the Company to pay a premium for the right to sell a specified amount of foreign currency prior to the maturity date of the option. The Company does not enter into derivative financial instruments trading for speculative purposes.

Derivative instruments are carried at fair value and recorded as either an asset or a liability until they mature. Gains and losses resulting from changes in fair value of these instruments are accounted for depending on the use of the derivative, whether it is designated and qualifies for hedge accounting. For derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges, gains or losses are initially recorded in other comprehensive income (“OCI”) in the balance sheet, then reclassified into the statement of operations in the period in which the derivative instrument matures. These realized gains and losses are recorded within the same financial statement line item as the hedged transaction.
The Company’s foreign currency derivative contracts are classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy because the valuation inputs are based on quoted prices and market observable data of similar instruments in active markets, such as currency spot and forward rates.
There have been no other changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies as described in its Annual Report.
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3. Fair Value Measurements
Financial Assets
The following tables provide the financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
Amortized
Cost or
Carrying
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Fair Value Hierarchy as of
June 30, 2021
Aggregate
Fair Value
Level 1Level 2Level 3
Financial Assets:(In thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds$1,191,640 $— $— $1,191,640 $— $— $1,191,640 
Commercial paper177,609 — — — 177,609 — 177,609 
Total included in cash and cash equivalents1,369,249 — — 1,191,640 177,609 — 1,369,249 
Marketable securities:
U.S. Treasury securities415,676 125 (434)415,367   415,367 
Non-U.S. Government securities237,875 2 (264)237,613   237,613 
Corporate debt securities and commercial paper3,468,815 5,206 (1,418)47,000 3,425,603  3,472,603 
Total marketable securities4,122,366 5,333 (2,116)699,980 3,425,603  4,125,583 
Total financial assets$5,491,615 $5,333 $(2,116)$1,891,620 $3,603,212 $ $5,494,832 
Financial Liabilities:
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
Foreign currency derivative liabilities$— $— $(2,908)$ $(2,908)$ $(2,908)
Total financial liabilities$— $— $(2,908)$ $(2,908)$ $(2,908)
Amortized
Cost or
Carrying
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Fair Value Hierarchy as of
December 31, 2020
Aggregate
Fair Value
Level 1Level 2Level  3
Financial Assets:(In thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds $656,749 $— $— $656,749 $— $— $656,749 
Commercial paper2,000 — — — 2,000 — 2,000 
Total included in cash and cash equivalents658,749 — — 656,749 2,000 — 658,749 
Marketable securities:
U.S. Treasury securities223,247 389 (1)223,635   223,635 
Corporate debt securities and commercial paper1,874,257 8,149 (135)50,000 1,832,271  1,882,271 
Total marketable securities2,097,504 8,538 (136)273,635 1,832,271  2,105,906 
Total financial assets$2,756,253 $8,538 $(136)$930,384 $1,834,271 $ $2,764,655 
The Company’s primary objective when investing excess cash is preservation of capital, hence the Company’s marketable securities primarily consist of U.S. Treasury Securities, high credit quality corporate debt securities and commercial paper. As the Company views its marketable securities as available to support current operations, it has classified all available for sale securities as short-term. As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, for fixed income securities that were in unrealized loss positions, the Company has determined that (i) it does not have the intent to sell any of these investments, and (ii) it is not more likely than not that it will be required to sell any of these investments before recovery of the entire amortized cost basis. In addition, as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company anticipates that it will recover the entire amortized cost basis of such fixed income securities before maturity.
The Company regularly reviews changes to the rating of its debt securities by rating agencies as well as reasonably monitors the surrounding economic conditions to assess the risk of expected credit losses. As of June 30, 2021, the risk of expected credit losses was not significant.
Interest earned on marketable securities was $5.6 million and $9.4 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and $7.8 million and $16.6 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively. The interest is recorded as other (expenses) income, net, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations.
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The following table summarizes the contractual maturities of marketable securities:
As of June 30, 2021As of December 31, 2020
Amortized
Cost
Aggregate
Fair Value
Amortized
Cost
Aggregate
Fair Value
Financial Assets:(In thousands)
Less than one year$1,375,453 $1,377,906 $1,126,091 $1,128,927 
One to three years2,746,913 2,747,677 971,413 976,979 
Total$4,122,366 $4,125,583 $2,097,504 $2,105,906 
Strategic Investments
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company held strategic investments with a fair value of $12.3 million and $9.3 million, respectively, in equity securities of privately held companies in which the Company does not have a controlling interest or significant influence. These securities are recorded as other long-term assets in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. There were no impairments in the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 or 2020.
Financial Liabilities
The Company’s financial liabilities that are not measured at fair value on a recurring basis consist of its senior notes due 2029 and 2031 (“2029 Notes” and “2031 Notes,” respectively). The Company’s convertible senior notes due 2023 (“Convertible Notes”) were fully redeemed during the quarter and were no longer outstanding as of June 30, 2021. Refer to Note 10 for further details on these financial liabilities.
As of June 30, 2021, the fair values of the 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes were $518.2 million and $521.7 million, respectively. The 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes are classified as Level 2 financial instruments within the fair value hierarchy.
4. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities
The Company entered into its first cash flow hedge transaction in the second quarter 2021. As of June 30, 2021, the Company had outstanding foreign currency forward contracts designated as cash flow hedges with total buy and sell notional values of $110.0 million and $133.9 million, respectively. The notional value represents the amount that will be purchased or sold upon maturity of the forward contract. As of June 30, 2021, these contracts had maturities of less than 6 months and the $2.9 million fair value of the associated liability was recorded in accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet.
Losses associated with these foreign currency forward contracts were as follows:
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Statement of Comprehensive LossThree Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212021
(In thousands)
Losses recognized in OCINet change in market value of effective foreign currency forward exchange contracts$(2,908)$(2,908)
Losses recognized in income (effective portion)Cost of revenue$(467)$(467)
The Company is subject to master netting agreements with certain counterparties of the foreign exchange contracts, under which it is permitted to net settle transactions of the same currency with a single net amount payable by one party to the other. It is the Company’s policy to present the derivatives at gross in its consolidated balance sheet. The Company’s foreign currency forward contracts are not subject to any credit contingent features or collateral requirements. The Company manages its exposure to counterparty risk by entering into contracts with a diversified group of major financial institutions and by actively monitoring its outstanding positions. As of June 30, 2021, the Company did not have any offsetting arrangements.
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5. Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consisted of the following:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
Capitalized internal-use software development costs$169,887 $142,489 
Data center equipment (1)
52,460 43,477 
Leasehold improvements73,229 69,756 
Office equipment50,902 35,346 
Furniture and fixtures (1)
13,769 12,312 
Software10,235 9,943 
Total property and equipment370,482 313,323 
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization(164,128)(130,084)
Total property and equipment, net$206,354 $183,239 
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(1) Data center equipment and furniture and fixtures contain assets under finance leases. See Note 6 for further detail.
Supplemental depreciation and amortization disclosures are as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Depreciation and amortization expense$14,247 $11,912 $28,652 $23,831 
Capitalized internal-use software development costs$16,493 $12,593 $31,528 $24,565 
Stock based compensation costs included in capitalized internal-use software development costs$5,089 $3,597 $9,740 $7,015 
Amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs$4,319 $4,421 $8,851 $9,010 
6. Right-of-Use Asset and Lease Liabilities
The Company has entered into various operating lease agreements for office space and data centers and finance lease agreements for data center and office equipment and furniture.
As of June 30, 2021, the Company had 27 leased properties with remaining lease terms ranging from 0.4 years to 7.8 years, some of which include options to extend the leases for up to 5.0 years.
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The components of the lease expense recorded in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations were as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Operating lease cost$14,505 $12,497 $29,378 $22,921 
Finance lease cost:
   Amortization of assets2,804 1,830 5,484 3,734 
   Interest on lease liabilities260 194 523 392 
Short-term lease cost846 1,091 2,538 2,503 
Variable lease cost2,033 1,884 4,933 3,180 
Total net lease cost$20,448 $17,496 $42,856 $32,730 
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
LeasesClassification20212020
Assets:(In thousands)
Operating lease assets
Operating right-of-use asset, net of accumulated amortization (1)
$233,449 $258,610 
Finance lease assets
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation (2)
25,553 25,771 
Total leased assets$259,002 $284,381 
Liabilities:
Current
   OperatingOperating lease liability, current$46,760 $48,338 
   FinanceFinance lease liability, current8,877 9,062 
Noncurrent
   OperatingOperating lease liability, noncurrent205,997 229,905 
   FinanceFinance lease liability, noncurrent17,804 17,856 
Total lease liabilities$279,438 $305,161 
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(1)Operating lease assets are recorded net of accumulated amortization of $75.9 million and $57.1 million as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
(2)Finance lease assets are recorded net of accumulated depreciation of $20.5 million and $15.0 million as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
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Supplemental cash flow and other information related to leases was as follows:
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:(In thousands)
Operating cash flows from operating leases$29,233 $22,199 
Operating cash flows from finance leases (interest)$523 $392 
Financing cash flows from finance leases$5,503 $3,718 
Weighted average remaining lease term (in years):
Operating leases5.75.8
Finance leases3.23.2
Weighted average discount rate:
Operating leases4.8 %5.4 %
Finance leases3.6 %4.8 %
Maturities of lease liabilities were as follows:
As of June 30, 2021
Operating
Leases
Finance
Leases
Year Ended December 31,(In thousands)
2021 (remaining six months)$28,031 $5,012 
202258,023 8,987 
202350,259 8,240 
202445,716 4,999 
202532,464 547 
Thereafter75,332 516 
Total lease payments289,825 28,301 
Less: imputed interest(37,068)(1,620)
Total lease obligations252,757 26,681 
Less: current obligations(46,760)(8,877)
Long-term lease obligations$205,997 $17,804 
As of June 30, 2021, the Company had an additional operating lease obligation totaling $11.0 million for a lease that will commence in the first quarter of 2023 with a lease term of 6.2 years, and $5.1 million of additional finance leases that will commence in the third quarter of 2021 with lease terms of 4.0 years. The Company carries letters of credit securing certain of its lease commitments.
7. Business Combinations
Ionic Security, Inc.
On April 9, 2021, the Company acquired Ionic Security, Inc. (“Ionic”), a data security platform based in Atlanta, Georgia, for a purchase price of $30.2 million paid in cash. The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination.
The acquired entity’s results of operations were included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements from the date of the acquisition. Pro forma results of operations for this acquisition are not presented as the financial impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements is not material.
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As of June 30, 2021, the areas not yet finalized due to information that may become available subsequent to the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and may result in changes in the values recorded at June 30, 2021, relate to the valuation of acquired intangible assets, contingencies and income and other taxes.
The Company incurred $1.1 million of costs related to this acquisition, which were expensed as incurred and recorded in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations.
8. Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
The Goodwill balance as of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, was as follows:
Total
(In thousands)
Balance as of December 31, 2020$4,595,394 
Goodwill additions and adjustments68,791 
Balance as of June 30, 2021$4,664,185 
Intangible assets
Intangible assets consisted of the following:
As of
June 30, 2021
GrossAccumulated
Amortization
Net
Amortizable intangible assets:(In thousands)
Developed technology$738,031 $(165,502)$572,529 
Customer relationships390,564 (89,466)301,098 
Supplier relationships12,071 (3,815)8,256 
Trade names30,269 (10,544)19,725 
Order backlog10,000 (6,667)3,333 
Patent3,594 (442)3,152 
Total amortizable intangible assets1,184,529 (276,436)908,093 
Non-amortizable intangible assets:
Telecommunication licenses4,920 — 4,920 
Trademarks and other295 — 295 
Total$1,189,744 $(276,436)$913,308 

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As of
December 31, 2020
GrossAccumulated
Amortization
Net
Amortizable intangible assets:(In thousands)
Developed technology$724,599 $(113,282)$611,317 
Customer relationships379,344 (59,574)319,770 
Supplier relationships4,356 (3,044)1,312 
Trade name25,560 (7,921)17,639 
Order backlog10,000 (1,667)8,333 
Patent3,360 (373)2,987 
Total amortizable intangible assets1,147,219 (185,861)961,358 
Non-amortizable intangible assets:
Telecommunication licenses4,920 — 4,920 
Trademarks and other295 — 295 
Total$1,152,434 $(185,861)$966,573 
Amortization expense was $45.4 million and $90.6 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and $20.6 million and $40.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.
Total estimated future amortization expense is as follows:
As of
June 30,
2021
Year Ended December 31,(In thousands)
2021 (remaining six months)$92,810 
2022173,946 
2023170,636 
2024165,062 
2025161,531 
Thereafter144,108 
Total$908,093 

9. Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
Accrued payroll and related$63,154 $54,683 
Accrued bonus and commission29,319 25,341 
Accrued cost of revenue96,959 80,620 
Sales and other taxes payable55,914 48,390 
ESPP contributions7,605 6,272 
Finance lease liability, current8,877 9,062 
Accrued other expense69,976 28,527 
Total accrued expenses and other current liabilities$331,804 $252,895 
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Other long-term liabilities consisted of the following:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
Deferred tax liability$19,380 $13,684 
Acquisition holdback10,623 8,800 
Accrued other expenses17,165 14,149 
Total other long-term liabilities$47,168 $36,633 

10. Notes Payable
Long-term debt consisted of the following:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
2029 and 2031 Senior Notes
2029 Senior Notes
Principal$500,000 $ 
Unamortized discount(6,041) 
Unamortized issuance costs(1,323) 
Net carrying amount492,636  
2031 Senior Notes
Principal500,000  
Unamortized discount(6,091) 
Unamortized issuance costs(1,326) 
Net carrying amount492,583  
Convertible Senior Notes and Capped Call Transactions
Convertible Senior Notes
Principal 343,702 
Unamortized discount (38,406)
Unamortized issuance costs (3,228)
Net carrying amount 302,068 
Total long-term debt$985,219 $302,068 
2029 and 2031 Senior Notes
In March 2021, the Company issued $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, consisting of $500.0 million principal amount of 3.625% notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”) and $500.0 million principal amount of 3.875% notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes,” and together with the 2029 Notes, the “Notes”). Initially, none of the Company’s subsidiaries guaranteed the Notes. However, under certain circumstances in the future the Notes can be guaranteed by each of the Company’s material domestic subsidiaries. The 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes will mature on March 15, 2029 and March 15, 2031, respectively. Interest payments are payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2021.
The aggregate net proceeds from offering of the Notes were approximately $985.1 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and issuance costs, paid and payable by the Company. The issuance costs of $2.4 million will be amortized into interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the Notes.
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The Company may voluntarily redeem the 2029 Notes, in whole or in part, under the following circumstances:
(1)at any time prior to March 15, 2024 with the net cash proceeds received by the Company from an equity offering at a redemption price equal to 103.625% of the principal amount, provided the aggregate principal amount of all such redemptions does not exceed 40% of the original aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes. Such redemption shall occur within 180 days after the closing of an equity offering and at least 50% of the then-outstanding aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes shall remain outstanding, unless all 2029 Notes are redeemed concurrently;
(2)at any time prior to March 15, 2024 at 100% of the principal amount, plus a “make-whole” premium;
(3)at any time on or after March 15, 2024 at a prepayment price equal to 101.813% of the principal amount;
(4)at any time on or after March 15, 2025 at a prepayment price equal to 100.906% of the principal amount; and
(5)at any time on or after March 15, 2026 at a prepayment price equal to 100.000% of the principal amount;
in each case, the redemption will include the accrued and unpaid interest, as applicable.
The Company may voluntarily redeem the 2031 Notes, in whole or in part, under the following circumstances:
(1)at any time prior to March 15, 2024 with the net cash proceeds received by the Company from an equity offering at a redemption price equal to 103.875% of the principal amount, provided the aggregate principal amount of all such redemptions does not to exceed 40% of the original aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes. Such redemption shall occur within 180 days after the closing of an equity offering and at least 50% of the then-outstanding aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes shall remain outstanding, unless all 2031 Notes are redeemed concurrently;
(2)at any time prior to March 15, 2026 at 100% of the principal amount, plus a “make-whole” premium;
(3)at any time on or after March 15, 2026 at a prepayment price equal to 101.938% of the principal amount;
(4)at any time on or after March 15, 2027 at a prepayment price equal to 101.292% of the principal amount;
(5)at any time on or after March 15, 2028 at a prepayment price equal to 100.646% of the principal amount; and
(6)at any time on or after March 15, 2029 at a prepayment price equal to 100.000% of the principal amount;
in each case, the redemption will include accrued and unpaid interest, as applicable.
The Notes are unsecured obligations and will rank senior in right of payment to any of the Company’s indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes that the Company may incur in the future and equal in right of payment with the Company’s existing and future liabilities that are not subordinated.
In certain circumstances involving a change of control event, the Company will be required to make an offer to repurchase all, or, at the holder’s option, any part, of each holder’s notes of that series at 101% of the aggregate principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, as applicable.
The indenture governing the Notes (the “Indenture”) contains covenants limiting the Company’s ability and the ability of its subsidiaries to: (i) create liens on certain assets to secure debt; (ii) grant a subsidiary guarantee of certain debt without also providing a guarantee of the Notes; and (iii) consolidate or merge with or into, or sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to another person. These covenants are subject to a number of limitations and exceptions. Certain of these covenants will not apply during any period in which the Notes are rated investment grade by either Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.
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For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the interest expense recognized related to the 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes was as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212021
(In thousands)
2029 Notes
Contractual interest expense$4,531 $5,651 
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs168 217 
Total interest expense - 2029 Notes4,699 5,868 
2031 Notes
Contractual interest expense4,844 6,041 
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs127 164 
Total interest expense - 2031 Notes4,971 6,205 
Total interest expense$9,670 $12,073 
As of June 30, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all of its financial covenants under the Indenture.
Convertible Senior Notes and Capped Call Transactions
On May 18, 2021, the Company issued a notice of redemption for its Convertible Notes and as of June 30, 2021, redeemed all of the remaining outstanding $261.6 million aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes by issuing 3,688,584 shares of its Class A common stock and $52 thousand in cash. Of the $1.3 billion total value of these transactions, $1.0 billion and $255.6 million were allocated to the equity and liability components, respectively, utilizing an effective interest rate to determine the fair value of the liability component. The selected interest rate reflects the Company’s incremental borrowing rate, adjusted for the Company’s credit standing on nonconvertible debt with similar maturity. The extinguishment of these Convertible Notes resulted in a $21.4 million loss that is included in other (expenses) income, net, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations.
The net carrying amount of the equity component of the Convertible Notes was as follows:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
(In thousands)
Proceeds allocated to the conversion options (debt discount)$ $74,636 
Issuance costs(2,819)(2,819)
Net carrying amount$(2,819)$71,817 
The following table sets forth the interest expense recognized related to the Convertible Notes:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Contractual interest expense$106 $344 $276 $688 
Amortization of debt issuance costs69 484 328 968 
Amortization of debt discount1,287 5,694 4,315 11,388 
Total interest expense$1,462 $6,522 $4,919 $13,044 
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Concurrently with the above redemption, the Company settled its capped call arrangement that was entered into contemporaneously with the Convertible Notes offering in May 2018. This capped call arrangement is described in detail in the Company’s Annual Report. The capped call arrangement was settled for an aggregate cash consideration of $229.8 million received by the Company and recorded in the additional paid-in-capital, net of $1.4 million transaction costs and $3.2 million realized gain. The gain was primarily driven by the change in the fair value of the Company’s Class A common stock on the transaction settlement date. The gain was recorded in other (expenses) income, net, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of operations.
11. Supplemental Balance Sheet Information
A roll‑forward of the Company’s reserves is as follows:
(a)Allowance for doubtful accounts:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Balance, beginning of period$13,391 $9,085 $12,046 $6,287 
Additions5,987 2,899 9,368 7,160 
Write-offs(3,965)(1,736)(6,001)(3,199)
Balance, end of period$15,413 $10,248 $15,413 $10,248 
(b)Customer credit reserve:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Balance, beginning of period$17,251 $9,687 $16,783 $6,784 
Additions11,919 13,376 27,385 21,550 
Deductions against reserve(13,003)(11,532)(28,001)(16,803)
Balance, end of period$16,167 $11,531 $16,167 $11,531 

12. Revenue by Geographic Area
Revenue by geographic area is based on the IP address or the mailing address of the customer at the time of registration. The following table sets forth revenue by geographic area:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
Revenue by geographic area:(In thousands)
United States$452,912 $292,115 $874,443 $553,928 
International216,019 108,734 384,476 211,789 
Total$668,931 $400,849 $1,258,919 $765,717 
Percentage of revenue by geographic area:
United States68 %73 %69 %72 %
International32 %27 %31 %28 %
Long-lived assets outside of the United States were not significant.
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13. Commitments and Contingencies

(a)Lease and Other Commitments
The Company entered into various non-cancelable operating lease agreements for its facilities with remaining lease terms ranging from less than one year to approximately eight years. See Note 6 to these condensed consolidated financial statements for additional detail on the Company’s operating and finance lease commitments.
Additionally, the Company has non-cancelable contractual commitments with its cloud infrastructure provider, network service providers and other vendors. In the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company entered into several such agreements with terms up to four years for a total purchase commitment of $11.1 million and $438.0 million, respectively.
In February 2021, the Company entered into a Framework Agreement with Syniverse Corporation (“Syniverse”) and Carlyle Partners V Holdings, L.P. (“Carlyle”) (the “Framework Agreement”), pursuant to which Syniverse will issue to the Company shares of Syniverse common stock in consideration for an investment by the Company of up to $750.0 million. In connection with the closing of the investment, the Company and Syniverse will enter into a wholesale agreement, in which Syniverse will process, route and deliver application-to-person messages originating and/or terminating between the Company’s customers and mobile network operators. The investment is expected to result in the Company holding a significant minority equity ownership position in Syniverse, subject to certain adjustments based on the terms of the final agreement. This proposed transaction closing is subject to consummation of certain other transactions by Syniverse, as defined in the Framework Agreement, and other customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. The closing is expected to occur before the end of 2021. As of June 30, 2021, the Company has deferred $4.6 million of costs related to this proposed transaction that are recorded in prepaid expenses and other current assets in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet.
(b)Legal Matters
From time to time, the Company may be subject to legal actions and claims in the ordinary course of business. The Company has received, and may in the future continue to receive, claims from third parties asserting, among other things, infringement of their intellectual property rights. Future litigation may be necessary to defend the Company, its partners and its customers by determining the scope, enforceability and validity of third‑party proprietary rights, or to establish our proprietary rights. The results of any current or future litigation cannot be predicted with certainty, and regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors.
Legal fees and other costs related to litigation and other legal proceedings are expensed as incurred and are included in general and administrative expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations.
(c)Indemnification Agreements
The Company has signed indemnification agreements with all of its board members and executive officers. The agreements indemnify the board members and executive officers from claims and expenses of actions brought against the individuals separately or jointly with the Company for certain indemnifiable events. Indemnifiable events generally mean any event or occurrence related to the fact that the board member or the executive officer was or is acting in his or her capacity as a board member or an executive officer for the Company or was or is acting or representing the interests of the Company.
In the ordinary course of business and in connection with our financing and business combinations transactions, the Company enters into contractual arrangements under which it agrees to provide indemnification of varying scope and terms to business partners, customers and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of the breach of such agreements, intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties and other liabilities relating to or arising from the Company’s various products, or its acts or omissions. In these circumstances, payment may be conditional on the other party making a claim pursuant to the procedures specified in the particular contract. Further, the Company’s obligations under these agreements may be limited in terms of time and/or amount, and in some instances, the Company may have recourse against third parties for certain payments. The terms of such obligations may vary.
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, no amounts were accrued related to any outstanding indemnification agreements.
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(d)Other Taxes
The Company conducts operations in many tax jurisdictions within and outside the United States. In many of these jurisdictions, non-income-based taxes, such as sales, use, telecommunications, and other local taxes are assessed on the Company’s operations. Prior to March 2017, the Company had not billed nor collected these taxes from its customers and, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, recorded a provision for its tax exposure in these jurisdictions when it was both probable that a liability had been incurred and the amount of the exposure could be reasonably estimated. These estimates included several key assumptions including, but not limited to, the taxability of the Company’s services, the jurisdictions in which its management believes it had nexus, and the sourcing of revenues to those jurisdictions. Starting in March 2017, the Company began collecting these taxes from customers in certain jurisdictions and since then has expanded to collect taxes in most jurisdictions where the Company operates. The Company is also in discussions with certain jurisdictions regarding its prior sales and other taxes, if any, that it may owe. In the event any of these jurisdictions disagree with management’s assumptions and analysis, the assessment of the Company’s tax exposure could differ materially from management’s current estimates. For example, one jurisdiction has assessed the Company for $38.8 million in taxes, including interest and penalties, which exceeded the $11.5 million the Company had accrued for the period covered by this assessment. The Company believes that this assessment is incorrect and has disputed it, paid the full amount as required by law, and was seeking a refund or settlement. The payment made in excess of the accrued amount is reflected as a deposit in the Company’s accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. After failing to reach a settlement, on May 27, 2021, the Company filed a complaint challenging the jurisdiction’s assessment in court. However, litigation is uncertain and a ruling against the Company, or a dismissal of our complaint, may adversely affect its financial position and results of operations.
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the liability recorded for these taxes was $28.8 million and $25.6 million, respectively.
14. Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred Stock
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had authorized 100,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001, of which no shares were issued and outstanding.
Common Stock
As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had authorized 1,000,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and 100,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, each par value $0.001 per share. As of June 30, 2021, 165,715,499 shares of Class A common stock and 10,218,422 shares of Class B common stock were issued and outstanding. As of December 31, 2020, 153,496,222 shares of Class A common stock and 10,551,302 shares of Class B common stock were issued and outstanding. Holders of Class A and Class B common stock are entitled to one vote per share and 10 votes per share, respectively, and the shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except for voting and conversion rights.
The Company had reserved shares of common stock for issuance as follows:
As ofAs of
June 30,December 31,
20212020
Stock options issued and outstanding4,786,740 5,625,735 
Unvested restricted stock units issued and outstanding7,008,107 7,523,882 
Class A common stock reserved for Twilio.org663,061 707,265 
Stock-based awards available for grant under 2016 Plan25,833,950 18,942,205 
Stock-based awards available for grant under ESPP6,481,649 4,941,281 
Class A common stock reserved for the Convertible Notes 7,569,731 
Total44,773,507 45,310,099 
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15. Stock-Based Compensation 
The Company’s 2016 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”) provides for granting stock options, restricted stock units (“RSU”), restricted stock awards (“RSA”), stock appreciation rights, unrestricted stock awards, performance share awards, dividend equivalent rights and cash-based awards to its employees, directors and consultants. Certain of the Company’s outstanding equity awards were granted under equity incentive plans that are no longer active but continue to govern the outstanding equity awards granted thereunder.
The Company also offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) to eligible employees. The ESPP provides for separate six-month offering periods beginning in May and November of each year. In the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, 100,107 and 190,642 shares of Class A common stock were purchased under the ESPP, respectively, and 106,054 shares are expected to be purchased in the fourth quarter of 2021.
On January 1, 2021, the shares available for grant under the 2016 Plan and ESPP were automatically increased by 8,202,376 shares and 1,640,475 shares, respectively.
Stock-options and restricted stock units and awards activity under the Company’s equity incentive plans was as follows:
Stock Options
Number of
options
outstanding
Weighted-
average
exercise
price
(Per share)
Weighted-
average
remaining
contractual
term
(In years)
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
(In thousands)
Outstanding options as of December 31, 20205,070,735 $51.71 6.85$1,454,222 
Granted249,842 368.82 
Exercised(816,973)39.06 
Forfeited and canceled(271,864)117.93 
Outstanding options as of June 30, 20214,231,740 $68.62 6.43$1,377,618 
Options vested and exercisable as of June 30, 20212,573,689 $28.19 5.20$941,885 
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
Aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercised (1)
$100,425 $338,031 $265,984 $406,390 
Total estimated grant date fair value of options vested$45,873 $17,684 $77,852 $41,020 
Weighted-average grant date fair value per share of options granted$200.05 $93.37 $202.36 $64.06 
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(1) Aggregate intrinsic value represents the difference between the fair value of the Company’s Class A common stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange and the exercise price of outstanding “in-the-money” options.
Additionally, as of June 30, 2021, the Company had outstanding 555,000 shares of performance-based stock options with a weighted average exercise price of $31.72, of which 555,000 were vested and exercisable. All performance conditions have been met.
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Restricted Stock Units and Awards
Number of
awards
outstanding
Weighted-
average
grant date
fair value
(Per share)
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
(In thousands)
Unvested RSUs as of December 31, 20207,523,882 $131.76 $2,542,858 
Granted1,656,381 342.50 
Vested(1,754,042)90.57 
Forfeited and canceled(418,114)150.01 
Unvested RSUs as of June 30, 20217,008,107 $190.79 $2,762,315 
Additionally, as of June 30, 2021, the Company granted 24,697 shares of RSAs with a weighted average grant date fair value of $359.80 per share and aggregate intrinsic value of $9.7 million.
As of June 30, 2021, the Company had 258,554 shares of its Class A common stock in escrow that are subject to future vesting over a period of 2.3 years with a weighted average grant date fair value of $273.38 per share and aggregate intrinsic value of $101.9 million.
As of June 30, 2021, total unrecognized compensation cost was as follows:
Unrecognized Compensation CostWeighted-average remaining period
(In thousands)(In years)
Unvested stock options$203,631 2.4
Unvested restricted stock units and awards1,217,788 3.1
Class A shares in escrow subject to future vesting53,019 2.3
ESPP7,150 0.4
Total$1,481,588 
Valuation Assumptions
The fair value of employee stock options was estimated on the grant date using the following assumptions in the Black-Scholes option pricing model:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
Employee Stock Options:2021202020212020
Fair value of common stock
$316.3 - $367.7
$108.4 - $191.9
$316.30 - $409.20
$108.4 - $191.9
Expected term (in years)
6.08
6.08
6.08
6.08
Expected volatility
59.7%
54.7% - 56.0%
58.3% - 59.7%
51.9% - 56.0%
Risk-free interest rate
1.0% - 1.1%
0.4%
0.8% - 1.1%
0.4% - 1.4%
Dividend rate
%
%
%
%

Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
Employee Stock Purchase Plan:2021202020212020
Expected term (in years)0.500.500.50.5
Expected volatility58.7%72.1%58.7%72.1%
Risk-free interest rate0.04%0.2%0.04%0.2%
Dividend rate%%%%
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Stock-Based Compensation Expense
The Company recorded total stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Cost of revenue$3,024 $2,143 $5,741 $3,980 
Research and development58,871 39,841 115,830 73,050 
Sales and marketing47,940 23,086 89,576 43,029 
General and administrative34,333 14,317 70,176 28,353 
Total$144,168 $79,387 $281,323 $148,412 
16. Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders
Basic and diluted net loss per common share is presented in conformity with the two-class method required for participating securities and is described in detail in the Company’s Annual Report.
The following table sets forth the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders during the periods presented:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
Net loss attributable to common stockholders (in thousands)$(227,853)$(99,923)$(434,395)$(194,714)
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted173,407,187 141,618,541 170,275,609 140,512,351 
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted$(1.31)$(0.71)$(2.55)$(1.39)
The following outstanding shares of common stock equivalents were excluded from the calculation of the diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders because their effect would have been anti-dilutive:
As of June 30,
20212020
Stock options issued and outstanding4,786,740 5,357,728 
Restricted stock units issued and outstanding7,008,107 8,791,928 
Class A common stock reserved for Twilio.org663,061 751,469 
Class A common stock committed under ESPP106,054 103,132 
Convertible senior notes (1)
 4,331,844 
Class A common stock in escrow75,612  
Class A common stock in escrow and restricted stock awards subject to future
     vesting
288,755  
Total12,928,329 19,336,101 
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(1) In the three months ended June 30, 2021, the remaining principal amount of the Convertible Notes was fully redeemed and as of June 30, 2021, no Convertible Notes were outstanding. Refer to Note 10 for further detail on the redemption of these notes. As of June 30, 2020, the Company was using treasury stock method to calculate the dilutive impact of the Convertible Notes because at that time the Company expected to settle the principal amount of these notes in cash and any excess in shares of the Company’s Class A common stock. Effective with the fourth quarter 2020, the Company expected to settle the principal amount of these notes in shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, and since then used the if-converted method for calculating a potential dilutive effect on diluted net income per share, if applicable. As of June 30, 2020, the conversion spread, calculated using the average market price of Class A common stock during the period consistent with the treasury stock method, had a dilutive impact on diluted net
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income per share of Class A common stock when the average market price of the Company’s Class A common stock for a given period exceeded the conversion price of $70.90 per share.
17. Income Taxes        
The Company computes its provision for interim periods by applying an estimated annual effective tax rate to anticipated annual pretax income or loss. The estimated annual effective tax rate is applied to the Company’s year to date income or loss, and is adjusted for discrete items recorded in the period. The Company recorded an income tax provision of $1.3 million and $2.2 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively, and $0.3 million and $1.3 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.
The provision for income taxes recorded in the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 consists primarily of income taxes and withholding taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business, partially offset by an income tax benefit from the reversal of U.S. deferred tax liabilities related to acquired intangibles from prior year business combinations. The primary difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory rate is the full valuation allowance the Company established on the federal, state, and certain foreign net operating losses and credits. The Company continues to maintain a full valuation allowance against its U.S. federal and state net deferred tax assets.
18. Subsequent Events
On July 14, 2021, the Company acquired Zipwhip, Inc. (“Zipwhip”), a trusted partner to carriers and a leading provider of toll-free messaging in the United States, for an aggregate consideration of $850.0 million, subject to certain exceptions and adjustments, in the form of shares of Class A common stock of the Company or cash, as provided by the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated May 16, 2021 (the "Merger Agreement"). Part of the cash consideration was paid to settle the vested stock options and restricted stock units of Zipwhip that were outstanding on the acquisition closing date. The Company assumed all unvested and outstanding stock options and restricted stock units of Zipwhip continuing employees as converted into its own respective equity awards at the conversion ratio provided in the Merger Agreement. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company incurred $2.5 million in expenses related to this transaction.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that are based upon current plans, expectations and beliefs that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Overview
We are the leader in the cloud communications platform category. We enable developers to build, scale and operate real‑time customer engagement within their software applications. We offer a customer engagement platform with software designed to address specific use cases like account security and contact centers, and a set of Application Programming Interfaces (“APIs”) that handles the higher level communication logic needed for nearly every type of customer engagement. The power, flexibility, and reliability offered by our software building blocks empowers companies of virtually every shape and size to build world-class engagement into their customer experience. For additional detail on the description of our business and products please refer to Part II, Item 7, "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations", of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2021 (“Annual Report”).
We have achieved significant growth in recent periods. In the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, our revenue was $668.9 million and $400.8 million, respectively, and our net loss was $227.9 million and $99.9 million, respectively. In the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, our 10 largest Active Customer Accounts generated an aggregate of 12% and 15% of our total revenue, respectively.
Acquisition of Zipwhip, Inc
On July 14, 2021, we acquired Zipwhip, Inc. (“Zipwhip”), a trusted partner to carriers and a leading provider of toll-free messaging in the United States, for an aggregate consideration of $850.0 million, subject to certain exceptions and adjustments, in the form of shares of our Class A common stock or cash, as provided by the Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated May 16, 2021 (the "Merger Agreement"). Part of the cash consideration was paid to settle the vested stock options and restricted stock units of Zipwhip that were outstanding on the acquisition closing date. We assumed all unvested and outstanding stock options and restricted stock units of Zipwhip continuing employees as converted into our own respective equity awards at the conversion ratio provided in the Merger Agreement. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, we incurred $2.5 million in expenses related to this transaction.
COVID-19 UPDATE
A novel coronavirus disease (“COVID-19”) was declared a global pandemic during the first quarter of 2020 and has resulted in the imposition of numerous, unprecedented, national and international measures to try to contain the virus, including travel bans and restrictions, shutdowns, quarantines, shelter-in-place and social distancing orders. To prioritize the health and safety of our employees, customers and our community at large, we have either cancelled or shifted our planned events to virtual-only experiences and may determine to alter, postpone or cancel additional customer, employee or industry events in the future. Since mid-March 2020, we have also taken several precautionary measures to protect our employees and contingent workers and help minimize the spread of the virus, including temporarily closing our worldwide offices, requiring all employees and contingent workers to work from home and suspending almost all business travel worldwide for our employees for the time being. As we continue to monitor the progress of vaccination efforts around the world, we plan to commence a phased reopening approach for certain of our offices in the third quarter of 2021, which will include limited capacity and social distancing measures, and only be available to fully-vaccinated employees.
The broader implications of COVID-19 on our results of operations and overall financial performance remain uncertain. The COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse effects have been prevalent in the locations where we, our customers, suppliers or third-party business partners conduct business. In the three months ended June 30, 2021, we experienced stable or increased usage in industries most impacted by COVID-19, including travel, hospitality, and ridesharing, among others. There may be additional impacts to the economy and our business as a result of COVID-19. We expect that there may be some volatility in customer demand and buying habits as the pandemic continues, and we may experience constrained supply or curtailed customer demand that could materially and adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial performance in future periods. Specifically, we may experience impact from delayed sales cycles, including customers and prospective customers delaying contract signing or contract renewals, or reducing budgets or minimum commitments related to the products
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and services that we offer and changes to consumer behavior that may affect customers who use our products and service for confirmations, notifications, and other use cases. While we are continuing our recruiting efforts, it is possible that the pace of our hiring may slow during the COVID-19 pandemic. See the risk factor titled “The global COVID-19 pandemic may adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial performance” in Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for further discussion of the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Key Business Metrics
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
Number of Active Customer Accounts (as of end date of period) (1)
240,000 200,000 
Total Revenue (in thousands) (1)
$668,931 $400,849 
Total Revenue Growth Rate (1)
67 %46 %
Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate (2)
135 %132 %
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(1) Includes the contributions from our ValueFirst business, acquired March 12, 2021, and Twilio Segment business, acquired November 2, 2020.
(2) Revenue from ValueFirst and Twilio Segment will not impact this calculation until the one-year anniversary of the acquisition.
Number of Active Customer Accounts. We believe that the number of Active Customer Accounts is an important indicator of the growth of our business, the market acceptance of our platform and future revenue trends. We define an “Active Customer Account” at the end of any period as an individual account, as identified by a unique account identifier, for which we have recognized at least $5 of revenue in the last month of the period. We believe that use of our platform by customers at or above the $5 per month threshold is a stronger indicator of potential future engagement than trial usage of our platform or usage at levels below $5 per month. In the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, revenue from Active Customer Accounts represented over 99% of total revenue in each period. A single organization may constitute multiple unique Active Customer Accounts if it has multiple account identifiers, each of which is treated as a separate Active Customer Account.
Dollar‑Based Net Expansion Rate. Our ability to drive growth and generate incremental revenue depends, in part, on our ability to maintain and grow our relationships with existing Active Customer Accounts and to increase their use of the platform. An important way in which we have historically tracked performance in this area is by measuring the Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate for Active Customer Accounts. Our Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate increases when such Active Customer Accounts increase their usage of a product, extend their usage of a product to new applications or adopt a new product. Our Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate decreases when such Active Customer Accounts cease or reduce their usage of a product or when we lower usage prices on a product. As our customers grow their businesses and extend the use of our platform, they sometimes create multiple customer accounts with us for operational or other reasons. As such, when we identify a significant customer organization (defined as a single customer organization generating more than 1% of revenue in a quarterly reporting period) that has created a new Active Customer Account, this new Active Customer Account is tied to, and revenue from this new Active Customer Account is included with, the original Active Customer Account for the purposes of calculating this metric. We believe that measuring Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate provides a meaningful indication of the performance of our efforts to increase revenue from existing customers.
To calculate the Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate, we first identify the cohort of Active Customer Accounts that were Active Customer Accounts in the same quarter of the prior year. The Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate is the quotient obtained by dividing the revenue generated from that cohort in a quarter, by the revenue generated from that same cohort in the corresponding quarter in the prior year. When we calculate Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate for periods longer than one quarter, we use the average of the applicable quarterly Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rates for each of the quarters in such period.
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Key Components of Statements of Operations
Revenue. We derive our revenue primarily from usage‑based fees earned from customers using the software products within our Channel APIs. These usage‑based software products include offerings such as Programmable Messaging, Programmable Voice and Programmable Video, among others. Some examples of the usage‑based fees for which we charge include the number of text messages sent or received using our Programmable Messaging products, minutes of call duration activity for our Programmable Voice products, and number of authentications for our Verify product. In the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, we generated 72% and 76% of our revenue, respectively, from usage‑based fees. We also earn monthly flat fees from certain fee‑based products, such as our Email API, Marketing Campaigns, Twilio Flex, our cloud contact center platform, and Twilio Segment, our customer data platform.
When customers first begin using our platform, they typically pay upfront via credit card in monthly prepaid amounts and draw down their balances as they purchase or use our products. Our larger customers often enter into contracts, for at least 12 months, that contain minimum revenue commitments, which may contain more favorable pricing. Customers on such contracts typically are invoiced monthly in arrears for products used.
Amounts that have been charged via credit card or invoiced are recorded in revenue, deferred revenue or customer deposits, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met. Our deferred revenue and customer deposits liability balance is not a meaningful indicator of our future revenue at any point in time because the number of contracts with our invoiced customers that contain terms requiring any form of prepayment is not significant.
We define U.S. revenue as revenue from customers with IP addresses or mailing addresses at the time of registration in the United States, and we define international revenue as revenue from customers with IP addresses or mailing addresses at the time of registration outside of the United States.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin. Cost of revenue consists primarily of fees paid to network service providers. Cost of revenue also includes cloud infrastructure fees, direct costs of personnel, such as salaries and stock‑based compensation for our customer support employees, and non‑personnel costs, such as depreciation and amortization expense related to data centers and hosting equipment, amortization of capitalized internal use software development costs and acquired intangibles. Our arrangements with network service providers require us to pay fees based on the volume of phone calls initiated or text messages sent, as well as the number of telephone numbers acquired by us to service our customers. Our arrangements with our cloud infrastructure provider require us to pay fees based on our server capacity consumption.
Our gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a number of factors, including the timing and extent of our investments in our operations, our product mix, our ability to manage our network service provider and cloud infrastructure‑related fees, including Application to Person SMS fees, the mix of U.S. revenue compared to international revenue, changes in foreign exchange rates and the timing of amortization of capitalized software development costs and acquired intangibles and the extent to which we periodically choose to pass on our cost savings from platform optimization efforts to our customers in the form of lower usage prices.
Operating Expenses. The most significant components of operating expenses are personnel costs, which consist of salaries, benefits, sales commissions and bonuses and stock‑based compensation. We also incur other non‑personnel costs related to our general overhead expenses. We expect that our operating costs will increase in absolute dollars as we add additional employees and invest in our infrastructure to grow our business.
Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, outsourced engineering services, cloud infrastructure fees for staging and development, amortization of capitalized internal use software development costs, depreciation and an allocation of our general overhead expenses. We capitalize the portion of our software development costs that meets the criteria for capitalization.
We continue to focus our research and development efforts on adding new features and products, including new use cases, improving our platform and increasing the functionality of our existing products.
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, including commissions for our sales employees. Sales and marketing expenses also include expenditures related to advertising, marketing, our brand awareness activities and developer evangelism, costs related to our SIGNAL customer and developer conferences, credit card processing fees, professional services fees, depreciation, amortization of acquired intangibles and an allocation of our general overhead expenses.
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We focus our sales and marketing efforts on generating awareness of our company, platform and products through our developer evangelist team and self‑service model, creating sales leads and establishing and promoting our brand, both domestically and internationally. We plan to continue investing in sales and marketing by increasing our sales and marketing headcount, supplementing our self‑service model with an enterprise sales approach, expanding our sales channels, driving our go‑to‑market strategies, building our brand awareness and sponsoring additional marketing events.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs for our accounting, finance, legal, human resources and administrative support personnel and executives. General and administrative expenses also include costs related to business acquisitions, legal and other professional services fees, certain taxes, depreciation and amortization and an allocation of our general overhead expenses. We expect that we will incur costs associated with supporting the growth of our business and to meet the increased compliance requirements associated with our international expansion. We may also incur higher than usual losses related to deterioration of quality of certain financial assets caused by the macroeconomic conditions and uncertainly in the COVID-19 environment.
Our general and administrative expenses include a certain amount of sales and other taxes to which we are subject in the United States and internationally based on the manner we sell and deliver our products.
Provision for Income Taxes. Our income tax provision or benefit for interim periods is determined using an estimate of our annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items occurring in the quarter. The primary difference between our effective tax rate and the federal statutory rate relates to the full valuation allowance the Company established on the federal, state and certain foreign net operating losses and credits.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures:
We use the following non‑GAAP financial information, collectively, to evaluate our ongoing operations and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. We believe that non‑GAAP financial information, when taken collectively, may be helpful to investors because it provides consistency and comparability with past financial performance, facilitates period‑to‑period comparisons of results of operations, and assists in comparisons with other companies, many of which use similar non‑GAAP financial information to supplement their GAAP results. Non‑GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and may be different from similarly‑titled non‑GAAP measures used by other companies. Whenever we use a non‑GAAP financial measure, a reconciliation is provided to the most closely applicable financial measure stated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Investors are encouraged to review the related GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation of these non‑GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.
Non‑GAAP Gross Profit and Non‑GAAP Gross Margin. For the periods presented, we define non‑GAAP gross profit and non‑GAAP gross margin as GAAP gross profit and GAAP gross margin, respectively, adjusted to exclude, as applicable, certain expenses as presented in the table below:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
Reconciliation:(In thousands)
Gross profit$331,247 $209,131 
Gross margin50 %52 %
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation3,024 2,143 
Amortization of acquired intangibles26,204 12,695 
    Non-GAAP gross profit$360,475 $223,969 
    Non-GAAP gross margin54 %56 %
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Non‑GAAP Operating Expenses. For the periods presented, we define non‑GAAP operating expenses (including categories of operating expenses) as GAAP operating expenses (and categories of operating expenses) adjusted to exclude, as applicable, certain expenses as presented in the table below:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
Reconciliation:(In thousands)
Operating expenses$533,521 $311,775 
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation(141,144)(77,244)
Amortization of acquired intangibles(19,150)(7,900)
Acquisition-related expenses(2,836)(21)
Charitable contributions(6,789)(3,972)
Payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation(7,329)(8,178)
Non-GAAP operating expenses$356,273 $214,460 
Non‑GAAP Income from Operations and Non‑GAAP Operating Margin. For the periods presented, we define non‑GAAP income from operations and non‑GAAP operating margin as GAAP loss from operations and GAAP operating margin, respectively, adjusted to exclude, as applicable, certain expenses as presented in the table below:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
Reconciliation:(In thousands)
Loss from operations$(202,274)$(102,644)
Operating margin(30)%(26)%
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation144,168 79,387 
Amortization of acquired intangibles45,354 20,595 
Acquisition-related expenses2,836 21 
Charitable contributions6,789 3,972 
Payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation7,329 8,178 
Non-GAAP income from operations$4,202 $9,509 
Non-GAAP operating margin%%

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Results of Operations
The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our total revenue for those periods. The period-to-period comparison of our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future.
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:(In thousands)
Revenue$668,931 $400,849 $1,258,919 $765,717 
Cost of revenue (1) (2)
337,684 191,718 629,368 363,051 
Gross profit331,247 209,131 629,551 402,666 
Operating expenses:
Research and development (1) (2)
181,280 120,701 356,080 235,040 
Sales and marketing (1) (2)
238,058 129,823 448,648 246,545 
General and administrative (1) (2)
114,183 61,251 224,436 116,421 
Total operating expenses533,521 311,775 1,029,164 598,006 
Loss from operations(202,274)(102,644)(399,613)(195,340)
Other (expenses) income, net(24,293)3,015 (32,606)1,897 
Loss before provision for income taxes(226,567)(99,629)(432,219)(193,443)
Provision for income taxes(1,286)(294)(2,176)(1,271)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders$(227,853)$(99,923)$(434,395)$(194,714)
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(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Cost of revenue$3,024 $2,143 $5,741 $3,980 
Research and development58,871 39,841 115,830 73,050 
Sales and marketing47,940 23,086 89,576 43,029 
General and administrative34,333 14,317 70,176 28,353 
Total$144,168 $79,387 $281,323 $148,412 
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(2) Includes amortization of acquired intangibles as follows:
Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
(In thousands)
Cost of revenue$26,204 $12,695 $52,546 $25,076 
Research and development378 — 378 — 
Sales and marketing18,762 7,889 37,456 15,753 
General and administrative10 11 125 58 
Total$45,354 $20,595 $90,505 $40,887 
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Three Months Ended
June 30,
Six Months Ended
June 30,
2021202020212020
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, as a percentage of revenue: **
Revenue100 %100 %100 %100 %
Cost of revenue50 48 50 47 
Gross profit50 52 50 53 
Operating expenses:
Research and development27 30 28 31 
Sales and marketing36 32 36 32 
General and administrative17 15 18 15 
Total operating expenses80 78 82 78 
Loss from operations(30)(26)(32)(26)
Other (expenses) income, net(4)(3)*
Loss before provision for income taxes(34)(25)(34)(25)
Provision for income taxes****
Net loss attributable to common stockholders(34 %)(25 %)(35 %)(25 %)
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* Less than 0.5% of revenue.
** Columns may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Comparison of the Three Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020
Revenue
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Total Revenue$668,931 $400,849 $268,082 67 %
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, total revenue increased by $268.1 million, or 67%, compared to the same period last year. This increase was primarily attributable to an increase in the usage of our products, particularly our Programmable Messaging products and Programmable Voice products, the adoption of additional products by our existing customers, and revenue contribution from the acquisition of our Twilio Segment business. The change in usage was reflected in our Dollar‑Based Net Expansion Rate of 135% for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in usage was also attributable to a 20% increase in the number of Active Customer Accounts, from over 200,000 as of June 30, 2020, to over 240,000 as of June 30, 2021, which was also positively impacted by the customer accounts added through our recent acquisitions.
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, U.S. revenue and international revenue represented $452.9 million or 68%, and $216.0 million, or 32%, respectively, of total revenue. In the three months ended June 30, 2020, U.S. revenue and international revenue represented $292.1 million, or 73%, and $108.7 million, or 27%, respectively, of total revenue. The increase in international revenue was attributable to the growth in usage of our products, particularly our Programmable Messaging products and Programmable Voice products, by our existing international Active Customer Accounts; a 17% increase in the number of international Active Customer Accounts driven in part by our focus on expanding our sales to customers outside of the United States; and revenue contribution from our recent acquisitions.
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Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Cost of revenue$337,684 $191,718 $145,966 76 %
Gross margin50 %52 %
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, cost of revenue increased by $146.0 million, or 76%, compared to the same period last year. The increase in cost of revenue was primarily attributable to a $120.3 million increase in network service providers’ costs and a $2.9 million increase in cloud infrastructure fees, both to support the growth in usage of our products. The increase was also due to a $13.5 million increase in the amortization expense of intangible assets that we acquired through business combinations.
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, gross margin percentage declined compared to the same period last year. This decline was primarily driven by a re-acceleration in growth of our messaging business, an increase in amortization expense related to acquired intangible assets, the impact of an increasing mix of international product usage and an increase in network service provider fees in certain geographies. These declines were partially offset by the impact of the acquisition of the Twilio Segment business and certain operational improvements.
Operating Expenses
Three Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Research and development$181,280 $120,701 $60,579 50 %
Sales and marketing238,058 129,823 108,235 83 %
General and administrative114,183 61,251 52,932 86 %
Total operating expenses$533,521 $311,775 $221,746 71 %
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, research and development expenses increased by $60.6 million, or 50%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $52.8 million increase in personnel costs, net of a $3.8 million increase in capitalized software development costs, largely as a result of a 67% average increase in our research and development headcount, as we continued to focus on enhancing our existing products, introducing new products as well as enhancing product management and other technical functions. The increase was also due to a $2.3 million increase in our cloud infrastructure fees related to staging and development of our products. In addition, the three months ended June 30, 2021 included research and development expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount, from our recent acquisitions.
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, sales and marketing expenses increased by $108.2 million, or 83%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $76.7 million increase in personnel costs, largely as a result of a 102% average increase in sales and marketing headcount, as we continued to expand our sales efforts in the United States and abroad. The increase was also due to a $10.9 million increase related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets and a $9.2 million increase in advertising expenses. In addition, the three months ended June 30, 2021 included sales and marketing expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount from our recent acquisitions.
In the three months ended June 30, 2021, general and administrative expenses increased by $52.9 million, or 86%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $34.5 million increase in personnel costs, largely as a result of a 103% average increase in general and administrative headcount, to support the growth of our business domestically and internationally. The increase was also due to a $2.8 million increase in charitable contributions, a $2.8 million increase in professional services fees related to our acquisitions of other businesses, and a $2.7 million increase in other professional services fee incurred in the ordinary course of business. Further, the three months ended June 30, 2021 included general and administrative expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount from our acquisition of the Twilio Segment business on November 2, 2020.
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Comparison of the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021 and 2020
Revenue
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Total Revenue$1,258,919 $765,717 $493,202 64 %
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, total revenue increased by $493.2 million, or 64%, compared to the same period last year. This increase was primarily attributable to an increase in the usage of our products, particularly our Programmable Messaging products and Programmable Voice products, the adoption of additional products by our existing customers, and revenue contribution from the acquisition of our Twilio Segment business. The change in usage was reflected in our Dollar‑Based Net Expansion Rate of 134% for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in usage was also attributable to a 20% increase in the number of Active Customer Accounts, from over 200,000 as of June 30, 2020, to over 240,000 as of June 30, 2021, which was also positively impacted by the customer accounts added through our recent acquisitions.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, U.S. revenue and international revenue represented $874.4 million or 69%, and $384.5 million, or 31%, respectively, of total revenue. In the six months ended June 30, 2020, U.S. revenue and international revenue represented $553.9 million, or 72%, and $211.8 million, or 28%, respectively, of total revenue. The increase in international revenue was attributable to the growth in usage of our products, particularly our Programmable Messaging products and Programmable Voice products, by our existing international Active Customer Accounts; a 17% increase in the number of international Active Customer Accounts driven in part by our focus on expanding our sales to customers outside of the United States; and revenue contribution from our recent acquisitions.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Cost of revenue$629,368 $363,051 $266,317 73 %
Gross margin50 %53 %
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, cost of revenue increased by $266.3 million, or 73%, compared to the same period last year. The increase in cost of revenue was primarily attributable to a $205.5 million increase in network service providers’ costs and a $16.7 million increase in cloud infrastructure fees, both to support the growth in usage of our products. The increase was also due to a $27.5 million increase in the amortization expense of intangible assets that we acquired through business combinations.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, gross margin percentage declined compared to the same period last year. This decline was primarily driven by a re-acceleration in growth of our messaging business, an increase in amortization expense related to acquired intangible assets, the impact of an increasing mix of international product usage and an increase in network service provider fees in certain geographies. These declines were partially offset by the impact of the acquisition of the Twilio Segment business and certain operational improvements.
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Operating Expenses
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020Change
(Dollars in thousands)
Research and development$356,080 $235,040 $121,040 51 %
Sales and marketing448,648 246,545 202,103 82 %
General and administrative224,436 116,421 108,015 93 %
Total operating expenses$1,029,164 $598,006 $431,158 72 %
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, research and development expenses increased by $121.0 million, or 51%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $104.5 million increase in personnel costs, net of a $6.9 million increase in capitalized software development costs, largely as a result of a 59% average increase in our research and development headcount, as we continued to focus on enhancing our existing products, introducing new products as well as enhancing product management and other technical functions. The increase was also due to a $5.2 million increase in our cloud infrastructure fees related to staging and development of our products. In addition, the six months ended June 30, 2021 included research and development expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount, from our recent acquisitions.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, sales and marketing expenses increased by $202.1 million, or 82%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $141.0 million increase in personnel costs, largely as a result of a 92% average increase in sales and marketing headcount, as we continued to expand our sales efforts in the United States and abroad. The increase was also due to a $21.7 million increase related to the amortization of acquired intangible assets and a $15.6 million increase in advertising expenses. In addition, the six months ended June 30, 2021 included sales and marketing expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount from our recent acquisitions.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, general and administrative expenses increased by $108.0 million, or 93%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was primarily attributable to a $70.7 million increase in personnel costs, largely as a result of a 93% average increase in general and administrative headcount, to support the growth of our business domestically and internationally. The increase was also due to a $9.5 million increase in charitable contributions, a $5.3 million increase in professional service fees related to our acquisitions of other businesses, and a $4.9 million increase in other professional services fees incurred in the ordinary course of business. Further, the six months ended June 30, 2021 included general and administrative expenses and the impact of growth in the headcount from our recent acquisitions.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of liquidity have been (i) the net proceeds of $979.0 million, $1.4 billion and $1.8 billion, net of underwriting discounts and offering expenses paid by us, from our public equity offerings in June 2019, August 2020 and February 2021, respectively; (ii) the net proceeds of approximately $537.0 million, after deducting purchaser discounts and debt issuance costs paid by us, from the issuance of our Convertible Notes in May 2018; (iii) the aggregate net proceeds of approximately $985.1 million, after deducting purchaser discounts and debt issuance costs paid or payable by us, from the issuance of our 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes in March 2021; and (iv) the payments received from customers using our products.
We believe that our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balances, as well as the cash flows generated by our operations, will be sufficient to satisfy our anticipated cash needs for working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. However, our belief may prove to be incorrect, and we could utilize our available financial resources sooner than we currently expect. Our future capital requirements and the adequacy of available funds will depend on many factors, including those set forth in Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors.” We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing in order to meet these future capital requirements. In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us, or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected. Additionally, cash from operations could also be affected by various risks and uncertainties in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, including timing and ability to collect payments from our customers and other risks detailed in Part II, Item 1A, “Risk Factors.”
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Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows:
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20212020
(In thousands)
Cash provided by operating activities$26,222 $13,911 
Cash (used in) provided by investing activities(2,181,489)144,765 
Cash provided by financing activities3,024,856 63,289 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash(143)— 
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$869,446 $221,965 
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, cash provided by operating activities consisted primarily of our net loss of $434.4 million adjusted for non-cash items, including $281.3 million of stock-based compensation expense, $119.4 million of depreciation and amortization expense, $16.2 million of donated common stock, $29.0 million loss on extinguishment of our Convertible Notes, $5.1 million amortization of the debt discount and issuance costs, $23.2 million of non-cash reduction to our operating right-of-use asset, $12.4 million amortization of deferred commissions, a $7.7 million increase in our allowance for credit losses, and $48.1 million of cumulative changes in operating assets and liabilities. With respect to changes in operating assets and liabilities, accounts receivable and prepaid expenses increased $86.3 million primarily due to the timing of cash receipts from certain of our larger customers, pre-payments for cloud infrastructure fees and certain operating expenses. Accounts payable and other current liabilities increased $93.0 million primarily due to increases in transaction volumes. Operating lease liability decreased $23.6 million due to payments made against our operating lease obligations. Other long-term assets increased $39.1 million primarily due to an increase in the sales commissions balances related to the growth of our business.
In the six months ended June 30, 2020, cash provided by operating activities consisted primarily of our net loss of $194.7 million adjusted for non-cash items, including $148.4 million of stock-based compensation expense, $64.8 million of depreciation and amortization expense, $17.8 million of reduction to our operating right-of-use asset, $12.4 million in amortization of debt discount and issuance costs, a $7.1 million increase in allowance for credit losses and $55.0 million of cumulative changes in operating assets and liabilities. With respect to changes in operating assets and liabilities, accounts receivable and prepaid expenses increased $59.8 million primarily due to the timing of cash receipts from our customers, pre-payments for cloud infrastructure fees and certain operating expenses. Accounts payable and other current liabilities increased $35.9 million primarily due to increases in transaction volumes. Our operating right-of-use liability decreased $16.3 million due to payments made against our operating lease obligations. Our long-term assets increased $19.8 million primarily due to an increase in the deferred sales commissions balances related to the growth of our business.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, cash used in investing activities was $2.2 billion primarily consisting of $2.1 billion of purchases of marketable securities and other investments, net of maturities and sales, $94.2 million of net cash paid to acquire other businesses, $21.8 million related to capitalized software development costs and $12.1 million related to purchases of long-lived assets.
In the six months ended June 30, 2020, cash provided by investing activities was $144.8 million primarily consisting of $177.9 million of maturities and sales of marketable securities and other investments, net of purchases, $17.7 million related to capitalized software development costs and $12.8 million related to purchases of long-lived assets.
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Cash Flows from Financing Activities
In the six months ended June 30, 2021, cash provided by financing activities was $3.0 billion primarily consisting of $1.8 billion in net proceeds from our public equity offering, $986.1 million in net proceeds from the issuance of our 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes, as described in Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and $55.6 million in proceeds from stock options exercised by our employees and shares issued under our employee stock purchase plan. This was offset by $6.7 million in principal payments made on finance leases and $4.7 million related to the value of equity awards withheld to settle tax liabilities.
In the six months ended June 30, 2020, cash provided by financing activities was $63.3 million primarily consisting of $69.9 million in proceeds from stock options exercised by our employees and shares issued under our employee stock purchase plan. This was offset by $3.8 million in principal payments on financing leases and $2.8 million related to the value of equity awards withheld to settle tax liabilities.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. The preparation of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses and related disclosures. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Our actual results could differ from these estimates.
Other than the adoption of our derivatives and hedging policy, as further described in Note 2(e) to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements includes elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, there have been no changes to our critical accounting policies as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2021.
Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
Refer to Note 2 to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements not yet adopted.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have not entered into any off-balance sheet arrangements and do not have any holdings in variable interest entities.
Contractual Obligations and Other Commitments
Our principal commitments consist of obligations under our 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes, our operating leases for office space and our contractual commitments to our cloud infrastructure and network service providers. In the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, we entered into several non-cancelable vendor agreements with terms up to four years for a total purchase commitment of $11.1 million and $438.0 million, respectively.
Available Information
The following filings are available for download free of charge through our investor relations website after we file them with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”): Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Proxy Statement for our annual meeting of stockholders. Our investor relations website is located at http://investors.twilio.com. The SEC also maintains an Internet website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about issuers, like us, that file electronically with the SEC. The address of that website is www.sec.gov.
We webcast our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the investment community on our investor relations website. Additionally, we provide notifications of news or announcements regarding our financial performance, including SEC filings, investor events, press and earnings releases and blogs as part of our investor relations website. We also use our Twitter Account (https://twitter.com/twilio) and the Twitter account of our Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Lawson (https://twitter.com/jeffiel) as a means of disclosing information about our Company, our services and other matters and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
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Further corporate governance information, including our corporate governance guidelines and code of business conduct and ethics, is also available on our investor relations website under the heading “Corporate Governance.” The contents of our websites and the social media channels identified above are not intended to be incorporated by reference into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or in any other report or document we file with the SEC, and any references to our websites are intended to be inactive textual references only.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We are exposed to certain market risks in the ordinary course of our business, including sensitivities as follows:
Interest Rate Risk
We had cash and cash equivalents of $1.8 billion and marketable securities of $4.1 billion as of June 30, 2021. Cash and cash equivalents consist of bank deposits and money market funds. Marketable securities consist primarily of U.S. treasury securities and high credit quality corporate debt securities. The cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities are held for working capital purposes. Such interest‑earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. To date, fluctuations in interest income have not been significant. The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while maximizing income without significantly increasing risk. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes and have not used any derivative financial instruments to manage our interest rate risk exposure. Due to the short‑term nature of our investments, we have not been exposed to, nor do we anticipate being exposed to, material risks due to changes in interest rates. A hypothetical 10% change in interest rates during any of the periods presented would not have had a material impact on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
In May 2018, we issued $550.0 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Notes, which were fully redeemed as of June 2, 2021, as further described in Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
In March 2021, we issued and sold $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of our 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes carrying fixed interest rates of 3.625% and 3.875%, respectively.
Currency Exchange Risks
The functional currency of most of our foreign subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. The local currencies of our foreign subsidiaries are the Australian dollar, the Bermuda dollar, the Brazilian real, the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Columbian peso, the Czech Republic koruna, the Euro, the Hong Kong dollar, the Indian rupee, the Japanese yen, the Mexican Peso, the Serbian dinar, the Singapore dollar and the Swedish krona.
Our subsidiaries remeasure monetary assets and liabilities at period-end exchange rates, while non-monetary items are remeasured at historical rates. Revenue and expense accounts are remeasured at the average exchange rate in effect during the year. If there is a change in foreign currency exchange rates, the conversion of our foreign subsidiaries’ financial statements into U.S. dollars would result in a realized gain or loss which is recorded in our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Due to our exposure to market risks that may result from changes in foreign currency exchange rates, we enter into foreign currency derivative hedging transactions to mitigate these risks. For further information, refer to Note 2(e) and Note 4 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
A hypothetical 10% change in foreign exchange rates during any of the periods presented would not have had a material impact on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
(a)    Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act), as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of June 30, 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
(b)    Changes in Internal Control
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15 (d) and 15d-15 (d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended June 30, 2021 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
(c)    Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost‑effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Refer to Note 13(b) of our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for a description of our current material legal proceedings.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
A description of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business is set forth below. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including Part I, Item 2, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The risks and uncertainties described below may not be the only ones we face. If any of the risks actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event, the market price of our Class A common stock could decline.
Summary of Risk Factors and Uncertainties Associated with Our Business
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties outside of our control. One, or a combination, of these risks and uncertainties could materially affect any of those matters as to which we have made forward-looking statements and cause our actual results or an actual event or occurrence to differ materially from those results or an event or occurrence described in a forward-looking statement. Some of the principal risks associated with our business include the following:
the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic;
new and unproven markets for our products and platform;
our ability to effectively manage our rapid growth;
fluctuations in our quarterly results and our ability to meet securities analysts’ and investors’ expectations;
our ability to maintain and enhance our brand and increase market awareness of our company and products;
limitations on the use and adoption of our solutions due to privacy laws, data collection and transfer restrictions and related domestic or foreign regulations;
any loss of customers or decline in their use of our products;
our ability to attract new customers in a cost-effective manner;
our ability to develop enhancements to our products and introduce new products that achieve market acceptance;
our ability to compete effectively in the markets in which we participate;
our history of losses and uncertainty about our future profitability;
our ability to increase adoption of our products by enterprises;
our ability to expand our relationships with existing technology partner customers and add new technology partner customers;
significant risks associated with expansion of our international operations;
compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
telecommunications-related regulations and future legislative or regulatory actions;
our ability to obtain or retain geographical, mobile, regional, local or toll-free numbers and to effectively process requests to port such numbers in a timely manner due to industry regulations;
our ability to adapt and respond effectively to rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, changing regulations, and changing customer needs, requirements or preferences;
our ability to provide monthly uptime service level commitments of a minimum of 99.95% under our agreements with customers;
any breaches of our networks or systems, or those of AWS or our service providers;
defects or errors in our products;
any loss or decline in revenue from our largest customers;
litigation by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights;
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exposure to substantial liability for intellectual property infringement and other losses from indemnity provisions in various agreements;
our ability to realize the potential benefits from our recent acquisitions, partnerships and investments due to our ability to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or to achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions, partnerships and investments;
the loss of our senior management and other key employees;
our use of open source software;
our reliance on SaaS technologies from third parties;
potentially adverse tax consequences on our global operations and structure;
excessive credit card or fraudulent activity;
unfavorable conditions in our industry or the global economy;
requirement of additional capital to support our business and its availability on acceptable terms, if at all;
exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations;
our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income;
our failure to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting;
the risks of pandemics, earthquakes, fire, floods and other natural catastrophic events and to interruption by man-made problems such as power disruptions, computer viruses, data security breaches or terrorism;
volatility of the trading price of our Class A common stock;
potential decline in the market price of our Class A common stock due to substantial future sales of shares;
requirement of a significant amount of cash to service our future debt; and,
our ability to raise the funds necessary for the repayment of the 2029 Notes and 2031 Notes for cash.
Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry
The global COVID-19 pandemic may adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial performance.
The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to control its spread have significantly curtailed the movement of people, goods and services worldwide, including in most or all of the regions in which we sell our products and services and conduct our business operations. While the duration and severity of the COVID-19 outbreak and the degree and duration of its impact on our business continues to be uncertain and difficult to predict, compliance with social distancing and shelter-in-place measures have impacted our day-to-day operations. Like many other companies, including our customers and prospective customers, our employees generally continue to work from home and we have restricted certain business travel for the time being. Additionally, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we held SIGNAL, our annual developer and customer conference, on September 30, 2020 and October 1, 2020, as a virtual event. We have also cancelled, postponed, or shifted other planned events to virtual-only experiences and we may deem it advisable to similarly alter, postpone or cancel entirely additional customer, employee or industry events in the future.
The continued spread of COVID-19 has had an adverse impact on the business of some of our customers while other customers in certain industries have seen an increase in customer demand. COVID-19 could still have an adverse impact on our business partners and third-party business partners. The continuing crisis could also potentially lead to an ongoing global economic downturn, which could result in constrained supply or reduced customer demand and willingness to enter into or renew contracts with us, any of which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and overall financial performance in future periods. Specifically, we often enter into annual or multi-year, minimum commitment arrangements with our customers. If customers fail to pay us or reduce their spending with us, we may be adversely affected by an inability to collect amounts due, the cost of enforcing the terms of our contracts, including litigation, or a reduction in revenue. We may also experience impact from delayed sales cycles, including customers and prospective customers delaying contract signing or contract renewals, or reducing budgets or minimum commitments related to the product and services that we offer. In addition, as companies continue to support a fully remote workforce, and begin to adapt to hybrid work environments, and as individuals increasingly utilize voice, video and messaging for their communication needs, there will be increased strain and demand for telecommunications infrastructure, including our voice, video and messaging products. Supporting increased demand will require us to make additional investments to increase network capacity, the availability of which may be limited. For example, if the data centers that we rely on for our cloud infrastructure and the network service providers that we interconnect with are unable to keep up with capacity needs or if governmental or regulatory authorities determine to limit our bandwidth, customers may experience delays, interruptions or outages in service. From time to time, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, our
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data center suppliers and our network service providers have had some outages which resulted in disruptions to service for some of our customers. In certain jurisdictions, governmental and regulatory authorities had announced that during the COVID-19 pandemic, telecommunications operators' implementation of traffic management measures may be justified to avoid network congestion. Such traffic management measures could result in customers experiencing delays, interruptions or outages in services. Any of these events could harm our reputation, erode customer trust, cause customers to stop using our products, impair our ability to increase revenue from existing customers, impair our ability to grow our customer base, subject us to financial penalties and liabilities under our service level agreements and otherwise harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Changes to consumer behavior may also affect customers who use our products and services for confirmations, notifications, and related use cases. For example, certain industries such as travel, hospitality, and ridesharing were initially more impacted by COVID-19 than others, and have recovered at varying rates. It has been and, until the COVID-19 pandemic is contained, will continue to be more difficult for us to forecast usage levels and predict revenue trends.
Additionally the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected global economic and market conditions, which are likely to continue for an extended period, and which could result in decreased business spending by our customers and prospective customers, reduced demand for our solutions, longer sales cycles and lower renewal rates by our customers, all of which could have an adverse impact on our business operations and financial condition. While we have developed and continue to develop plans to help mitigate the potential negative impact of the outbreak on our business, these efforts may not be effective and a protracted economic downturn may limit the effectiveness of our mitigation efforts.
We have experienced rapid growth and expect our growth to continue, and if we fail to effectively manage our growth, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We have experienced substantial growth in our business since inception. For example, our headcount has grown from 3,284 employees on June 30, 2020 to 6,334 employees on June 30, 2021. We have moved to a virtual on-boarding process since the imposition of COVID-19 restrictions on certain business activities. In addition, we are rapidly expanding our international operations. Our international headcount grew from 924 employees as of June 30, 2020 to 2,250 employees as of June 30, 2021. We expect to continue to expand our international operations in the future. We have also experienced significant growth in the number of customers, usage and amount of data that our platform and associated infrastructure support. This growth has placed and may continue to place significant demands on our corporate culture, operational infrastructure and management, particularly in light of virtual on-boarding and limited connectivity.
We believe that our corporate culture has been a critical component of our success. We have invested substantial time and resources in building our team and nurturing our culture. As we expand our business in the U.S. and non-U.S. regions and mature as a public company, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate culture while managing this growth. Any failure to manage our anticipated growth and organizational changes in a manner that preserves the key aspects of our culture could hurt our chance for future success, including our ability to recruit and retain employees, and effectively focus on and pursue our corporate objectives. This, in turn, could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition, as we have rapidly grown, our organizational structure has become more complex. In order to manage these increasing complexities, we will need to continue to scale and adapt our operational, financial and management controls, as well as our reporting systems and procedures. The expansion of our systems and infrastructure will require us to commit substantial financial, operational and management resources before our revenue increases and without any assurances that our revenue will increase.
Finally, if this growth continues, it could strain our ability to maintain reliable service levels for our customers. If we fail to achieve the necessary level of efficiency in our organization as we grow, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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Our quarterly results may fluctuate, and if we fail to meet securities analysts’ and investors’ expectations, then the trading price of our Class A common stock and the value of your investment could decline substantially.
Our results of operations, including the levels of our revenue, cost of revenue, gross margin and operating expenses, have fluctuated from quarter to quarter in the past and may continue to vary significantly in the future. These fluctuations are a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control, and may be difficult to predict and may or may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business. If our quarterly results of operations or forward-looking quarterly and annual financial guidance fall below the expectations of investors or securities analysts, then the trading price of our Class A common stock could decline substantially. Some of the important factors that may cause our results of operations to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:
the impact of COVID-19 on our customers, our pace of hiring and the global economy in general;
our ability to retain and increase revenue from existing customers and attract new customers;
fluctuations in the amount of revenue from our Active Customer Accounts;
our ability to attract and retain enterprises and international organizations as customers;
our ability to introduce new products and enhance existing products;
competition and the actions of our competitors, including pricing changes and the introduction of new products, services and geographies;
changes in laws, industry standards, regulations or regulatory enforcement in the United States or internationally, such as the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the implementation and enforcement of new global privacy laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and Brazil's General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and the adoption of SHAKEN/STIR and other robocalling prevention and anti-spam standards, all of which increase compliance costs;
the number of new employee hires during a particular period;
changes in network service provider fees that we pay in connection with the delivery of communications on our platform;
changes in cloud infrastructure fees that we pay in connection with the operation of our platform;
changes in our pricing as a result of our optimization efforts or otherwise;
reductions in pricing as a result of negotiations with our larger customers;
the rate of expansion and productivity of our sales force, including our enterprise sales force, which has been a focus of our recent expansion efforts;
changes in the size and complexity of our customer relationships;
the length and complexity of the sales cycle for our services, especially for sales to larger enterprises, government and regulated organizations;
change in the mix of products that our customers use;
change in the revenue mix of U.S. and international products;
the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures related to the operations and expansion of our business, including investments in our international expansion, additional systems and processes and research and development of new products and services;
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significant security breaches of, technical difficulties with, or interruptions to, the delivery and use of our products on our platform;
expenses in connection with mergers, acquisitions or other strategic transactions and the follow-on costs of integration;
the timing of customer payments and any difficulty in collecting accounts receivable from customers;
general economic conditions that may adversely affect a prospective customer’s ability or willingness to adopt our products, delay a prospective customer’s adoption decision, reduce the revenue that we generate from the use of our products or affect customer retention;
changes in foreign currency exchange rates and our ability to effectively hedge our foreign currency exposure;
extraordinary expenses such as litigation or other dispute-related settlement payments;
sales tax and other tax determinations by authorities in the jurisdictions in which we conduct business;
the impact of new accounting pronouncements; and,
fluctuations in stock-based compensation expense.
The occurrence of one or more of the foregoing and other factors may cause our results of operations to vary significantly. As such, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our results of operations may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. In addition, a significant percentage of our operating expenses is fixed in nature and is based on forecasted revenue trends. Accordingly, in the event of a revenue shortfall, we may not be able to mitigate the negative impact on our income (loss) and margins in the short term. If we fail to meet or exceed the expectations of investors or securities analysts, then the trading price of our Class A common stock could fall substantially, and we could face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
Additionally, global pandemics such as COVID-19 as well as certain large scale events, such as major elections and sporting events, can significantly impact usage levels on our platform, which could cause fluctuations in our results of operations. We expect that significantly increased usage of all communications platforms, including ours, during certain seasonal and one-time events could impact delivery and quality of our products during those events. We also tend to experience increased expenses in connection with the hosting of SIGNAL, which we plan to continue to host annually. Such annual and one-time events may cause fluctuations in our results of operations and may impact both our revenue and operating expenses.
If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand and increase market awareness of our company and products, then our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We believe that maintaining and enhancing the “Twilio” brand identity and increasing market awareness of our company and products, particularly among developers, is critical to achieving widespread acceptance of our platform, to strengthen our relationships with our existing customers and to our ability to attract new customers. The successful promotion of our brand will depend largely on our continued marketing efforts, our ability to continue to offer high quality products, our ability to be thought leaders in the cloud communications market and our ability to successfully differentiate our products and platform from competing products and services. Our brand promotion and thought leadership activities may not be successful or yield increased revenue. In addition, independent industry analysts often provide reviews of our products and competing products and services, which may significantly influence the perception of our products in the marketplace. If these reviews are negative or not as strong as reviews of our competitors’ products and services, then our brand may be harmed.
From time to time, our customers have complained about our products, such as complaints about our pricing and customer support. If we do not handle customer complaints effectively, then our brand and reputation may suffer, our customers may lose confidence in us and they may reduce or cease their use of our products. In addition, many of our customers post and discuss on social media about Internet-based products and services, including our products and platform. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to generate positive customer feedback and minimize negative feedback on social media channels where existing and potential customers seek and share information. If actions we take or changes we make to our products or platform upset these customers, then their online commentary could negatively affect our brand, reputation and customer trust. Complaints or negative publicity about us, our products or our platform could adversely impact our ability to attract and retain customers, our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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The promotion of our brand also requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that these expenditures will increase as our market becomes more competitive and as we expand into new markets. To the extent that these activities increase revenue, this revenue still may not be enough to offset the increased expenses we incur. In addition, due to restrictions on travel and in-person meetings as a result of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, we have limited ability to host in-person events, which have been a significant source of our customer pipeline in prior years. It is likely that we will have a mix of virtual and in-person customer, employee or industry events in the near future and overall a smaller number of in-person events than we hosted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have typically relied on marketing and promotional events such as SIGNAL and in-person meetings to facilitate customer sign-ups and generate leads for potential customers, and we cannot predict how long or the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to constrain our marketing, promotional and sales activities. If we do not successfully maintain and enhance our brand, then our business may not grow, we may see our pricing power reduced relative to competitors and we may lose customers, all of which would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The market for our products and platform is still relatively new and evolving, may decline or experience limited growth and is dependent in part on developers continuing to adopt our platform and use our products.
We were founded in 2008, and we have been developing and providing a cloud‑based platform that enables developers and organizations to integrate voice, messaging, video and email communications capabilities into their software applications. This market is relatively new and evolving and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. We believe that our revenue currently constitutes a significant portion of the total revenue in this market, and therefore, we believe that our future success will depend in large part on the growth, if any, and evolution of this market. The utilization of APIs by developers and organizations to build communications functionality into their applications is still relatively new, and developers and organizations may not recognize the need for, or benefits of, our products and platform. Moreover, if they do not recognize the need for and benefits of our products and platform, they may decide to adopt alternative products and services to satisfy some portion of their business needs. In order to grow our business and extend our market position, we intend to focus on educating developers and other potential customers about the benefits of our products and platform, expanding the functionality of our products and bringing new technologies to market to increase market acceptance and use of our platform. Our ability to expand the market that our products and platform address depends upon a number of factors, including the cost, performance and perceived value associated with such products and platform. The market for our products and platform could fail to grow significantly or there could be a reduction in demand for our products as a result of a lack of developer acceptance, technological challenges, competing products and services, decreases in spending by current and prospective customers, weakening economic conditions and other causes. If our market does not experience significant growth or demand for our products decreases, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our actual or perceived failure to comply with increasingly stringent laws, regulations and contractual obligations relating to privacy, data protection and data security could harm our reputation and subject us to significant fines and liability.
We and our customers are subject to numerous domestic and foreign privacy, data protection and data security laws and regulations that restrict the collection, use, disclosure and processing of personal information, including financial and health data. These laws and regulations are evolving, are being tested in courts, may result in increasing regulatory and public scrutiny of our practices relating to personal information and may increase our exposure to regulatory enforcement action, sanctions and litigation.
Further, the interpretation and application of new domestic and foreign laws and regulations in many cases is uncertain, and our legal and regulatory obligations in such jurisdictions are subject to frequent and unexpected changes, including the potential for various regulatory or other governmental bodies to enact new or additional laws or regulations, to issue rulings that invalidate prior laws or regulations, or to increase penalties significantly.
For example, the EU adopted the GDPR, which took effect on May 25, 2018, and imposes stringent penalties for noncompliance. Companies that violate the GDPR can face private litigation, restrictions or prohibitions on data processing, and fines of up to the greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual revenues. The GDPR imposes comprehensive privacy, data protection and data security obligations on businesses and requires service providers (data processors) processing personal information on behalf of customers to, among other things, make contractual privacy, data protection and data security commitments, cooperate with European data protection authorities, implement security measures, give data breach notifications, and keep records of personal information processing activities. EU member states also have national laws restricting direct marketing communications and the use of cookies and similar technologies. If our efforts to comply with GDPR or other applicable EU laws and regulations are not successful, we may be subject to significant fines and restrictions on our ability to
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process personal information as needed to provide our product and services, which could impede our ability to conduct business in the EU, reduce demand for our services and adversely impact our business and results of operations.
We have in the past relied on various transfer safeguards, including the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks, to legitimize data transfers from the European Economic Area (“EEA”). However, on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in a decision known as “Schrems II”, invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and raised questions about whether one of the primary alternatives to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, can lawfully be used for personal information transfers from Europe to the United States or most other countries. At present, there are few viable alternatives to the Standard Contractual Clauses and there is uncertainty as to how personal information can be transferred from the EEA to the U.S. in compliance with the GDPR.
Subsequent interpretive guidance from the European Data Protection Board on July 24, 2020 extended the Court of Justice's guidance regarding the use of Standard Contractual Clauses as a transfer safeguard to the use of Binding Corporate Rules, which serve as Twilio's primary mechanism to legitimize data transfers from the EEA to other jurisdictions, including the U.S. Following the Schrems II decision, data transfers from the EEA are required to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the legal regime applicable in the destination country, in particular applicable surveillance laws and rights of individuals, and supplementary technical, organizational and/or contractual measures may need to be put in place. Because our primary data processing facilities are currently in the U.S. we have experienced hesitancy, reluctance, or refusal by European or multinational customers to continue to use our services due to the potential risk posed to such customers as a result of the Court of Justice ruling and subsequent interpretive guidance from the European Data Protection Board. We and our customers are at risk of enforcement actions taken by an EU data protection authority until such point in time that we are able to ensure that all data transfers to us from the EEA are legitimized. Similarly, the Swiss data protection authority determined the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield was no longer sufficient for the U.S. to be deemed adequate as a data transfer party and also raised questions about the viability of the Standard Contractual Clauses as a mechanism for transferring personal information out of Switzerland. Israel, which had allowed transfers of Israeli personal information to the U.S. based on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, has also declared that it is no longer a valid basis for transfer of personal information from Israel to the U.S.
While we are actively working to increase our data processing capabilities in Europe and other countries, if we are unable to increase those capabilities fast enough and other valid solutions for personal information transfers to the United States or other countries are not available or are difficult to implement in the interim, we will likely face continuing reluctance from European and multinational customers to use our services and increased exposure to regulatory actions, substantial fines and injunctions against processing or transferring personal information from Europe. Inability to transfer personal information from Europe or other countries has decreased and may continue to decrease demand for our products and services if affected customers seek alternatives that do not involve such transfers.
Regulation of privacy, data protection and data security has also become more stringent in the United States. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which took effect on January 1, 2020, gives California residents expanded rights to access and delete their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing and receive detailed information about how their personal information is used. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation. The CCPA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability. Some observers have noted that the CCPA could mark the beginning of a trend toward more stringent state privacy, data protection and data security legislation in the U.S., which could increase our potential liability and adversely affect our business. The CCPA will be expanded substantially on January 1, 2023, when the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”) becomes fully operative. The CPRA will, among other things, give California residents the ability to limit use of certain sensitive personal information, further restrict the use of cross-contextual advertising, establish restrictions on the retention of personal information, expand the types of data breaches subject to the CCPA’s private right of action, provide for increased penalties for CPRA violations concerning California residents under the age of 16, and establish a new California Privacy Protection Agency to implement and enforce the new law. In addition, both Virginia and Colorado have also passed new privacy legislation in the form of the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, effective on January 1, 2023, and the Colorado Privacy Act, effective on July 1, 2023, respectively.
As additional individual U.S. states pass privacy, data protection and data security laws, these laws may place different obligations or limitations on the processing of personal information of individuals in those states, and it will become more complex to comply with these laws and our compliance costs and potential liability may increase.
In addition, with our registration as an interconnected VoIP provider with the FCC, we also must comply with privacy laws associated with customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) rules in the U.S. If we fail to maintain compliance with these requirements, we could be subject to regulatory audits, civil and criminal penalties, fines and breach of contract claims, as well as reputational damage, which could impact the willingness of customers to do business with us.
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Jurisdictions outside of the United States and the EU are also passing more stringent privacy, data protection and data security laws. For example, on July 8, 2019, Brazil enacted the General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) (Law No. 13,709/2018) (“LGPD”), and on June 5, 2020, Japan passed amendments to its Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”). Both laws broadly regulate the processing of personal information in a manner comparable to the GDPR, and violators of the LGPD and APPI face substantial penalties.
We continue to see jurisdictions imposing data localization laws, which require personal information, or certain subcategories of personal information, to be stored in the jurisdiction of origin. These regulations may inhibit our ability to expand into those markets or prohibit us from continuing to offer services in those markets without significant additional costs.
In addition to our legal obligations, our contractual obligations relating to privacy, data protection and data security have become increasingly stringent due to changes in privacy, data protection and data security and the expansion of our service offerings. Certain privacy, data protection and data security laws, such as the GDPR and the CCPA, require our customers to impose specific contractual restrictions on their service providers. In addition, we have begun to support customer workloads that involve the processing of protected health information and are therefore required to sign business associate agreements (“BAAs”) with customers that subject us to the privacy and security requirements under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the U.S. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as well as state laws that govern the privacy and security of health information.
Our actual or perceived failure to comply with laws, regulations or contractual commitments regarding privacy, data protection and data security could lead to costly legal action, adverse publicity, significant liability, and decreased demand for our services, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. For example, in February 2016, a putative class action complaint was filed in the Alameda County Superior Court in California and alleged that our products permitted the interception, recording and disclosure of communications at certain of our customers' request in a manner that violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act. This litigation has now settled, but actions in the future could lead to similar claims and include damages and related penalties that could divert management’s attention and resources, and harm our business.
Our business depends on customers increasing their use of our products, and any loss of customers or decline in their use of our products could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our ability to grow and generate incremental revenue depends, in part, on our ability to maintain and grow our relationships with existing customers (including any customers acquired in connection with our acquisitions) and to have them increase their usage of our platform. If our customers do not increase their use of our products, then our revenue may decline, and our results of operations may be harmed. Customers are charged based on the usage of our products. Most of our customers do not have long-term contractual financial commitments to us and, therefore, most of our customers may reduce or cease their use of our products at any time without penalty or termination charges. Customers may terminate or reduce their use of our products for any number of reasons, including if they are not satisfied with our products, introduction of new competing products by competitors, the value proposition of our products or our ability to meet their needs and expectations. For example, on February 26, 2021, a critical feature enablement service on our platform became overloaded, which resulted in connection issues across multiple products in our cloud communications platform that affected our customers for a limited number of hours. The service disruption had a widespread impact on our customers’ ability to use several of our products. We incurred certain costs associated with offering credits to our affected customers, but the overall impact was not material to our business. We may also ultimately lose or see reduced utilization of our products by one or more customers as a result of the outage. To protect our system from similar disruptions in the near term, we have significantly increased our server capacity and added additional caching layers to accommodate usage spikes. We also intend to undertake longer term improvements to mitigate against future service disruptions, but there can be no guarantee that these actions or improvements will be effective in preventing or reducing such service disruptions.
We cannot accurately predict customers’ usage levels, and the loss of customers or reductions in their usage levels of our products may each have a negative impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition and may cause our Dollar-Based Net Expansion Rate to decline in the future if customers are not satisfied with our products, the value proposition of our products or our ability to meet their needs and expectations. If a significant number of customers cease using, or reduce their usage of our products, then we may be required to spend significantly more on sales and marketing than we currently plan to spend in order to maintain or increase revenue from customers. Such additional sales and marketing expenditures could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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If we are unable to attract new customers in a cost‑effective manner, then our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.
In order to grow our business, we must continue to attract new customers in a cost-effective manner. We use a variety of marketing channels to promote our products and platform, such as developer events and developer evangelism, as well as search engine marketing and optimization. We periodically adjust the mix of our other marketing programs such as regional customer events, email campaigns, billboard advertising and public relations initiatives. If the costs of the marketing channels we use increase dramatically, then we may choose to use alternative and less expensive channels, which may not be as effective as the channels we currently use. As we add to or change the mix of our marketing strategies, we may need to expand into more expensive channels than those we are currently in, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. We will incur marketing expenses before we are able to recognize any revenue that the marketing initiatives may generate, and these expenses may not result in increased revenue or brand awareness. We have made in the past, and may make in the future, significant expenditures and investments in new marketing campaigns, and we cannot guarantee that any such investments will lead to the cost-effective acquisition of additional customers. If we are unable to maintain effective marketing programs, then our ability to attract new customers could be adversely affected, our advertising and marketing expenses could increase substantially, and our results of operations may suffer.
If we do not develop enhancements to our products and introduce new products that achieve market acceptance, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers depends in part on our ability to enhance and improve our existing products, increase adoption and usage of our products and introduce new products. The success of any enhancements or new products depends on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing, actual performance quality, market-accepted pricing levels and overall market acceptance. Enhancements and new products that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain errors or defects, may require reworking features and capabilities, may have interoperability difficulties with our platform or other products or may not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenue. Furthermore, our ability to increase the usage of our products depends, in part, on the development of new use cases for our products, which is typically driven by our developer community and may be outside of our control. We also have invested, and may continue to invest, in the acquisition of complementary businesses, technologies, services, products and other assets that expand the products that we can offer our customers. We may make these investments without being certain that they will result in products or enhancements that will be accepted by existing or prospective customers. Our ability to generate usage of additional products by our customers may also require increasingly sophisticated and more costly sales efforts and result in a longer sales cycle. In addition, adoption of new products or enhancements may put additional strain on our customer support team, which could require us to make additional expenditures related to further hiring and training. If we are unable to successfully enhance our existing products to meet evolving customer requirements, increase adoption and usage of our products, develop new products, or if our efforts to increase the usage of our products are more expensive than we expect, then our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.
The market in which we participate is intensely competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.
The market for cloud communications is rapidly evolving, significantly fragmented and highly competitive, with relatively low barriers to entry in some segments. The principal competitive factors in our market include completeness of offering, credibility with developers, global reach, ease of integration and programmability, product features, platform scalability, reliability, deliverability, security and performance, brand awareness and reputation, the strength of sales and marketing efforts, customer support, as well as the cost of deploying and using our products. Our competitors fall into four primary categories:
legacy on-premises vendors;
regional network service providers that offer limited developer functionality on top of their own physical infrastructure;
smaller software companies that compete with portions of our product line; and,
software-as a-service (“SaaS”) companies and cloud platform vendors that offer prepackaged applications and platforms.
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Some of our competitors and potential competitors are larger and have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, more established customer relationships, larger budgets and significantly greater resources than we do. In addition, they have the operating flexibility to bundle competing products and services at little or no perceived incremental cost, including offering them at a lower price as part of a larger sales transaction. As a result, our competitors may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements. In addition, some competitors may offer products or services that address one or a limited number of functions at lower prices, with greater depth than our products or in different geographies. Our current and potential competitors may develop and market new products and services with comparable functionality to our products, and this could lead to us having to decrease prices in order to remain competitive. Customers utilize our products in many ways and use varying levels of functionality that our products offer or are capable of supporting or enabling within their applications. Customers that use many of the features of our products or use our products to support or enable core functionality for their applications may have difficulty or find it impractical to replace our products with a competitor’s products or services, while customers that use only limited functionality may be able to more easily replace our products with competitive offerings. Our customers also may choose to build some of the functionality our products provide, which may limit or eliminate their demand for our products.
With the introduction of new products and services and new market entrants, we expect competition to intensify in the future. In addition, some of our customers may choose to use our products and our competitors’ products at the same time. Further, customers and consumers may choose to adopt other forms of electronic communications or alternative communication platforms.
Moreover, as we expand the scope of our products, we may face additional competition. If one or more of our competitors were to merge or partner with another of our competitors, the change in the competitive landscape could also adversely affect our ability to compete effectively. For example, Sinch AB offered to acquire Inteliquent in February 2021. In addition, some of our competitors have lower list prices than us, which may be attractive to certain customers even if those products have different or lesser functionality. If we are unable to maintain our current pricing due to competitive pressures, our margins will be reduced and our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected. In addition, pricing pressures and increased competition generally could result in reduced revenue, reduced margins, increased losses or the failure of our products to achieve or maintain widespread market acceptance, any of which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We have a history of losses and we are uncertain about our future profitability.
We have incurred net losses in each year since our inception, including net losses of $227.9 million, $491.0 million and $307.1 million in the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit of $1.6 billion as of June 30, 2021. We expect to continue to expend substantial financial and other resources on, among other things:
investments in our engineering team, improvements in security and data protection, the development of new products, features and functionality and enhancements to our platform;
sales and marketing, including the continued expansion of our direct sales organization and marketing programs, especially for enterprises and for organizations outside of the United States, and expanding our programs directed at increasing our brand awareness among current and new developers;
expansion of our operations and infrastructure, both domestically and internationally; and,
general administration, including legal, accounting and other expenses related to being a public company.
These investments may not result in increased revenue or growth of our business. We also expect that our revenue growth rate will decline over time. Accordingly, we may not be able to generate sufficient revenue to offset our expected cost increases and achieve and sustain profitability. If we fail to achieve and sustain profitability, then our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.
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If we are unable to increase adoption of our products by enterprises, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
Historically, we have relied on the adoption of our products by software developers through our self-service model for a significant majority of our revenue, and we currently generate only a small portion of our revenue from enterprise customers. Our ability to increase our customer base, especially among enterprises, and achieve broader market acceptance of our products will depend, in part, on our ability to effectively organize, focus and train our sales and marketing employees.
Our ability to convince enterprises to adopt our products will depend, in part, on our ability to attract and retain sales employees with experience selling to enterprises. We believe that there is significant competition for experienced sales professionals with the skills and technical knowledge that we require. Our ability to achieve significant revenue growth in the future will depend, in part, on our ability to recruit, train and retain a sufficient number of experienced sales professionals, particularly those with experience selling to enterprises. In addition, even if we are successful in hiring qualified sales employees, new hires require significant training and experience before they achieve full productivity, particularly for sales efforts targeted at enterprises and new territories. Our recent hires and planned hires may not become as productive as quickly as we expect, and we may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future in the markets where we do business. Because we do not have a long history of targeting our sales efforts at enterprises, we cannot predict whether, or to what extent, our sales will increase as we organize and train our sales force or how long it will take for sales employees to become productive.
As we seek to increase the adoption of our products by enterprises, including products like Flex, which is primarily aimed at complex contact center implementations at larger companies, we expect to incur higher costs and longer sales cycles. In the enterprise market segment, the decision to adopt our products may require the approval of multiple technical and business decision makers, including legal, security, compliance, procurement, operations and IT. In addition, while enterprise customers may quickly deploy our products on a limited basis, before they will commit to deploying our products at scale, they often require extensive education about our products and significant customer support time, engage in protracted pricing negotiations and seek to secure readily available development resources. In addition, sales cycles for enterprises are inherently more complex and less predictable than the sales through our self-service model, and some enterprise customers may not use our products enough to generate revenue that justifies the cost to obtain such customers. In addition, these complex and resource intensive sales efforts could place additional strain on our product and engineering resources. Further, enterprises, including some of our customers, may choose to develop their own solutions that do not include our products. They also may demand reductions in pricing as their usage of our products increases, which could have an adverse impact on our gross margin. As a result of our limited experience selling and marketing to enterprises, our efforts to sell to these potential customers may not be successful. If we are unable to increase the revenue that we derive from enterprises, then our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
If we are unable to expand our relationships with existing technology partner customers and add new technology partner customers, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We believe that the continued growth of our business depends in part upon developing and expanding strategic relationships with technology partner customers. Technology partner customers embed our software products in their solutions, such as software applications for contact centers and sales force and marketing automation, and then sell such solutions to other businesses. When potential customers do not have the available developer resources to build their own applications, we refer them to either our technology partners who embed our products in the solutions that they sell to other businesses or our consulting partners who provide consulting and development services for organizations that have limited software development expertise to build our platform into their software applications.
As part of our growth strategy, we intend to expand our relationships with existing technology partner customers and add new technology partner customers. If we fail to expand our relationships with existing technology partner customers or establish relationships with new technology partner customers in a timely and cost-effective manner, or at all, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. Additionally, even if we are successful at building these relationships but there are problems or issues with integrating our products into the solutions of these customers, our reputation and ability to grow our business may be harmed.
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To deliver our products, we rely on network service providers and internet service providers for our network service and connectivity, and disruption or deterioration in the quality of these services or changes in network service provider fees that we pay in connection with the delivery of communications on our platform could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We currently interconnect with network service providers around the world to enable the use by our customers of our products over their networks. Although we are in the process of acquiring authorization in many countries for direct access to phone numbers and for the provision of voice services on the networks of network service providers, we expect that we will continue to rely on network service providers for these services. Where we don't have direct access to phone numbers, our reliance on network service providers has reduced our operating flexibility, ability to make timely service changes and control quality of service. In addition, the fees that we are charged by network service providers may change daily or weekly, while we do not typically change our customers’ pricing as rapidly.
At times, network service providers have instituted additional fees due to regulatory, competitive or other industry related changes that increase our network costs. For example, in early 2020, a major U.S. mobile carrier introduced a new Application to Person (A2P) SMS service offering that adds a new fee for A2P SMS messages delivered to its subscribers, and other U.S. mobile carriers have added or are in the process of adding similar fees. While we have historically responded to these types of fee increases through a combination of further negotiating efforts with our network service providers, absorbing the increased costs or changing our prices to customers, there is no guarantee that we will continue to be able to do so in the future without a material negative impact to our business. In the case of these new carriers A2P SMS fees, after a short phase-in period where we absorbed the fees, we began on May 1, 2021 to pass these fees directly through to our customers who are sending SMS messages to these carriers' subscribers. We expect that this will increase our revenue and cost of revenue, but will not impact the gross profit dollars received for sending these messages. However, mathematically this will have a negative impact on our gross margins. Additionally, our ability to respond to any new fees may be constrained if all network service providers in a particular market impose equivalent fee structures, if the magnitude of the fees is disproportionately large when compared to the underlying prices paid by our customers, or if the market conditions limit our ability to increase the price we charge our customers.
Furthermore, many of these network service providers do not have long-term committed contracts with us and may interrupt services or terminate their agreements with us without notice. If a significant portion of our network service providers stop providing us with access to their infrastructure, fail to provide these services to us on a cost-effective basis, cease operations, or otherwise terminate these services, the delay caused by qualifying and switching to other network service providers could be time consuming and costly and could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Further, if problems occur with our network service providers, it may cause errors or poor quality communications with our products, and we could encounter difficulty identifying the source of the problem. The occurrence of errors or poor quality communications on our products, whether caused by our platform or a network service provider, may result in the loss of our existing customers or the delay of adoption of our products by potential customers and may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Further, we sometimes access network services through intermediaries who have direct access to network service providers. Although we are in the process of securing direct connections with network service providers in many countries, we expect that we will continue to rely on intermediaries for these services. These intermediaries sometimes have offerings that directly compete with our products and may stop providing services to us on a cost-effective basis. If a significant portion of these intermediaries stop providing services or stop providing services on a cost-effective basis, our business could be adversely affected.
We also interconnect with internet service providers around the world to enable the use of our email products by our customers, and we expect that we will continue to rely on internet service providers for network connectivity going forward. Our reliance on internet service providers reduces our control over quality of service and exposes us to potential service outages and rate fluctuations. If a significant portion of our internet service providers stop providing us with access to their network infrastructure, fail to provide access on a cost-effective basis, cease operations, or otherwise terminate access, the delay caused by qualifying and switching to other internet service providers could be time consuming and costly and could adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
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Our future success depends in part on our ability to drive the adoption of our products by international customers.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we derived 31%, 27% and 29% of our revenue, respectively, from customer accounts located outside the United States. The future success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to expand our customer base worldwide. While we have been rapidly expanding our sales efforts internationally, our experience in selling our products outside of the United States is limited. Furthermore, our developer-first business model may not be successful or have the same traction outside the United States. As a result, our investment in marketing our products to these potential customers may not be successful. If we are unable to increase the revenue that we derive from international customers, then our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We are continuing to expand our international operations, which exposes us to significant risks.
We are continuing to expand our international operations to increase our revenue from customers outside of the United States as part of our growth strategy. Between June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2021, our international headcount grew from 924 employees to 2,250 employees. We expect to open additional international offices and hire employees to work at these offices in order to reach new customers and gain access to additional technical talent. Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and will subject us to regulatory, economic and political risks in addition to those we already face in the United States. Because of our limited experience with international operations or with developing and managing sales in international markets, our international expansion efforts may not be successful.
In addition, we will face risks in doing business internationally that could adversely affect our business, including:
exposure to political developments in the United Kingdom ("U.K."), including the departure of the U.K. from the European Union (“EU”) (“Brexit”), which has created an uncertain political and economic environment, instability for businesses, volatility in global financial markets and the value of foreign currencies, all of which could disrupt trade, the sale of our services and the mobility of our employees and contractors between the U.K., EU and other jurisdictions. Any long–term impact from Brexit on our business and operations will depend, in part, on the outcome of the U.K.'s continuing negotiations on a number of matters not definitively addressed in the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and may require us to expend significant time and expense to make adjustments to our business and operations;
the difficulty of managing and staffing international operations and the increased operations, travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with servicing international customers and operating numerous international locations;
our ability to effectively price our products in competitive international markets;
new and different sources of competition or other changes to our current competitive landscape;
understanding and reconciling different technical standards, data privacy and telecommunications regulations, registration and certification requirements outside the United States, which could prevent customers from deploying our products or limit their usage;
our ability to comply with the GDPR and Brazil's General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and laws, regulations and industry standards relating to data privacy, data protection, data localization and data security enacted in countries and other regions in which we operate or do business;
potentially greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;
higher or more variable network service provider fees outside of the United States;
the need to adapt and localize our products for specific countries;
the need to offer customer support in various languages;
difficulties in understanding and complying with local laws, regulations and customs in non-U.S. jurisdictions;
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export controls and economic sanctions administered by the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control;
compliance with various anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and United Kingdom Bribery Act of 2010;
changes in international trade policies, tariffs and other non-tariff barriers, such as quotas and local content rules;
more limited protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
adverse tax consequences;
fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which could increase the price of our products outside of the United States, increase the expenses of our international operations and expose us to foreign currency exchange rate risk;
currency control regulations, which might restrict or prohibit our conversion of other currencies into U.S. dollars;
restrictions on the transfer of funds;
deterioration of political relations between the United States and other countries;
the impact of natural disasters and public health epidemics or pandemics such as COVID-19 on employees, contingent workers, partners, travel and the global economy and the ability to operate freely and effectively in a region that may be fully or partially on lockdown; and,
political or social unrest or economic instability in a specific country or region in which we operate, which could have an adverse impact on our operations in that location.
Also, due to costs from our international expansion efforts and network service provider fees outside of the United States, which generally are higher than domestic rates, our gross margin for international customers is typically lower than our gross margin for domestic customers. As a result, our gross margin may be impacted and fluctuate as we expand our operations and customer base worldwide.
Our failure to manage any of these risks successfully could harm our international operations, and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Certain of our products are subject to telecommunications‑related regulations, and future legislative or regulatory actions could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
As a provider of communications products, we are subject to existing or potential Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) regulations relating to privacy, telecommunications, consumer protection and other requirements. In addition, the extension of telecommunications regulations to our non-interconnected VoIP services could result in additional federal and state regulatory obligations and taxes. We are also in discussions with certain jurisdictions regarding potential sales and other taxes for prior periods that we may owe. In the event any of these jurisdictions disagree with management’s assumptions and analysis, the assessment of our tax exposure could differ materially from management's current estimates, which may increase our costs of doing business and negatively affect the prices our customers pay for our services. If we do not comply with FCC rules and regulations, we could be subject to FCC enforcement actions, fines, loss of licenses and possibly restrictions on our ability to operate or offer certain of our products. Any enforcement action by the FCC, which may be a public process, would hurt our reputation in the industry, could erode customer trust, possibly impair our ability to sell our VoIP products to customers and could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Certain of our products are subject to a number of FCC regulations and laws that are administered by the FCC. Among others, we must comply (in whole or in part) with:
the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, which regulates communications services and the provision of such services;
the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which limits the use of automatic dialing systems for calls and texts, artificial or prerecorded voice messages and fax machines;
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the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which requires covered entities to assist law enforcement in undertaking electronic surveillance;
requirements to safeguard the privacy of certain customer information;
payment of annual FCC regulatory fees and taxes based on our interstate and international revenues;
rules pertaining to access to our services by people with disabilities and contributions to the Telecommunications Relay Services fund; and,
FCC rules regarding the use of customer proprietary network information.
In addition, Congress and the FCC are attempting to mitigate the scourge of robocalls by requiring participation in a technical standard called SHAKEN/STIR, which allows voice carriers to authenticate caller ID, prohibiting malicious spoofing.
Similarly, in May 2021 the Biden Administration issued an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to implement additional information technology security measures, including, among other things, requiring agencies to adopt multifactor authentication and encryption for data at rest and in transit to the maximum extent consistent with Federal records laws and other applicable laws. The Executive Order will lead to the development of secure software development practices and/or criteria for a consumer software labeling program, the criteria which will reflect a baseline level of secure practices, for software that is developed and sold to the U.S. federal government. Software developers will be required to provide visibility into their software and make security data publicly available. Due to this Executive Order, federal agencies may require us to modify our cybersecurity practices and policies, thereby increasing our compliance costs. If we are unable to meet the requirements of the Executive Order, our ability to work with the U.S. government may be impaired and may result in a loss of revenue.
If we do not comply with any current or future rules or regulations that apply to our business, we could be subject to substantial fines and penalties, and we may have to restructure our offerings, exit certain markets or raise the price of our products. In addition, any uncertainty regarding whether particular regulations apply to our business, and how they apply, could increase our costs or limit our ability to grow.
As we continue to expand internationally, we have become subject to telecommunications laws and regulations in the foreign countries where we offer our products. Internationally, we currently offer our products in over 180 countries.
Our international operations are subject to country-specific governmental regulation and related actions that have increased and will continue to increase our costs or impact our products and platform or prevent us from offering or providing our products in certain countries. Moreover, the regulation of communications platform-as-a-service (“CPaaS”) companies like us is continuing to evolve internationally and many existing regulations may not fully contemplate the CPaaS business model or how they fit into the communications regulatory framework. As a result, interpretation and enforcement of regulations often involve significant uncertainties. In many countries, including those in the European Union, a number of our products or services are subject to licensing and communications regulatory requirements which increases the level of scrutiny and enforcement by regulators. Future legislative, regulatory or judicial actions impacting CPaaS services could also increase the cost and complexity of compliance and expose us to liability. For example, in some countries, some or all of the services we offer are not considered regulated telecommunications services, while in other countries they are subject to telecommunications regulations, including but not limited to payment into universal service funds, licensing fees, provision of emergency services, provision of information to support emergency services and number portability. Specifically, the Australian Communications and Media Authority in 2019 issued a formal finding against several companies, including our Company, for failure to upload data into a centralized database for emergency services and, in the future, regulatory authorities in other jurisdictions in which we operate may also determine that we are a telecommunications company subject to similar regulations. Failure to comply with these regulations could result in our Company being issued remedial directions to undertake independent audits and implement effective systems, processes and practices to ensure compliance, significant fines or being prohibited from providing telecommunications services in a jurisdiction.
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Moreover, certain of our products may be used by customers located in countries where voice and other forms of IP communications may be illegal or require special licensing or in countries on a U.S. embargo list. Even where our products are reportedly illegal or become illegal or where users are located in an embargoed country, users in those countries may be able to continue to use our products in those countries notwithstanding the illegality or embargo. We may be subject to penalties or governmental action if consumers continue to use our products in countries where it is illegal to do so or if we use a local partner to provide services in a country and the local partner does not comply with applicable governmental regulations. Any such penalties or governmental action may be costly and may harm our business and damage our brand and reputation. We may be required to incur additional expenses to meet applicable international regulatory requirements or be required to raise the prices of services, or restructure or discontinue those services if required by law or if we cannot or will not meet those requirements. Any of the foregoing could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to obtain or retain geographical, mobile, regional, local or tollfree numbers, or to effectively process requests to port such numbers in a timely manner due to industry regulations, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Our future success depends in part on our ability to obtain allocations of geographical, mobile, regional, local and toll-free direct inward dialing numbers or phone numbers as well as short codes and alphanumeric sender IDs (collectively “Numbering Resources”) in the United States and foreign countries at a reasonable cost and without overly burdensome restrictions. Our ability to obtain allocations of, assign and retain Numbering Resources depends on factors outside of our control, such as applicable regulations, the practices of authorities that administer national numbering plans or of network service providers from whom we can provision Numbering Resources, such as offering these Numbering Resources with conditional minimum volume call level requirements, the cost of these Numbering Resources and the level of overall competitive demand for new Numbering Resources.
In addition, in order to obtain allocations of, assign and retain Numbering Resources in the EU or certain other regions, we are often required to be licensed by local telecommunications regulatory authorities, some of which have been increasingly monitoring and regulating the categories of Numbering Resources that are eligible for provisioning to our customers. We have obtained licenses, and are in the process of obtaining licenses in various countries in which we do business, but in some countries, the regulatory regime around provisioning of Numbering Resources is unclear, subject to change over time, and sometimes may conflict from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Furthermore, these regulations and governments’ approach to their enforcement, as well as our products and services, are still evolving and we may be unable to maintain compliance with applicable regulations, or enforce compliance by our customers, on a timely basis or without significant cost. Also, compliance with these types of regulation may require changes in products or business practices that result in reduced revenue. Due to our or our customers' assignment and/or use of Numbering Resources in certain countries in a manner that violates applicable rules and regulations, we have been subjected to government inquiries and audits, and may in the future be subject to significant penalties or further governmental action, and in extreme cases, may be precluded from doing business in that particular country. We have also been forced to reclaim Numbering Resources from our customers as a result of certain events of non-compliance. These reclamations result in loss of customers, loss of revenue, reputational harm, erosion of customer trust, and may also result in breach of contract claims, all of which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Due to their limited availability, there are certain popular area code prefixes that we generally cannot obtain. Our inability to acquire or retain Numbering Resources for our operations may make our voice and messaging products less attractive to potential customers in the affected local geographic areas. In addition, future growth in our customer base, together with growth in the customer bases of other providers of cloud communications, has increased, which increases our dependence on needing sufficiently large quantities of Numbering Resources. It may become increasingly difficult to source larger quantities of Numbering Resources as we scale and we may need to pay higher costs for Numbering Resources, and Numbering Resources may become subject to more stringent regulation or conditions of usage such as the registration and on-going compliance requirements discussed above.
Additionally, in some geographies, we support number portability, which allows our customers to transfer their existing phone numbers to us and thereby retain their existing phone numbers when subscribing to our voice and messaging products. Transferring existing numbers is a manual process that can take up to 15 business days or longer to complete. Any delay that we experience in transferring these numbers typically results from the fact that we depend on network service providers to transfer these numbers, a process that we do not control, and these network service providers may refuse or substantially delay the transfer of these numbers to us. Number portability is considered an important feature by many potential customers, and if we fail to reduce any related delays, then we may experience increased difficulty in acquiring new customers.
Any of the foregoing factors could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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If we fail to adapt and respond effectively to rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, changing regulations, and changing customer needs, requirements or preferences, our products may become less competitive.
The market for communications in general, and cloud communications in particular, is subject to rapid technological change, evolving industry standards, changing regulations, as well as changing customer needs, requirements and preferences. The success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to adapt and respond effectively to these changes on a timely basis. If we are unable to develop new products that satisfy our customers and provide enhancements and new features for our existing products that keep pace with rapid technological and industry change, including but not limited to SHAKEN/STIR and applicable industry standards, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. If new technologies emerge that are able to deliver competitive products and services at lower prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more securely, such technologies could adversely impact our ability to compete effectively.
Our platform must integrate with a variety of network, hardware, mobile and software platforms and technologies, and we need to continuously modify and enhance our products and platform to adapt to changes and innovation in these technologies. For example, Apple, Google and other cell-phone operating system providers or inbox service providers have developed and, may in the future develop, new applications or functions intended to filter spam and unwanted phone calls, messages or emails. Similarly, our network service providers may adopt new filtering technologies in an effort to combat spam or robocalling. Such technologies may inadvertently filter desired messages or calls to or from our customers. If cell-phone operating system providers, network service providers, our customers or their end users adopt new software platforms or infrastructure, we may be required to develop new versions of our products to work with those new platforms or infrastructure. This development effort may require significant resources, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Any failure of our products and platform to operate effectively with evolving or new platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for our products. If we are unable to respond to these changes in a cost-effective manner, our products may become less marketable and less competitive or obsolete, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We substantially rely upon Amazon Web Services to operate our platform, and any disruption of or interference with our use of Amazon Web Services would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We outsource a substantial majority of our cloud infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), which hosts our products and platform. Our customers need to be able to access our platform at any time, without interruption or degradation of performance. AWS runs its own platform that we access, and we are, therefore, vulnerable to service interruptions at AWS. We have experienced, and expect that in the future we may experience interruptions, delays and outages in service and availability due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, human or software errors, website hosting disruptions and capacity constraints. Capacity constraints could be due to a number of potential causes, including technical failures, natural disasters, pandemics such as COVID-19, fraud or security attacks. For instance, in September 2015, AWS suffered a significant outage that had a widespread impact on the ability of our customers to use several of our products and from time to time since then, we have experienced some outages which resulted in disruptions to service for some of our customers. In addition, if our security, or that of AWS, is compromised, or our products or platform are unavailable or our users are unable to use our products within a reasonable amount of time or at all, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within a period of time acceptable to our customers. It may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve our platform performance, especially during peak usage times, as our products become more complex and the usage of our products increases. To the extent that we do not effectively address capacity constraints, either through AWS or alternative providers of cloud infrastructure, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected. In addition, any changes in service levels from AWS may adversely affect our ability to meet our customers’ requirements, result in negative publicity which could harm our reputation and brand and may adversely affect the usage of our platform.
The substantial majority of the services we use from AWS are for cloud-based server capacity and, to a lesser extent, storage and other optimization offerings. AWS enables us to order and reserve server capacity in varying amounts and sizes distributed across multiple regions. We access AWS infrastructure through standard IP connectivity. AWS provides us with computing and storage capacity pursuant to an agreement that continues until terminated by either party. AWS may terminate the agreement for cause upon notice and upon our failure to cure a breach within 30 days from the date of such notification and may, in some cases, suspend the agreement immediately for cause upon notice. Although we expect that we could receive similar services from other third parties, if any of our arrangements with AWS are terminated, we could experience interruptions on our platform and in our ability to make our products available to customers, as well as delays and additional expenses in arranging alternative cloud infrastructure services.
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Any of the above circumstances or events may harm our reputation, erode customer trust, cause customers to stop using our products, impair our ability to increase revenue from existing customers, impair our ability to grow our customer base, subject us to financial penalties and liabilities under our service level agreements and otherwise harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We typically provide monthly uptime service level commitments of a minimum of 99.95% under our agreements with customers. If we fail to meet these contractual commitments, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our agreements with customers typically provide for service level commitments. If we suffer extended periods of downtime for our products or platform and we are unable to meet these commitments, then we are contractually obligated to provide a service credit, which is typically 10% of the customer’s amounts due for the month in question. For example, on February 26, 2021, a critical feature enablement service on our platform became overloaded, which resulted in connection issues across multiple products in our cloud communications platform that affected our customers for a limited number of hours. The service disruption had a widespread impact on our customers’ ability to use several of our products. We incurred certain costs associated with offering credits to our affected customers, but the overall impact was not material to our business. We may also ultimately lose or see reduced utilization of our products by one or more customers as a result of the outage. In addition, the performance and availability of AWS or other service providers, which provides our cloud infrastructures is outside of our control and, therefore, we are not in full control of whether we meet our service level commitments. As a result, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected if we suffer unscheduled downtime that exceeds the service level commitments we have made to our customers. Any extended service outages could adversely affect our business and reputation and erode customer trust.
Breaches of our networks or systems, or those of AWS or our service providers, could degrade our ability to conduct our business, compromise the integrity of our products, platform and data, result in significant data losses and the theft of our intellectual property, damage our reputation, expose us to liability to third parties and require us to incur significant additional costs to maintain the security of our networks and data.
We depend upon our IT systems to conduct virtually all of our business operations, ranging from our internal operations and research and development activities to our marketing and sales efforts and communications with our customers and business partners. Individuals or entities may attempt to penetrate our network security, or that of our platform, and to cause harm to our business operations, including by misappropriating our proprietary information or that of our customers, employees and business partners or to cause interruptions of our products and platform. In particular, cyberattacks and other malicious internet-based activity continue to increase in frequency and in magnitude generally, and cloud-based companies have been targeted in the past. In addition to threats from traditional computer hackers, malicious code (such as malware, viruses, worms and ransomware), software vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities through our third-party partners, employees theft or misuse, password spraying, phishing, credential stuffing and denial-of-service attacks, we also face threats from sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors who engage in attacks (including advanced persistent threat intrusions) that add to the risk to our systems (including those hosted on AWS or other cloud services), internal networks, our customers’ systems and the information that they store and process. While we devote significant financial and employee resources to implement and maintain security measures, because the techniques used by such individuals or entities to access, disrupt or sabotage devices, systems and networks change frequently and may not be recognized until launched against a target, we may be required to make further investments over time to protect data and infrastructure as cybersecurity threats develop, evolve and grow more complex over time. We may also be unable to anticipate these techniques, and we may not become aware in a timely manner of such a security breach, which could exacerbate any damage we experience. Additionally, we depend upon our employees and contractors to appropriately handle confidential and sensitive data, including customer data, and to deploy our IT resources in a safe and secure manner that does not expose our network systems to security breaches or the loss of data. We have been and expect to be subject to cybersecurity threats and incidents, including denial-of-service attacks, employee errors or individual attempts to gain unauthorized access to information systems. Any data security incidents, including internal malfeasance or inadvertent disclosures by our employees or a third party's fraudulent inducement of our employees to disclose information, unauthorized access or usage, virus or similar breach or disruption of us or our service providers, such as AWS, could result in loss of confidential information, damage to our reputation, erosion of customer trust, loss of customers, litigation, regulatory investigations, fines, penalties and other liabilities. Furthermore, we are required to comply with laws and regulations that require us to maintain the security of personal information and we may have contractual and other legal obligations to notify customers or other relevant stakeholders of security breaches. Such disclosures could lead to negative publicity, may cause our customers to lose confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures and require us to expend significant capital and other resources to respond to and/or mitigate the security breach. Accordingly, if our cybersecurity measures or those of AWS or our service providers, fail to protect against unauthorized access, attacks (which
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may include sophisticated cyberattacks), compromise or the mishandling of data by our employees and contractors, then our reputation, customer trust, business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
While we maintain errors, omissions and cyber liability insurance policies covering certain security and privacy damages, we cannot be certain that our existing insurance coverage will continue to be available on acceptable terms or will be available, and in sufficient amounts, to cover the potentially significant losses that may result from a security incident or breach or that the insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim.
Defects or errors in our products could diminish demand for our products, harm our business and results of operations and subject us to liability.
Our customers use our products for important aspects of their businesses, and any errors, defects or disruptions to our products and any other performance problems with our products could damage our customers’ businesses and, in turn, hurt our brand and reputation and erode customer trust. We provide regular updates to our products, which have in the past contained, and may in the future contain, undetected errors, failures, vulnerabilities and bugs when first introduced or released. Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our products could result in negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our platform, loss of competitive position, lower customer retention or claims by customers for losses sustained by them. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources in order to help correct the problem. In addition, we may not carry insurance sufficient to compensate us for any losses that may result from claims arising from defects or disruptions in our products. As a result, our reputation and our brand could be harmed, and our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We currently generate significant revenue from our largest customers, and the loss or decline in revenue from any of these customers could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In the six months ended June 30, 2021 and the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, our 10 largest Active Customer Accounts generated an aggregate of 12%, 14% and 13% of our revenue, respectively. In the event that any of our large customers do not continue to use our products, use fewer of our products, or use our products in a more limited capacity, or not at all, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. Additionally, the usage of our products by customers that do not have long-term contracts with us may change between periods. Those with no long-term contract with us may reduce or fully terminate their usage of our products at any time without notice, penalty or termination charges, which may adversely impact our results of operations.
If we are unable to develop and maintain successful relationships with consulting partners, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We believe that continued growth of our business depends in part upon identifying, developing and maintaining strategic relationships with consulting partners. As part of our growth strategy, we intend to further develop partnerships and specific solution areas with consulting partners. If we fail to establish these relationships in a timely and cost‑effective manner, or at all, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. Additionally, even if we are successful at developing these relationships but there are problems or issues with the integrations or enterprises are not willing to purchase through consulting partners, our reputation and ability to grow our business may be adversely affected.
Any failure to offer high quality customer support may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and prospective customers, and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Many of our customers depend on our customer support team to assist them in deploying our products effectively to help them to resolve post‑deployment issues quickly and to provide ongoing support. If we do not devote sufficient resources or are otherwise unsuccessful in assisting our customers effectively, it could adversely affect our ability to retain existing customers and could prevent prospective customers from adopting our products. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short‑term increases in demand for customer support. We also may be unable to modify the nature, scope and delivery of our customer support to compete with changes in the support services provided by our competitors. Increased demand for customer support, without corresponding revenue, could increase costs and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Our sales are highly dependent on our business reputation and on positive recommendations from developers. Any failure to maintain high quality customer support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high quality customer support, could erode customer trust and adversely affect our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition.
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Failure to set optimal prices for our products could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We charge our customers based on their use of our products. We expect that we may need to change our pricing from time to time. In the past, we have sometimes reduced our prices either for individual customers in connection with long‑term agreements or for a particular product. One of the challenges to our pricing is that the fees that we pay to network service providers over whose networks we transmit communications can vary daily or weekly and are affected by volume and other factors that may be outside of our control and difficult to predict. This can result in us incurring increased costs that we may be unable or unwilling to pass through to our customers, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Further, as competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours or reduce their prices, we may be unable to attract new customers or retain existing customers based on our historical pricing. As we expand internationally, we also must determine the appropriate price to enable us to compete effectively internationally. Moreover, enterprises, which are a primary focus for our direct sales efforts, may demand substantial price concessions. In addition, if the mix of products sold changes, including for a shift to IP‑based products, then we may need to, or choose to, revise our pricing. As a result, in the future we may be required or choose to reduce our prices or change our pricing model, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We have been sued, and may, in the future, be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
There is considerable patent and other intellectual property development activity in our industry. Our future success depends, in part, on not infringing the intellectual property rights of others and we may be unaware of the intellectual property rights of others that may cover some or all of our technology. Our competitors or other third parties have claimed and may, in the future, claim that our products or platform and underlying technology are infringing upon their intellectual property rights, and we may be found to be infringing upon such rights. For example, Telesign Corporation (“Telesign”) sued us in 2015 and 2016 alleging that we infringed four U.S. patents. The patent infringement allegations in the lawsuits related to our two‑factor authentication use case, Authy, and an API tool to find information about a phone number. On October 19, 2018, a United States District Court in the Northern District of California entered judgment in our favor on all asserted claims, which was affirmed on appeal. We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against such lawsuits. During the course of these lawsuits, there may be announcements of the results of hearings and motions and other interim developments related to the litigation. If securities analysts or investors regard these announcements as negative, the trading price of our Class A common stock may decline.
In the future, we may also introduce or acquire new products or technologies, including in areas where we historically have not participated in, which could increase our exposure to intellectual property claims. Any claims or litigation could cause us to incur significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, prevent us from offering our products, or require that we comply with other unfavorable terms. We may also be obligated to indemnify our customers or business partners in connection with any such litigation and to obtain licenses or modify our products or platform, which could further exhaust our resources. Litigation is inherently uncertain and even if we were to prevail in the event of claims or litigation against us, any claim or litigation regarding intellectual property could be costly and time‑consuming and divert the attention of our management and other employees from our business. Patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property claims and proceedings brought against us, whether successful or not, could harm our brand, business, results of operations and financial condition.
Indemnity provisions in various agreements potentially expose us to substantial liability for intellectual property infringement and other losses.
Our agreements with customers and other third parties typically include indemnification or other provisions under which we agree to indemnify or otherwise be liable to them for losses suffered or incurred as a result of claims of intellectual property infringement, loss or exposure of confidential or sensitive data, damages caused by us to property or persons or other liabilities relating to or arising from our products or platform or other acts or omissions. The term of these contractual provisions often survives termination or expiration of the applicable agreement. Large indemnity payments or damage claims from contractual breach could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. Although typically we contractually limit our liability with respect to such obligations, we may still incur substantial liability related to them. Any dispute with a customer with respect to such obligations could have adverse effects on our relationship with that customer and other current and prospective customers, demand for our products and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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We could incur substantial costs in protecting or defending our intellectual property rights, and any failure to protect our intellectual property could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our brand and the proprietary methods and technologies that we develop under patent and other intellectual property laws in the U.S. and in non-U.S. jurisdictions so that we can prevent others from using our inventions and proprietary information. As of December 31, 2020, in the United States, we had been issued 157 patents, which expire between 2029 and 2039. As of such date, we also had 33 issued patents in non-U.S. jurisdictions, all of which are related to U.S. patents and patent applications. We have also filed various applications for protection of certain aspects of our intellectual property in the United States and internationally. There can be no assurance that additional patents will be issued or that any patents that have been issued or that may be issued in the future will provide significant protection for our intellectual property. As of December 31, 2020, we had 41 registered trademarks in the United States and 257 registered trademarks in non-U.S. jurisdictions. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors might gain access to our technology and our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
There can be no assurance that the particular forms of intellectual property protection that we seek, including business decisions about when to file patent applications and trademark applications, will be adequate to protect our business. We could be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, determine the validity and scope of our proprietary rights or those of others, or defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation could be costly, time‑consuming and distracting to management, result in a diversion of significant resources, the narrowing or invalidation of portions of our intellectual property and have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights or alleging that we infringe the counterclaimant’s own intellectual property. Any of our patents, copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property rights could be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation.
We also rely, in part, on confidentiality agreements with our business partners, employees, consultants, advisors, customers and others in our efforts to protect our proprietary technology, processes and methods. These agreements may not effectively prevent disclosure of our confidential information, and it may be possible for unauthorized parties to copy our software or other proprietary technology or information, or to develop similar software independently without our having an adequate remedy for unauthorized use or disclosure of our confidential information. In addition, others may independently discover our trade secrets and proprietary information, and in these cases, we would not be able to assert any trade secret rights against those parties. Costly and time‑consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our proprietary rights, and failure to obtain or maintain trade secret protection could adversely affect our competitive business position.
In addition, the laws of some countries do not protect intellectual property and other proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. To the extent we expand our international activities, our exposure to unauthorized copying, transfer and use of our proprietary technology or information may increase.
We cannot be certain that our means of protecting our intellectual property and proprietary rights will be adequate or that our competitors will not independently develop similar technology. If we fail to meaningfully protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We may acquire or invest in companies, which may divert our management’s attention and result in debt or dilution to our stockholders. We may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions or investments.
We actively evaluate and consider potential strategic transactions, including acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies, services, products and other assets in the future. For example, in November 2020, we acquired Segment for a total purchase price of $3.0 billion, of which approximately $2.5 billion represented the value of our Class A common stock issued at closing. The estimated transaction value of $3.2 billion, as previously announced, included certain shares of Class A common stock and assumed equity awards that are subject to future vesting. Accordingly, at closing, our stockholders incurred substantial dilution. Any future acquisitions or strategic transactions may result in additional dilution or require us to take on debt in order to finance any such transactions. For further risks related to the acquisition of Segment, please see below under “Risks Related to the Acquisition of Segment.” We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our products and platform, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing or investments in other companies, such as our recent proposed investment of up to $750.0 million in Syniverse Corporation.
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Any acquisition, investment or business relationship may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties or delays in assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products, employees or operations of the acquired companies, particularly if the key employees of the acquired company choose not to work for us, their products or services are not easily adapted to work with our platform, or we have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business due to changes in ownership, management or otherwise. In addition, we may discover liabilities or deficiencies associated with the assets or companies we acquire or ineffective or inadequate controls, procedures or policies at an acquired business that were not identified in advance, any of which could result in significant unanticipated costs. Acquisitions also may disrupt our business, divert our resources or require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for development of our existing business. Moreover, the anticipated benefits of any acquisition, investment or business relationship may not be realized or we may be exposed to unknown risks or liabilities.
Negotiating these transactions can be time consuming, difficult and expensive, and our ability to complete these transactions may often be subject to approvals that are beyond our control. Consequently, these transactions, even if announced, may not be completed. For one or more of those transactions, we may:
issue additional equity securities that would dilute our existing stockholders;
use cash that we may need in the future to operate our business;
incur large charges or substantial liabilities;
incur debt on terms unfavorable to us or that we are unable to repay;
encounter difficulties retaining key employees of the acquired company or integrating diverse software codes or business cultures;
encounter difficulties retaining the acquired company's customers; or
become subject to adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation, or deferred compensation charges.
The occurrence of any of these foregoing could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We depend largely on the continued services of our senior management and other key employees, the loss of any of whom could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our future performance depends on the continued services and contributions of our senior management and other key employees to execute on our business plan, to develop our products and platform, to deliver our products to customers, to attract and retain customers and to identify and pursue opportunities. The loss of services of senior management or other key employees could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our development and strategic objectives. In particular, we depend to a considerable degree on the vision, skills, experience and effort of our co‑founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Lawson. None of our executive officers or other senior management are bound by a written employment agreement and any of them may terminate employment with us at any time with no advance notice. The replacement of any of our senior management would likely involve significant time and costs, and such loss could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business objectives. The loss of the services of any of our senior management or other key employees for any reason could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to hire, retain and motivate qualified employees, our business will suffer.
Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to continue to attract and retain highly skilled employees. We believe that there is, and will continue to be, intense competition for highly skilled management, technical, sales and other employees with experience in our industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, where our headquarters are located, and in other locations where we maintain offices. We must provide competitive compensation packages and a high quality work environment to hire, retain and motivate employees. If we are unable to retain and motivate our existing employees and attract qualified employees to fill key positions, we may be unable to manage our business effectively, including the development, marketing and sale of our products, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. To the extent we hire employees from competitors, we also may be subject to allegations that they have been improperly solicited or divulged proprietary or other confidential information.
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Volatility in, or lack of performance of, our stock price may also affect our ability to attract and retain key employees. Many of our key employees are, or will soon be, vested in a substantial number of shares of Class A common stock or stock options. Employees may be more likely to terminate their employment with us if the shares they own or the shares underlying their vested options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the original purchase prices of the shares or the exercise prices of the options, or, conversely, if the exercise prices of the options that they hold are significantly above the trading price of our Class A common stock. If we are unable to retain our employees, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
United States federal legislation and international laws impose certain obligations on the senders of commercial emails, which could minimize the effectiveness of our platform, and establish financial penalties for non-compliance, which could increase the costs of our business.
The Federal Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, or the CAN-SPAM Act, establishes certain requirements for commercial email messages and transactional email messages and specifies penalties for the transmission of email messages that are intended to deceive the recipient as to source or content. Among other things, the CAN-SPAM Act, obligates the sender of commercial emails to provide recipients with the ability to “opt-out” of receiving future commercial emails from the sender. In addition, some states have passed laws regulating commercial email practices that are significantly more restrictive and difficult to comply with than the CAN-SPAM Act. For example, Utah and Michigan prohibit the sending of email messages that advertise products or services that minors are prohibited by law from purchasing (e.g., alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, illegal drugs) or that contain content harmful to minors (e.g., pornography) to email addresses listed on specified child protection registries. Some portions of these state laws may not be preempted by the CAN-SPAM Act. In addition, certain non-U.S. jurisdictions in which we operate have enacted laws regulating the sending of email that are more restrictive than U.S. laws. For example, some foreign laws prohibit sending broad categories of email unless the recipient has provided the sender advance consent to receipt of such email, or in other words has “opted-in” to receiving such email. If we were found to be in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, applicable state laws governing email not preempted by the CAN-SPAM Act or foreign laws regulating the distribution of email, whether as a result of violations by our customers or our own acts or omissions, we could be required to pay large penalties, which would adversely affect our financial condition, significantly harm our business, injure our reputation and erode customer trust. The terms of any injunctions, judgments, consent decrees or settlement agreements entered into in connection with enforcement actions or investigations against our company in connection with any of the foregoing laws may also require us to change one or more aspects of the way we operate our business, which could impair our ability to attract and retain customers or could increase our operating costs.
Our customers’ and other users’ violation of our policies or other misuse of our platform to transmit unauthorized, offensive or illegal messages, spam, phishing scams, and website links to harmful applications or for other fraudulent or illegal activity could damage our reputation, and we may face a risk of litigation and liability for illegal activities on our platform and unauthorized, inaccurate, or fraudulent information distributed via our platform.
The actual or perceived improper sending of text messages or voice calls may subject us to potential risks, including liabilities or claims relating to consumer protection laws and regulatory enforcement, including fines. For example, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 restricts telemarketing and the use of automatic SMS text messages without explicit customer consent. This has resulted in civil claims against our company and requests for information through third‑party subpoenas. The scope and interpretation of the laws that are or may be applicable to the delivery of text messages or voice calls are continuously evolving and developing. If we do not comply with these laws or regulations or if we become liable under these laws or regulations due to the failure of our customers to comply with these laws by obtaining proper consent, we could face direct liability.
Moreover, despite our ongoing and substantial efforts to limit such use, certain customers may use our platform to transmit unauthorized, offensive or illegal messages, calls, spam, phishing scams, and website links to harmful applications, reproduce and distribute copyrighted material or the trademarks of others without permission, and report inaccurate or fraudulent data or information. These issues also arise with respect to a portion of those users who use our platform on a free trial basis or upon initial use. These actions are in violation of our policies, in particular, our Acceptable Use Policy. However, our efforts to defeat spamming attacks, illegal robocalls and other fraudulent activity will not prevent all such attacks and activity. Such use of our platform could damage our reputation and we could face claims for damages, regulatory enforcement, copyright or trademark infringement, defamation, negligence, or fraud. Moreover, our customers’ and other users’ promotion of their products and services through our platform might not comply with federal, state, and foreign laws. We rely on contractual representations made to us by our customers that their use of our platform will comply with our policies and applicable law, including, without limitation, our email and messaging policies. Although we retain the right to verify that customers and other users are abiding by certain contractual terms, our Acceptable Use Policy and our email and messaging policies and, in certain circumstances, to review their email and distribution lists, our customers and other users are ultimately responsible for
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compliance with our policies, and we do not systematically audit our customers or other users to confirm compliance with our policies. We cannot predict whether our role in facilitating our customers’ or other users’ activities would expose us to liability under applicable law, or whether that possibility could become more likely if changes to current laws regulating content moderation, such as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act are enacted. There have been various Congressional and executive efforts to eliminate or modify Section 230, which limits the liability of internet platforms for third-party content that is transmitted via those platforms and for good-faith moderation of offensive content. President Biden and many Members of Congress from both parties support reform or repeal of Section 230, so the possibility of Congressional action remains. In addition, a petition filed by the Trump administration with the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules interpreting Section 230 remains before the Commission. If the FCC adopts rules, the scope of the protection offered by Section 230 could be narrowed considerably. The FCC has not released any document describing the rules that would be proposed and no date has been set for a vote on any such proposal. The Democratic Commissioners of the FCC have indicated that they are opposed to the petition and now control the agenda of the FCC. Even if claims asserted against us do not result in liability, we may incur substantial costs in investigating and defending such claims. If we are found liable for our customers’ or other users’ activities, we could be required to pay fines or penalties, redesign business methods or otherwise expend resources to remedy any damages caused by such actions and to avoid future liability.
Our use of open source software could negatively affect our ability to sell our products and subject us to possible litigation.
Our products and platform incorporate open source software, and we expect to continue to incorporate open source software in our products and platform in the future. Few of the licenses applicable to open source software have been interpreted by courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our products and platform. Moreover, although we have implemented policies to regulate the use and incorporation of open source software into our products and platform, we cannot be certain that we have not incorporated open source software in our products or platform in a manner that is inconsistent with such policies. If we fail to comply with open source licenses, we may be subject to certain requirements, including requirements that we offer our products that incorporate the open source software for no cost, that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon, incorporating or using the open source software and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of applicable open source licenses. If an author or other third party that distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from generating revenue from customers using products that contained the open source software and required to comply with onerous conditions or restrictions on these products. In any of these events, we and our customers could be required to seek licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products and platform and to re‑engineer our products or platform or discontinue offering our products to customers in the event re‑engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis. Any of the foregoing could require us to devote additional research and development resources to re‑engineer our products or platform, could result in customer dissatisfaction and may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Changes in laws and regulations related to the Internet or changes in the Internet infrastructure itself may diminish the demand for our products, and could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the Internet as a primary medium for commerce, communications and business applications. Federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting the use of the Internet as a commercial medium. Changes in these laws or regulations could require us to modify our products and platform in order to comply with these changes. In addition, government agencies or private organizations have imposed and may impose additional taxes, fees or other charges for accessing the Internet or commerce conducted via the Internet. These laws or charges could limit the growth of Internet‑related commerce or communications generally or result in reductions in the demand for Internet‑based products and services such as our products and platform. In particular, the re-adoption of “network neutrality” rules in the United States, which President Biden supported during his campaign, could affect the services used by us and our customers. In addition, the use of the Internet as a business tool could be adversely affected due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols to handle increased demands of Internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease‑of‑use, accessibility and quality of service. The performance of the Internet and its acceptance as a business tool has been adversely affected by “viruses,” “worms,” and similar malicious programs. If the use of the Internet is reduced as a result of these or other issues, then demand for our products could decline, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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The technology industry is subject to increasing scrutiny that could result in government actions that would negatively affect our business.
The technology industry is subject to intense media, political and regulatory scrutiny, including on issues related to antitrust, privacy, and artificial intelligence, which exposes us to government investigations, legal actions and penalties. For instance, various regulatory agencies, including competition and consumer protection authorities, have active proceedings and investigations concerning multiple technology companies on antitrust and other issues. If we become subject to such investigations, we could be liable for substantial fines and penalties, be required to change our products and services or alter our business operations, receive negative publicity, or be subject to civil litigation, all of which could harm our business. Lawmakers also have proposed new laws and regulations, and modifications to existing laws and regulations, that affect the activities of technology companies such as the recent efforts to eliminate or modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If such laws and regulations are enacted or modified, they could impact us, even if they are not intended to affect our company. In addition, the introduction of new products and services, expansion of our activities in certain jurisdictions, or other actions that we may take may subject us to additional laws, regulations, and other scrutiny. The increased scrutiny of certain acquisitions in the technology industry also could affect our ability to enter into strategic transactions or to acquire other businesses.
Compliance with new or modified laws and regulations could increase the cost of conducting our business, limit the opportunities to increase our revenues, or prevent us from offering products or services. While we have adopted policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors or agents will not violate such laws and regulations. If we are found to have violated laws and regulations, it could materially adversely affect our reputation, financial condition and results of operations.
We also could be harmed by government investigations, litigation, or changes in laws and regulations directed at our customers, business partners, or suppliers in the technology industry that have the effect of limiting our ability to do business with those entities. For example, the U.S. government recently has taken action against companies operating in China intended to limit their ability to do business in the U.S. or with U.S. companies. There can be no assurance that our business will not be materially adversely affected, individually or in the aggregate, by the outcomes of such investigations, litigation or changes to laws and regulations in the future.
The standards that private entities and inbox service providers use to regulate the use and delivery of email have in the past interfered with, and may in the future interfere with, the effectiveness of our platform and our ability to conduct business.
Some of our customers rely on email for commercial solicitation. Other private entities often advocate standards of conduct or practice that significantly exceed current legal requirements and classify certain solicitations that comply with current legal requirements as spam. Some of these entities maintain “denylists” of companies and individuals, and the websites, inbox service providers and IP addresses associated with those entities or individuals that do not adhere to those standards of conduct or practices for commercial solicitations that the denylisting entity believes are appropriate. If a company’s IP addresses are listed by a denylisting entity, emails sent from those addresses may be blocked if they are sent to any internet domain or internet address that subscribes to the denylisting entity’s service or uses its denylist.
From time to time, some of our IP addresses have become, and we expect will continue to be, listed with one or more denylisting entities due to the messaging practices of our customers and other users. We may be at an increased risk of having our IP addresses denylisted due to our scale and volume of email processed, compared to our smaller competitors. While the overall percentage of such email solicitations that our individual customers send may be at or below reasonable standards, the total aggregate number of all emails that we process on behalf of our customers may trigger increased scrutiny from these denylisting entities. There can be no guarantee that we will be able to successfully remove ourselves from those lists. Because we fulfill email delivery on behalf of our customers, denylisting of this type could undermine the effectiveness of our customers’ transactional email, email marketing programs and other email communications, all of which could have a material negative impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Additionally, inbox service providers can block emails from reaching their users. While we continually improve our own technology and work closely with inbox service providers to maintain our deliverability rates, the implementation of new or more restrictive policies by inbox service providers may make it more difficult to deliver our customers’ emails, particularly if we are not given adequate notice of a change in policy or struggle to update our platform or services to comply with the changed policy in a reasonable amount of time. In addition, some inbox service providers categorize as “promotional” emails that originate from email service providers and, as a result, direct them to an alternate or “tabbed” section of the recipient’s inbox. If inbox service providers materially limit or halt the delivery of our customers’ emails, or if we fail to deliver our
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customers’ emails in a manner compatible with inbox service providers’ email handling or authentication technologies or other policies, or if the open rates of our customers’ emails are negatively impacted by the actions of inbox service providers to categorize emails, then customers may question the effectiveness of our platform and cancel their accounts. This, in turn, could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our global operations subject us to potential liability under trade protection, anti-corruption, and other laws and regulations, including legal liability and reputational damage if we violate applicable U.S. economic trade sanctions or export controls regulations, and such violations could impair our ability to compete in international markets due to licensing requirements and could subject us to liability for compliance violations.
Certain of our products and services may be subject to these types of laws and regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, U.S. Customs regulations, and various economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Exports of our products and the provision of our services must be made in compliance with these requirements. Although we take precautions to prevent our products from being provided in violation of such laws, we are aware of previous exports of certain of our products to a small number of persons and organizations that are the subject of U.S. sanctions or located in countries or regions subject to U.S. sanctions. If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we and certain of our employees could be subject to substantial civil or criminal penalties, including: the possible loss of export privileges; fines, which may be imposed on us and responsible employees or managers; and, in extreme cases, the incarceration of responsible employees or managers. Obtaining the necessary authorizations, including any required license, for a particular deployment may be time‑consuming, is not guaranteed and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. In addition, changes in our products or services, or changes in applicable export or economic sanctions regulations may create delays in the introduction and deployment of our products and services in international markets, or, in some cases, prevent the export of our products or provision of our services to certain countries or end users. Any change in trade protection laws, policies, export, sanctions and other regulatory requirements affecting trade and investments, shift in the enforcement or scope of existing regulations, or change in the countries, governments, persons or technologies targeted by such regulations, could also result in decreased use of our products and services, or in our decreased ability to export our products or provide our services to existing or prospective customers with international operations. Any decreased use of our products and services or limitations on our ability to export our products and provide our services could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations prohibit corrupt payments by our employees and third parties acting on our behalf, and require that we maintain accurate books and records and adequate internal controls. While we have implemented a global compliance program designed to reduce the risk of violations, our employees or third parties acting on our behalf may fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations. Such violations could result in significant fines and penalties, criminal liability for us, our individual officers or employees, prohibitions on our ability to conduct business, and potential reputational damage.
Further, we incorporate encryption technology into certain of our products. Various countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology, including through import permitting and licensing requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our customers’ ability to import our products into those countries. Encryption products and the underlying technology may also be subject to export control restrictions. Governmental regulation of encryption technology and regulation of exports of encryption products, or our failure to obtain required approval for our products, when applicable, could harm our international sales and adversely affect our revenue. Compliance with applicable regulatory requirements regarding the export of our products and provision of our services, including with respect to new releases of our products and services, may create delays in the introduction of our products and services in international markets, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our products and using our services throughout their globally‑distributed systems or, in some cases, prevent the export of our products or provision of our services to some countries altogether.
Our reliance on SaaS technologies from third parties may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We rely on hosted SaaS technologies from third parties in order to operate critical internal functions of our business, including enterprise resource planning, customer support and customer relations management services. If these services become unavailable due to extended outages or interruptions, or because they are no longer available on commercially reasonable terms or prices, our expenses could increase. As a result, our ability to manage our operations could be interrupted and our processes for managing our sales process and supporting our customers could be impaired until equivalent services, if available, are identified, obtained and implemented, all of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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We may have additional tax liabilities, which could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Significant judgments and estimates are required in determining our provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities. Our tax expense may be impacted, for example, if tax laws change or are clarified to our detriment or if tax authorities successfully challenge the tax positions that we take, such as, for example, positions relating to the arms‑length pricing standards for our intercompany transactions and our indirect tax positions. In determining the adequacy of income taxes, we assess the likelihood of adverse outcomes that could result if our tax positions were challenged by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), and other tax authorities. Should the IRS or other tax authorities assess additional taxes as a result of examinations, we may be required to record charges to operations that could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. We are currently in discussions with certain jurisdictions regarding potential sales taxes for prior periods that we may owe. We reserved $28.8 million on our June 30, 2021 balance sheet for these tax payments. The actual exposure could differ materially from our current estimates, and if the actual payments we make to any jurisdiction exceed the accrual in our balance sheet, our results of operations would be harmed. For example, one jurisdiction has assessed us for $38.8 million in taxes, including interest and penalties, which exceeded the $11.5 million we had accrued for that assessment. We believe this assessment is incorrect and have disputed it, and paid the full amount as required by law. The payment made in excess of the accrued amount is reflected as a deposit on our balance sheet. After failing to reach a settlement, we filed a complaint as of May 27, 2021, challenging the jurisdiction’s assessment in court. However, litigation is uncertain and a ruling against us may adversely affect our financial position and results of operation. Many states are also pursuing legislative expansion of the scope of goods and services that are subject to sales and similar taxes as well as the circumstances in which a vendor of goods and services must collect such taxes. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., states are now free to levy taxes on sales of goods and services based on an “economic nexus,” regardless of whether the seller has a physical presence in the state. Any additional fees and taxes levied on our services by any state may adversely impact our results of operations.
We could be subject to liability for historical and future indirect and similar taxes, which could adversely affect our results of operations.
We conduct operations in many tax jurisdictions throughout the United States and internationally. In many of these jurisdictions, non‑income‑based taxes, such as sales, VAT, GST, and telecommunications taxes, are assessed on our operations or our sales to customers. We are subject to indirect taxes, and may be subject to certain other taxes, in some of these jurisdictions. Historically, we have not billed or collected taxes in certain jurisdictions and, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”), we have recorded a provision for our tax exposure in these jurisdictions when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the exposure can be reasonably estimated. These estimates include several key assumptions, including, but not limited to, the taxability of our products, the jurisdictions in which we believe we have nexus or a permanent establishment, and the sourcing of revenues to those jurisdictions. In the event these jurisdictions challenge our assumptions and analysis, our actual exposure could differ materially from our current estimates.
We have been and may continue to be subject to scrutiny from tax authorities in various jurisdictions and may have additional exposure related to our historical operations. Furthermore, certain jurisdictions in which we do not collect such taxes have in the past and may in the future assert that such taxes are applicable, which could result in tax assessments, penalties and interest, and we may be required to collect such taxes in the future. Such tax assessments, penalties and interest or future requirements may adversely affect our business, the prices at which we are able to offer our services, our results of operations and financial condition.
Effective March 2017, we began collecting certain telecommunications‑based taxes from our customers in certain jurisdictions. Since then, we have added more jurisdictions where we collect these taxes and we expect to continue expanding the number of jurisdictions in which we will collect these taxes in the future. We are also in discussions with certain jurisdictions regarding our potential sales and other taxes for prior periods that we may owe.
In the event any of these jurisdictions disagree with management's assumptions and analysis, the assessment of our tax exposure could differ materially from management's current estimates. Some customers may question the incremental tax charges and some may seek to negotiate lower pricing from us, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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Our global operations and structure subject us to potentially adverse tax consequences.
We generally conduct our global operations through subsidiaries and report our taxable income in various jurisdictions worldwide based upon our business operations in those jurisdictions. In particular, our intercompany relationships are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in various jurisdictions. Also, our tax expense could be affected depending on the applicability of withholding and other taxes (including withholding and indirect taxes on software licenses and related intercompany transactions) under the tax laws of certain jurisdictions in which we have business operations. The relevant revenue and taxing authorities may disagree with positions we have taken generally, or our determinations as to the value of assets sold or acquired or income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. If such a disagreement were to occur, and our position were not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties, which could result in one‑time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows and lower overall profitability of our operations.
Changes in global and U.S. tax legislation may adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
We are unable to predict what global or U.S. tax reforms may be proposed or enacted in the future or what effects such future changes would have on our business. Any such changes in tax legislation, regulations, policies or practices in the jurisdictions in which we operate could increase the estimated tax liability that we have expensed to date and paid or accrued on our balance sheet; affect our financial position, future results of operations, cash flows, and effective tax rates where we have operations; reduce post-tax returns to our stockholders; and increase the complexity, burden, and cost of tax compliance. We are subject to potential changes in relevant tax, accounting, and other laws, regulations, and interpretations, including changes to tax laws applicable to corporate multinationals.
Certain government agencies in jurisdictions where we and our affiliates do business have had an extended focus on issues related to the taxation of multinational companies. In addition, the Organization for Economic Co‑operation and Development is conducting a project focused on base erosion and profit shifting in international structures, which seeks to establish certain international standards for taxing the worldwide income of multinational companies. Further, several countries have proposed or enacted taxes applicable to digital services, which could apply to our business. As a result of these developments, the tax laws of certain countries in which we and our affiliates do business could change on a prospective or retroactive basis, and any such changes could increase our liabilities for taxes, interest and penalties, and therefore could harm our business, cash flows, results of operations and financial position.
The governments of countries in which we operate and other governmental bodies could make unprecedented assertions about how taxation is determined in their jurisdictions that are contrary to the way in which we have interpreted and historically applied the rules and regulations in our tax returns filed in such jurisdictions. New laws could significantly increase our tax obligations in the countries in which we do business or require us to change the manner in which we operate our business. As a result of the large and expanding scale of our international business activities, many of these changes to the taxation of our activities could increase our worldwide effective tax rate and harm our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.
If we experience excessive credit card or fraudulent activity, we could incur substantial costs.
Most of our customers authorize us to bill their credit card accounts directly for service fees that we charge. If people pay for our services with stolen credit cards, we could incur substantial third‑party vendor costs for which we may not be reimbursed. Further, our customers provide us with credit card billing information online, and we do not review the physical credit cards used in these transactions, which increases our risk of exposure to fraudulent activity. We also incur charges, which we refer to as chargebacks, from the credit card companies from claims that the customer did not authorize the credit card transaction to purchase our services. If the number of unauthorized credit card transactions becomes excessive, we could be assessed substantial fines for excess chargebacks, and we could lose the right to accept credit cards for payment.
Our products may also be subject to fraudulent usage, including but not limited to revenue share fraud, domestic traffic pumping, subscription fraud, premium text message scams and other fraudulent schemes. Although our customers are required to set passwords or personal identification numbers to protect their accounts, third parties have in the past been, and may in the future be, able to access and use their accounts through fraudulent means. Furthermore, spammers attempt to use our products to send targeted and untargeted spam messages. We cannot be certain that our efforts to defeat spamming attacks will be successful in eliminating all spam messages from being sent using our platform. In addition, a cybersecurity breach of our customers’ systems could result in exposure of their authentication credentials, unauthorized access to their accounts or fraudulent calls on their accounts, any of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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We may require additional capital to support our business, and this capital might not be available on acceptable terms, if at all.
We intend to continue to make investments to support our business and may require additional funds. In particular, we may seek additional funds to develop new products and enhance our platform and existing products, expand our operations, including our sales and marketing organizations and our presence outside of the United States, improve our infrastructure or acquire complementary businesses, technologies, services, products and other assets. In addition, we may use a portion of our cash to satisfy tax withholding and remittance obligations related to outstanding restricted stock units. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds through future issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our stockholders could suffer significant dilution, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of our Class A and Class B common stock. Any debt financing that we may secure in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities. We may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth, scale our infrastructure, develop product enhancements and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired, and our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We face exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, and such fluctuations could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
As our international operations expand, our exposure to the effects of fluctuations in currency exchange rates grows. For example, global political events, including Brexit, trade tariff developments and other geopolitical events have caused global economic uncertainty and variability in foreign currency exchange rates. While we have primarily transacted with customers and business partners in U.S. dollars, we have transacted with customers in the Australian dollar, the Brazilian real, the British pound, the Euro and the Japanese yen. We expect to significantly expand the number of transactions with customers that are denominated in foreign currencies in the future as we continue to expand our business internationally. We also incur expenses for some of our network service provider costs outside of the United States in local currencies and for employee compensation and other operating expenses at our non‑U.S. locations in the respective local currency. Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies could result in an increase to the U.S. dollar equivalent of such expenses.
In addition, our international subsidiaries maintain net assets that are denominated in currencies other than the functional operating currencies of these entities. As we continue to expand our international operations, we become more exposed to the effects of fluctuations in currency exchange rates. Accordingly, changes in the value of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar can affect our results of operations due to transactional and translational remeasurements. As a result of such foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, it could be more difficult to detect underlying trends in our business and results of operations. In addition, to the extent that fluctuations in currency exchange rates cause our results of operations to differ from our expectations or the expectations of our investors and securities analysts who follow our stock, the trading price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected.
We recently implemented a program to hedge transactional exposure against the Euro, and may do so in the future with respect to other foreign currencies. We also use derivative instruments, such as foreign currency forward and option contracts, to hedge certain exposures to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The use of such hedging activities may not offset any or more than a portion of the adverse financial effects of unfavorable movements in foreign exchange rates over the limited time the hedges are in place. Moreover, the use of hedging instruments may introduce additional risks if we are unable to structure effective hedges with such instruments.
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Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.
As of December 31, 2020, we had federal, state and foreign net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”), of $2.7 billion, $1.8 billion and $27.9 million, respectively. In the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, as a result of our Segment and SendGrid acquisitions, respectively, we assumed a $22.3 million and $56.2 million, respectively, deferred tax liability, as described in Note 6 to our consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2021. In general, under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” (generally defined as a greater than 50‑percentage‑point cumulative change (by value) in the equity ownership of certain stockholders over a rolling three‑year period) is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its pre‑change NOLs to offset post‑change taxable income. Our existing NOLs may be subject to limitations arising from previous ownership changes, and if we undergo an ownership change in the future, our ability to utilize NOLs could be further limited by Section 382 of the Code. Future changes in our stock ownership, some of which may be outside of our control, could result in an ownership change under Section 382 of the Code.
On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act makes broad and complex changes to the U.S. tax code including changes to the uses and limitations of net operating losses. For example, while the Tax Act allows for U.S. federal net operating losses incurred in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 to be carried forward indefinitely, the Tax Act also imposes an 80% limitation on the use of net operating losses that are generated in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Net operating losses generated in tax years beginning prior to December 31, 2017 still have a 20‑year carryforward period and are not subject to 80% limitation. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) enacted on March 27, 2020 permits a full five-year carryback of net operating losses arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2021. In addition, at the state level, there may be periods during which the use of net operating loss carryforwards is suspended or otherwise limited, which could accelerate or permanently increase state taxes owed. These provisions do not impact us since we have net operating losses in the applicable tax years. Our ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards depends on existence of sufficient taxable income of the appropriate character within the carryforward period. Based on all available evidence, other than future taxable income from reversing taxable temporary differences, we have no other sources of taxable income that are objectively verifiable. As such, net operating loss carryforwards generated in tax years beginning before December 31, 2017, could expire unused and net operating losses arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, while able to be carried forward indefinitely, are also not more likely than not to be realized due to lack of taxable income.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect, our results of operations could be adversely affected.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, as provided in Part I, Item 2, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” The results of these estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities and equity, and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Assumptions and estimates used in preparing our consolidated financial statements include those related to revenue recognition and business combinations. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our Class A common stock.
Changes in financial accounting standards or practices may cause adverse, unexpected financial reporting fluctuations and affect our results of operations.
A change in accounting standards or practices may have a significant effect on our results of operations and may even affect our reporting of transactions completed before the change is effective. New accounting pronouncements and varying interpretations of accounting pronouncements have occurred and may occur in the future. Changes to existing rules or the questioning of current practices may adversely affect our reported financial results or the way we conduct our business.
For example, a new accounting guidance, Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 842, “Leases”, became effective January 1, 2019. The adoption of this new guidance had a significant impact on our balance sheets as described in detail in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 26, 2021. Adoption of these types of accounting standards and any difficulties in implementation of changes in accounting principles, including the ability to modify our accounting systems, could cause us to fail to meet our financial reporting obligations, which result in regulatory discipline and harm investors' confidence in us.
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If we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
As a public company, we are required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal control. Section 404 of the Sarbanes‑Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes‑Oxley Act, requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and provide a management report on internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate because of changes in conditions in our business. Further, weaknesses in our disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting may be discovered in the future. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods. Any failure to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that we are required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC. Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial and other information, and could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition and could cause a decline in the trading price of our Class A common stock. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
If our goodwill or intangible assets become impaired, we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings.
We review our intangible assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Goodwill is required to be tested for impairment at least annually. As of June 30, 2021, we carried a net $5.6 billion of goodwill and intangible assets. An adverse change in market conditions, particularly if such change has the effect of changing one of our critical assumptions or estimates, could result in a change to the estimation of fair value that could result in an impairment charge to our goodwill or intangible assets. Any such charges may adversely affect our results of operations.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock
The trading price of our Class A common stock has been volatile and may continue to be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
Prior to our initial public offering in June 2016, there was no public market for shares of our Class A common stock. On June 23, 2016, we sold shares of our Class A common stock to the public at $15.00 per share. From June 23, 2016, the date that our Class A common stock started trading on the New York Stock Exchange, through June 30, 2021, the trading price of our Class A common stock has ranged from $22.80 per share to $457.30 per share. The trading price of our Class A common stock may continue to fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
volatility in the trading prices and trading volumes of technology stocks;
changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;
sales of shares of our Class A common stock by us or our stockholders;
failure of securities analysts to maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in those projections or our failure to meet those projections;
announcements by us or our competitors of new products or services;
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the public’s reaction to our press releases, other public announcements and filings with the SEC;
rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
changes in laws, industry standards, regulations or regulatory enforcement in the United States or internationally, GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and other privacy regulations that may be implemented in the future, including the Schrems II decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, SHAKEN/STIR and other robocalling prevention and anti-spam standards and increased costs associated with such compliance, as well as enhanced Know-Your-Client processes that impact our ability to market, sell or deliver our products;
actual or anticipated changes in our results of operations or fluctuations in our results of operations;
actual or anticipated developments in our business, our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;
litigation involving us, our industry or both, or investigations by regulators into our operations or those of our competitors;
developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;
announced or completed acquisitions of businesses, products, services or technologies by us or our competitors;
changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations or principles;
any significant change in our management; and
general economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets.
In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market price of a particular company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources.
Substantial future sales of shares of our Class A common stock could cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline.
The market price of our Class A common stock could decline as a result of substantial sales of our Class A common stock, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers and significant stockholders, or the perception in the market that holders of a large number of shares intend to sell their shares.
Additionally, the shares of Class A common stock subject to outstanding options and restricted stock unit awards under our equity incentive plans and the shares reserved for future issuance under our equity incentive plans will become eligible for sale in the public market upon issuance, subject to applicable insider trading policies.
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The dual class structure of our common stock has the effect of concentrating voting control with those stockholders who held our capital stock prior to the completion of our initial public offering, including our directors, executive officers and their respective affiliates. This limits or precludes holders of our Class A common stock from the ability to influence corporate matters, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or other major corporate transaction requiring stockholder approval.
Our Class B common stock has 10 votes per share, and our Class A common stock has one vote per share. As of June 30, 2021, our directors, executive officers and their respective affiliates, held in the aggregate 22.6% of the voting power of our capital stock. Because of the 10‑to‑one voting ratio between our Class B common stock and Class A common stock, the holders of our Class B common stock collectively will continue to have concentrated control of the combined voting power of our common stock and therefore may be able to control certain matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the earlier of (i) June 28, 2023, or (ii) the date the holders of two‑thirds of our Class B common stock elect to convert the Class B common stock to Class A common stock. This concentrated control limits or precludes your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or other major corporate transaction requiring stockholder approval. In addition, this may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our capital stock that you may feel are in your best interest as one of our stockholders.
Future transfers by holders of Class B common stock will generally result in those shares converting to Class A common stock, subject to limited exceptions, such as certain transfers effected for estate planning purposes. The conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.
If securities or industry analysts cease publishing research or reports about us, our business or our market, or if they change their recommendations regarding our Class A common stock adversely, the trading price of our Class A common stock and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Class A common stock is influenced by the research and reports that securities or industry analysts may publish about us, our business, our market or our competitors. If any of the analysts who cover us change their recommendation regarding our Class A common stock adversely, or provide more favorable relative recommendations about our competitors, the trading price of our Class A common stock would likely decline. If any analyst who covers us were to cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause the trading price of our Class A common stock or trading volume to decline.
Anti‑takeover provisions contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and second amended and restated bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, second amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law contain provisions which could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying, or preventing an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors. Among other things, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and second amended and restated bylaws include provisions:
authorizing “blank check” preferred stock, which could be issued by our board of directors without stockholder approval and may contain voting, liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to our Class A and Class B common stock;
limiting the liability of, and providing indemnification to, our directors and officers;
limiting the ability of our stockholders to call and bring business before special meetings;
providing for a dual class common stock structure in which holders of our Class B common stock have the ability to control the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval, even if they own significantly less than a majority of the outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets;
providing that our board of directors is classified into three classes of directors with staggered three‑year terms;
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prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;
requiring advance notice of stockholder proposals for business to be conducted at meetings of our stockholders and for nominations of candidates for election to our board of directors;
controlling the procedures for the conduct and scheduling of board of directors and stockholder meetings; and
providing for advance notice procedures that stockholders must comply with in order to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a meeting of stockholders, which may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us.
These provisions, alone or together, could delay or prevent hostile takeovers and changes in control or changes in our management.
As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation law, which prevents certain stockholders holding more than 15% of our outstanding common stock from engaging in certain business combinations without approval of the holders of at least two‑thirds of our outstanding common stock not held by such 15% or greater stockholder.
Any provision of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, second amended and restated bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying, preventing or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our Class A common stock.
Our second amended and restated bylaws provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.
Our second amended and restated bylaws provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law:
any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf;
any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty owed by our directors, officers, employees or our stockholders;
any action asserting a claim against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law; and any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal-affairs doctrine.
This provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has sole and exclusive jurisdiction.
This exclusive-forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees. If a court were to find this exclusive forum provision in our second amended and restated bylaws to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could seriously harm our business.
We do not expect to declare any dividends in the foreseeable future.
We have never paid dividends and we do not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. Consequently, investors may need to rely on sales of their Class A common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment. Investors seeking cash dividends should not purchase our Class A common stock.
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Risks Related to our Indebtedness
Our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition.
As of June 30, 2021, we had $1.0 billion of indebtedness outstanding (excluding intercompany indebtedness). Our indebtedness could have important consequences, including:
limiting our ability to obtain additional financing to fund future working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or other general corporate requirements;
requiring a portion of our cash flows to be dedicated to debt service payments instead of other purposes, thereby reducing the amount of cash flows available for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;
increasing our vulnerability to adverse changes in general economic, industry and competitive conditions;
exposing us to the risk of increased interest rates as certain of our borrowings, including borrowings under a future revolving credit facility, may be at variable rates of interest; and
increasing our cost of borrowing.
In addition, the indenture governs our 3.625% notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”) and our 3.875% notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes,” and together with the 2029 Notes, the “Notes”) and contains restrictive covenants that limit our ability to engage in activities that may be in our long-term best interest. Our failure to comply with those covenants could result in an event of default which, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of substantially all of our indebtedness.
We may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness, which may not be successful.
Our ability to make scheduled payments on or to refinance our debt obligations, including the Notes, depends on our financial condition and results of operations, which in turn are subject to prevailing economic and competitive conditions and to certain financial, business and other factors beyond our control. We may not be able to maintain a level of cash flows from operating activities sufficient to permit us to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness, including the Notes.
If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we could face substantial liquidity problems and may be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures, or to sell assets, seek additional capital or restructure or refinance our indebtedness, including the Notes. Our ability to restructure or refinance our debt will depend on, among other things, the condition of the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. Any refinancing of our debt could be at higher interest rates and may require us to comply with more onerous covenants, which could further restrict our business operations. The terms of existing or future debt instruments and the indenture that governs the Notes may restrict us from adopting some of these alternatives. In addition, any failure to make payments of interest and principal on our outstanding indebtedness on a timely basis would likely result in a reduction of our credit rating, which could harm our ability to incur additional indebtedness. In the absence of such cash flows and resources, we could face substantial liquidity problems and might be required to dispose of material assets or operations to meet our debt service and other obligations.
Our inability to generate sufficient cash flows to satisfy our debt obligations, or to refinance our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms or at all, would materially and adversely affect our financial position and results of operations.
If we cannot make scheduled payments on our indebtedness, we will be in default and holders of the Notes and other indebtedness could declare all outstanding principal and interest to be due and payable, the lenders under a future revolving credit facility could terminate their commitments to loan money, our secured lenders could foreclose against the assets securing their borrowings and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation. If we breach the covenants under our debt instruments, we would be in default under such instruments. The holders of such indebtedness could exercise their rights, as described above, and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.
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The indenture governing the Notes contain cross-default provisions that could result in the acceleration of all of our indebtedness.
A breach of the covenants under the indenture governing the Notes could result in an event of default under the applicable indebtedness. Such a default may allow the creditors to accelerate the related indebtedness and may result in the acceleration of any other indebtedness to which a cross-acceleration or cross-default provision applies. In addition, an event of default under a revolving credit facility may permit the lenders thereunder to terminate commitments to extend further credit under that facility. Furthermore, if we were unable to repay amounts due and payable under a secured credit facility, those lenders could proceed against the collateral granted to them to secure that indebtedness. In the event our note holders accelerate the repayment of our borrowings, we and our guarantors may not have sufficient assets to repay that indebtedness. Additionally, we may not be able to borrow money from other lenders to enable us to refinance our indebtedness.
Risks Related to our Acquisitions
We may not realize potential benefits from our recent acquisitions, partnerships and investments because of difficulties related to integration, the achievement of synergies, and other challenges.
We regularly acquire or invest in businesses and technologies that are complementary to our business through acquisitions, partnerships or investments, including several transactions in fiscal year 2021. There can be no assurances that our businesses can be combined in a manner that allows for the achievement of substantial benefits. Any integration process may require significant time and resources, and we may not be able to manage the process successfully as our ability to acquire and integrate larger or more complex companies, products, or technology in a successful manner is unproven. If we are not able to successfully integrate these acquired businesses with ours or pursue our customer and product strategy successfully, the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions may not be realized fully or may take longer than expected to be realized. Further, it is possible that there could be a loss of our key employees and customers, disruption of ongoing businesses or unexpected issues, higher than expected costs and an overall post‑completion process that takes longer than originally anticipated. In addition, the following issues, among others, must be addressed in order to realize the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, partnerships or investments:
combining the acquired businesses' corporate functions with our corporate functions;
combining acquired businesses with our business in a manner that permits us to achieve the synergies anticipated to result from such acquisitions, the failure of which would result in the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions not being realized in the time frame currently anticipated or at all;
maintaining existing agreements with customers, distributors, providers, talent and vendors and avoiding delays in entering into new agreements with prospective customers, distributors, providers, talent and vendors;
determining whether and how to address possible differences in corporate cultures and management philosophies;
integrating the companies’ administrative and information technology infrastructure;
developing products and technology that allow value to be unlocked in the future;
evaluating and forecasting the financial impact of such acquisitions, partnerships and investments, including accounting charges; and
effecting potential actions that may be required in connection with obtaining regulatory approvals.
In addition, at times the attention of certain members of our management and resources may be focused on integration of the acquired businesses and diverted from day‑to‑day business operations, which may disrupt our ongoing business.
We have incurred, and may continue to incur, significant, nonrecurring costs in connection with our acquisitions, partnerships and investments and integrating our operations with those of the acquired businesses, including costs to maintain employee morale and to retain key employees. Management cannot ensure that the elimination of duplicative costs or the realization of other efficiencies will offset the transaction and integration costs in the near term or at all.
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Purchase price accounting in connection with our acquisitions requires estimates that may be subject to change and could impact our consolidated financial statements and future results of operations and financial position.
Pursuant to the acquisition method of accounting, the purchase price we pay for our acquired businesses is allocated to the underlying tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their respective fair market values with any excess purchase price allocated to goodwill. The acquisition method of accounting is dependent upon certain valuations and other studies that are preliminary. Differences between these preliminary estimates and the final acquisition accounting may occur, and these differences could have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements and the combined company’s future results of operations and financial position.
General Risks
Any legal proceedings or claims against us could be costly and time-consuming to defend and could harm our reputation regardless of the outcome.
We are and may in the future become subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as disputes or employment claims made by our current or former employees. Any litigation, whether meritorious or not, could harm our reputation, will increase our costs and may divert management’s attention, time and resources, which may in turn seriously harm our business. Insurance might not cover such claims, might not provide sufficient payments to cover all the costs to resolve one or more such claims, and might not continue to be available on terms acceptable to us. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs and could seriously harm our business.
Unfavorable conditions in our industry or the global economy or reductions in spending on information technology and communications could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our results of operations may vary based on the impact of changes in our industry or the global economy on our customers. Our results of operations depend in part on demand for information technology and cloud communications. In addition, our revenue is dependent on the usage of our products, which in turn is influenced by the scale of business that our customers are conducting. To the extent that weak economic conditions, geopolitical developments, such as existing and potential trade wars, and other events outside of our control such as the COVID-19 pandemic, result in a reduced volume of business for, and communications by, our customers and prospective customers, demand for, and use of, our products may decline. Furthermore, weak economic conditions may make it more difficult to collect on outstanding accounts receivable. Additionally, historically, we have generated the majority of our revenue from small and medium-sized businesses, and we expect this to continue for the foreseeable future. Small and medium-sized business may be affected by economic downturns to a greater extent than enterprises, and typically have more limited financial resources, including capital borrowing capacity, than enterprises. If our customers reduce their use of our products, or prospective customers delay adoption or elect not to adopt our products, as a result of a weak economy, this could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our business is subject to the risks of pandemics, earthquakes, fire, floods and other natural catastrophic events, and to interruption by man-made problems such as power disruptions, computer viruses, data security breaches or terrorism.
Our corporate headquarters are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region known for seismic activity. A significant natural disaster, such as an earthquake, fire or flood, occurring at our headquarters, at one of our other facilities or where a business partner is located could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Further, if a natural disaster or man-made problem were to affect our service providers, this could adversely affect the ability of our customers to use our products and platform. In addition, natural disasters, pandemics and acts of terrorism could cause disruptions in our or our customers’ businesses, national economies or the world economy as a whole. For example, the rapid spread of COVID-19 globally has resulted in increased travel restrictions and disruption and shutdown of businesses. Health concerns or political or governmental developments in countries in which we or our customers, partners and service providers operate could result in economic, social or labor instability and could have an adverse effect on our business and our results of operations and financial condition. The extent to which COVID-19 impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and will include emerging information concerning the severity of COVID-19 and the actions taken by governments and private businesses to attempt to contain COVID-19. Any prolonged contractions in the travel and hospitality industries, along with any effects on supply chain or on other industries in which our customers operate, could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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We also rely on our network and third-party infrastructure and enterprise applications and internal technology systems for our engineering, sales and marketing, and operations activities. Although we maintain incident management and disaster response plans, in the event of a major disruption caused by a natural disaster or man-made problem, we may be unable to continue our operations and may endure system interruptions, reputational harm, delays in our development activities, lengthy interruptions in service, breaches of data security and loss of critical data, any of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition, computer malware, viruses and computer hacking, fraudulent use attempts and phishing attacks have become more prevalent in our industry, have occurred on our platform in the past and may occur on our platform in the future. Though it is difficult to determine what, if any, harm may directly result from any specific interruption or attack, any failure to maintain performance, reliability, security, integrity and availability of our products and technical infrastructure to the satisfaction of our users may harm our reputation and our ability to retain existing users and attract new users.
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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
None
Item 5. Other Information
None.
Item 6.    Exhibits
The documents listed in the Exhibit Index of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are incorporated by reference or are filed with this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, in each case as indicated therein.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Incorporated by Reference
DescriptionFormFile No.ExhibitFiling Date
2.1+
Filed herewith
31.1Filed herewith
31.2Filed herewith
32.1*Furnished herewith
101.INSInline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL documentFiled herewith
101.SCHInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema DocumentFiled herewith
101.CALInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase DocumentFiled herewith
101.DEFInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase DocumentFiled herewith
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase DocumentFiled herewith
101.PREInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase DocumentFiled herewith
104Cover Page with Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101)
__________________________________________
+    Schedules (or similar attachments) have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The registrant hereby undertakes to furnish supplemental copies of any of the omitted schedules and other similar attachments upon request by the SEC.
*    The certifications furnished in Exhibit 32.1 hereto are deemed to accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and will not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Twilio Inc.
July 29, 2021 /s/ JEFF LAWSON
Jeff Lawson
Director and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
July 29, 2021 /s/ KHOZEMA Z. SHIPCHANDLER
Khozema Z. Shipchandler
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)
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Document

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION

BY AND AMONG

TWILIO INC.,

ZEUS MERGER SUB I, INC.,

ZEUS MERGER SUB II, LLC

ZIPWHIP, INC.,

AND

FORTIS ADVISORS LLC,
         
AS STOCKHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE
MAY 16, 2021











TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article I THE MERGER
2
1.1    First Merger and Second Merger
2
1.2    Effective Time and the Second Effective Time
2
1.3    Effects of the Merger
3
1.4    Closing
3
1.5    Closing Deliverables
3
1.6    Certificate of Incorporation, Limited Liability Company Agreement and Bylaws
5
1.7    Directors and Officers of the First Step Surviving Corporation and the Final Surviving Entity
5
Article II PURCHASE PRICE; EFFECT ON SHARES
5
2.1    Effect of the Merger on the Capital Stock of the Constituent Corporations
5
2.2    Payments
9
2.3    Payment and Share Issuance Procedures
10
2.4    Escrow Arrangements
12
2.5    Dissenting Shares
13
2.6    No Fractional Shares
14
2.7    Withholding
14
2.8    Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action
14
2.9    Post-Closing Reconciliation
15
2.10    Equitable Adjustments
18
Article III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
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3.1    Organization of the Company
18
3.2    Company Capital Structure
19
3.3    Subsidiaries; Ownership Interests
21
3.4    Authority and Enforceability
22
3.5    No Conflict
22
3.6    Governmental Authorization
23
3.7    Company Financial Statements; No Undisclosed Liabilities
23
3.8    No Changes
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3.9    Tax Matters
25
3.10    Restrictions on Business Activities
29
3.11    Title to Properties; Absence of Liens; Condition and Sufficiency of Assets
29
3.12    Intellectual Property
30
3.13    Agreements, Contracts and Commitments
40
3.14    Interested Party Transactions
43
3.15    Company Authorizations
43
3.16    Litigation
44
3.17    Books and Records
44
3.18    Environmental, Health and Safety Matters
44
3.19    Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees
45
3.20    Employee Benefit Plans and Compensation
45
3.21    Insurance
50
3.22    Compliance with Laws
50
3.23    Export Control and Sanctions Laws
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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3.24    Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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3.25    Suppliers, Customers and Resellers
51
3.26    Compliance with Regulation D
52
Article IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUBS
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4.1    Organization
52
4.2    Authority and Enforceability
52
4.3    Capitalization
53
4.4    No Conflict
54
4.5    Parent SEC Documents; Financial Statements
54
4.6    Litigation
55
4.7    Compliance with Laws
55
4.8    No Prior Activities of Merger Subs
55
4.9    Reorganization
55
4.10    Governmental Authorization
55
4.11    No Changes
55
4.12    WKSI
55
4.13    Financing
56
4.14    Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees
56
Article V STOCKHOLDER AND TAX MATTERS
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5.1    Company Board Recommendation; Stockholder Notice; Security Holder Notice
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5.2    Tax Matters
56
5.3    Allocation Schedule
58
5.4    Securities Law Exemption; Transfer Restrictions; Stop-Transfer Instructions, Securities Law Compliance
59
5.5    Indemnification of Directors and Officers of the Company
60
5.6    Resale Registration Statement
61
5.7    R&W Policy
64
Article VI ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
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6.1    Conduct of the Business of the Company
65
6.2    Restrictions on Conduct of the Business
65
6.3    No Solicitation
69
6.4    Access to Information
70
6.5    Notification of Certain Matters
70
6.6    Section 280G
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6.7    Confidentiality
72
6.8    Public Disclosure
72
6.9    Reasonable Best Efforts
73
6.10    Employment Matters.
74
6.11    Consents
75
6.12    Terminated Agreements
75
6.13    Resignation of Officers and Directors
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6.14    Expenses
75
6.15    Corporate Matters
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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6.16    Joinder Agreements and Warrant Cancellation Agreements
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6.17    Suitability Documentation
76
6.18    Promised Options
76
6.19    Invoices
76
6.20    Other Closing Deliverables
76
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7.1    Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger
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7.2    Conditions to the Obligations of Parent and Merger Subs
77
7.3    Conditions to Obligations of the Company
78
Article VIII SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION; ESCROW
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8.1    Survival
79
8.2    Indemnification
80
8.3    Certain Limitations
82
8.4    Claims for Indemnification; Resolution of Conflicts
84
8.5    Third-Party Claims
87
8.6    Stockholder Representative
87
8.7    Treatment of Payments
90
Article IX TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
90
9.1    Termination
90
9.2    Effect of Termination
91
Article X GENERAL PROVISIONS
91
10.1    Notices
91
10.2    Interpretation
92
10.3    Counterparts
93
10.4    Entire Agreement; Assignment
93
10.5    Severability
93
10.6    Extension and Waiver
93
10.7    Amendment
94
10.8    Specific Performance
94
10.9    Other Remedies
94
10.10    Governing Law
94
10.11    Exclusive Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
95
10.12    Rules of Construction
95
10.13    Acknowledgments
95
10.14    Attorney-Client Privilege
96
10.15    Terms Defined Elsewhere
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Annex

A    Certain Defined Terms


Schedules

A    Identified Stockholders
B     Third-Party Consents and Notices
C    Agreements for Termination and Indebtedness
D    Allocation Schedule
E    Agreement Date Committed Equity Individuals / Post-Signing Committed Equity Individuals
F    Critical Employees
G    Other Indemnity
H    Key Employees
I    Knowledge Individuals
J    Permitted Liens


Exhibits

A    Form of First Certificate of Merger
B    Form of Second Certificate of Merger
C    Form of Director and Officer Resignation Letters
D    Form of FIRPTA Compliance Certificate
E    Form of Escrow Agreement
F    Form of Warrant Cancellation Agreement
G    Form of Paying Agent Agreement
H    Form of Letter of Transmittal
I    Form of Selling Stockholder Questionnaire
J    Form of Parachute Payment Waiver
K    Form of RSU Agreement
L    Form of Key Employee Joinder Agreement
M    Form of Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement
N    Form of Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreement
O    Form of Suitability Documentation

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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AND REORGANIZATION
This Agreement And Plan Of Merger And Reorganization (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of May 16, 2021 (the “Agreement Date”), by and among Twilio Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Zeus Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct and wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub I”), Zeus Merger Sub II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct and wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub II”, and together with Merger Sub I, the “Merger Subs”), Zipwhip, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Fortis Advisors LLC, solely in its capacity as the representative of the Company Indemnitors (the “Stockholder Representative”). Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in Annex A.
Recitals
Whereas, the board of directors of Parent has (a) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including (i) the acquisition of the Company by Parent, by means of a statutory merger of Merger Sub I with and into the Company, pursuant to which the Company would survive and become a wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent (the “First Merger”) and (ii) as part of the same overall transaction, promptly after the First Merger, a statutory merger of the surviving corporation of the First Merger with and into Merger Sub II, pursuant to which Merger Sub II would survive and remain a wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent (the “Second Merger,” and collectively or in seriatim with the First Merger, the “Merger”), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and (iii) the issuance of Parent Class A Common Stock to the Accredited Stockholders pursuant to this Agreement (the “Parent Stock Issuance”), are advisable and in the best interests of Parent and its stockholders and (b) approved, adopted and declared advisable this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Parent Stock Issuance;
Whereas, the board of directors of Merger Sub I has (a) declared this Agreement and the transaction contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, advisable and in the best interests of Merger Sub I and the stockholder of Merger Sub I and (b) adopted a resolution recommending that Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub I, adopt this Agreement and approve the First Merger;
Whereas, the managers of Merger Sub II have (a) declared this Agreement and the transaction contemplated by this Agreement, including the Second Merger, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, advisable and in the best interests of Merger Sub II and the member of Merger Sub II and (b) adopted a resolution recommending that Parent, as the sole member of Merger Sub II, adopt this Agreement and approve the Second Merger;
Whereas, immediately following the execution of this Agreement, (a) Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub I, will adopt this Agreement and approve the First Merger and (b) Parent, as the sole member of Merger Sub II, will adopt this Agreement and approve the Second Merger;
Whereas, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) has (a) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, are advisable and in the best interests of the Company and the Company Stockholders, (b) approved, adopted and declared advisable this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger, (c) directed that this Agreement be submitted to the Company Stockholders for its adoption and (d) recommended that this Agreement be adopted by the Company Stockholders;
Whereas, Parent, the Merger Subs and the Company intend that the First Merger and the Second Merger are integrated steps in the transaction contemplated by this Agreement that taken together qualify
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as a tax-free “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, and the parties hereby adopt this Agreement as a “plan of reorganization” within the meaning of Section 1.368-2(g) of the Treasury Regulations thereunder;
Whereas, it is currently anticipated that promptly after execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company shall obtain and deliver to Parent and Merger Subs the written consent of the Company Stockholders representing not less than (a) a majority of the then-outstanding number of shares of Company Capital Stock (voting together as a single class and not as separate series, and on an as-converted to Company Common Stock basis) and (b) 60% of the then-outstanding number of shares of Company Preferred Stock (voting together as a separate class and not as separate series) in favor of (i) this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, and (ii) a waiver of any prior written notice requirement in connection with a Deemed Liquidation Event (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) under Section 2.5.1(b) of Article IV(B) of the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Company Stockholder Approval”); and
Whereas, in connection with the execution of this Agreement and as an inducement for Parent to enter into this Agreement, (a) each Key Employee has executed an Offer Letter, a Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement, a Key Employee Joinder Agreement and Suitability Documentation and (b) certain other Company Security Holders (the “Identified Stockholders”) set forth on Schedule A attached hereto have executed a Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreement and Suitability Documentation.
Now, Therefore, in consideration of the mutual agreements, covenants and other premises set forth herein, the mutual benefits to be gained by the performance thereof, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged and accepted, the parties hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I

THE MERGER
1.1First Merger and Second Merger. At the Effective Time and subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the applicable provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “DLLCA”), Merger Sub I shall be merged with and into the Company, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub I shall cease, and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation and as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. The surviving corporation after the First Merger is sometimes referred to hereinafter as the “First Step Surviving Corporation.” At the Second Effective Time and subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the applicable provisions of the DGCL and the DLLCA, the First Step Surviving Corporation shall merge with and into Merger Sub II, and the separate corporate existence of the First Step Surviving Corporation shall cease and Merger Sub II shall continue as the surviving entity. The surviving entity after the Second Merger is sometimes referred to hereinafter as the “Final Surviving Entity”.
1.2Effective Time and the Second Effective Time. At the Closing, Parent, Merger Sub I and the Company shall cause the First Merger to be consummated by filing a certificate of merger in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “First Certificate of Merger”), with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the DGCL. The First Merger shall become effective at the time that the First Certificate of Merger is filed and accepted by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the DGCL, or at such later time which Parent, Merger Sub I and the Company shall have agreed and specified in the First Certificate of Merger as the effective time of the First Merger (the “Effective Time”). Promptly following the Effective Time (and in no event more than one week after the Effective Time), the First Step Surviving Corporation and Merger Sub II
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shall cause a certificate of merger satisfying the applicable requirements of the DGCL and the DLLCA in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Second Certificate of Merger”) to be duly executed by Merger Sub II and delivered to the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware for filing (the time of acceptance by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of such filing and effective time of the Second Merger being referred to herein as the “Second Effective Time”).
1.3Effects of the Merger. At the Effective Time, the First Merger shall have the effects set forth in this Agreement and the applicable provisions of the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of the Company and Merger Sub I shall vest in the First Step Surviving Corporation, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Company and Merger Sub I shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the First Step Surviving Corporation, and the First Step Surviving Corporation shall be a wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. At the Second Effective Time, the Second Merger shall have the effects set forth in this Agreement and the applicable provisions of the DGCL and the DLLCA. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Second Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of the First Step Surviving Corporation shall vest in Merger Sub II, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the First Step Surviving Corporation shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of Merger Sub II, and Merger Sub II shall remain a direct and wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent.
1.4Closing. Unless this Agreement is earlier terminated pursuant to Section 9.1, the closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take place on a date to be specified by Parent and the Company, which shall be no later than three Business Days following satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VII (except for those conditions that, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the Closing), or on such other date as Parent and the Company may agree to in writing, by electronic means of communication; provided that if the Closing would otherwise occur in the last 15 days of a fiscal quarter of Parent, then, at Parent’s written election, the Closing shall instead occur on the earlier of (a) the first Business Day of Parent’s next fiscal quarter and (b) the End Date, unless the parties mutually agree to another date, if but only if, (i) the Company delivers to Parent the certificate specified in Section 7.2(c) dated as of the date the Closing would have otherwise occurred and (ii) Parent delivers an irrevocable waiver to the Company waiving the satisfaction of the closing conditions set forth in Section 7.2 (other than Section 7.2(a)(iv), Section 7.2(c) (with respect to compliance with Section 7.2(a)(iv) only) and Section 7.2(d)), subject in each case to the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions set forth in Section 7.1 or Section 7.2 to the extent not waived pursuant to this clause (ii). The date upon which the Closing actually occurs shall be referred to herein as the “Closing Date.”
1.5Closing Deliverables.
(a)At or prior to the Closing, as applicable, the Company will deliver (or cause to be delivered) to Parent:
(i)evidence reasonably satisfactory to Parent either that (A) any stockholder vote required pursuant to Section 6.6(a) was solicited in conformity with Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder and the requisite stockholder approval was obtained with respect to any payments and benefits that were subject to the stockholder vote or (B) such stockholder approval was not obtained and as a consequence, that the Section 280G Payments waived pursuant to the Parachute Payment Waiver(s) executed by each person who the Company or Parent reasonably believes could be, with respect to the Company and/or any ERISA Affiliate, a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder) and delivered to Parent shall not be made or provided (or shall be returned);
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(ii)the third-party consents as set forth on Schedule B hereto;
(iii)evidence reasonably satisfactory to Parent that the Company has terminated each of those agreements listed on Schedule C attached hereto, in a form reasonably acceptable to Parent, with such termination to be effective at or prior to the Effective Time;
(iv)a duly executed Director and Officer Resignation Letter in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Director and Officer Resignation Letters”), from each of the officers and directors of the Company effective as of the Closing;
(v)a certificate, validly executed by the Secretary of the Company, certifying as to (A) the valid adoption of the Company Board Resolutions, and (B) the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, copies of which will be attached thereto (the “Secretary Certificate”);
(vi)executed payoff letters, in each case dated no more than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, in customary form with respect to all Indebtedness of the Company set forth on Schedule C owed to the lender thereof and the amounts payable to such lender providing for (A) the full and final satisfaction of such Indebtedness as of the Closing Date and (B) the termination and release of any Liens related thereto, including any other documents to effect the release of such Liens (each, a “Payoff Letter”);
(vii)Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreements duly executed by Company Indemnitors collectively representing, together with the Joinder Agreements delivered by the Key Employees and the Identified Stockholders on the Agreement Date and the Warrant Cancellation Agreement delivered by each Company Warrantholder, at least 85% of the Company Indemnitor Share Number, which Joinder Agreements (including the Joinder Agreements delivered by the Key Employees and the Identified Company Stockholders on the Agreement Date) shall be in full force and effect as of the Closing (assuming for this purpose that Parent has duly executed and delivered a counterpart signature page thereto and has all requisite authority to enter into such Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreements and Joinder Agreements, regardless of whether Parent has actually delivered such signature page thereto);
(viii)a properly executed statement, in accordance with Treasury Regulation Sections 1.897-2(h) and 1.1445-2(c)(3) and in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, certifying that the Company is not and has not been a “United States real property holding corporation” (as defined in Section 897(c)(2) of the Code) during the applicable period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code, together with the required notice to the IRS and written authorization for Parent to deliver such notice and a copy of such statement to the IRS on behalf of the Company upon the Closing (the “FIRPTA Compliance Certificate”);
(ix)a duly executed counterpart to the Escrow Agreement from the Stockholder Representative, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (the “Escrow Agreement”); and
(x)a long form certificate of good standing from the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware which is dated within five Business Days prior to the Closing with respect to the Company.
(b)At or prior to the Closing, Parent will deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Company:
(i)a duly executed counterpart to the Escrow Agreement from Parent and the Escrow Agent;
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(ii)a counterpart to each of the Joinder Agreements delivered to Parent in accordance with Section 1.5(a)(vii) prior to the Closing duly executed by Parent; and
(iii)a copy of the R&W Policy.
1.6Certificate of Incorporation, Limited Liability Company Agreement and Bylaws.
(a)The certificate of incorporation of Merger Sub I in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the certificate of incorporation of the First Surviving Corporation in the First Merger as of the Effective Time, and the bylaws of Merger Sub I in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the bylaws of the First Step Surviving Corporation in the First Merger as of the Effective Time, until thereafter amended in accordance with applicable Law.
(b)The certificate of formation of Merger Sub II in effect immediately prior to the Second Effective Time shall become the certificate of formation of the Final Surviving Entity in the Second Merger as of the Second Effective Time, until thereafter amended as provided by the DLLCA, and the limited liability company agreement of Merger Sub II in effect immediately prior to the Second Effective Time shall become the limited liability company agreement of the Final Surviving Entity in the Second Merger as of the Effective Time, until thereafter amended with applicable Law.
I.7.Directors and Officers of the First Step Surviving Corporation and the Final Surviving Entity. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, the directors of Merger Sub I immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the directors of the First Step Surviving Corporation immediately after the Effective Time, each to hold the office in accordance with the provisions of the DGCL and the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the First Step Surviving Corporation until their successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified or their earlier death, resignation or removal. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, the officers of Merger Sub I immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the officers of the First Step Surviving Corporation immediately after the Effective Time, each to hold office in accordance with the provisions of the DGCL and the bylaws of the First Step Surviving Corporation. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Second Effective Time, the managers and officers of Merger Sub II immediately prior to the Second Effective Time shall be the managers and officers of the Final Surviving Entity immediately after the Second Effective Time until their respective successors are duly appointed or admitted.
ARTICLE II

PURCHASE PRICE; EFFECT ON SHARES
2.1Effect of the Merger on the Capital Stock of the Constituent Corporations.
(a)Effect on Company Capital Stock. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any further action on the part of Parent, Merger Subs, the Company or the Company Stockholders or any other Person: upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.3 and throughout this Agreement, including the provisions set forth in Article VIII, each share of Company Capital Stock (other than any Cancelled Shares and Dissenting Shares) that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and extinguished and shall be converted automatically into the right to receive upon the due surrender of duly executed Exchange Documents in the manner set forth in Section 2.3(b), (i) at the Closing, in accordance with Section 2.3, (A) if the holder thereof is an Accredited Stockholder, the Per Share Accredited Consideration, or, if the holder thereof is an Unaccredited Stockholder, the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration (in each case, without interest thereon), minus (B) the Per Share Adjustment Escrow Amount, minus (C) the Per Share Indemnity Escrow Amount, minus (D) the Per Share Expense Fund Amount, minus (E) the Per Share
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Other Indemnity Escrow Amount (in each case of clauses (B) through (E), such cash amounts to be deducted from the Per Share Accredited Cash Consideration or the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration, as applicable), (ii) any disbursements of Escrow Cash required to be made from the Escrow Account with respect to such share of Company Capital Stock to the former holder thereof (based on such holder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in each case in accordance with Section 2.9(f) or Section 8.4, as applicable, (iii) any disbursements required to be made in connection with the Post Closing Excess Amount (if any) with respect to such share of Company Capital Stock to the former holder thereof (based on such holder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in accordance with Section 2.9(e) and (iv) any cash disbursements required to be made from the Expense Fund Account with respect to such share of Company Capital Stock to the former holder thereof (based on such holder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in accordance with Section 8.6(c). Each share of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable in the Merger, or any other securities issued in respect of such shares upon any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or similar event, shall be book-entry shares. For purposes of calculating the aggregate amount of cash consideration payable at any time to each Company Stockholder in respect of all of such Company Stockholder’s shares of Company Capital Stock held pursuant to any particular certificate or book entry evidencing such shares pursuant to this Section 2.1(a), (1) the cash consideration and the stock consideration payable in respect of all shares of Company Capital Stock held by such Company Stockholder pursuant to any particular certificate or book entry evidencing such shares shall each be aggregated and (2) the amount of cash to be paid to each such Company Stockholder after such aggregation shall be rounded to the nearest whole cent.
(b)Treatment of Company Options and Company RSUs.
(i)Vested Company Options. No Vested Company Options shall be assumed or continued by Parent or the Company in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby. Each Vested Company Option outstanding and unexercised as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted automatically into the right to receive with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject thereto, an amount in cash, without interest, equal to (A) the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration for each share of Company Common Stock issuable upon the exercise in full of such Vested Company Option, minus (B) an amount in cash equal to the per share exercise price of such Vested Company Option, minus (C) an amount in cash equal to any required withholding Taxes due at the time of conversion. Such payment in respect of any Vested Company Options that are Employee Options shall be made to the holders of Employee Options through the payroll processing system of Parent, the Final Surviving Entity or a Subsidiary of the Final Surviving Entity, as applicable, in accordance with standard payroll practices net of applicable Tax withholding and deductions, and such payment in respect of any Vested Company Options that are Non-Employee Options, shall be paid to the Paying Agent for further payment to such the holders of such Non-Employee Options; provided that, as a condition to payment of any amount owed to the holders of Non-Employee Options, each such holder of Non-Employee Options must have first delivered to the Paying Agent or Parent, as applicable, a properly completed Letter of Transmittal and a properly completed IRS Form W-9, or the appropriate version of IRS Form W-8, if applicable. For purposes of calculating the aggregate amount of consideration payable to each Company Vested Optionholder in respect of all of such holder’s Vested Company Options pursuant to this Section 2.1(b)(i), (1) the cash consideration payable in respect of all Vested Company Options held by such Company Vested Optionholder shall be aggregated and (2) the amount of cash to be paid to each such Company Vested Optionholder after such aggregation shall be rounded to the nearest whole cent.
(ii)Unvested Company Options (Continuing Employees). At the Effective Time, each Unvested Company Option that is outstanding and unexercised as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a Continuing Employee shall, by virtue of the Merger and without any further action by Parent, Merger Subs, the Company, or the holder of such Unvested Company Option, be
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assumed by Parent and converted into, or terminated and substituted with, a stock option of Parent that represents the right to acquire a number of validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of Parent Class A Common Stock, equal to the product of (A) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Unvested Company Option immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by (B) the Option Exchange Ratio (each, a “Converted Option”); provided that any fractional share resulting from such multiplication shall be rounded down to the nearest whole share. Following the Effective Time, each Converted Option shall continue to be governed by the same material terms and conditions, including the vesting schedule, as were applicable immediately prior to the Effective Time to the Unvested Company Option from which it was converted or for which it is a substitute, in all cases subject to restrictions related to the issuance of shares under applicable Law. The exercise price of each Converted Option shall be equal to (x) the exercise price of the Unvested Company Option from which it was converted or for which it is a substitute, divided by (y) the Option Exchange Ratio, rounded up to the nearest whole cent (the “Converted Option Exercise Price”). It is the intention of the parties that each Converted Option shall qualify following the Effective Time as an incentive stock option (as defined in Section 422 of the Code) to the extent permitted under Section 422 of the Code and to the extent such corresponding Company Option qualified as an incentive stock option prior to the Effective Time, and that the adjustments in this Section 2.1(b)(ii) be performed in a manner that complies with or is exempt from Section 409A of the Code.
(iii)Unvested Company Options (Non-Continuing Employees). Each Unvested Company Option that is outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a Person who is not a Continuing Employee (the “Cancelled Options”) shall be cancelled and terminated without consideration upon the Effective Time in accordance with the applicable Company Equity Plan.
(iv)Vested Company RSUs. No Vested Company RSU shall be assumed or continued by Parent or the Company in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby. Each Vested Company RSU that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted automatically into the right to receive with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject thereto, an amount in cash, without interest, equal to (A) the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration multiplied by the number of shares of Company Common Stock underlying such Vested Company RSU, minus (B) an amount in cash equal to any required withholding Taxes due at the time of conversion. Such payment in respect of any Vested Company RSU shall be made to the holders through the payroll processing system of Parent, the Final Surviving Entity or a Subsidiary of the Final Surviving Entity, as applicable, in accordance with standard payroll practices net of applicable Tax withholding and deductions. For purposes of calculating the aggregate amount of consideration payable to a holder of Company Vested RSUs pursuant to this Section 2.1(b)(iv), (1) the cash consideration payable in respect of all Vested Company RSUs held by such holder shall be aggregated and (2) the amount of cash to be paid to each such holder after such aggregation shall be rounded to the nearest whole cent.
(v)Unvested Company RSUs (Continuing Employees). At the Effective Time, each Unvested Company RSU that is outstanding and unsettled as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a Continuing Employee shall, by virtue of the Merger and without any further action by Parent, Merger Subs, the Company, or the holder of such Unvested Company RSU, be assumed by Parent and converted into, or terminated and substituted with, a restricted stock unit of Parent that represents the right to acquire a number of validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of Parent Class A Common Stock, equal to the product of (A) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Unvested Company RSU immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by (B) the RSU Exchange Ratio (each, a “Converted RSU”); provided that any fractional share resulting from such multiplication shall be rounded down to the nearest whole share. Following the Effective Time, each Converted RSU shall continue to be governed by the same material terms and conditions, including the
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vesting schedule, as were applicable immediately prior to the Effective Time to the Unvested Company RSU from which it was converted or for which it is a substitute, in all cases subject to restrictions related to the issuance of shares under applicable Law. It is the intention of the parties that the adjustments in this Section 2.1(b)(iv) be performed in a manner that complies with or is exempt from Section 409A of the Code.
(vi)Unvested Company RSUs (Non-Continuing Employees). Each Unvested Company RSU that is outstanding and unsettled immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a Person who is not a Continuing Employee (the “Cancelled RSUs”) shall be cancelled and terminated without consideration upon the Effective Time in accordance with the applicable Company Equity Plan.
(vii)Prior to the Effective Time, and subject to the prior review and approval of Parent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Company shall take all actions reasonably necessary to effect the transactions anticipated by this Section 2.1(b) under the applicable Company Equity Plan and any Contract applicable to any Company Option or Company RSU (whether written or oral, formal or informal), including delivering all required notices, obtaining all necessary approvals and consents, and delivering evidence reasonably satisfactory to Parent that all necessary determinations by the Board or applicable committee of the Board to effect the treatment of Company Options in accordance with this Section 2.1(b) have been made. The Company shall take all actions reasonably necessary to provide that no Company Options or Company RSUs or any other form of award will be granted or issued under any applicable Company Equity Plan following the Effective Time. Without limiting the foregoing, and subject to Section 6.19, the Company shall take all actions reasonably necessary to ensure that the Company will not at the Effective Time be bound by any options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, warrants or other rights or agreements which would entitle any Person, other than Parent and its Subsidiaries, to own any capital stock or equity of the First Step Surviving Corporation or Final Surviving Entity or to receive any payment in respect thereof other than the payments provided for under this Agreement (including the assumption or substitution, as applicable, of Unvested Company Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(ii) and Unvested Company RSUs pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(iv)).
(viii)At or prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall take all actions reasonably necessary to reserve for issuance a sufficient number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock for delivery upon exercise of the Converted Options and settlement of Converted RSUs. Parent shall file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-8 (or any successor form), relating to the Parent Class A Common Stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of Converted Options and settlement of Converted RSUs as promptly as is practical, but in any event by the latest of (i) 30 days following the Closing Date, (ii) the first date on which any Converted Options first becomes exercisable or any Converted RSUs are eligible for settlement and (iii) the date the Resale Registration Statement is filed with the SEC. Parent will maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement for so long as any such Converted Options and Converted RSUs remain outstanding.
(c)Treatment of Company Warrant. The Company Warrant shall not be assumed or continued by Parent or the Company in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Company Warrant shall be cancelled and extinguished and, subject to the execution and delivery by the Company Warrantholder of a Warrant Cancellation Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (the “Warrant Cancellation Agreement”), at or prior to the Closing, be converted automatically into the right to receive with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject thereto, (i) at the Closing, subject to Section 2.3, (A) if the holder thereof is (x) an Accredited Stockholder, a number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock and cash equal to the Per Share Accredited Consideration minus the per share exercise price of such Company Warrant, or (y) an Unaccredited Stockholder, the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration (without interest thereon), as the case may be, minus (B) the Per Share Adjustment Escrow
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Amount, minus (C) the Per Share Indemnity Escrow Amount, minus (D) the Per Share Expense Fund Amount, minus (E) the Per Share Other Indemnity Escrow Amount (in each case of clauses (B) through (E), such cash amounts to be deducted from the Per Share Accredited Cash Consideration or the Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration, as applicable), (ii) any disbursements of Escrow Cash required to be made from the Escrow Account with respect to the Company Warrant to the Company Warrantholder thereof (based on such Company Warrantholder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in each case in accordance with Section 2.9(f) or Section 8.4, as applicable, (iii) any disbursements required to be made in connection with the Post-Closing Excess Amount (if any) with respect to the Company Warrant to the Company Warrantholder thereof (based on such Company Warrantholder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in accordance with Section 2.9(e) and (iv) any cash disbursements required to be made from the Expense Fund Account with respect to such Company Warrant to the Company Warrantholder thereof (based on such Company Warrantholder’s Pro Rata Share of the released amount), without interest, in accordance with Section 8.6(c).
(d)Effect on Merger Sub I Capital Stock. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub I or any other Person, each share of capital stock of Merger Sub I that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into and become one share of common stock of the First Step Surviving Corporation (and the shares of the First Step Surviving Corporation into which the shares of Merger Sub I capital stock are so converted shall be the only shares of the First Step Surviving Corporation’s capital stock that are issued and outstanding immediately after the Effective Time). From and after the Effective Time, each certificate evidencing ownership of a number of shares of Merger Sub I capital stock will evidence ownership of such number of shares of common stock of the First Step Surviving Corporation.
(e)Effect on Merger Sub II Membership Interests. At the Second Effective Time, by virtue of the Second Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub II or any other Person, each share of common stock of the First Step Surviving Corporation that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Second Effective Time shall be cancelled and extinguished without any conversion thereof. At the Second Effective Time, each membership interest of Merger Sub II that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Second Effective Time will constitute a membership interest of the Final Surviving Entity (and the membership interests of the Final Surviving Entity shall be the only membership interests of the Final Surviving Entity issued and outstanding immediately after the Second Effective Time).
(f)Treasury Stock and Parent Owned Stock. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger, each share of Company Capital Stock held by the Company or Parent (or any direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company or Parent) immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and extinguished without any conversion thereof or the right to receive any consideration therefor (such shares, the “Cancelled Shares”).
2.2Payments.
(a)As soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing, but in no event later than one Business Day following the Closing, Parent shall transfer, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Paying Agent for exchange in accordance with this Article II, the cash portion of the Total Merger Consideration payable at the Closing to (i) the Company Stockholders pursuant to Section 2.1(a) in exchange for shares of Company Capital Stock outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) the Company Vested Optionholders who hold Non-Employee Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(i) in exchange for such Vested Company Options outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, and (iii) the Company Warrantholder pursuant to Section 2.1(c) in exchange for the
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Company Warrant outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, excluding, in each case, the portion of the Escrow Cash and Expense Fund applicable to such payments.
(b)As soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing, but in no event later than one Business Day following the Closing, Parent, or the Paying Agent on behalf of Parent, shall pay, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, to the Final Surviving Entity the cash portion of the Total Merger Consideration payable at Closing in respect of the Vested Company Options that are Employee Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(i) in exchange for such Employee Options outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, excluding, in each case, the portion of the Escrow Cash and Expense Fund applicable to such payments.
(c)Parent shall, or shall cause the Final Surviving Entity or the applicable Subsidiary of the Final Surviving Entity to, promptly (but in no event later than the second regular payroll cycle following the Closing) pay, through the payroll processing system of Parent, the Final Surviving Entity or a Subsidiary of the Final Surviving Entity, as applicable, in accordance with standard payroll practices, to each Company Vested Optionholder who holds Employee Options the cash amount payable at the Closing to such holder solely in respect of such Employee Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(i) as set forth opposite such holder’s name in the Allocation Schedule (such amount, net of applicable Tax withholding or other deductions and excluding such holder’s contribution to the Escrow Cash and the Expense Fund as set forth on the Allocation Schedule).
(d)As promptly as practicable following the Closing (but in no event later than two Business Days following the Closing), Parent, or the Paying Agent on behalf of Parent, shall pay by wire transfer of immediately available funds, on behalf of the Company and as accounted for in the calculation of Total Merger Consideration, (i) the amount of Indebtedness due at Closing to each lender designated by the Company on the Allocation Schedule, to an account designated by such lender in the applicable Payoff Letter and by the Company in the Allocation Schedule and (ii) all Third-Party Expenses payable to any Company advisors or other service providers (other than any current director, officer or employee) that remain outstanding as of the Closing, to such account or accounts as are designated in the applicable invoice from each advisor or other service provider to the Company (other than any current employee, director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), in each case dated no more than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, with respect to all Closing Third-Party Expenses estimated to be due and payable to such advisor or other service provider as of the Closing Date and by the Company in the Allocation Schedule.
(e)No interest will be paid or will accrue for the benefit of the Company Security Holders or the Company’s lenders, service providers or other creditors on any Total Merger Consideration or any other amounts payable under this Agreement.
2.3Payment and Share Issuance Procedures.
(a)As promptly as practicable following the Agreement Date, Parent and the Paying Agent shall enter into the Paying Agent Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G (“Paying Agent Agreement”). Following execution of the Paying Agent Agreement, (i) the Company shall promptly (and not later than two Business Days prior to the distribution of the Exchange Documents by the Paying Agent) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Paying Agent and Parent the information set forth in Section 3(a) of the Paying Agent Agreement in accordance therewith (the “Required Information”), (ii) as promptly as practicable following receipt of the Required Information, and in any event within two Business Days thereafter, or at a later time as may be agreed between Parent and the Company, Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to set up the Paying Agent’s electronic platform which allows the applicable Company Indemnitors to complete their Exchange Documents electronically and (iii) as promptly as practicable following receipt of the Required Information, and in any event within five
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Business Days thereafter, or at a later time as may be agreed between Parent and the Company, Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to send an email (A)(x) to each Company Stockholder and (y) to each Company Vested Optionholder who holds Non-Employee Options, in each case at the email address for such Person set forth in the Required Information, to invite such Person to register and log into the Paying Agent’s electronic platform to complete electronically a letter of transmittal in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H (the “Letter of Transmittal”), the Joinder Agreement and other required Exchange Documents and (B) to each Company Warrantholder at the email address for such Company Warrantholder set forth in the Required Information to invite such Company Warrantholder to register and log into the Paying Agent’s electronic platform to complete electronically the Letter of Transmittal, the Warrant Cancellation Agreement and other required Exchange Documents; provided that if the Company has not provided the Required Information for any particular Company Indemnitor on or before the date that is five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, Parent shall not be required to cause the Paying Agent to, and the Paying Agent shall not be required to, send the email described in the foregoing clause (iii) to such Company Indemnitor until the date that is three Business Days following the Closing.
(b)Subject to Section 2.6, as promptly as practicable following receipt by the Paying Agent of a Letter of Transmittal (and, with respect to each Company Warrantholder, a Warrant Cancellation Agreement) and any other documents (including a properly completed IRS Form W-9, or the appropriate version of IRS Form W-8, as applicable, and, with respect to any Accredited Stockholder, the Suitability Documentation) that Parent or the Paying Agent may reasonably require in connection therewith (collectively, the “Exchange Documents”), duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, but for the avoidance of doubt in no event prior to the Effective Time, (i) Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to pay (A) to each Company Stockholder the cash amount payable to such holder at the Closing pursuant to Section 2.1(a) and (B) to the Company Warrantholder the cash amount payable to such holder at the Closing pursuant to Section 2.1(c), in each case, as set forth opposite such holder’s name in the Allocation Schedule (such amount, for the avoidance of doubt, to exclude such holder’s contribution to the Escrow Cash and the Expense Fund as set forth on the Allocation Schedule); provided that with respect to each Key Employee, any cash payable to such Key Employee that is Revested Cash Consideration (as defined in the Joinder Agreement to which each such Key Employee is a party) shall be held back by Parent to be paid to such Key Employee only subject to the terms of the Joinder Agreement to which such Key Employee is a party, (ii) Parent shall cause its transfer agent to issue to each Company Stockholder that is an Accredited Stockholder and each Company Warrantholder that is an Accredited Stockholder the number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable to such holder at the Closing pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable, as set forth opposite such holder’s name in the Allocation Schedule; provided that with respect to each Key Employee, any shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable to such Key Employee that are Revested Stock Consideration (as defined in the Joinder Agreement to which each such Key Employee is a party) shall be deemed issued and outstanding (and shall be shown as issued and outstanding on Parent’s financial statements and shall be legally outstanding under applicable state Law as of the Effective Time) and such Key Employee shall be the record owner thereof subject to the terms and conditions of the Joinder Agreement to which each such Key Employee is a party, but will be held in a restricted account for the benefit of such Key Employee to be released only subject to the terms of the Joinder Agreement to which such Key Employee is a party, and (iii) Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to pay to each Company Vested Optionholder (solely with respect to Non-Employee Options) the cash portion of the Total Merger Consideration payable to such holder at the Closing in respect of Non-Employee Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(i) as set forth opposite such holder’s name in the Allocation Schedule (such amount, for the avoidance of doubt, to exclude such holder’s contribution to the Escrow Cash and the Expense Fund as set forth on the Allocation Schedule). Each Key Employee will have all rights with respect to the Revested Stock Consideration attributable to ownership of such Revested Stock Consideration (including the right to vote such Parent Class A Common Stock and the right to be paid dividends with respect to such shares, other than non-taxable stock dividends, which shall remain in and become part of the Revested Stock Consideration), except (i) the right of possession thereof, and (ii) the right to sell, assign, pledge,
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hypothecate or otherwise dispose of or encumber such shares or any interest therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company has delivered the Allocation Schedule to Parent at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date in accordance with Section 5.3 and Schedule A to the Paying Agent Agreement to the Paying Agent and Parent in accordance with Section 3(a) of the Paying Agent Agreement, and a Company Indemnitor has delivered its Exchange Documents to the Paying Agent at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, then Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to (x) cause the Paying Agent to make payments to such Company Indemnitor in accordance with Section 2.3(b)(i) or Section 2.3(b)(iii), as applicable, as soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing and (y) cause its transfer agent to issue shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable to such Company Indemnitor in accordance with Section 2.3(b)(ii), if applicable, on the Closing Date.
(c)At any time following the date that is one year following the Effective Time, Parent shall be entitled to require the Paying Agent to deliver to Parent (or its designated successor or assign) all cash amounts that have been deposited with the Paying Agent pursuant to Section 2.2, and not disbursed to the Company Security Holders pursuant to this Section 2.3 (as well as any and all interest thereon or other income or proceeds thereof), and thereafter the Company Security Holders shall be entitled to look only to Parent as general creditors thereof with respect to any and all cash amounts that may be payable to such holders pursuant to Section 2.3(b) upon the due surrender of duly executed Exchange Documents in the manner set forth in Section 2.3(b). No interest shall be payable to the Company Security Holders for the cash amounts delivered to Parent pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.3(c) and which are subsequently delivered to the Company Security Holders.
(d)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.3, none of Parent, the Paying Agent, the Final Surviving Entity nor any party hereto shall be liable to any Person for any amount paid to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Law. Any portion of the Total Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed immediately prior to the date on which it would otherwise become subject to any abandoned property, escheat or similar Law shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, shall become the property of Parent, free and clear of all claims or interest of any Person previously entitled thereto.
2.4Escrow Arrangements.
(a)As soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing, Parent shall, or shall cause its transfer agent or the Paying Agent (as applicable) to, deposit with the Escrow Agent (on behalf of each Company Indemnitor) (i) the Adjustment Escrow Cash in the Adjustment Escrow Account, (ii) the Indemnity Escrow Cash in the Indemnity Escrow Account and (iii) the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account in each case, under the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement.
(b)The Escrow Agreement shall be entered into at or prior to the Closing, by and among Parent, the Stockholder Representative, on behalf of the Company Indemnitors, and the Escrow Agent, and shall provide Parent with recourse against (i) the Adjustment Escrow Cash with respect to any Post-Closing Deficit Amount under Section 2.9, (ii) the Indemnity Escrow Cash with respect to the Company Indemnitors’ obligations under Article VIII during the period through the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date and (iii) the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash with respect to the Company Indemnitors’ obligations under Article VIII during the period through the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date (except to the extent a portion of the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash is released on the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date pursuant to Article VIII). The Escrow Cash shall be distributed to the Company Indemnitors, in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Shares, and to Parent at the times, and upon the terms and conditions, set forth in this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement. The terms and provisions of the Escrow Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby are specific terms of the Merger, and the approval and adoption of this Agreement and approval of the Merger by the Company Indemnitors
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constitutes approval by such Company Indemnitors, as specific terms of the Merger, and the irrevocable agreement of such Company Indemnitors to be bound by and comply with, the Escrow Agreement and all of the arrangements and provisions of this Agreement relating thereto, including the deposit of the Adjustment Escrow Cash into the Adjustment Escrow Account, the Indemnity Escrow Cash into the Indemnity Escrow Account, the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash into the Other Indemnity Escrow Account, the obligations set forth in Article VIII and the appointment and sole authority of the Stockholder Representative to act on behalf of the Company Indemnitors, as provided for herein and in the Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Cash shall be held as a trust fund and shall not be subject to any Lien, attachment, trustee process or any other judicial process of any creditor of any party, and shall be held and disbursed solely for the purposes and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement.
(c)Parent, the First Step Surviving Corporation, the Final Surviving Entity and the Stockholder Representative agree for all Tax purposes that Parent shall be treated as owner of the Escrow Cash solely for Tax purposes, and the parties intend that the rights of the Company Indemnitors to the Escrow Cash shall be treated as deferred contingent consideration eligible for installment treatment under Section 453 of the Code and any corresponding provision of foreign, state or local Law. All interest and earnings earned from the investment and reinvestment of the Adjustment Escrow Cash, the Indemnity Escrow Cash, the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash or any portion thereof, will be allocable for Tax purposes to Parent, and within 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter and within 10 days after the final distribution of the Adjustment Escrow Cash, the Indemnity Escrow Cash or the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash to the Company Indemnitors, Parent shall be entitled to a distribution equal to 30% of all interest and earnings from the investment and reinvestment of the Adjustment Escrow Cash, the Indemnity Escrow Cash or the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash for such calendar quarter or portion thereof ending on such final distribution of the Adjustment Escrow Cash, the Indemnity Escrow Cash or the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash, as applicable. In no event shall the aggregate amount of Escrow Cash payable to any Company Indemnitors in respect of Company Capital Stock and Company Warrants exceed an amount equal to (A) the portion of Escrow Cash to be deposited with respect to such Company Indemnitor in respect of such Company Capital Stock and Company Warrants based upon their Pro Rata Share, multiplied by (B) the greater of (I) 105% or (II) 100% plus five times the “Federal midterm rate” as defined in Section 1274(d)(1) of the Code (expressed as a percentage) in effect at the time the Adjustment Escrow Account, Indemnity Escrow Account and the Other Indemnity Escrow Account are funded. The preceding sentence is intended to ensure that the right of the applicable Company Indemnitor to such payments is not treated as a contingent payment without a stated maximum selling price under Section 453 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. Except to the extent required by applicable Law, no party shall take any action for Tax purposes or Tax Return filing position inconsistent with the Tax treatment agreed to in this Section 2.4(c).
2.5Dissenting Shares.
(a)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, any shares of Company Capital Stock that are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and with respect to which the Company Stockholder thereof has properly demanded appraisal rights in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL, and who has not effectively withdrawn or lost such holder’s appraisal rights under the DGCL (collectively, the “Dissenting Shares”), shall not be converted into or represent the right to receive the payments set forth in Section 2.1, but such Company Stockholder shall only be entitled to such rights as are provided by the DGCL. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.5, if any holder of Dissenting Shares shall effectively withdraw or lose (through failure to perfect or otherwise) such holder’s appraisal rights under the DGCL, then, as of the later of the Effective Time and the occurrence of such event, such holder’s shares shall automatically be converted into and represent only the right to receive the consideration for Company Capital Stock, as applicable, set forth in Section 2.1, without interest thereon, and subject to the escrow provisions set forth in Section 2.1 and
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Article VIII and expense provisions in Section 8.6, upon the due surrender of duly executed Exchange Documents in the manner set forth in Section 2.3.
(b)The Company shall give Parent (i) prompt notice of any written demand for appraisal received by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the DGCL and (ii) the opportunity to participate in all negotiations and proceedings with respect to demands for appraisal under the DGCL. The Company shall not, except with the prior written consent of Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), make any payment with respect to any such demands or offer to settle or settle any such demands. Any communication to be made by the Company to any Company Stockholder with respect to such demands shall be submitted to Parent in advance and shall not be presented to any Company Stockholder prior to the Company receiving Parent’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
2.6No Fractional Shares. The number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock to be issued to Accredited Stockholders pursuant to Section 2.1(a), Section 2.1(c) or Section 2.9(e) shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no fractional shares of Parent Class A Common Stock will be issued, and if, after aggregating all shares of Parent Class A Common Stock (including fractional shares) that would be issued hereunder to an Accredited Stockholder, such aggregate number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock includes a fraction of a share of Parent Class A Common Stock, no certificates or scrip for any such fractional shares shall be issued hereunder and such Accredited Stockholder shall receive an amount in cash equal to the product of (a) such fraction of a share of Parent Class A Common Stock multiplied by (b) the Parent Stock Price, rounded to the nearest cent, in each case, as set forth on the Allocation Schedule.
2.7Withholding. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Parent, the Final Surviving Entity, the Escrow Agent, the Paying Agent and any Affiliate of the foregoing shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amount payable or otherwise deliverable pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as are required to be deducted or withheld therefrom under any provision of U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law or under any applicable Law or Order, and to request and be provided any necessary tax forms, including an IRS Form W-9 or the appropriate version of IRS Form W-8, as applicable, or any similar information. To the extent any such amounts are so deducted or withheld and paid to the proper Governmental Entity, such amounts shall be treated for all purposes under this Agreement as having been paid to the Person to whom such amounts would otherwise have been paid.
2.8Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action. If at any time after the Effective Time or the Second Effective Time, any further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and to vest the Final Surviving Entity with full right, title and possession to all assets, property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of the Company, Parent, Merger Subs, and the officers and directors of the Company, Parent and Merger Subs are fully authorized in the name of their respective corporations or otherwise to take, and shall take, all such lawful and necessary action.







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2.9Post-Closing Reconciliation.
(a)At least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to Parent its good faith calculation of (i) the estimated Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount (the “Estimated Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount”), (ii) the estimated Closing Indebtedness Amount (the “Estimated Closing Indebtedness Amount”), (iii) the estimated Closing Cash Amount (the “Estimated Closing Cash Amount”), (iv) the estimated Closing Third-Party Expenses (the “Estimated Closing Third-Party Expenses”) and (v) the Total Merger Consideration calculated based on such estimated amounts (including the component pieces thereof) (the “Estimated Closing Statement”), in each case, accompanied by reasonably detailed back-up documentation for such calculations. The Company shall prepare the Estimated Closing Statement in accordance with the applicable definitions in this Agreement and with GAAP and, to the extent not inconsistent with GAAP, in accordance with the Company’s past practices (including the methodologies applied in the preparation of the Financials); provided that if there is any inconsistency between GAAP and the definitions in this Agreement relating to the items to be set forth on the Estimated Closing Statement, the definitions shall control. The Company shall make available to Parent and its Representatives the books and records used in preparing the Estimated Closing Statement and reasonable access (on prior notice and during business hours) to employees of the Company as Parent may reasonably request in connection with its review of such statements, and will otherwise cooperate in good faith with Parent’s and its Representatives’ review of such statements and shall take into consideration in good faith any comments of Parent on the Estimated Closing Statement, as applicable. The Company may revise the Estimated Closing Statement prior to the Closing to reflect any comments from Parent and to make any other changes thereto required to update or correct the information set forth therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any of Parent’s rights be considered waived, impaired or otherwise limited as a result of Parent not making an objection prior to the Closing or its making an objection that is not fully implemented in a revised Estimated Closing Statement, as applicable.
(b)As soon as reasonably practicable after the Closing Date, and in any event within 75 days after the Closing Date, Parent shall prepare and deliver to the Stockholder Representative a statement (the “Post-Closing Statement”) that shall set forth a calculation of the Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount accompanied by reasonably detailed back-up documentation for such calculations. Parent shall prepare the Post-Closing Statement in accordance with the applicable definitions in this Agreement and with GAAP and, to the extent not inconsistent with GAAP, in accordance with the Company’s past practices (including the methodologies applied in the preparation of the Financials); provided that if there is any inconsistency between GAAP and the definitions in this Agreement relating to the items to be set forth on the Post-Closing Statement, the definitions shall control. After the Stockholder Representative’s receipt of the Post-Closing Statement, the Stockholder Representative and its Representatives shall be permitted to review Parent’s working papers and the working papers of Parent’s independent accountants, if any, relating to the preparation of the Post-Closing Statement and the calculation of the Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount after signing a customary confidentiality and non-reliance agreement relating to such access to working papers in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Parent’s independent accountants, to the extent required by such accountants, which confidentiality and non-reliance agreement shall not prohibit the Stockholder Representative from communicating any such information with the Company Indemnitors who have a need to know such information, provided that any such recipients are subject to confidentiality obligations with respect thereto, as well as the relevant books and records of the Company, and Parent shall cause the Company and its Representatives to use commercially reasonable efforts to assist the Stockholder Representative and its Representatives in their reasonable review of the Post-Closing Statement. The Stockholder Representative shall notify Parent in writing (the “Notice of Adjustment Disagreement”) within 30 days of the Stockholder Representative’s receipt of the Post-Closing Statement (the “Adjustment Review Period”) if the Stockholder Representative disagrees with any portion of the Post-Closing Statement. The Notice of Adjustment Disagreement shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for such disagreement,
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the amounts involved and the Stockholder Representative’s proposed adjustments to the Post-Closing Statement with reasonably detailed supporting documentation. If no Notice of Adjustment Disagreement is received by Parent on or prior to the expiration date of the Adjustment Review Period, then the Post-Closing Statement and all amounts set forth therein shall be deemed to have been accepted by the Stockholder Representative and shall become final and binding upon the parties hereto and the Company Indemnitors for all purposes under this Agreement. During the 30 days immediately following the delivery of a Notice of Adjustment Disagreement (the “Adjustment Resolution Period”), if any, the Stockholder Representative and Parent shall seek in good faith to resolve any disagreement that they may have with respect to the matters specified in the Notice of Adjustment Disagreement. Any items agreed to by the Stockholder Representative and Parent in a written agreement executed and delivered by each of the Stockholder Representative and Parent, together with any items not disputed or objected to by the Stockholder Representative in the Notice of Adjustment Disagreement, are collectively referred to herein as the “Resolved Matters.” If at the end of the Adjustment Resolution Period, the parties have been unable to resolve any differences they may have with respect to the matters specified in the Notice of Adjustment Disagreement, the Stockholder Representative and Parent, or either of them, shall refer all matters in the Notice of Adjustment Disagreement other than the Resolved Matters (the “Unresolved Matters”) to PricewaterhouseCoopers (the “Independent Accountant”). In the event that PricewaterhouseCoopers refuses or is otherwise unable to act as the Independent Accountant, the Stockholder Representative and Parent shall cooperate in good faith to appoint an independent certified public accounting firm in the United States of national recognition mutually agreeable to the Stockholder Representative and Parent, in which event “Independent Accountant” shall mean such firm. Within 30 days after the submission of such matters to the Independent Accountant, the Independent Accountant, acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator, will make a final determination, binding on the parties hereto for all purposes under this Agreement, of the appropriate amount of each of the Unresolved Matters. With respect to each Unresolved Matter, such determination, if not in accordance with the position of either the Stockholder Representative or Parent, shall not be in excess of the higher, nor less than the lower, of the amounts advocated by the Stockholder Representative in the Notice of Adjustment Disagreement or Parent in the Post-Closing Statement with respect to such Unresolved Matter. For the avoidance of doubt, the Independent Accountant shall not review any line items in the Post-Closing Statement or make any determination with respect to any matter other than the Unresolved Matters. During the review by the Independent Accountant, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall each make available to the Independent Accountant such individuals and such information, books, records and work papers, as may be reasonably required by the Independent Accountant to fulfill its obligations under this Section 2.9(b); provided that the independent accountants of Parent or the Company shall not be obligated to make any working papers available to the Independent Accountant unless and until the Independent Accountant has signed a customary confidentiality and hold harmless agreement relating to such access to working papers in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such independent accountants. The fees and expenses of the Independent Accountant shall be borne by Parent and the Stockholder Representative (on behalf of the Company Indemnitors) based on the inverse of the percentage that the Independent Accountant’s resolution of the disputed items covered by such Notice of Adjustment Disagreement (before such allocation) bears to the total amount of such disputed items as originally submitted to the Independent Accountant (for example, if the total amount of such disputed items as originally submitted to the Independent Accountant equals $1,000 and the Independent Accountant awards $600 in favor of the Stockholder Representative’s position, 60% of the fees and expenses of the Independent Accountant would be borne by Parent and 40% of the fees and expenses of the Independent Accountant would be borne by the Stockholder Representative (on behalf of the Company Indemnitors)).
(c)The “Final Closing Statement” shall be (i) in the event that no Notice of Adjustment Disagreement is delivered by the Stockholder Representative to Parent prior to the expiration of the Adjustment Review Period, the Post-Closing Statement delivered by Parent to the Stockholder Representative pursuant to Section 2.9(b), (ii) in the event that a Notice of Adjustment Disagreement is delivered by the Stockholder Representative to Parent prior to the expiration of the Adjustment Review
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Period and Parent and the Stockholder Representative are able to agree on all matters set forth in such Notice of Adjustment Disagreement, the Post-Closing Statement delivered by Parent to the Stockholder Representative pursuant to Section 2.9(b) as adjusted pursuant to the written agreement executed and delivered by Parent and the Stockholder Representative or (iii) in the event that a Notice of Adjustment Disagreement is delivered by the Stockholder Representative to Parent prior to the expiration of the Adjustment Review Period and Parent and the Stockholder Representative are unable to agree on all matters set forth in such Notice of Adjustment Disagreement, the Post-Closing Statement delivered by Parent to the Stockholder Representative pursuant to Section 2.9(b) as adjusted by the Independent Accountant to be consistent with the Resolved Matters and the final determination of the Independent Accountant of the Unresolved Matters in accordance with Section 2.9(b). The date on which the Final Closing Statement is finally determined in accordance with this Section 2.9(c) is hereinafter referred to as the “Determination Date.” The Final Closing Statement and all amounts set forth therein shall be final and binding upon the parties hereto and the Company Indemnitors for all purposes under this Agreement.
(d)If the Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount set forth in the Final Closing Statement (as finally determined in accordance with this Section 2.9) is less than the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment Amount set forth in the Estimated Closing Statement (after giving effect to any revisions thereto in accordance with Section 2.9(a)) (such difference, the “Post-Closing Deficit Amount”), then Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall promptly (but in all events within five Business Days after the Determination Date), instruct the Escrow Agent to promptly transfer and release to Parent (i) an aggregate amount of Adjustment Escrow Cash from the Adjustment Escrow Account equal to the absolute value of the Post-Closing Deficit Amount (plus any costs allocated to the Stockholder Representative (on behalf of the Company Indemnitors) pursuant to Section 2.9(b)) and (ii) solely in the event that the Post-Closing Deficit Amount exceeds the then available amount of the Adjustment Escrow Account, an aggregate amount of Indemnity Escrow Cash from the Indemnity Escrow Account equal to such deficiency. For avoidance of doubt, any recovery of any such Post-Closing Deficit Amount shall not be subject to any of the procedures for indemnification set forth in Section 8.2, it being understood and agreed that the sole recourse therefore shall be from the Escrow Account pursuant to the preceding sentence.
(e)If the Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount set forth in the Final Closing Statement (as finally determined in accordance with this Section 2.9) is more than the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment Amount set forth in the Estimated Closing Statement (after giving effect to any revisions thereto in accordance with Section 2.9(a)) (such difference, the “Post-Closing Excess Amount”), then Parent shall promptly (but in all events within five Business Days after the Determination Date), pay the Post-Closing Excess Amount in cash to the Unaccredited Stockholders and in cash and shares of Parent Class A Common Stock (at the Parent Stock Price) to the Accredited Stockholders (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company Warrantholder) (in the same proportion paid to such Company Indemnitors at the Closing with respect to Company Common Stock and Company Warrants) to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors the portion of such amount payable pursuant to Section 2.1(a) and Section 2.1(c), as applicable; provided that as a condition to Parent’s and Paying Agent’s obligation to make such payments, the Stockholder Representative shall first deliver to Parent an updated Allocation Schedule setting forth the portion of the Post-Closing Excess Amount payable to each Company Indemnitor.
(f)Following the payment of any Post-Closing Deficit Amount to Parent in accordance with Section 2.9(d) or, if there is a Post-Closing Excess Amount, the payment by Parent of such amount to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with Section 2.9(e), Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to release from the Adjustment Escrow Account an aggregate cash amount equal to the then remaining Adjustment Escrow Cash available in the Adjustment Escrow Account, if any, to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors the portion of such amount distributable pursuant to
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Section 2.1(a) and Section 2.1(c), as applicable; provided that as a condition to Parent’s and Paying Agent’s obligation to make such distributions, the Stockholder Representative shall first deliver to Parent an updated Allocation Schedule setting forth the portion of the remaining Adjustment Escrow Cash to be distributed to each Company Indemnitor.
(g)Parent and the Final Surviving Entity shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon the updated Allocation Schedule delivered by the Stockholder Representative, including with respect to whether any individual Company Indemnitor received the appropriate portion of any such distribution, and in no event will Parent, the Final Surviving Entity or any of their Affiliates have any liability to any Person on account of payments or distributions made in accordance with the updated Allocation Schedule delivered by the Stockholder Representative.
2.10Equitable Adjustments. If at any time during the period between the Agreement Date and the Effective Time, any change in the outstanding shares of Parent Class A Common Stock shall occur by reason of any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split or combination, exchange or readjustment of shares, or any stock dividend thereon with a record date during such period, any number or amount contained in this Agreement which is based on the price of Parent Class A Common Stock or the number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock shall be equitably adjusted to the extent necessary to provide the parties the same economic effect with respect to the Parent Class A Common Stock as contemplated by this Agreement prior to such reclassification, recapitalization, stock split or combination, exchange or readjustment of shares, or stock dividend thereon.
ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
Subject to the disclosures set forth in the disclosure schedule of the Company dated as of the Agreement Date and delivered to Parent concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (the “Disclosure Schedule”) (each of which disclosures shall clearly indicate the Section and, if applicable, the Subsection of this Article III to which it relates (unless and only to the extent the relevance to other representations and warranties is readily apparent from the actual text of the disclosures without any reference to extrinsic documentation or any independent knowledge on the part of the reader regarding the matter disclosed), and which disclosures shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement, including Section 7.2(a) and Article VIII, except as expressly set forth in Section 8.2(a)(iii), Section 8.2(a)(iv) and Section 8.2(a)(v) to be an exception to, or qualification or modification of, the representations and warranties in each such Section, Subsection or other relevant representation and warranty), the Company represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Subs as follows:
3.1Organization of the Company.
(a)The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Company has the corporate power to own, operate, distribute and lease its properties and to conduct its business as now being conducted and as currently proposed by it to be conducted and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing, individually or in the aggregate with any such other failures, would reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company is not in violation of any of the provisions of its Charter Documents.
(b)Section 3.1(b) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a correct and complete list of: (i) the names of the members of the board of directors or managers, as applicable, of the Company and
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each of its Subsidiaries and (ii) the names and titles of the officers of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries, in each case as of the Agreement Date.
(c)Section 3.1(c) of the Disclosure Schedule lists every state or foreign jurisdiction in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has employees or facilities or otherwise conducts its business as of the Agreement Date (specifying the existence of employees or facilities in each such state or jurisdiction).
(d)The Company has made available correct and complete copies of its certificate of incorporation, as amended to date (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), bylaws, as amended to date, and other governing documents, as amended to date, each in full force and effect on the Agreement Date (collectively, the “Charter Documents”). The Board has not approved or proposed, nor has any Person proposed, any amendment to any of the current Charter Documents.
3.2Company Capital Structure.
(a)As of the Agreement Date, other than de minimis changes resulting from the exercise of Company Options, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 90,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock, $0.0001 par value, of which 15,357,091 shares are issued and outstanding, and (ii) 58,834,395 shares of Company Preferred Stock, $0.0001 par value, (A) 11,383,245 shares of which are designated Series Z Preferred Stock and all of which are issued and outstanding, (B) 9,762,720 shares of which are designated Series 1 Preferred Stock and all of which are issued and outstanding, (C) 8,743,807 shares of which are designated Series 2 Preferred Stock and all of which are issued and outstanding, (D) 11,458,545 shares of which are designated Series 3 Preferred Stock and all of which are issued and outstanding and (E) 17,486,078 shares of which are designated Series D Preferred Stock and all of which are issued and outstanding. Each share of Company Preferred Stock is convertible on a one-share for one-share basis into Company Common Stock, and there are no other issued and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock and no commitments or Contracts to issue any shares of Company Capital Stock other than pursuant to the conversion provisions related to the Company Preferred Stock pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation, the exercise of Company Options under the Company Equity Plan and the Company Warrant that are, in each case, outstanding as of the Agreement Date. The Company holds no treasury shares. Section 3.2(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the Agreement Date, a correct and complete list of the Company Stockholders and the number and type of such shares so owned by each such Company Stockholder, and any beneficial holders thereof. All issued and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and are free of any Liens, outstanding subscriptions, preemptive rights or “put” or “call” rights created by statute, the Charter Documents or any Contract to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or any of its assets is bound. The Company has never declared or paid any dividends on any shares of Company Capital Stock. There is no Liability for dividends accrued and unpaid by the Company. The Company is not under any obligation to register under the Securities Act or any other Law any shares of Company Capital Stock, any Company Securities or any other securities of the Company, whether currently outstanding or that may subsequently be issued. All issued and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock and all Company Options were issued in compliance with Law and all requirements set forth in the Charter Documents and any applicable Contracts to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or any of its assets is bound. No shares of Company Capital Stock are subject to vesting, reverse vesting, forfeiture, a right of repurchase or to a “substantial risk of forfeiture” within the meaning of Section 83 of the Code, except for the shares of Company Common Stock set forth on Section 3.2(a) of the Disclosure Schedule (such shares set forth, or required to be set forth, on Section 3.2(a)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule, the “Restricted Shares”). Each Contract pursuant to which any Restricted Shares are subject to vesting or a right of repurchase or a substantial risk of forfeiture is set forth in Section 3.2(a)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule.
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(b)As of the Agreement Date, the Company has reserved 18,976,150 shares of Company Common Stock for issuance to Company Service Providers pursuant to the Company Equity Plans, of which 13,173,850 shares are subject to outstanding and unexercised Company Options, and 849,545 shares remain available for issuance thereunder. Section 3.2(b)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the Agreement Date, a correct and complete list of all Company Optionholders, and each Company Option, whether or not granted under the Company Equity Plan, including the number of shares of Company Capital Stock subject to each Company Option, the number of such shares that are vested or unvested, the “date of grant” of such Company Option (as defined under Treasury Regulation 1.409A-1(b)(5)(vi)(B)), the vesting commencement date, the vesting schedule (and the terms of any acceleration thereof), the exercise price per share, the Tax status of such Company Option under Section 422 of the Code (or any applicable foreign Tax Law), the term of each Company Option, any special post-termination exercise period, the equity plan from which such Company Option was granted (if any), whether such Company Option was granted with an “early exercise” right in favor of the holder, and the country and state of residence of such Company Optionholder. All Company Options listed on Section 3.2(b)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule that are denoted as incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Code so qualify. Section 3.2(b)-2 of the Disclosure Schedule indicates, as of the Agreement Date, which Company Optionholders are Persons that are not employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including non-employee directors, consultants, advisory board members, vendors, service providers or other similar Persons), including a description of the relationship between each such Person and the Company.
(c)With respect to the Company Options, (i) each grant of an option was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such option was by its terms to be effective by all necessary corporate action, (ii) no Company Options differ in any material respect from the standard form of award agreement under the applicable Company Equity Plan, a correct and complete copy of such award agreement has been made available to Parent (other than any vesting acceleration provisions contained therein as indicated in Section 3.2(b) of the Disclosure Schedule) and (iii) there is no agreement, arrangement or understanding (written or oral) to amend, modify or supplement any such award agreement in any case from the form made available to Parent. No shares of Company Capital Stock are subject to vesting as of the Agreement Date and no Company Options are “early exercisable” as of the Agreement Date. No Company Option is subject to Section 409A of the Code. The treatment of Company Options under Section 2.1 is permitted under the Company Equity Plans, applicable Laws, and the underlying individual agreements for such equity awards. The Company has no outstanding commitments to grant Company Options or other awards, other than the Promised Options. Except as set forth on Section 3.2(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, no Company Option that was granted so as to qualify as an incentive stock option as defined in Section 422 of the Code was early exercised by the holder of such Company Option.
(d)As of the Agreement Date, there are no authorized, issued or outstanding Company Securities other than shares of Company Capital Stock set forth on Section 3.2(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, Company Options set forth on Section 3.2(b)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule and the Company Warrant. Other than pursuant to the Company Warrant or as set forth on Section 3.2(a), Section 3.2(b)-1, Section 3.2(c) or Section 3.2(e) of the Disclosure Schedule, as of the Agreement Date, no Person holds any Company Securities, or is party to any Contract of any character to which the Company or an Company Security Holder is a party or by which it or its assets is bound, (i) obligating the Company or such Company Security Holder to issue, deliver, sell, repurchase or redeem, or cause to be issued, delivered, sold, repurchased or redeemed, any Company Securities or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any Company Securities, whether vested or unvested or (ii) obligating the Company to grant, extend, accelerate the vesting or repurchase rights of (other than any vesting acceleration provisions contained therein as indicated in Section 3.2(b)-1 of the Disclosure Schedule), change the price of, or otherwise amend or enter into any Company Option or other Company Security.
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(e)Section 3.2(e) of the Disclosure Schedule identifies as of the Agreement Date each Person with an offer letter or other Contract that contemplates a grant of Company Options or grant or issuance of other securities of the Company (including the number, series and class of shares, exercise price, vesting commencement date and vesting schedule (including, any accelerated vesting)), or who has otherwise been promised Company Options or other securities of the Company, which Company Options have not been granted, or other securities have not been granted or issued, as of the Agreement Date (each such individual required to be set forth on Section 3.2(e) of the Disclosure Schedule, an “Agreement Date Committed Equity Individual”).
(f)There is no Indebtedness of the Company (i) granting its holder the right to vote on any matters on which any Company Security Holder may vote (or that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having such right) or (ii) the value of which is in any way based upon or derived from capital or voting stock of the Company (collectively, “Company Voting Debt”).
(g)There are no Contracts relating to voting, purchase, sale or transfer of any Company Capital Stock (i) between or among the Company, on the one hand, and any Company Security Holder, on the other hand, and (ii) to the Knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company Security Holders. Except as set forth on Section 3.2(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, no Company Equity Plan nor any Contract of any character to which the Company is a party to or by which the Company or any of its assets is bound relating to any Company Options requires or otherwise provides for any accelerated vesting of any Company Options or the acceleration of any other benefits thereunder, in each case in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or upon termination of employment or service with the Company or Parent, or any other event, whether before, upon or following the Effective Time or otherwise.
3.3Subsidiaries; Ownership Interests.
(a)Each Subsidiary of the Company is a legal entity duly organized and validly existing. Each Subsidiary of the Company has all requisite corporate or similar power and authority to own, operate, distribute and lease its properties and to conducts its business as now being conducted and as currently proposed by it to be conducted and is duly qualified to do business and, to the extent such concept is applicable, in good standing under the Laws in each jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing, individually or in the aggregate with any such other failures, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(b)Section 3.3(b) of the Disclosure Schedule accurately lists the Equity Interests, whether direct or indirect, held by the Company in each of its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Subsidiary Ownership Interests”), as well as the names of any other Persons who hold Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries and the percentage of Equity Interests held by any such Persons. The Subsidiary Ownership Interests are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and are free of any Liens (other than Permitted Liens), outstanding subscriptions, preemptive rights or “put” or “call” rights created by statute, the Organizational Documents of any Subsidiary of the Company or any Contract to which any Subsidiary of the Company is a party or by which such Subsidiary or any of its assets is bound. Other than the Subsidiary Ownership Interests, there are no options, warrants or rights of any kind to acquire securities or other ownership interests in any of the Subsidiaries of the Company, or any interest convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any equity or similar interest in, any of the Subsidiaries of the Company.
(c)The Company has made available correct and complete copies of the Organizational Documents of each of its Subsidiaries. No Subsidiary of the Company is in violation of any of the provisions of its Organizational Documents.
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3.4Authority and Enforceability.
(a)The Company has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which the Company is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and no further corporate action is required on the part of the Company to authorize this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company Stockholder Approval is the only vote, approval or consent of the holders of any class or series of Company Capital Stock or any other securities of the Company that is necessary to adopt this Agreement and each of the Related Agreements to which the Company is a party and approve the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. This Agreement and each of the Related Agreements to which the Company is a party have been, or, as of the Effective Time shall be, duly executed and delivered by the Company and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties hereto and thereto, constitute, or shall constitute when executed and delivered, the valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, subject to (A) Laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and (B) principles of equity, rules of law governing specific performance, injunctive relief and other equitable remedies (the “Enforcement Exceptions”). The Board, by resolutions duly adopted (and not thereafter modified or rescinded) by the unanimous vote of the Board, has (x) declared that this Agreement, the Related Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the Merger, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, are advisable and in the best interests of the Company and the Company Stockholders, (y) approved this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of the DGCL and (z) directed that the adoption of this Agreement and approval of the Merger be submitted to the Company Stockholders for consideration and recommended that all of the Company Stockholders adopt this Agreement and approve the Merger (collectively, the “Company Board Resolutions”).
(b)The Company, the Board and the Company Stockholders have taken all actions such that the restrictive provisions of any “fair price,” “moratorium,” “control share acquisition,” “business combination,” “interested shareholder” or other similar anti-takeover statute or regulation, and any anti-takeover provision in the Charter Documents shall not be applicable to any of Parent, the Company or Final Surviving Entity or to the execution, delivery or performance of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the consummation of the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
3.5No Conflict. The execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and any Related Agreement to which the Company is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the Merger, shall not conflict with or result in any violation by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of or default under (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) or give rise to, any payment obligation, or a right of termination, cancellation, modification or acceleration of any material obligation or loss of any material benefit under, or result in the creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on any material assets of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any of the Equity Interests of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company under  any provision of the Charter Documents or the Organizational Documents of any Subsidiary of the Company,  any Material Contract,  any material Permit of the Company or (d) assuming compliance with any applicable Antitrust Laws, any Law applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets (whether tangible or intangible) other than, in the case of clauses (b), (c) or (d), any such conflict, violation, default, obligation, right, loss or creation of any Lien that would not be material and adverse to the Company. Section 3.5 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth all notices, consents, waivers and approvals of parties to any Material Contracts with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
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that are required thereunder in connection with the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, or for any such Material Contract to remain in full force and effect without material limitation, modification or alteration immediately after the Closing and, but for any fact, circumstance, or condition with respect to Parent, so as to preserve all material rights of, and material benefits to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under such Material Contracts from and after the Closing. Immediately following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall continue to be permitted to exercise all of their rights under the Material Contracts without the payment of any additional amounts or consideration other than ongoing fees, royalties or payments that the Company or its Subsidiaries would otherwise be required to pay pursuant to the terms of such Material Contracts had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred.
3.6Governmental Authorization. No consent, notice, waiver, approval, Order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with any Governmental Entity is required by, or with respect to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and any Related Agreement to which the Company is a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (a) such consents, notices, waivers, approvals, Orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings as may be required under applicable securities Laws, (b) the filing of the First Certificate of Merger and Second Certificate of Merger as provided in Section 1.2 and (c) the expiration or early termination of the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act.
3.7Company Financial Statements; No Undisclosed Liabilities.
(a)The Company has delivered to Parent correct and complete copies of its audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 (including, in each case, balance sheets, statements of income and statements of cash flows) (the “Audited Financials”) and its unaudited consolidated financial statements (including, in each case, balance sheets, statements of income and statements of cash flows) as at April 30, 2021 and the four months then ended (such financials, the “Interim Financials”, collectively with the Audited Financials, the “Financials”), which are included as Section 3.7(a) of the Disclosure Schedule. The Financials (i) are derived from and in accordance with the books and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries at the dates therein indicated and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the periods therein specified (subject, in the case of unaudited interim period financial statements, to normal recurring year-end audit adjustments, none of which individually or in the aggregate are or shall be material to the Company), and (iii) were prepared in accordance with GAAP, except for the absence of footnotes in the unaudited Financials, applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated and consistent with each other.
(b)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material Liabilities other than (i) those set forth on or provided for on the face of the balance sheet (the “Current Balance Sheet”) included in the Financials as of April 30, 2021 (the “Balance Sheet Date”), (ii) those incurred in the conduct of the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s business since the Balance Sheet Date in the Ordinary Course of Business that do not result from any breach of Contract, warranty, infringement, tort or violation of Law by the Company, (iii) those incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Related Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all Third-Party Expenses, and (iv) those arising under Material Contracts in accordance with their terms (other than the payment of liquidated damages or arising as a result of a default or breach thereof). Except for Liabilities reflected in the Financials, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any off-balance sheet Liability of any nature to, or any financial interest in, any third parties or entities, the purpose or effect of which is to defer, postpone, reduce or otherwise avoid or adjust the recording of expenses incurred by the
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Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Since December 31, 2017, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have guaranteed any debt or other obligation of any other Person. All reserves that are set forth in or reflected in the Current Balance Sheet have been established in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
(c)Section 3.7(c) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a correct and complete list of all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Agreement Date, including, for each such item of Indebtedness, the agreement governing the Indebtedness, any assets securing such Indebtedness and any prepayment or other penalties payable in connection with the repayment of such Indebtedness at the Closing pursuant to the agreements governing such Indebtedness.
(d)The Company has established and maintains a system of internal accounting controls reasonably designed to provide assurances (i) that transactions, receipts and expenditures of the Company and its Subsidiaries are being executed and made only in accordance with appropriate authorizations of management and the Board, (ii) that transactions are recorded as necessary (A) to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and (B) to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (iv) that the amount recorded for assets on the books and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. None of the Company, any of the its Subsidiaries, the Company’s independent auditors nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any current or former employee, consultant or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has identified or been made aware of any fraud, whether or not material, that involves the Company’s or any of its Subsidiary’s management or other current or former employees, consultants or directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries who have a role in the preparation of the Financials or the internal accounting controls utilized by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any claim or allegation regarding any of the foregoing. Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Representative of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or oral, in each case, regarding deficient accounting or auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or methods of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or their internal accounting controls or any material inaccuracy in the Company’s or any of its Subsidiary’s Financials. No attorney representing the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has reported to the Board or any committee thereof or to any director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or their Representatives. There are no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ internal controls that could materially and adversely affect the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data. At the Balance Sheet Date, there were no material loss contingencies (as such term is used in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5 (“Statement No. 5”) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in March 1975) that are not adequately provided for in the Current Balance Sheet as required by Statement No. 5. There has been no material change in the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ accounting policies since December 31, 2018, except as described in the Financials.
3.8No Changes. Since the Balance Sheet Date through the Agreement Date: (a) the Company and its Subsidiaries have conducted their business in the Ordinary Course of Business (except with respect to actions taken by the Company in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby), (b) there has not occurred a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and (c) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have taken any action that, if taken after the Agreement Date, would constitute a breach of, or require the consent of, Parent under clauses (a), (b), (c), (g), (h), (i), (j), (n), (o), (p), (q), (r), (s), (t), (u), (v), (w), (x), (y) or (z) of Section 6.2.
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3.9Tax Matters.
(a)General Tax Matters.
(i)The Company and its Subsidiaries have (A) prepared and timely filed all income and other material Tax Returns required to be filed, and such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects and (B) timely paid all Taxes required to be paid by the Company and its Subsidiaries (whether or not shown or required to be shown on any Tax Return). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is the beneficiary of any extension of time within which to file any Tax Return (other than automatically granted extensions to file income Tax Returns that are obtained in the Ordinary Course of Business). All accrued and unpaid Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of close of business on the Closing Date (calculated in accordance with past practice and not taking into account the Closing or any actions taken by Parent or the Company and its Subsidiaries after the Effective Time) will be included in the Estimated Closing Indebtedness Amount.
(ii)The Company and its Subsidiaries have paid or withheld or collected with respect to its employees, creditors, customers, stockholders and other third parties, all Taxes and social security charges, Federal Insurance Contribution Act amounts, Federal Unemployment Tax Act amounts and other Taxes required to be paid or withheld or collected, and have timely paid over any such Taxes and other amounts to the appropriate Governmental Entity in accordance with applicable Law, and filed materially correct and complete information Tax Returns to the extent required to be filed by the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect thereto.
(iii)There is no Tax deficiency outstanding, assessed or proposed in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that has not been paid or otherwise resolved in full, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has executed any waiver of any statute of limitations on or extending the period for the assessment or collection of any Tax.
(iv)No audit or other examination of any Tax Return of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is in progress, nor has the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries been notified in writing of any request for such an audit or other examination. No written claim has ever been made by any Tax authority in a jurisdiction where the Company and its Subsidiaries do not file Tax Returns that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are or may be subject to Tax in that jurisdiction. No adjustment relating to any Tax Return filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been proposed in writing by any Tax authority. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any closing or other agreement or ruling with any Governmental Entity with respect to Taxes. There are no matters relating to Taxes under discussion between any Tax authority and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(v)As of the Balance Sheet Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any liabilities for unpaid Taxes which have not been accrued or reserved on the face of the Current Balance Sheet (rather than in any notes thereto), whether asserted or unasserted, contingent or otherwise, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any liability for Taxes other than in the Ordinary Course of Business (or recognized any extraordinary gain) since the Balance Sheet Date (other than as a result of the Closing).
(vi)The Company has delivered to Parent correct and complete copies of all income, sales and use, value added, and other material Tax Returns filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for all taxable periods remaining open under the applicable statute of limitations, all IRS Forms 8832 filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and all examination reports and statements of deficiencies, adjustments and proposed deficiencies and adjustments in respect of Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries for all taxable periods. Section 3.9(a)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule sets
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forth each jurisdiction where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries will be required to file an income Tax Return following the Closing with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period, including the type of Tax Return and the type of Tax required to be paid. No power of attorney with respect to Taxes has been granted with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that will remain in effect after the Closing.
(vii)There are no Liens on the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating or attributable to Taxes, other than Permitted Liens.
(viii)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been, during the applicable period provided in Section 897(c) of the Code, a “United States Real Property Holding Corporation” within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code.
(ix)The Company has made available to Parent correct and complete copies of any formal written analysis prepared by, or on behalf of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries regarding whether any of the Tax attribute carryforwards of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including net operating losses and Tax credits) are subject to limitation pursuant to Sections 382, 383 or 384 of the Code.
(x)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has constituted either a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” in a distribution of stock intended to qualify for tax free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.
(xi)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has participated in any “reportable transaction” as defined in Section 6707A(e) of the Code or the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, engaged in any transaction that would reasonably be likely to require the filing of an IRS Schedule UTP, or participated or engaged in any other transaction that is subject to disclosure requirements pursuant to a corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken a position on any Tax Return that could give rise to a substantial understatement of Tax within the meaning of Section 6662 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law).
(xii)Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries, nor any predecessor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (A) ever been a member of an affiliated group (within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of the Code) filing a consolidated federal income Tax Return (other than an affiliated group of which the Company was the common parent), (B) ever been a party to any Tax sharing, indemnification, reimbursement or allocation agreement, nor does the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owe any amount under any such agreement (other than Commercial Tax Agreements), (C) any liability for the Taxes of any Person under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law, including any arrangement for group or consortium relief or similar arrangement), as a transferee or successor, by operation of Law, by Contract or otherwise (other than Commercial Tax Agreements) or (D) ever been a party to any joint venture, partnership or other agreement that could reasonably be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income Tax purposes.
(xiii)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (and Parent as a result of its acquisition of the Company) will be required to include any amount of income or gain or exclude a material amount of deduction or loss from taxable income for any Tax period or portion thereof ending after the Closing (with respect to the sum of the amounts under clauses (A) and (E) in each taxable period, in excess of the net operating losses of the Company or its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date that are available and usable by Parent, the Company, or such Subsidiary (as relevant) in such taxable period) as a result of (A) any adjustment under Section 481 of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state, local or non U.S. Tax Law) by reason of a change in a method of accounting filed on or before the Closing Date, or use of an improper method of accounting (including such a change that to the Knowledge of the
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Company could result from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) filed (or otherwise adopted or imposed) on or before the Closing Date, or use of an improper method of accounting, for a taxable period that ends on or prior to the Closing Date, (B) any “closing agreement” within the meaning of Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provision of applicable state, local or non-U.S. Law) entered into on or prior to the Closing Date, (C) any intercompany transaction (including any intercompany transaction subject to Section 367 or 482 of the Code) or excess loss account described in the Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 1502 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law) with respect to a transaction occurring before the Closing, (D) any installment sale or open transaction disposition made on or prior to the Closing Date, (E) any deferred revenue or prepaid amount received on or prior to the Closing Date, or (F) any payment, loan, event or other transaction that occurred prior to the Closing the payment and/or liability for which has been deferred or forgiven pursuant to any Pandemic Response Law. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made an election under Section 965(h) of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law).
(xiv)Each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries uses the accrual method of accounting for income Tax purposes.
(xv)The Company is and always has been a domestic corporation taxable under subchapter C of the Code and the Company’s Subsidiary is and always has been a foreign corporation or an entity disregarded as separate from the Company, in each case for U.S. federal income Tax purposes. Except for the Company’s interests in the Subsidiaries of the Company set forth in Section 3.3(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has or ever has had any direct or indirect ownership interest in any trust, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other business entity for U.S. federal income Tax purposes.
(xvi)Each of the Subsidiaries of the Company (A) is a “controlled foreign corporation” as defined in Section 957 of the Code, (B) has never been a “passive foreign investment company” as defined in Section 1297 of the Code with respect to the Company, (C) is not a “surrogate foreign corporation” as defined in Section 7874(a)(2)(B) of the Code, and (D) is not subject to U.S. federal income Tax under any provision of the Code. As of the Closing Date, none of the Subsidiaries of the Company will hold any assets that constitute United States property within the meaning of Section 956 of the Code. The Company would not be required to include any amount as income under Section 951 of the Code or Section 951A of the Code were the taxable years of the Subsidiaries of the Company deemed to close on the Closing Date.
(xvii)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to Tax in any country other than its country of incorporation or formation by virtue of having a permanent establishment or other place of business in such other country.
(xviii)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has ever (A) participated in an international boycott as defined in Section 999 of the Code, (B) been subject to any accumulated earnings Tax or personal holding company Tax, (C) had branch operations in any foreign country (D) been party to a gain recognition agreement under Section 367 of the Code or (E) incurred a dual consolidated loss within the meaning of Section 1503. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has transferred any intangible property the transfer of which would be subject to the rules of Section 367(d) of the Code. No Tax ruling has been issued to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has applied for any Tax ruling. To the extent required by applicable Law, the each of Company and its Subsidiaries has filed all reports and have created and/or retained all records required under Sections 6038, 6038A, 6038B, 6038C, 6046 and 6046A of the Code (and any comparable provisions of any non-U.S. Tax Law).
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(xix)All transactions and agreements entered into between any of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been made on arm’s length terms. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is, and has been at all relevant times, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable transfer pricing laws and regulations.
(xx)Section 3.9(a)(xx) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all Tax holidays that were granted by a Tax authority and are not generally available to Persons without specific application therefor with regard to the payment of Taxes which have current applicability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is currently in compliance with the requirements for all such Tax holidays and similar Tax benefits and have been in compliance since such holiday or benefit was originally claimed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Tax holiday or similar Tax benefit of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries will terminate or be subject to recapture or clawback by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(xxi)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken any action, nor knows of any fact or circumstance, that could reasonably be expected to prevent the Merger from qualifying as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code.
(xxii)To the Knowledge of the Company, there is no material property or obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including uncashed checks to vendors, customers or employees, non-refunded overpayments, credits or unclaimed amounts or intangibles, that are currently escheatable or reportable as unclaimed property to any Governmental Entity under any applicable escheatment, unclaimed property or similar applicable Laws.
(xxiii)No Company Securities are a “covered security” within the meaning of Section 6045(g) of the Code. The Company has delivered to Parent correct and complete copies of all election statements under Section 83(b) of the Code, together with evidence of timely filing of such election statements with the appropriate IRS Center, that the Company has received from employees, non-employee directors, or other service providers under Treasury Regulation Section 1.83-2(d) with respect to Company Capital Stock that is subject to vesting. A valid election under Section 83(b) of the Code was timely made in connection with any issuance of any shares of Company Capital Stock in connection with the performance of services if such shares were subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture.
(xxiv)The Company and its Subsidiaries have collected, remitted and reported to the appropriate Tax authority all sales, use, value added, excise and similar Taxes required to be so collected, remitted or reported pursuant to all applicable Tax Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating to record retention (including to the extent necessary to claim any exemption from Tax collection and maintaining adequate and current resale certificates to support any such claimed exemption).
(xxv)None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (A) deferred, extended or delayed the payment of the employer’s share of any “applicable employment taxes” under Section 2302 of the CARES Act, (B) sought a covered loan under paragraph (36) of Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)), as added by Section 1102 of the CARES Act, or (C) deferred any payroll tax obligations pursuant to any Payroll Tax Executive Order.
(b)Tax Matters Related to Compensation. Section 3.9(b) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all current or former Company Service Providers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries who are reasonably believed by the Company to be “disqualified individuals” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code) as of the Agreement Date. Neither the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or together with any
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other event) result in any payment or benefit from the Company or any Subsidiary, Affiliate or ERISA Affiliate thereof (and not from Parent or a Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof) that would be, individually or in combination with any other payment or benefit (including from Parent or a Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (including the First Step Surviving Corporation or the Final Surviving Entity)), characterized as an “excess parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code (or any corresponding provision of Tax law). There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which the Company, its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate is a party or by which it is bound to compensate any current or former Company Service Provider for excise taxes paid pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code or any similar state Law. Other than the Restricted Shares, none of the shares of outstanding capital stock of the Company is subject to a “substantial risk of forfeiture” within the meaning of Section 83 of the Code.
(c)409A Compliance. Except as set forth on Section 3.9(c) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or has been, a party to any Contract, arrangement or plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code). Each nonqualified deferred compensation plan is and has been in documentary and operational compliance with Section 409A of the Code and all applicable IRS guidance issued with respect thereto. The per share exercise price for each Company Option is no less than the fair market value of a share of Company Common Stock on the date of grant (and as of any later modification thereof) within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code and as determined in a manner consistent with Section 409A of the Code. No compensation is includable in the gross income of any current or former Company Service Provider as a result of Section 409A of the Code with respect to any arrangements or agreements covering any such current or former Company Service Provider.
3.10Restrictions on Business Activities. There is no Order to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or which is otherwise binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or any of their assets) which has or may reasonably be expected to have the effect of (a) prohibiting or materially impairing (i) any business practice of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any acquisition of property (tangible or intangible) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iii) the conduct of business by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (b) otherwise limiting the freedom of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business or to compete with any Person.
3.11Title to Properties; Absence of Liens; Condition and Sufficiency of Assets.
(a)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owns, or has ever owned, any real property.
(b)Section 3.11(b) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list, as of the Agreement Date, of all leases, lease guaranties, subleases, agreements for the leasing, use or occupancy of, or otherwise granting a right in or relating to all real property currently leased, subleased or licensed by or from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise used or occupied by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for the operation of its business (the “Leased Real Property”), including all amendments, terminations and modifications thereof (such agreements, together with any amendments, terminations and modifications thereto, the “Lease Agreements”), and there are no other Lease Agreements for real property affecting the Leased Real Property or to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party. There is not, under any of such Lease Agreements, any existing default (or event which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a default) on the part of the Company which would be material to the operation of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and no rent is past due. The Lease Agreements are valid and effective in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the Enforcement Exceptions. As of the Agreement Date, none of the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice of a default, alleged failure to perform, or any offset or counterclaim with respect to any such Lease Agreement, which has not been fully remedied and withdrawn.
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(c)Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interest in, all of its tangible properties, and interests in tangible properties and assets, real and personal, reflected on the Current Balance Sheet or acquired after the Balance Sheet Date (except properties and assets, or interests in properties and assets, sold or otherwise disposed of since the Balance Sheet Date in the Ordinary Course of Business), or, with respect to leased properties and assets, valid leasehold interests in such tangible properties and assets that afford the Company or such Subsidiary valid leasehold possession of the tangible properties that are the subject of such leases, in each case, free and clear of all Liens, except Permitted Liens.
(d)For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of this Section 3.11, all references and representations with respect to the assets or properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries exclude Intellectual Property Rights, which are covered by Section 3.12.
3.12Intellectual Property.
(a)Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:
(i)Behavioral Data” means data collected from an IP address, web beacon, pixel tag, ad tag, cookie, JavaScript, local storage, software, or by any other means, or from a particular computer, Web browser, mobile telephone, or other device or application, where such data is or may be used to identify or contact an individual, device, household or application (including by means of an advertisement or other content), to develop a profile or record of the activities of an individual, device, or application across multiple websites or online services, to predict or infer the preferences, interests, or other characteristics of an individual, device, or application, or a user thereof, or to target advertisements or other content to an individual, device, or application.
(ii)Company Code” shall mean the software that embodies any Company Owned IP and the software that comprises any Company Products.
(iii)Company Data” shall mean the data contained in the databases of the Company and its Subsidiaries and the data and databases that the Company and its Subsidiaries Process in the operation of their business, including Behavioral Data, Company Products Data, and Personal Data.
(iv)Company IP” shall mean (i) all Technology and Intellectual Property Rights used or held for use by the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) all Company Owned IP.
(v)Company Owned IP” shall mean any and all Intellectual Property Rights, including Registered IP, that are owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
(vi)Company Privacy Policy” shall mean each external or internal written privacy policy or privacy or security-related representation or policy of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, including any written policy relating to: (i) Personal Data of users of Company Products or any website or service operated by or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries on or through which Personal Data are Processed by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; or (ii) the creation, collection, use, storage, retention, hosting, disclosure, security, transmission, interception, transfer, disposal, or other Processing of Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
(vii)Company Products” shall mean all products and services that have been or are as of the Closing Date commercially provided, made available, marketed, distributed, offered
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online, offered for sale, sold, leased, loaned, or licensed by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including through resellers and other channel partners) and any product or service currently under development by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company that is scheduled for release in the three months following the Closing Date and in its state of development as of the Closing Date.
(viii)Company Products Data” means (i) all data and content uploaded or otherwise provided by or for customers or users (or any of their respective customers or users) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to, or stored by or for customers or users (or any of their respective customers or users) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the Company Products, (ii) all data and content (including any voice, video, email, text messaging, or other communications) created, compiled, inferred, derived, transmitted, intercepted, or otherwise collected or obtained by or for the Company Products or by or for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with its provision of the Company Products or operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (iii) data and content compiled, inferred, or derived directly or indirectly from any of the data and content described in subclauses (i) and (ii) above.
(ix)Company Software” shall mean the software that (i) is Company Owned IP, (ii) is integrated by or on behalf of the Company with any Company Owned IP or (iii) is used by or on behalf of the Company in the operation, design, development, production, distribution, testing, provision, maintenance or support of the Company Products.
(x)Company Source Code” shall mean any software source code authored by or on behalf of the Company that embodies Company Owned IP.
(xi)Contaminant” shall mean any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse,” “virus” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other code, software routines, or hardware components designed or intended to have, or capable of performing, any of the following functions:  disrupting, disabling, harming, damaging, destroying or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or permitting or causing unauthorized access to, a System, or any data or file without the user’s consent.
(xii)Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean any and all intellectual property and proprietary rights arising in any jurisdiction, including: (i) rights in, arising out of, or associated with works of authorship, including rights granted under the Copyright Act, (ii) rights in, arising out of, or associated with databases, (iii) rights in, arising out of, or associated with inventions, including rights granted under the Patent Act (“Patent Rights”), (iv) rights in, arising out of, or associated with trademarks, service marks and trade names, including rights granted under the Lanham Act, (v) rights in, arising out of, or associated with confidential information and trade secrets, including rights described under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, (vi) rights of attribution and integrity and other moral rights of an author, (vii) rights in, arising out of, or associated with a person’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, including rights of personality, publicity or similar rights, (viii) rights in, arising out of, or associated with domain names and (ix) any similar or analogous rights arising in any jurisdiction in the world.
(xiii)Open Source Material” shall mean any software or other materials that are distributed as “free software” or “open source software” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry), including software code or other materials that are licensed under a Creative Commons License, open database license, the Mozilla Public License, the GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, Affero General Public License, Common Public License, Apache License, BSD License, or MIT License and all other licenses identified by the Open Source Initiative as “open source licenses” (such licenses or agreements are collectively, “Open Source Licenses”).
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(xiv)Personal Data” shall mean information about an identified or identifiable natural person and any other information that constitutes “personal data” as defined under the GDPR, “personal information” as defined under the CCPA, or “personal data,” “personally identifiable information,” “nonpublic personal information,” “customer proprietary network information,” “individually identifiable health information,” “protected health information” or “personal information” as defined under applicable Law or governed by Privacy Requirements.
(xv)Privacy Requirements” shall mean: (i) the Company Privacy Policies, (ii) written privacy obligations relating to the Processing of Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company contained or incorporated in the Material Contracts, (iii) any written notices, consents, authorizations and privacy choices (including opt-in and opt-out preferences, as required) of natural Persons that relate to the Processing of such natural Persons’ Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company, (iv) any applicable Law relating to anti-wiretapping and eavesdropping and the Processing of Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including the Federal Communications Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Video Privacy Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Reporting Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended and supplemented by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (together, “HIPAA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Federal Information Security Management Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), other state privacy and data security laws, any U.S. laws related to eavesdropping, wiretapping, intercepted communications or telephone call recording, state social security number protection laws, state data breach notification laws, state consumer protection laws, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, SC 2000, c 5, (“PIPEDA”) and substantially similar legislation enacted by any provinces of Canada, Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, S.C. 2010, c. 23 (“CASL”), Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR”), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC (“ePrivacy Directive”) any European Union or United Kingdom laws and regulations implementing the GDPR or ePrivacy Directive (each only when and to the extent applicable), the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and any other applicable Laws relating to anti-wiretapping and eavesdropping and the Processing of Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including any Laws within any country where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is conducting, or has conducted, any business, or that otherwise apply to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries)), any applicable written rule, code of conduct, or other requirement of a self-regulatory organization to which the Company has affirmed compliance, and any applicable published industry best practice or other standard applicable to the messaging and software industries to which the Company has affirmed compliance and (v) any contractual obligation binding on the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, including the standard terms of service entered into by users of the Company Products, in each case, as amended from time to time, that pertains to (A) privacy, data security or data protection, (B) the Processing of Personal Data by or on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (C) direct marketing and any other initiation, transmission, monitoring, recording, or receipt of communications (in any format, including voice, video, email, phone (including robocalls), text messaging, electronic commercial messages, or otherwise, in each case containing Personal Data), or consumer protection or (D) notification of a breach of security required by Law or a contractual obligation binding on the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
(xvi)Process” or “Processing” shall mean, with respect to data, the use, review, analysis, filtering, collection, receipt, processing, storage, recording, organization, safeguarding,
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security, adaption, alteration, ingestion, compilation, combination, enrichment, de-identification, transfer, retrieval, access, consultation, disclosure, sharing, dissemination, or destruction of such data.
(xvii)Registered IP” shall mean domain names and all Intellectual Property Rights that are the subject of an application, certificate, filing, registration, or other document issued by, filed with, or recorded by, any state, government, or other public legal authority at any time in any jurisdiction, including all applications, foreign counterparts, reissues, divisions, re-examinations, renewals, extensions, provisionals, continuations, and continuations-in-part associated with patents.
(xviii)Shrink-Wrap Software” shall mean any generally commercially available, non-customized software in executable code or hosted form that is available for an annual cost of not more than $50,000 for a single user or work station (or $50,000 in the aggregate for all users and work stations) that is not: (A) distributed by the Company or its Subsidiaries to third parties or (B) incorporated into the Company Products.
(xix)Technology” shall mean all forms of technology and content, including any or all of the following: (i) published and unpublished works of authorship, including audiovisual works, collective works, computer programs or software (whether in source code or executable form), documentation, compilations, databases, derivative works, literary works, maskworks, websites, and sound recordings, (ii) inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, improvements, business methods, compositions of matter, machines, methods, and processes and new uses for any of the preceding items, (iii) information that is not generally known or readily ascertainable through proper means, whether tangible or intangible, including algorithms, customer lists, ideas, designs, formulas, know-how, methods, processes, programs, prototypes, systems, and techniques, (iv) databases, data compilations and collections and technical data and (v) devices, prototypes, designs and schematics (whether or not any of the foregoing is embodied in any tangible form and including all tangible embodiments of the foregoing, such as instruction manuals, laboratory notebooks, prototypes, samples, studies and summaries).
(b)Registered IP. Section 3.12(b)(1) of the Disclosure Schedule lists: (i) each item of Registered IP which is owned, filed in the name of, or purported to be owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries or subject to a valid obligation of assignment to the Company or any Subsidiary (whether owned exclusively, jointly with another Person, or otherwise) (“Company Registered IP”), (ii) the jurisdiction in which such item of Registered IP has been registered or filed and the applicable registration or serial number, (iii) the filing date, and issuance/registration/grant date and (iv) any other Person that has an ownership interest in such item of Registered IP and the nature of such ownership interest. Section 3.12(b)(2) of the Disclosure Schedule lists: (x) any formal actions that must be taken by the Company or any Subsidiary within 90 days of the Closing Date with respect to any Company Registered IP, including the payment of any registration, maintenance or renewal fees or the filing of any documents, applications or certificates and (y) any Legal Proceedings before any court or tribunal (including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”), the U.S. Copyright Office, or equivalent authority anywhere in the world) to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party and in which claims are raised relating to the validity, enforceability, scope, ownership or infringement of any of the Company Registered IP. All necessary registration, maintenance and renewal fees in connection with the Company Registered IP that are or shall be due for payment on or before the Closing Date have been or shall be timely paid and all necessary documents and certificates in connection with the Company Registered IP that are or shall be due for filing on or before the Closing Date have been or shall be timely filed with the PTO or other relevant patent, copyright, trademark or other authorities in the United States or foreign jurisdictions, as the case may be, for the purposes of maintaining such Company Registered IP. To the maximum extent provided for by, and in accordance with, applicable Laws, the Company and each Subsidiary has recorded each assignment of Registered IP with each relevant Governmental Entity, in accordance with applicable Laws. The Company has made available to Parent correct and complete
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copies of all applications, correspondence and other material documents related to each such item of Registered IP.
(c)Title, Validity and Enforceability. The Company or its Subsidiaries exclusively own all right, title, and interest to and in the Company Owned IP free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens). All Company Registered IP is subsisting and, to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable (except with respect to applications, which are validly applied for).
(d)Contracts.
(i)Section 3.12(d)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule lists, as of the Agreement Date, all Contracts to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound pursuant to which any Intellectual Property Right or Technology is licensed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (A) non-exclusive software licenses or software-as-a-service agreements with respect to Shrink-Wrap Software, (B) Open Source Licenses, (C) Personnel Agreements, (D) data protection Contracts (including business associate agreements and personal information processing agreements), letters of authorization, terms of service, order forms and nondisclosure Contracts entered in the Ordinary Course of Business, (E) non-exclusive licenses to data or feedback contained in Contracts with the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ customers, resellers, channel partners or other strategic partners that were entered into the Ordinary Course of Business, and (F)  licenses of Intellectual Property Rights or Technology that do not materially deviate from the Intellectual Property Rights and Technology licensing provisions set forth in the corresponding Standard Form Agreement) (collectively, “Inbound Licenses”).
(ii)Section 3.12(d)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule lists, as of the Agreement Date, each Contract to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has granted to any Person any license under, agreed not to assert or enforce, or in which any Person has otherwise received or acquired any right (whether or not currently exercisable) or interest in, any Company Owned IP (other than (A) data protection Contracts (including business associate agreements and personal information processing agreements), letters of authorization, terms of service, order forms and nondisclosure agreements entered in the Ordinary Course of Business, (B) non-exclusive licenses to provide the Company Products to the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s customers entered in the Ordinary Course of Business, (C) licenses, access or rights granted to service providers to use Company Data in connection with the provision of services to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (D) access or licenses to Company IP granted to Company Service Providers pursuant to Personnel Agreements and (E) incidental trademark licenses) (collectively, “Outbound Licenses”).
(iii)The Company has made available to Parent a correct and complete copy of each standard form of Contract used by the Company and its Subsidiaries at any time in connection with its business, including (as applicable) each of its unmodified standard forms of: (A) employee agreement containing any assignment or license of Intellectual Property Rights or any confidentiality provision, (B) consulting or independent contractor agreement containing any assignment or license of Intellectual Property Rights or any confidentiality provision, (C) confidentiality or nondisclosure agreement and (D) customer contract providing for non-exclusive use of or access to the Company Products (collectively, the “Standard Form Agreements”).
(iv)With respect to the each of (A) terms of service and order forms relating to software that is not Shrink-Wrap Software entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (B) non-exclusive licenses to provide the Company Products to the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s customers entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business (collectively, the “Material IP Licenses”), each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has performed in all
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material respects all of the obligations required to be performed by it and is entitled to all benefits under, and has not received any written notice alleging it to be in default in respect of, any Material IP License. Each of the Material IP Licenses is in full force and effect, subject only to the effect, if any, of the Enforcement Exceptions. There exists no default or event of default under any Material IP License by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto.
(e)Company Owned IP. The Company or its Subsidiaries has the exclusive right to bring infringement actions with respect to the Company Owned IP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has: (A) transferred full or partial ownership of, or granted any other Person any exclusive license with respect to, any Intellectual Property Rights that are or, as of the time of such transfer or exclusive license were owned or purported to be owned by the Company or (B) permitted Intellectual Property Rights that are or, were at the time, owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to enter into the public domain.
(f)Development of Company IP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has jointly developed any Company IP with any other Person with respect to which such other Person has retained any rights in the developed subject matter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i)Each Person who is or was an employee, consultant or contractor of the Company or any Subsidiary and that was involved in the development of any material Technology or material Intellectual Property Rights for or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries has signed a valid and enforceable Contract that (A) contains an assignment to the Company or such Subsidiary of such Person’s rights, title and interest in and to the resulting Technology and Intellectual Property Rights and (B) which also contains customary confidentiality provisions protecting the rights of the Company or such Subsidiary in trade secrets and other Company or Subsidiary proprietary information (such Contracts, the “Personnel Agreements”). The Company or such Subsidiary and all other parties thereto are in compliance in all material respects with the provisions of the Personnel Agreements.
(ii)No current or former member, manager, officer, director, consultant, contractor or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary (A) has made any claim of ownership with respect to any Company Owned IP or (B) has any claim, right (whether or not currently exercisable) or interest to or in any Company Owned IP.
(iii)No current or former employee of the Company or any Subsidiary is: (A) bound by or otherwise subject to any Contract with a third Person restricting such employee from performing (or in the case of former employees, having performed) such employee’s duties for the Company or such Subsidiary or (B) in breach of any Contract with any former employer or other Person concerning Intellectual Property Rights or confidentiality due to his/her activities as an employee or contractor of the Company or such Subsidiary.
(iv)No funding, facilities or personnel of any Governmental Entity or any public or private university, college or other educational or research institution were used directly to develop or create, in whole or in part, any Technology or Intellectual Property Right for or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
(v)No current or former employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company is in any material respect in violation of any employment contract, non-disclosure, confidentiality agreement, or consulting agreement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. No current or former employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company is in any material respect in violation of any non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement or restrictive covenant with a former employer or service recipient relating to the right of any such employee to be employed by or provide services to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries because of the nature of the business
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conducted or presently proposed to be conducted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the use of trade secrets or proprietary information of such former employer or service recipient.
(g)Standards Bodies. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, nor has ever been, a member or promoter of, or a contributor to, any industry standards body or any similar organization that requires or obligates the Company or its Subsidiaries to grant or offer to any other Person any license or right to any Company Owned IP. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any Contract with a standards body or any similar organization involving the license to the Company or its Subsidiaries of “standards essential” Technology or Intellectual Property Rights, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has reasonable basis to believe that in the absence of such Contract, it has any Liability therefor.
(h)Protection of Trade Secrets. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps and precautions to maintain the confidentiality of, and otherwise protect and enforce its rights in, all proprietary and confidential information that the Company and its Subsidiaries hold, or purport to hold, as a trade secret or maintain, or purport to maintain, as confidential.
(i)Enforcement. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Person has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, and no Person is currently infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, any Company Owned IP. Section 3.12(i) of the Disclosure Schedule lists (and the Company has made available to Parent a correct and complete copy of) each letter or other written or electronic communication, or written correspondence or claim that has been sent or otherwise delivered to any other Person by the Company, any Subsidiary, or any of their representatives regarding any actual, alleged or suspected infringement or misappropriation of any Company Owned IP.
(j)Non-Infringement. The operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as previously conducted, currently conducted and as proposed by the Company and its Subsidiaries to be conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the design, development, use, import, branding, advertising, promotion, marketing, sale, provision, and licensing out of any Company Product, has not, does not, and will not infringe, violate or misappropriate, any Intellectual Property Rights of any Person, or constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the laws of any jurisdiction, nor is there any reasonable basis for any such claims. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i)No infringement, misappropriation, or similar claim or Legal Proceeding involving or relating to any Intellectual Property Rights of another Person is pending or threatened against the Company or its Subsidiaries or against any other Person who is or may be entitled to be indemnified, defended, held harmless or reimbursed by the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect to such Legal Proceeding.
(ii)Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any written notice or other written communications relating to any actual, alleged or suspected infringement, misappropriation or violation by the Company or any Subsidiary of any Intellectual Property Rights of another Person, including any letter or other communication suggesting or offering that the Company or any Subsidiary obtain a license to any Intellectual Property Rights of another Person in a manner that reasonably implies infringement or violation in the absence of a license thereto.
(k)Company Software. The Company Software does not contain any bug, defect or error (including any bug, defect or error relating to or resulting from the display, manipulation, processing, storage, transmission or use of date data) that: (A) with respect to the Company Code only, materially and adversely affects the use, functionality or performance of the Company Code or (B) causes or would cause the Company or any Subsidiary to materially fail to comply, with any applicable warranty
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or other contractual commitment relating to the use, functionality or performance of such Company Software or any Company Product. No Company Software contains any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse,” “virus” or “worm” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other code designed or intended to have, any of the following functions: (X) disrupting, disabling, harming or otherwise materially impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such code is stored or installed or (Y) damaging or destroying any data or file without the user’s consent.
(l)Company Source Code. No Company Source Code has been delivered, licensed or made available to any escrow agent or other Person who is not, or was not, as of the date thereof, an employee, consultant or independent contractor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries subject to a Personnel Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any duty or obligation (whether present, contingent, or otherwise) to deliver, license or make available any Company Source Code to any escrow agent or other Person. No event has occurred, and no circumstance or condition exists, that (with or without notice or lapse of time) shall, or could reasonably be expected to, result in the authorized delivery, license, or disclosure of any Company Source Code to any other Person.
(m)Open Source.
(i)Section 3.12(m)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule lists, as of the Agreement Date: (A) each item of Open Source Materials (including versions) that is contained in, distributed with, or linked with the current version any Company Code or from which any part of the current version of any Company Code is derived, (B) the name of or a link to (or other locator for) the applicable Open Source License for each such item of Open Source Material that is software and (C) whether such Open Source Material has been distributed and/or modified by or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in material compliance with the terms and conditions of the applicable Open Source License for the foregoing Open Source Materials.
(ii)No Company Code contains, is linked with, derived from, or is distributed with, any Open Source Materials pursuant to the applicable Open Source License in a manner: (A) that requires the Company or its Subsidiaries grant a license under, or refrain from asserting any one or more of its Patent Rights, (B) that requires any item or part of Company Code (except for the applicable, unmodified third-party Open Source Material itself), (1) be disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) be licensed for the purpose of making modifications or derivative works or (3) be redistributable at no charge, or (C) that otherwise imposes any limitation, restriction or condition for the commercial exploitation of any item or part of Company Code (except for the applicable, unmodified third-party Open Source Material itself).
(iii)Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has distributed any Company Source Code pursuant to an Open Source License.
(n)Privacy.
(i)Section 3.12(n)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all Company Privacy Policies. None of the disclosures made or contained in any Company Privacy Policy has been materially inaccurate, misleading or deceptive.
(ii)The use of the Company Products by customers of the Company or its Subsidiaries (and such customers’ customers and users) for their intended purposes complies, and at all times has complied, with all Privacy Requirements.
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(iii)The Company, its Subsidiaries, the Company Products, and all third parties performing services for the Company or its Subsidiaries (in the case of such third parties, to the extent relating to the Processing of Personal Data in connection with the performance of services for the Company or its Subsidiaries) comply with, and have complied with, all applicable Privacy Requirements.
(iv)There are no requests to the Company or its Subsidiaries from individuals seeking to exercise their rights under Privacy Requirements applicable to such individuals (such as rights to obtain, access, rectify, or delete their Personal Data; obtain information about how their data is collected, used, or shared; opt-out of sharing of their data; restrict processing of or object to processing of Personal Data; data portability) that have not been complied with in accordance with Privacy Requirements. No indemnification requests are pending or threatened in writing against the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries alleging any violation of Privacy Requirements.
(v)Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has collected or received any Personal Data online from children under age 16 without (where legally required) verifiable parental consent or directed any of its websites through which Personal Data could be obtained to children under age 16.
(vi)Neither the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby nor the transfer of Personal Data Processed by or for the Company or its Subsidiaries, including all of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ databases containing Personal Data and Company Products Data that are under the control of the Company or its Subsidiaries, from the Company or any Subsidiary to Parent will cause, constitute, or result in a breach or violation of any Privacy Requirements.
(vii)Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has transferred or permitted the transfer of Personal Data originating in the European Economic Area outside the European Economic Area that are subject to GDPR (or from any other jurisdiction with restrictions on the transfer of Personal Data), except where such transfers have complied with Law.
(o)Company Data. The Company and its Subsidiaries have (i) all authorizations and consents and has given all notices as are required by Law for the Processing of Company Data by or on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) all rights required by Law to license, use, sublicense, distribute or otherwise Process the Company Data in the manner conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries to date, and (iii) all rights required by Law to collect and Process all Company Data used in the business of the Company and each Subsidiary and the Company’s and each Subsidiary’s data collection practices do not infringe or violate any third-party’s privacy, intellectual property or other proprietary rights or breach any applicable terms of service or other written restriction (including regulatory requirements and prohibitions).
(p)Systems. The computer, information technology and data processing systems, facilities, infrastructure and services owned, used, or leased by or on behalf of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the Company Products and all other software, hardware, networks, communications facilities, platforms and related systems and services in use by or under the control of the Company and its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Systems”), are adequate for the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Systems (A) are in good working condition to perform all operations necessary for the operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries, (B) have not materially malfunctioned, and (C)  do not contain any Contaminants that (i) significantly disrupt or adversely affect the operation or use of any System, except as disclosed in the Systems’ documentation or (ii) enable any Person to access without authorization any System.
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(q)Security Measures.
(i)Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has made public written statements regarding the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ Systems or information security practices or policies other than those made in the Company Privacy Policies. The Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ information security practices and policies materially comply with and have materially complied with all applicable Privacy Requirements. The Company has implemented and maintained reasonable backup, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, procedures, technology, and facilities, including with respect to all Systems that are owned or controlled by the Company or any Subsidiary, including Systems Processing Company Data that are owned by third-party service providers, (“Company Systems”) and the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries are consistent with industry practices with respect to information security practices.
(ii)With respect to each Person performing services for the Company or its Subsidiaries that is or has been permitted to Process Company Data or Company confidential information, the Company or such Subsidiary has obtained a written agreement from such Person that binds such Person to comply with all Privacy Requirements applicable to their respective performance of services. All Persons are in material compliance with the provisions of such agreements. The Company has made available the standard form of non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements generally used by the Company and its Subsidiaries with Persons with which or whom the Company or its Subsidiaries shares Company confidential information.
(iii)There have been no actual or threatened intrusions into or breaches of the security of any Systems, nor have there been any actual or threatened breaches with respect to, or any actual or threatened accidental, unauthorized or unlawful access to, or loss, destruction, acquisition, use, alteration, or other Processing of, any Company Data or Company confidential information collected, handled, transmitted, stored, or otherwise Processed by or for the Company or its Subsidiaries, including any such incidents experienced by third parties performing services for the Company or its Subsidiaries requiring notification to any Person or Governmental Entity. The Company and its Subsidiaries have made all notifications to customers or non-customer end users required to be made by the Company or its Subsidiaries under any Privacy Requirements arising out of or relating to any event of unauthorized access to or disclosure or acquisition of any Company Data. Neither the Company nor any Person acting on the Company’s behalf or under its direction has: (A) paid any perpetrator of, or party making a threat regarding, any security breach, incident or cyber-attack or (B) paid any third party with actual or alleged information about a security breach, incident or cyber-attack, pursuant to a request for payment from or on behalf of such perpetrator or other third Person.
(iv)The Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented, maintained, and monitored reasonable and appropriate plans, policies, controls, safeguards, and measures (including with respect to technical, administrative, and physical security) designed to preserve and protect the confidentiality, availability, security, and integrity of all Company Systems, Company Data and Company confidential information. Such plans, policies, controls, safeguards, and measures have complied at all times with Privacy Requirements and agreements with third parties and have included (A) steps designed to protect the Company Systems from infection by Contaminants, access by unauthorized Persons, or access by authorized Persons that exceeds any such Person’s authorization and (B) performing and documenting security risk assessment and management procedures of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have identified any security vulnerabilities affecting its Systems and classified as “moderate,” “medium” or more severe that have not been remediated.
(v)There is no, and has been no complaint to, audit or request to audit, Governmental Entity investigation or Legal Proceeding, in each case, against the Company or its Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of their respective customers (in the case of
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customers, to the extent relating to any Company Product or the practices of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any Person performing for the Company or its Subsidiaries), by any private party, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC”), any data protection authority or any other Governmental Entity, with respect to (A)  Processing of any Company Data by or for the Company or its Subsidiaries, (B) the security, confidentiality, availability, or integrity of any Systems or of any Company Data or Company confidential information, (C) requiring or requesting the Company or any Subsidiary to amend, rectify, cease Processing, de-combine, permanently anonymize, block or delete any Company Data (other than pursuant to a valid data subject request in the ordinary course of business), (D) permitting or mandating relevant Governmental Entities to investigate, requisition information from, or enter the premises of, the Company or (E) claiming compensation from the Company or any Subsidiary for any of the actions described in the preceding clauses (A) through (D).
(vi)Section 3.12(q)(vi) of the Disclosure Schedule accurately identifies, and the Company has made available, each written or electronic communication that has been sent or otherwise delivered by or to the Company or its Subsidiaries regarding any actual, alleged or suspected violation of any Privacy Requirements by (a) the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any Person performing for the Company or its Subsidiaries or (b) any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ customers or non-customer end-users, and provides a brief description of the current status of the matter referred to in such letter, communication or correspondence.
(r)Effect of Transaction. All Company Owned IP is (and following Closing shall be) fully transferable, alienable and licensable by the Company or its Subsidiaries (or Parent or Surviving Corporation, as applicable) without restriction and without payment of any kind to any third party. Neither the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other agreements referred to in this Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby will, with or without notice or lapse of time, result in, or give any other Person the right or option to cause or declare: (i) a loss of, or Lien on, any Company Owned IP, (ii) an obligation for Parent to offer any discount or be bound by any “most favored pricing” terms under any Contract to which the Company or its Subsidiaries is a party or bound, (iii) the release, disclosure or delivery of any Company Source Code by or to any escrow agent or other Person, (iv) the grant, assignment or transfer to any other Person of any license or other right or interest in, under, or with respect to, any of the Company Owned IP or (v) an obligation for Parent, under any Contract to which the Company or its Subsidiaries is a party or bound, to grant, assign or transfer to any other Person any license or other right or interest in, under, or with respect to any of Parent’s Technology or Parent’s Intellectual Property Rights.
3.13Agreements, Contracts and Commitments.
(a)Except for this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any of the following Contracts:
(i)(A) any Contract to grant any severance, change of control payments, retention bonus, equity acceleration, or termination pay (in cash or otherwise, other than as required by applicable Law) or similar payment or benefit on account of the consummation of the Merger (except in accordance with applicable Law by paying (1) the statutory minimum notice or (2) any required severance or other termination pay, as applicable), (B) any employment agreement, offer letter, or independent contractor agreement with any current Company Service Provider that is not immediately terminable at-will by the Company without advance notice, severance, or other similar cost or Liability, (C) any separation agreement or settlement agreement with any Company Service Provider or other Person, under which the Company has any current actual or potential Liability, as well as any settlement agreement, consent decree, or other similar agreement with any Governmental Entity, (D) any Contract (x) to provide any sign-on, referral, or retention bonus under which the Company has any current actual
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or potential Liability or (y) subject to any clawback policy or provision or (E) any collective bargaining agreement or other Contract with any labor union;
(ii)any Contract or plan, including any stock option plan, stock appreciation rights plan or stock purchase plan, any of the benefits of which shall be increased, or the vesting of benefits of which shall be accelerated or may be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the value of any of the benefits of which shall be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(iii)any Lease Agreement or any lease of any personal property involving future payments in any amount in excess of $100,000 in fiscal year 2021 or any other future fiscal year;
(iv)any Contract relating to capital expenditures and involving future payments in any amount in excess of $600,000 in fiscal year 2021 or any other future fiscal year;
(v)any Contract relating to the disposition or acquisition of ownership of assets or any interest in any business enterprise outside the Ordinary Course of Business;
(vi)any mortgages, indentures, guarantees, loans or credit agreements, security agreements or other agreements or instruments relating to the borrowing of money or extension of credit or other Indebtedness in any amount in excess of $1,000,000;
(vii)any purchase order or Contract or group of related Contracts with the same vendor or supplier for the purchase of tangible items of equipment or related services in an amount payable by the Company or its Subsidiaries in excess of $600,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year;
(viii)any Inbound License that is required to be listed on Section 3.12(d)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule;
(ix)any Outbound License that is required to be listed on Section 3.12(d)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule;
(x)any Contract with a Top Supplier;
(xi)any Contract with a Top Customer;
(xii)any Contract with a Top Reseller;
(xiii)any Contract providing for “offshore” or outsourced development of any material items of Technology by, for or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(xiv)any Contract containing a provision that limits, restricts or impairs the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ ability to operate in any geography of the world or with any Person, including those Contracts (A) that contain covenants of non-competition, rights of first refusal or negotiation, non-solicitation of customers, and exclusive dealings arrangements, and any similar obligations of any of the foregoing, (B) under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is restricted from hiring or soliciting potential employees, consultants or independent contractors and which restriction on hiring or soliciting potential employees, consultants or independent contractors would reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries’ ability to operate its business as currently conducted or (C) apply to or purport to apply to Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ Affiliates;
(xv)any Contract with federal, state, city, county, parish, municipal or other Governmental Entities;
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(xvi)any agency, dealer, distribution, sales representative, remarketer, reseller, or other Contract for the distribution of Company Products (other than agreements with resellers and channel partners entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business and with terms that do not materially deviate from the terms set forth in the form of reseller agreement made available to Parent);
(xvii)(A) any legal partnership or joint venture Contract or (B) any Contract that involves a sharing of revenues, profits, cash flows or losses with other Persons;
(xviii)any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound to or has committed to provide any product or service to any third party on a most favored nation basis or similar terms;
(xix)any standstill or similar agreement containing provisions prohibiting a third party from purchasing Equity Interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise seeking to influence or exercise control over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(xx)any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have acquired a business or entity, or a material portion of the assets of a business or entity, whether by way of merger, consolidation, purchase of stock, purchase of assets, exclusive license or otherwise, or any Contract pursuant to which it has any material ownership interest in any other Person;
(xxi)any agreement of indemnification with officers or directors of the Company;
(xxii)any Contract with any investment banker, broker, advisor, or similar party, or any accountant, legal counsel or other Person retained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby;
(xxiii)any Contract or other arrangement to settle any Legal Proceeding or to settle any threatened Legal Proceeding in each case, that involves material outstanding obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; and
(xxiv)any other Contract or group of related Contracts with a single counterparty that have not been otherwise disclosed pursuant to this Section 3.13 that involves an anticipated amount payable by or to the Company or its Subsidiaries in excess of $600,000 in the aggregate in fiscal year 2021 or any other future fiscal year.
(b)The Company has made available correct and complete copies of (1) each Contract required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 3.2, 3.13 and 3.20(a) together with any and all material amendments and supplements thereto and “side letters” and similar documentation relating thereto, and (2) summaries of each oral Material Contract. For the purposes of this Agreement, each of the foregoing Contracts referenced in this Section 3.13(b) as well as any Contracts entered into subsequent to the Agreement Date and prior to the Closing Date that would have been required to be disclosed pursuant to Sections 3.2, 3.13 and 3.20(a) if such Contract had been in effect as of the Closing Date, shall each be a “Material Contract” and collectively are the “Material Contracts.
(c)Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has performed in all material respects all of the obligations required to be performed by it and is entitled to all benefits under, and has not received any written notice alleging it to be in default in respect of, any Material Contract. Each of the Material Contracts is in full force and effect, subject only to the effect, if any, of the Enforcement Exceptions. There exists (x) no default or event of default under any Material Contract by the Company
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or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, and (y) no event, occurrence, condition or act, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or to the Knowledge of the Company, with respect to any other party to a Material Contract, that, with the giving of notice, the lapse of time, would reasonably be expected to (i) become a default or event of default under any Material Contract or (ii) give any third party (A) the right to declare a default or exercise any remedy under any Material Contract, (B) the right to a rebate, chargeback, refund, credit, penalty or change in delivery schedule under any Material Contract, (C) the right to accelerate the maturity or performance of any material obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any Material Contract or (D) the right to cancel (other than at the expiration of the term of any Contract in accordance with its terms), terminate or modify any Material Contract. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice to cancel or modify any Material Contract.
3.14Interested Party Transactions.
(a)No officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Company Stockholder (nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any immediate family member of any of such Persons, or any trust, partnership or corporation in which any of such Persons has or has had an interest) (each, an “Interested Party”), has or has had, directly or indirectly, (i) any interest in any entity which furnished or sold, or furnishes or sells, services, products, or technology that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries furnishes or sells, or proposes to furnish or sell, (ii) any interest in any entity that purchases from or sells or furnishes to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any goods or services, or (iii) any interest in, or is a party to, any Contract to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (except, in each case, for any interest or Contract relating to normal compensation or welfare benefits provided for services as an officer, director or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries); provided that ownership of no more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of a publicly traded entity shall not be deemed to be an “interest in any entity” for purposes of this Section 3.14. No Interested Party holds any Company Securities the vesting of which shall accelerate upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b)All transactions pursuant to which any Interested Party has purchased any services, products, or technology from, or sold or furnished any services, products or technology to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that were entered into on or after the inception of the Company, have been on an arms’-length basis on terms no less favorable to the Company and its Subsidiaries than would be available from an unaffiliated party.
3.15Company Authorizations. Section 3.15 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the Agreement Date, each Permit (a) pursuant to which the Company and its Subsidiaries currently operate, provide any services or hold any interest in any of their properties or (b) which is required for the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted or the holding of any such interest, in each case, except for any Permit the lack of which would not reasonably be expected to be material with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries (collectively, including any such items that are required to be disclosed in Section 3.15 of the Disclosure Schedule, “Company Authorizations”). All of the Company Authorizations set forth on Section 3.15 of the Disclosure Schedule have been issued or granted to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and are in full force and effect and constitute all Company Authorizations required to permit each of the Company and its Subsidiaries to operate or conduct its business or hold any interest in its properties or assets, except any such Permits the failure of which to be in effect would not be material to the Company. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all such Company Authorizations, and as of the Closing Date shall have applied for and not been denied any required renewals of such Company Authorizations the failure of which to obtain would be material to the Company.
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3.16Litigation.
(a)As of the Agreement Date, there is no Legal Proceeding of any nature pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any of their respective properties or assets (tangible or intangible) or any of their respective officers or directors (in their capacities as such). As of the Agreement Date, there is no Legal Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any of their respective properties or assets (tangible or intangible) or any of their respective officers or directors (in their capacities as such) by or before any Governmental Entity. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Governmental Entity has at any time during the five years prior to the Agreement Date challenged or investigated the legal right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to conduct their respective operations as presently or previously conducted or as proposed to be conducted. As of the Agreement Date, the Company has not received any written notice from any Person who has a contractual right or a right pursuant to laws of the State of Delaware or any other state or jurisdiction to indemnification from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Legal Proceeding of any nature pending or threatened against such Person that would reasonably be expected to result in a material Liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the Agreement Date.
(b)As of the Agreement Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any Legal Proceeding of any nature pending against any other Person.
3.17Books and Records.
(a)The Company has made available to Parent correct and complete copies of (i) all documents identified on the Disclosure Schedule, and (ii) the Charter Documents and the Organizational Documents of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries, each as currently in effect. The minute books of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries provided to Parent or its Representatives contain a correct and complete summary of all meetings of the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Company and each Subsidiary of the Company and of the Company Stockholders and the equityholders of each Subsidiary or actions by written consent since the time of incorporation of the Company and each Subsidiary through the Agreement Date.
(b)The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have made and kept business records, financial books and records, personnel records, ledgers, sales accounting records, Tax records and related work papers and other books and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Books and Records”) that are correct and complete and fairly reflect, in all material respects, the business activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in any transaction, maintained any bank account or used any corporate funds except as reflected in its normally maintained Books and Records. At the Closing, the minute books and other Books and Records of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in the possession of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
3.18Environmental, Health and Safety Matters. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in material compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements in connection with the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of its business or assets or properties. During the five year period preceding the Agreement Date, there have been no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened allegations by any Person that the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are not, or that its business has not been conducted, in material compliance with all Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has retained or assumed any material Liability of any other Person under any Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements.
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3.19Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees. Except as set forth on Section 3.19 of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred, and shall not incur, directly or indirectly, any Liability for brokerage or finders’ fees or agents’ commissions, fees related to investment banking or similar advisory services or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby, nor shall Parent or the Company incur, directly or indirectly, any such Liability based on arrangements made by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
3.20Employee Benefit Plans and Compensation.
(a)Schedule. Section 3.20(a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a correct and complete list, as of the Agreement Date, of each Company Employee Plan, indicating the applicable jurisdiction of each International Employee Plan, other than (i) employment agreements or employment offer letters that are terminable by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company unilaterally without advance notice, severance, or other similar cost or Liability (except in accordance with applicable Law by paying (A) the statutory minimum notice or (B) any required severance or other termination pay, as applicable) (each exception under this clause (i) a “Standard Offer Letter”) and (ii) consulting, contractor, advisor, or other service provider agreements that are terminable by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company unilaterally with no more than 30 days’ notice, severance, or other similar cost or Liability (except in accordance with applicable Law by paying (A) the statutory minimum notice or (B) any required severance or other termination pay, as applicable). None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, any ERISA Affiliate, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company, its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has made any plan or commitment to establish or enter into following the Agreement Date any new Company Employee Plan, to modify any Company Employee Plan (except to the extent required by law or to conform any such Company Employee Plan to the requirements of any applicable Law, in each case as previously disclosed to Parent in writing, or as required by this Agreement) or the terms of the applicable Company Employee Plan.
(b)Documents. The Company has made available to Parent (i) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying each Company Employee Plan (other than Standard Offer Letters) including all amendments thereto and all related trust documents, (ii) the most recent annual report (Form 5500), if any, required under ERISA or the Code or by any other applicable Law in connection with each Company Employee Plan, (iii) if the Company Employee Plan is funded, the most recent annual and periodic accounting of such Company Employee Plan assets, (iv) the most recent summary plan description together with the summary(ies) of material modifications thereto, if any, required under ERISA or by any other applicable Law with respect to each Company Employee Plan, (v) all current material written agreements and contracts relating to each Company Employee Plan, including administrative service agreements and group insurance contracts, (vi) all material correspondence within the four-year period prior to the Agreement Date to or from any Governmental Entity relating to any Company Employee Plan other than routine correspondence in the normal course of operations of such Company Employee Plan, (vii) current policies pertaining to fiduciary liability insurance covering the fiduciaries for each Company Employee Plan, if any, (viii) all discrimination tests for each Company Employee Plan for the three most recent plan years, and (ix) the most recent IRS (or any other applicable tax authority) determination or opinion letter issued with respect to each Company Employee Plan for which determination letters are currently available.
(c)Employee Plan Compliance. Each of the Company, its Subsidiaries, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries, has performed in all material respects all obligations required to be performed by it under, is not in material default or violation of, and, as of the Agreement Date, the Company and its Subsidiaries have no Knowledge of any default or violation by any other party to, any Company Employee Plan, and each Company Employee Plan has been established and maintained in accordance in all material respects with its terms and in material compliance with all applicable Laws, including ERISA or the Code. Any
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Company Employee Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and has obtained a favorable IRS determination letter (or opinion letter, if applicable) as to its qualified status under the Code, and there has been no event or condition that has adversely affected or could reasonably be expected to adversely affect such qualified status. No “prohibited transaction,” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA, and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Company Employee Plan. There are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Company Employee Plan or against the assets of any Company Employee Plan. There are no audits, inquiries or Legal Proceeding pending or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by the IRS, DOL, or any other Governmental Entity with respect to any Company Employee Plan. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is subject to any penalty or Tax with respect to any Company Employee Plan under Section 502(i) of ERISA or Sections 4975 through 4980 of the Code. The Company and its Subsidiaries have made all contributions and other payments required by and due under the terms of each Company Employee Plan. Each Company Employee Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Effective Time in accordance with its terms.
(d)International Employee Plan. No International Employee Plan has unfunded liabilities, that as of the Effective Time, shall not be fully offset by insurance or are not accurately and fully reflected on the Financials and accrued in accordance with applicable accounting principles consistently applied.
(e)No Pension Plan. None of the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to, any Pension Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code.
(f)No Self-Insured Plan. None of the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any self-insured plan that provides benefits to current or former Company Service Providers (including any such plan pursuant to which a stop loss policy or contract applies).
(g)Collectively Bargained, Multiemployer and Multiple Employer Plan. At no time has the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate contributed to or been obligated to contribute to any multiemployer plan (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA). None of the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has at any time ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any multiple employer plan or to any plan described in Section 413 of the Code.
(h)No Post-Employment Obligations. No Company Employee Plan provides, or reflects or represents any Liability to provide, post-employment or retiree life insurance, health or other employee welfare benefits to any Person for any reason, except as may be required by COBRA or other applicable statute, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have ever represented, promised or contracted (whether in oral or written form) to any current or former Company Service Provider (either individually or to Company Service Providers as a group) or any other Person that such current or former Company Service Provider(s) or other Person would be provided with post-employment or retiree life insurance, health or other employee welfare benefits, except to the extent required by statute.
(i)Effect of Transaction. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events) shall (i) result in any payment or benefit (including severance, bonus or otherwise) becoming due to any current or former Company Service Provider, (ii) result in any forgiveness of Indebtedness with respect to any current or former Company Service Provider,
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(iii) materially increase any benefits otherwise payable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iv) result in the obligation to fund benefits or result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits, except as required under Section 411(d)(3) of the Code.
(j)Employment Matters. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries, is, and at all times in the last four years has been, in material compliance with all applicable Laws with respect to the employment or engagement of current or former Company Service Providers, including: employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, worker classification (including the proper classification of workers as independent contractors and consultants and employees as exempt or non-exempt), government contracting, child labor, affirmative action, prohibited discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, equal employment opportunity, labor or employee relations, fair employment practices, disability rights or benefits, workers compensation, unemployment compensation and insurance, health insurance continuation, privacy, statutory leaves of absence, meal and rest periods, vacation, sick and other paid time off, immigration, employee safety and health, wages and hours (including minimum and overtime wages), compensation and hours of work, right to information and consultation, pay equity. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries, with respect to current or former Company Service Providers: (i) has withheld and/or reported all amounts required by Law or by agreement to be withheld and reported with respect to wages, salaries and other payments to current or former Company Service Providers, (ii) is not liable for any arrears of wages, severance pay or any Taxes or any penalty for failure to comply with any of the foregoing, and (iii) is not liable for any payment to any trust or other fund governed by or maintained by or on behalf of any governmental authority, with respect to unemployment compensation benefits, social security or other benefits or obligations for current or former Company Service Providers (other than routine payments to be made in the normal course of business and consistent with past practice). Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries, has paid in full to all current and former Company Service Providers all wages, salaries, fees, commissions, bonuses, benefits, and other compensation that are due and owing to such Persons. Except as set forth in Section 3.20(j) of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no Legal Proceedings, administrative matters, disputes, complaints, grievances, claims, or investigations pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated against the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries, any Employer of Record engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries or any of the Company Service Providers relating to the employment or engagement of any Company Service Provider, including any claim relating to unfair labor practices, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, compensation, misclassification of workers, wages and hours, or any other employment related matter arising under applicable Law. There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated claims or actions against the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries, any Employer of Record Engaged by the Company or its Subsidiaries or any of their trustees under any worker’s compensation policy or long term disability policy relating to the employment or engagement of any Company Service Provider. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a conciliation agreement, consent decree or other agreement or Order with any federal, state, provincial or local agency or governmental authority with respect to employment practices. The services provided by each Company Service Provider are terminable at the will of the Company or its applicable Subsidiary and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation to provide any severance pay, termination payment, or particular form or period of notice prior to terminating the employment or engagement of any Company Service Provider. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have incurred, or is reasonably likely to incur, any Liability with respect to any misclassification of: (1) any Person as an independent contractor rather than as an employee under applicable federal, state, or provincial law, (2) any employee leased from another employer, or (3) any employee currently or formerly classified as exempt from overtime wages under applicable federal and state law. No former Company Service Provider (or spouse or other dependent of any former Company Service Provider ) is receiving, scheduled to receive, owed, entitled to, or eligible
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for any benefits (whether from the Company, any Subsidiary or otherwise) relating to such former Company Service Provider’s service with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company is in material compliance with all applicable Law related to COVID-19, including business openings or closures, screening, testing, response, rehire notices or obligations, and employee privacy. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, have incurred any Liability for breach of employment contracts or consulting contracts. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have any current Liability for accrued and vested but unpaid severance, pay in lieu of notice, provident fund contributions, gratuity payments or other payment arising from the termination of the service of any former worker.
(k)Labor. No strike, labor dispute, slowdown, concerted refusal to work overtime, or work stoppage against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has occurred in the past, is pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, or reasonably anticipated. There are no activities or Legal Proceedings pending by any labor union to organize any current employees and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no union campaign is being conducted to solicit cards from employees to authorize a union to request a National Labor Relations Board certifications election with respect to any Company or Subsidiary employees or certification pursuant to any other applicable Laws. To the Knowledge of the Company, there have never been any activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize any workers. There are no Legal Proceedings or labor disputes or grievances pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened relating to any labor or employee matters involving any current Company Service Provider, including charges of unfair labor practices. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have engaged in any unfair labor practices within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act or other applicable Laws, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any correspondence, charges, complaints, notices or orders from the National Labor Relations Board or any state or provincial labor relations agency or any labor organization during the period from the date four years prior to the Agreement Date, and there are no arbitration opinions interpreting and enforcing any labor agreement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is presently, nor has been in the past, a party to, or bound by, any collective bargaining agreement, works council, labor contract, or arrangement or union contract with respect to current or former Company Service Providers, and no collective bargaining agreement is being negotiated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any duty to bargain with any labor organization or works council.
(l)Warn Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have taken any action that would constitute a “plant closing” or “mass layoff” within the meaning of the WARN Act or similar state or local Law, issued any notification of a plant closing or mass layoff required by the WARN Act or similar state or local Law, or incurred any liability or obligation under WARN or any similar state or local Law that remains unsatisfied at any time prior to the Closing. No actions taken by the Company prior to the Closing (not associated with this Agreement or the transactions thereby), including mass layoffs, reductions in force, furloughs, relocations, or plant closings would have triggered any notice or other obligations under the WARN Act or similar state or local law. No such actions, including mass layoffs, reductions in force, furloughs, relocations or plant closings will be implemented before the Closing without advance notification to and approval of Parent.
(m)No Interference or Conflict. To the Knowledge of the Company, no current Company Service Provider is obligated under any contract or agreement, or subject to any Order of any court or administrative agency, that would conflict with such Person’s employment or engagement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, interfere with such Person’s efforts to promote the interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or that would interfere with the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as presently conducted or proposed to be conducted shall, to the Knowledge of the Company, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of,
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or constitute a default under, any contract or agreement under which any of such officers, directors, employees, or consultants is now bound.
(n)Certain Employee Matters. The Company has provided Parent with a correct and complete list of the current employees of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries as of the Agreement Date and shows with respect to each such employee (i) the employee’s employee identification number and name (if permitted by applicable Laws), (ii) current position held, (iii) base salary or hourly wage rate, as applicable, (iv) designation as either exempt or non-exempt, (v) full-time, part-time or temporary status, (vi) target annual incentive compensation, commission and bonus amounts, (vii) the date of hire, (viii) the balance of accrued vacation or paid time off, (ix) leave status (if applicable) and the date such leave commenced and expected return date, (x) visa status, (xi) the name of any union, collective bargaining agreement or other similar labor agreement covering such employee, and (xii) employing entity and location of employment (including city, state, province and country, as applicable). No current Company Service Provider has given written notice to the Company or any of its Subsidiary to terminate his or her employment or service with the Company or such Subsidiary and to the Knowledge of the Company, no employee listed on Section 3.20(n) of the Disclosure Schedule intends to terminate his or her employment for any reason, other than in accordance with the employment arrangements provided for in this Agreement. No visa or work permit held by an employee with respect to their service with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries will expire during the six-month period beginning on the Agreement Date.
(o)Contractor List. The Company has provided Parent with a correct and complete list, as of the Agreement Date, of (i) all current independent contractors, consultants and advisors to the Company and each of its Subsidiaries, (ii) the location at which such independent contractors, consultants and advisors are providing services, (iii) the dates of engagement, and the notice or termination provisions applicable to the individual, (iv) the current terms of compensation, (v) whether they are an individual or entity (and if an entity, the number of workers performing services for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on behalf of the contracting entity); and (vi) any eligibility to receive severance, termination or retention payment, change of control payment, or other similar compensation. Except as set forth on Section 3.20(o) of the Disclosure Schedule, all independent contractors, consultants and advisors to the Company and each of its Subsidiaries can be terminated immediately and without advance notice or Liability on the part of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(p)Misconduct. Since January 1, 2017, no allegations of harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, or retaliation have been made, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or anticipated, against (i) any Key Employee, or any current or former officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any Company Service Provider in a supervisory position. Since January 1, 2017, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has disciplined or terminated any Company Service Provider, entered into any settlement agreement, or conducted any investigation related to allegations of harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, or retaliation by or regarding any current or former Company Service Provider. To the extent required by applicable Law, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has established and distributed to its Company Service Providers a written policy against harassment and a complaint procedure, and it has required all employees to complete anti-harassment training to the extent required by applicable Law.
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3.21Insurance. Section 3.21 of the Disclosure Schedule lists, as of the Agreement Date, all insurance policies and fidelity bonds covering the assets, business, equipment, properties, operations, employees, officers and directors (in such capacities as employees, officers and directors) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including the type of coverage, the carrier, the policy limits of coverage, the term and the annual premiums of such policies. There are and have been no claims in the last three years for which an insurance carrier has denied or, threatened to deny coverage. All premiums due and payable under all such policies and bonds have been paid (or if installment payments are due, shall be paid if incurred prior to the Closing Date), and each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is otherwise in material compliance with the terms of such policies and bonds.
3.22Compliance with Laws. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is and has been, at all times, in compliance in all material respects with all Laws and Orders applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries and any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ businesses, properties or assets. To the Knowledge of the Company, no condition or state of facts exists that is reasonably likely to give rise to a material violation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of, or a material Liability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under, any applicable Law or Order. During the five year period preceding the Agreement Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, oral, notice to the effect that a Governmental Entity claimed or alleged that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries was not in compliance in all material respects with all Laws or Orders applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries and any of its business, properties, or assets. As of the Agreement Date, to the Knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is under investigation with respect to the violation of any Laws. No director, officer, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, agent, employee, consultant, representative or other Person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, directly or indirectly, materially violated Privacy Requirements or Trade Laws.
3.23Export Control and Sanctions Laws. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has conducted its export transactions in accordance in all respects with applicable provisions of United States export and re-export controls and sanctions Laws, including the Export Administration Act and Regulations, the Foreign Assets Control Regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, other controls administered by the United States Department of Commerce or the United States Department of State, the regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”), and all other applicable import/export controls and sanctions Laws in other countries in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries conducts business (collectively, “Trade Laws”). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in any transactions or dealings with, or exported any products, technology, or services to, (a) any country or territory that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo (currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea Region) (collectively, the “Embargoed Countries”), (b) any instrumentality, agent, entity, or individual that is located in, or acting on behalf of, or directly or indirectly owned or controlled by any governmental entity of, any Embargoed Country, (c) any individual or entity identified on any list of designated and prohibited parties maintained by the U.S. Government, the United Kingdom, or the European Union, including the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, the Foreign Sanctions Evaders List, or the Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List, which are maintained by OFAC, or the Entity List, Denied Persons List, or Unverified List, which are maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Commerce Department (collectively, the “Prohibited Party Lists”). None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or its or their actual or beneficial owners appear on a Prohibited Party List. Without limiting the foregoing: (a) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has obtained all export and import licenses, license exceptions and other consents, notices, waivers, approvals, Orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings with any Governmental Entity required for (i) the export, import and re-export of products, services, software and technologies and (ii) releases of technologies and software to foreign nationals located in the United States and abroad (collectively, “Export Approvals”), (b) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with the terms of all applicable Export Approvals,
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(c) there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened claims against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to such Export Approvals, (d) there are no actions, conditions or circumstances pertaining to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ export transactions that would reasonably be expected to give rise to any future claims, and (e) no Export Approvals for the transfer of export licenses to Parent or the Final Surviving Entity are required, except for such Export Approvals that can be obtained expeditiously and without material cost. None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ officers, directors or, employees are or have been the subject of any allegation, voluntary disclosure, investigation, prosecution or other enforcement action related to violations of export control and sanctions laws and regulations.
3.24Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. None of the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company, or any director or officer or any Affiliate, employee, or agent of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (in each case, in their capacities as such or relating to their employment, services or relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), has (a) directly or indirectly made, offered, promised, authorized, solicited, or accepted any contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback, or other payment to or from any Person, including a “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”)), foreign political party or official thereof, or candidate for foreign political office, regardless of what form, whether in money, property, or services (i) to obtain favorable treatment for business or Contracts secured, (ii) to pay for favorable treatment for business or Contracts secured, (iii) to obtain special concessions or for special concessions already obtained, (iv) to improperly influence or induce any act or decision, (v) to secure any improper advantage or (vi) in violation of applicable Law (including the FCPA) or (b) established or maintained any fund or asset that has not been recorded in the books and records of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have established and maintain internal controls (including accounting systems, purchasing systems and billing systems) and written policies and procedures to promote and ensure compliance with the FCPA and other applicable anti-corruption laws (collectively, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”) and to ensure that all books and records of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries accurately and fairly reflect, in reasonable detail, all transactions and dispositions of funds and assets. None of the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ directors, officers, or employees are or have been the subject of any allegation, voluntary disclosure, investigation, prosecution, or other enforcement action related to the Anti-Corruption Laws.
3.25Suppliers, Customers and Resellers.
(a)Section 3.25(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a correct and complete list of: (i) the 15 largest suppliers to the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and the three-month period ended March 31, 2021 (in each case, based on the Dollar amount paid to such supplier during such year) (the “Top Suppliers”); (ii) the 15 largest customers of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and the three-month period ended March 31, 2021 (in each case, based on the Dollar amount of revenue recognized during such year) (the “Top Customers”); and (iii) the 10 largest reseller partners of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and the three-month period ended March 31, 2021 (in each case, based on the Dollar amount of revenue recognized during such year) (the “Top Resellers”);
(b)As of the Agreement Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written, or to the Knowledge of the Company, oral notice, complaint or other communication from any Top Supplier, Top Customer or Top Reseller to the effect that it (i) has changed, modified, amended or reduced, or is reasonably likely to change, modify, amend or reduce, its business relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in a manner that is, or is reasonably likely to be, adverse to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) shall fail to perform, or is reasonably likely to
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fail to perform, its obligations under any Contract with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in a manner that is, or is reasonably likely to be, adverse to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
3.26Compliance with Regulation D. The Company is aware that the Parent Class A Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of the Securities Act. At no time was any Company Stockholder solicited by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by means of general advertising or general solicitation in violation of Regulation D under the Securities Act in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided that the Company does not make any representation or warranty as to whether the solicitation of the Company Stockholder Approval in accordance with Section 5.1 or its compliance with the terms of this Agreement constitutes general advertising or general solicitation.
ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUBS
Except as disclosed in the Parent SEC Documents filed prior to the Agreement Date but without giving effect to any amendment to any such document filed after the Agreement Date, and excluding any disclosures in any risk factors section that do not constitute statements of fact, disclosures in any forward-looking statements disclaimer and other disclosures that are generally cautionary, predictive or forward-looking in nature (it being agreed that this exception for disclosures in Parent SEC Documents shall (i) not be applicable to Section 4.5(a), Section 4.11 or Section 4.12 and (ii) only apply to the extent the relevance of any such disclosure to a particular representation and warranty is readily apparent from the actual text of the disclosure without any reference to extrinsic documentation or any independent knowledge on the part of the reader regarding the matter disclosed), each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II hereby represents and warrants to the Company as follows:
4.1Organization. Each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Parent directly owns all of the outstanding shares or other equity interests in Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II. Each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, operate, distribute and lease its assets and properties and to conduct its business as it is now being conducted. Parent is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing, individually or in the aggregate with any other such failures, would reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II is not in any violation of any of the provisions of its Organizational Documents.
4.2Authority and Enforceability. Each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II has all requisite corporate or other legal power and authority to enter into this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution and delivery by each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II of this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which it is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, as applicable, on the part of Parent and the Merger Subs. This Agreement and any Related Agreements to which either of Parent or the Merger Subs is a party have been, or (in the case of the Related Agreements executed after the Agreement Date) as of the Effective Time, shall be, duly executed and delivered by Parent and the Merger Subs, as the case may be, and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties hereto and thereto constitute, or (in the case of Related Agreements executed after the Agreement Date) shall constitute when executed and delivered, the valid and binding obligations of Parent and the Merger Subs, as the case may be, enforceable against each of Parent and, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II, as the case
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may be, in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforcement Exceptions. The board of directors of Parent approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Parent Stock Issuance (collectively, the “Parent Board Approval”).
4.3Capitalization.
(a)As of May 12, 2021, the authorized capital stock of Parent consists of 1,200,000,000 shares, par value $0.001 per share, of which (a) 1,000,000,000 shares are designated as Class A Common Stock, of which 162,527,894 shares are issued and outstanding, (b) 100,000,000 shares are designated as Class B Common Stock, of which 10,325,768 shares are issued and outstanding, and (c) 100,000,000 shares are designated as Preferred Stock, of which no shares are issued and outstanding. As of May 12, 2021, (A) options to acquire 2,698,844shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were outstanding pursuant to Parent’s Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Incentive Plan and (B) 6,736,566 restricted stock units/awards covering shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were outstanding pursuant to Parent’s Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Incentive Plan. As of May 12, 2021, (A) options to acquire 822,233 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock and (B) 142,883 restricted stock units/awards covering shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were outstanding pursuant to Parent’s Segment.io Inc. 2013 Stock Option and Grant Plan. As of May 12, 2021, (A) options to acquire 263,576 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock and (B) 1,818 restricted stock units/awards covering shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were outstanding pursuant to Parent’s SendGrid Inc. 2012 Equity Incentive Plan. As of May 12, 2021, (A) options to acquire 57,677 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock and (B) 84,529 restricted stock units/awards covering shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were outstanding pursuant to Parent’s SendGrid Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan. As of May 12, 2021 (u) 10,325,768 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance upon the conversion of issued and outstanding Parent Class B Common Stock, (v) 1,385,892 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance upon the conversion of shares of Parent Class B Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding pursuant to Parent’s 2008 Stock Option Plan, (w) 26,521,981 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance pursuant to Parent’s Amended and Restated 2016 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, (x) 6,581,756 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance under Parent’s Amended and Restated 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, (y) 663,061 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance in connection with Parent’s initial public offering and (z) 4,638,044 shares of Parent Class A Common Stock were reserved for issuance in connection with a debt offering.
(b)As of the Agreement Date, no Person is party to any Contract of any character to which Parent is a party obligating Parent to issue or sell, or cause to be issued or sold, any Equity Interests of Parent or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any Equity Interests of Parent.
(c)Immediately prior to the Closing, the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock to be issued to the Accredited Stockholders in connection with the Parent Stock Issuance will be duly and validly reserved for issuance. Upon consummation of the First Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof, the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock to be issued to the Accredited Stockholders in the Parent Stock Issuance shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and will be free of any Liens other than (i) Liens created by the Company Stockholders and (ii) Liens imposed by securities Laws. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties made by the Company in Section 3.26 and of the Company Stockholders in the Suitability Documentation and Section 3.1 of the Joinder Agreements, the Parent Stock Issuance will comply in all material respects with all Laws, including all federal, state and foreign securities Laws. The Parent Stock Issuance will not, at the time of issuance in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, violate any pre-emptive rights, rights of first offer, rights of first refusal or similar rights of any Person. All shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of Converted Options shall, when issued, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and will be
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free of any Liens other than (A) Liens created by the Company Optionholders and (B) Liens imposed by securities Laws.
4.4No Conflict.
(a)The execution and delivery by each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II of this Agreement and any Related Agreement to which it is a party, and the consummation by each of Parent and Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, shall not (1) result in the creation of any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) on any of the material assets of Parent or its subsidiaries or any of the Equity Interests of Parent or its Subsidiaries or (2) conflict with or result in any violation of or default under (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) (x) the Parent Organizational Documents or the Organizational Documents of the Merger Subs or (y) any Law or Order applicable to Parent or the Merger Subs, other than, in the case of this clause (y), such conflicts, violations or defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to (i) result in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (ii) prevent or materially delay the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b)No consent, approval, Order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with, or notice to, any Governmental Entity or any other Person is required by or with respect to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, except for (i) the filing of the Certificates of Merger, (ii) the expiration or early termination of the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act and (iii) such other consents, approvals, Orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations, filings and notices that, if not obtained or made, would not materially and adversely affect, and would not reasonably be expected to adversely affect, Parent or any of its Subsidiaries’ ability to perform or comply with the covenants, agreements or obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries herein or to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with this Agreement and applicable Law.
(c)No vote or other action of the stockholders of Parent is required by Law, the New York Stock Exchange rules, the Organizational Documents of Parent or the Merger Subs in order for Parent and Merger Subs to enter into this Agreement or any of the Related Agreements or consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
4.5Parent SEC Documents; Financial Statements.
(a)All statements, reports, schedules, forms and other documents (including exhibits and all information incorporated by reference) required to have been filed by Parent with the SEC since October 20, 2016 (the “Parent SEC Documents”) have been so filed on a timely basis. A true and complete copy of each Parent SEC Document is available on the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. As of their respective filing dates (or, if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the Agreement Date, then on the date of such later filing), each of the Parent SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to such SEC Documents. None of the Parent SEC Documents, as of their respective filing dates, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except to the extent corrected by a subsequently filed Parent SEC Document. During the period from October 20, 2016 through the Agreement Date, Parent has not received from the SEC any written comments with respect to any of the Parent SEC Documents (including the financial statements included therein) that have not been resolved.
(b)The financial statements of Parent, including the notes thereto, included in the Parent SEC Documents (the “Parent Financial Statements”) complied as to form in all material respects
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with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as of their respective dates, were prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto, except in the case of pro forma statements, or, in the case of unaudited financial statements, except as permitted under Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act) and fairly presented in all material respects the consolidated financial position of Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the respective dates thereof and the consolidated results of Parent’s operations and cash flows for the periods indicated (subject to, in the case of unaudited statements, normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments).
4.6Litigation. As of the Agreement Date, there is no Legal Proceeding pending (or, to the knowledge of Parent or the Merger Subs, being threatened) against Parent or the Merger Subs (a) that challenges, or that may have the effect of preventing, delaying, making illegal or otherwise interfering with, the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or that would reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
4.7Compliance with Laws. Parent and its Subsidiaries are, and since December 31, 2018 have been, in compliance with all Laws in connection with the operation of their business, except for instances of noncompliance that have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Parent and its Subsidiaries.
4.8No Prior Activities of Merger Subs. Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II are direct, wholly owned subsidiaries of Parent and were formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the Merger. Except for obligations incurred in connection with its incorporation or organization or the negotiation and consummation of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, the Merger Subs have not incurred any obligation or liability nor engaged in any business or activity of any type or kind whatsoever or entered into any agreement or arrangement with any Person.
4.9Reorganization. Neither Parent nor the Merger Subs have taken or agreed to take any action that is not contemplated by this Agreement, and neither Parent nor the Merger Subs are aware of any facts or circumstances, in each case that could reasonably be expected to prevent or impede the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. Merger Sub I is, at all times since its formation has been, and at all times prior to the Effective Time will be, a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. Merger Sub II is, at all times since its formation has been, and at all times through and including the Second Effective Time will be, a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Parent and an entity disregarded as separate from Parent for U.S. federal income Tax purposes under Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3.
4.10Governmental Authorization. No consent, notice, waiver, approval, Order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with, any Governmental Entity is required by, or with respect to, Parent or the Merger Subs in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and any Related Agreements to which Parent or the Merger Subs are a party or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (a) such consents, notices, waivers, approvals, Orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings as may be required under applicable securities Laws (b) the filing of the First Certificate of Merger and the Second Certificate of Merger as provided in Section 1.2 and (c) the expiration or early termination of the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act.
4.11No Changes. Since December 31, 2020, there has not occurred a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
4.12WKSI. As of the Agreement Date, Parent is a WKSI.
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4.13Financing. As of the Agreement Date Parent has, and at the Closing, Parent will have, sufficient funds available to it (including cash, available lines of credit or other sources of immediately available funds) to permit Parent and the Merger Subs to consummate the Merger upon the terms contemplated by this Agreement, including the payment of all amounts payable hereunder or otherwise as a result of the Merger.
4.14Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees. Parent has not incurred, and shall not incur, directly or indirectly, any Liability for brokerage or finders’ fees or agents’ commissions, fees related to investment banking or similar advisory services or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE V

STOCKHOLDER AND TAX MATTERS
5.1Company Board Recommendation; Stockholder Notice; Security Holder Notice.
(a)Once the Company Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained, neither the Board nor any committee thereof shall withhold, withdraw, amend or modify, or propose or resolve to withhold, withdraw, amend or modify in a manner adverse to Parent, the unanimous recommendation of the Board that the Company Stockholders vote in favor of the adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b)Within 10 Business Days following the Agreement Date, the Company shall prepare, with the cooperation of Parent, and send to each Company Stockholder (other than the Company Stockholders who previously executed the Company Stockholder Approval), a notice (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Stockholder Notice”) comprising (i) the notice contemplated by Section 228(e) of the DGCL of the taking of a corporate action without a meeting by less than a unanimous written consent, (ii) the notice contemplated by Section 262(d)(2) of the DGCL, together with a copy of Section 262 of the DGCL and (iii) an information statement to the Company Stockholders. The Stockholder Notice shall include (x) a statement to the effect that the Board had unanimously recommended that the Company Stockholders vote in favor of the adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby and (y) such other information the Company may determine is required or advisable under the DGCL to be included therein. Following the mailing of the Stockholder Notice, no amendment or supplement to the Stockholder Notice shall be made by the Company without the approval of Parent, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Parent agrees to provide promptly to the Company such information concerning its business, financial statements and affairs as, in the reasonable judgment of Parent or its counsel or the Company or its counsel, may be required or advisable to be included under the DGCL in the Stockholder Notice or in any amendment or supplement thereto, and Parent and the Company agree to cause their respective Representatives to cooperate in the preparation of the Stockholder Notice and any amendment or supplement thereto.
(c)Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall provide the Company Security Holders (other than the Company Stockholders so notified pursuant to Section 5.1(b)) with valid and timely notification of the Merger to the extent required by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Charter Documents, any Laws, or any agreement or instruments governing the Company Securities (other than the Company Capital Stock).
5.2Tax Matters.
(a)Preparation of Tax Returns.
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(i)The Company shall prepare and file, or shall cause to be prepared and filed, all Tax Returns that are required to be filed by the Company (taking into account any extension properly obtained) on or before the Closing Date (“Company Prepared Returns”), and shall pay, or cause to be paid, all Taxes of the Company due on or before the Closing Date. All Company Prepared Returns shall be prepared by treating items on such Tax Returns in a manner consistent with the past practices of the Company with respect to such items, except as otherwise required by applicable Law. At least 20 days prior to filing a Company Prepared Return that is an income or other material Tax Return (or such shorter period of time as is reasonable given the circumstances), the Company shall submit a copy of such income or other material Tax Return to Parent for Parent’s review. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall not initiate any discussions with a Governmental Entity with respect to Taxes or enter into any voluntary disclosures with respect to Taxes, in each case, without prior written notice to Parent.
(ii)Parent shall prepare or cause to be prepared and file or cause to be filed, all Tax Returns for the Company or its Subsidiaries for a Pre-Closing Tax Period or Straddle Period that are required to be filed after the Closing Date (the “Parent Prepared Returns”). All such Parent Prepared Returns that are not for a Straddle Period shall be prepared in a manner consistent with the Company’s (or any Subsidiary’s) past practice, except (x) as otherwise required by applicable Law or (y) to the extent that any such deviation from past practice could not reasonably be expected to give rise to an increased claim for indemnification under this Agreement. At least 20 days prior to filing a Parent Prepared Return, or such shorter time period as is reasonable given the circumstances, Parent shall submit to the Stockholder Representative a copy of any portion of such Tax Return that reflects Taxes taken into account in determining the amount of Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes or that could give rise to a claim for indemnification under this Agreement, and Parent shall consider in good faith such comments to such Tax Returns as are requested by the Stockholder Representative in writing at least 10 days prior to the due date for such Parent Prepared Return (or such shorter time period as is reasonable given the circumstances). For the avoidance of doubt, any failure to so submit a Parent Prepared Return shall not relieve the Company Indemnitors of any liability for Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes with respect to such Parent Prepared Return (except to the extent the Company Indemnitors are prejudiced by such failure).
(b)Cooperation. Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall cooperate fully, as and to the extent reasonably requested in writing by the other party, in connection with the filing of any Tax Returns with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their operations and any pending or threatened audit, Legal Proceedings or assessments with respect thereto or to Taxes owed by the Company. Such cooperation shall include Parent’s retention and provision of records and information that are reasonably relevant to any such audit or other Legal Proceedings and making employees available on a mutually convenient basis to provide additional information and explanation of any materials provided hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company (before the Closing Date) and the Stockholder Representative (after the Closing Date) agree to cooperate with Parent and provide any relevant information within their possession (or reasonably available) requested in writing by Parent that is reasonably necessary for Parent to determine the limitations, if any, on any of the Company’s Tax loss carryforwards under Sections 382, 383 and 384 of the Code or any similar provision of Law of any other jurisdiction applicable to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Company or the Stockholder Representative be entitled to review or otherwise have access to any income Tax Return, or information related thereto, of Parent or its Affiliates (other than income Tax Returns of the Company and its Subsidiaries for Pre-Closing Tax Periods). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Stockholder Representative shall have no obligation to prepare or file any Tax Returns.
(c)Transfer Taxes. All Transfer Taxes incurred as a result of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement shall be borne 50% by Parent and 50% by the Company Indemnitors. The party responsible under applicable Law shall prepare and file all Tax Returns and other
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documentation with respect to Transfer Taxes, and each of Parent, the Company and the Stockholder Representative shall reasonably cooperate in connection with any such filings.
(d)Tax Treatment.
(i)The Merger is intended to be treated and qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, and this Agreement is adopted as a “plan of reorganization” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section1.368-2(g) and Section 1.368-3. Each of Parent and the Company shall report the Merger as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code on its U.S. federal income Tax Return for the taxable year including the Closing Date and shall file all applicable U.S. state and local income Tax Returns in a manner consistent with the Merger constituting a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, unless otherwise required by a Tax Authority after an audit or examination in which reorganization treatment was defended diligently and in good faith, or by a change in applicable Law after the date hereof. Neither of the Company, nor Parent shall (and Parent shall not permit any other Affiliate of Parent (including the Company after the Closing) to) knowingly take any action (or fail to take any action) which action (or failure to act) would reasonably be expected to prevent the Merger from being treated as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code for U.S. federal income Tax purposes, other than any actions that are required by the provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except for the representations as to certain factual matters set forth in Section 4.8 and Section 4.9, Parent makes no representations or warranties to the Company or to any Company Security Holder regarding the Tax treatment of the Merger, or any of the Tax consequences to the Company or any Company Security Holder of this Agreement, the Merger or any of the other transactions or agreements contemplated hereby. The Company acknowledges that the Company and the Company Security Holders are relying solely on their own Tax advisors in connection with this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions and agreements contemplated hereby.
(ii)The parties acknowledge and agree that for purposes of determining the value of Parent Common Stock to be received by the Company Stockholders pursuant to the First Merger under Revenue Procedure 2018-12, 2018-6 IRB 349 (“Rev. Proc. 2018-12”), (i) the “Safe Harbor Valuation Method” will be the Average of the Daily Volume Weighted Average Prices as described in Section 4.01(1) of Rev. Proc. 2018-12, (ii) the “Measuring Period” (within the meaning of Section 4.01 of Rev. Proc. 2018-12) will be each of the 15 consecutive trading days ending on and including the trading day immediately preceding the date on which this Agreement is executed, (iii) the “specified exchange” (within the meaning of Section 3.01(4) of Rev. Proc. 2018-12) will be the New York Stock Exchange and (iv) the “authoritative reporting source” (within the meaning of Section 3.01(4) of Rev. Proc. 2018-12) will be Bloomberg L.P.
(e)Tax Controversies.
(i)Parent shall deliver a written notice to the Stockholder Representative promptly following any demand, claim, or notice of commencement of a claim, proposed adjustment, assessment, audit, examination or other administrative or court proceeding with respect to Taxes of any of the Company or its Subsidiaries for which the Company Indemnitors may have an indemnification obligation pursuant to this Agreement (a “Tax Claim”); provided that the failure or delay to so notify the Stockholder Representative shall not relieve the Company Indemnitors of any claim of indemnification pursuant to this Agreement, except to the extent that the Company Indemnitors are prejudiced thereby.
(ii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the procedures for all Tax Claims shall be governed by this Section 5.2.
5.3Allocation Schedule.
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(a)The Company shall prepare and deliver to Parent a spreadsheet (the “Allocation Schedule”) at least three Business Days prior to the Closing setting forth the information set forth on Schedule D, which Allocation Schedule shall be dated as of the Closing Date.
(b)The Company will provide reasonably detailed back-up documentation for the calculations contained therein that is reasonably requested by Parent. The Company shall make available to Parent and its Representatives the work papers (subject to the execution of customary work paper access letters, if requested) and other books and records used in preparing the Allocation Schedule and reasonable access to Company Service Providers or Representatives of the Company and its Subsidiaries as Parent may reasonably request in connection with its review of the Allocation Schedule, and will otherwise cooperate in good faith with Parent’s and its Representatives review and shall take into consideration in good faith any comments of Parent on the Allocation Schedule. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any of Parent’s rights be considered waived, impaired or otherwise limited as a result of Parent not making an objection prior to the Closing or its making an objection that is not fully implemented in a revised Allocation Schedule, as applicable.
5.4Securities Law Exemption; Transfer Restrictions; Stop-Transfer Instructions, Securities Law Compliance.
(a)Each of the parties hereto (other than the Stockholder Representative) shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the issuance of all shares of Parent Class A Common Stock contemplated by this Agreement in connection with the Merger to validly qualify for an exemption from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act and the equivalent state “blue sky” laws.
(b)The shares of Parent Class A Common Stock shall constitute “restricted securities” under the Securities Act and may not be transferred absent registration under the Securities Act or an exemption therefrom, and any such transfer shall be subject to compliance with applicable state securities Laws. All shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issued in connection with this Agreement shall bear a legend or legends referencing restrictions applicable to such shares under applicable securities Laws and under this Agreement, which legend shall state in substance:
“The securities evidenced by this certificate have been issued and sold without registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the securities laws of any state of the United States (a “State Act”) in reliance upon certain exemptions from registration under said acts. The securities evidenced by this certificate cannot be sold, assigned or otherwise transferred within the United States unless such sale, assignment or other transfer is (i) made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and in accordance with each applicable State Act or (ii) exempt from, or not subject to, the Securities Act and each applicable State Act.”
Parent shall instruct its transfer agent to remove such legend from the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issued hereunder on the first anniversary of the Closing Date subject to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
(c)Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Accredited Stockholder may transfer shares of Parent Class A Common Stock received in the Merger in a transaction that does not constitute a sale under Rule 144 (i) to an Affiliate of such Accredited Stockholder, (ii) if the Accredited Stockholder is an individual, to an immediate family member or trust for the benefit of such Accredited Stockholder or one or more of such Accredited Stockholder’s immediate family members, (iii) pursuant to the laws of testamentary or intestate succession or otherwise involuntarily transferred by operation of law, or (iv) if the Accredited Stockholder is a partnership, corporation, or limited liability company, to any one or more partners, stockholders or members thereof (each, a “Fund Transferee”); provided that (A) such
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Accredited Stockholder shall give Parent written notice prior to the time of such transfer stating the name and address of the transferee and identifying the shares being transferred to the transferee and (B) such transferee shall first execute and deliver to Parent a Joinder Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Parent agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement applicable to Accredited Stockholders (including the provisions of this Section 5.4) and such Joinder Agreement. Any such transferee of shares pursuant to this Section 5.4(c) is referred to herein as a “Permitted Transferee.”
(d)To ensure compliance with the restrictions imposed by this Agreement, Parent may issue appropriate “stop-transfer” instructions to its transfer agent. Parent shall not be required (i) to transfer on its books any shares of Parent Class A Common Stock that have been sold or otherwise transferred in violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) to treat as owner of such shares of Parent Class A Common Stock, or to accord the right to vote or pay dividends, to any purchaser or other transferee to whom such shares of Parent Class A Common Stock has been purportedly so transferred in violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement.
5.5Indemnification of Directors and Officers of the Company.
(a)During the period ending six years after the Effective Time (and, if applicable, for any subsequent period of time during the pendency, and through the resolution, of any D&O Indemnifiable Matter(s) initiated during such six-year period), Parent, the Final Surviving Entity and their successors shall, and Parent shall cause the Final Surviving Entity and its successors to, fulfill their obligations to the present and former members of the Board and present and former officers of the Company (such directors and officers being herein called the “Company Indemnitees”) pursuant to the terms of the Charter Documents as in effect on the Agreement Date, the DGCL and other applicable Law and any indemnification agreements between the Company and such Company Indemnitees set forth on Section 5.5(a) of the Disclosure Schedule (such obligations, collectively, the “D&O Indemnifiable Matters”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of Parent and the Final Surviving Entity or their successors in respect of the D&O Indemnifiable Matters (i) shall be subject to any limitation imposed by applicable Law, the terms of the Charter Documents and the terms of the applicable indemnification agreement and (ii) shall not be deemed to release any Company Indemnitee who is also an officer or director of the Company from his or her obligations pursuant to this Agreement or any Related Agreement to which such Person is a party.
(b)Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall purchase and fully pay (and such purchase price shall be included in Third-Party Expenses of the Company) for (i) an extended reporting period endorsement under the Company’s existing directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage in a form reasonably acceptable to Parent that shall provide the Company Indemnitees with coverage for six years following the Effective Time of not less than the existing coverage and have other terms not materially less favorable to the insured persons than the Company’s directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage presently maintained by the Company (the “D&O Tail Policy”) and (ii) an extended reporting period endorsement under the Company’s existing cyber security insurance policy (the “Cyber Tail Policy”) in a form reasonably acceptable to Parent, which shall provide coverage for three years following the Effective Time and shall have a scope substantially similar to the existing coverage under, and have other terms not materially less favorable to the insured persons than the terms of, the cyber security insurance coverage currently maintained by the Company. Parent shall not, and shall cause the Final Surviving Entity to not, take any action to eliminate such D&O Tail Policy or Cyber Tail Policy. The cost of any D&O Tail Policy and 50% of the Cyber Tail Policy shall be considered a Third-Party Expense for purposes of this Agreement. At or prior to the Closing, the Company shall provide a copy of the D&O Tail Policy and the Cyber Tail Policy to Parent, along with written confirmation from the insurance provider that the D&O Tail Policy and Cyber Tail Policy will be bound at Closing.
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(c)If Parent, the Final Surviving Entity, or any of their successors or assigns (i) consolidates with or merges into any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving company or entity of such consolidation or merger, (ii) transfers or conveys all or substantially all of their assets to any Person or (iii) ceases to exist for any reason, then, in each such case, to the extent necessary, Parent shall cause the proper provision to be made so that the successors and assigns of Parent or the Final Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall assume the obligations set forth in this Section 5.5.
(d)Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the obligations under this Section 5.5 shall not be terminated or modified in such a manner as to adversely affect any Company Indemnitee to whom this Section 5.5 applies without the consent of such affected Company Indemnitee, it being understood and agreed that the Company Indemnitees are intended to be express third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement with rights of enforcement.
5.6Resale Registration Statement.
(a)Promptly following the Agreement Date, Parent shall prepare a registration statement registering the resale by the Accredited Stockholders of the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock to be issued to the Accredited Stockholders hereunder (such shares, the “Registrable Shares,” and such registration statement, the “Resale Registration Statement”); provided that any such securities shall cease to be Registrable Shares on the earliest to occur of when (i) such Registrable Shares have been disposed of in accordance with the Resale Registration Statement, (ii) such Registrable Shares shall have been sold in accordance with Rule 144 (or any similar provision then in effect), (iii) such Registrable Shares have been transferred in a transaction in which the transferor’s rights under this Agreement are not assigned to the transferee of the securities in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (iv) with respect to a holder, such securities are eligible for resale by such holder, together with its Affiliates, pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or other exemption from registration under the Securities Act) without any volume, manner of sale or other limitations or (v) such Registrable Securities have ceased to be outstanding. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be completed, executed and delivered by the Company Stockholders and the Company Warrantholders who are, or who the Company reasonably believes to be, Accredited Stockholders, the Selling Stockholder Questionnaires in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I (the “Selling Stockholder Questionnaires”), and will provide all such completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaires that it receives back from Company Stockholders and the Company Warrantholders to Parent. Each Accredited Stockholder who has returned a properly completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaire is referred to herein as a “Selling Stockholder.”
(b)Parent shall file the Resale Registration Statement with the SEC no later than the third Business Day following the Closing Date (such day, the “Registration Deadline”); provided that if the Registration Deadline is not during an “open trading window” as determined by Parent’s insider trading policies (an “Open Trading Window”), the Registration Deadline shall be the Business Day following the first Business Day of the next Open Trading Window. If Parent is eligible to file a Resale Registration Statement on Form S-3 pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act (an “Automatic Resale Registration Statement”), the Resale Registration Statement shall be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement. If Parent is not eligible to use an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, the Resale Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3, or if Form S-3 is not available to Parent, another appropriate form. If the Resale Registration Statement is not an Automatic Resale Registration Statement, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Resale Registration Statement declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after such Resale Registration Statement is filed. Parent will advise the Stockholder Representative promptly after Parent receives any request by the SEC for amendment of the Resale Registration Statement or any SEC comments thereon. Once the Resale Registration Statement is declared effective, Parent shall notify the Stockholder Representative of such declaration, and thereafter, subject to the other applicable provisions of this Agreement, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Resale Registration Statement to be continuously effective
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and usable until the date that is the one-year anniversary of the Closing Date, or such earlier time when no Registrable Securities remain (such period, the “Registration Period”). Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Resale Registration Statement (including the documents incorporated therein by reference) to comply as to form in all material respects with all applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.
(c)The Resale Registration Statement (or any prospectus or prospectus supplement forming a part of such Resale Registration Statement), as initially filed, shall include the Registrable Shares of all Selling Stockholders for whom Parent has received properly completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaires before the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date. Parent further agrees to provide in the Resale Registration Statement (and in any prospectus or prospectus supplement forming a part of such Resale Registration Statement) that all Permitted Transferees shall, by virtue of receiving Registrable Shares in a Permitted Transfer, be deemed to be selling stockholders under the Resale Registration Statement (or any such prospectus or prospectus supplement) with respect to the Registrable Shares received by such Permitted Transferees in such Permitted Transfers, to the extent such Permitted Transferee has returned a properly completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaire. Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to file an amendment or supplement, as appropriate, to the Resale Registration Statement (and any prospectus or prospectus supplement forming a part of such Resale Registration Statement) to include the Registrable Shares of (i) any Selling Stockholders who deliver properly completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaires on or after the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date or (ii) any Permitted Transferees (who shall be deemed a Selling Stockholder hereunder following delivery of a Selling Stockholder Questionnaire) who delivers a properly completed Selling Stockholder Questionnaire on or after the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date. Parent shall only be required to file three such amendments or supplements and Parent will have no obligation to file an amendment or supplement to the Resale Registration Statement to include any Fund Transferees so long as such Resale Registration Statement (and any prospectus or prospectus supplement forming a part of such Resale Registration Statement) provides for a distribution to such Fund Transferees. Parent shall include disclosure in the plan of distribution in the Resale Registration Statement (and any prospectus or prospectus supplement forming a part of such Resale Registration Statement) that Permitted Transfers to Fund Transferees will be transfers covered by the Resale Registration Statement. No later than the effective date of the resale registration statement, Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to procure the cooperation of the Company’s transfer agent for settling any offering or sale of Registrable Shares, including with respect to the transfer of physical stock certificates, if any, into book-entry form in accordance with any procedures reasonably requested by any Selling Stockholder. In connection therewith, if reasonably required by Parent’s transfer agent, Parent shall promptly after the effectiveness of the registration statement cause to be delivered to its transfer agent, any authorizations, certificates and directions reasonably required by the transfer agent which authorize and direct the transfer agent to issue such Registrable Shares without legend upon sale by the holder of such shares of Registrable Shares under the registration statement.
(d)Parent shall notify the Stockholder Representative promptly upon discovery that, or upon the discovery of the happening of any event as a result of which, the Resale Registration Statement or any supplement to any prospectus forming a part of the Resale Registration Statement contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, and, as promptly as practicable, use commercially reasonable efforts to supplement or amend such prospectus so that such prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances under which they were made. After the Resale Registration Statement becomes effective, Parent shall notify the Stockholder Representative of any request by the SEC that Parent amend or supplement such Resale Registration Statement or prospectus, and Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to the Resale Registration Statement
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and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be reasonably necessary to keep the Resale Registration Statement effective and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Shares covered by the Resale Registration Statement. Parent shall furnish to each Selling Stockholder such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, and any supplement to any prospectus, as required by the Securities Act and shall take such other actions (including causing the removal of any restricted legends), as the Selling Stockholders may reasonably request in order to facilitate their disposition of their Registrable Shares, subject to each Selling Stockholder providing any information reasonably requested by Parent to facilitate such action.
(e)Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Section 5.6 to the contrary, Parent shall be entitled to postpone or suspend (a “Permitted Suspension”), for a reasonable period of time, the effectiveness or use of, or trading under, any Resale Registration Statement (and such postponement or suspension shall not be a breach of its obligations hereunder) if Parent shall determine that any such sale of any securities pursuant to such Resale Registration Statement would in the good faith judgment of the Parent’s board of directors:
(i)materially impede, delay or interfere with any material pending or proposed financing, acquisition, corporate reorganization or other similar transaction involving Parent for which the Parent’s board of directors has authorized negotiations;
(ii)materially adversely impair the consummation of any pending or proposed material offering or sale of any class of securities by Parent; or
(iii)require disclosure of material nonpublic information that, if disclosed at such time, would be materially harmful to the interests of Parent and its stockholders.

In the event of the postponement or suspension of effectiveness of any Resale Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 5.6, the Selling Stockholders shall be precluded from using the Resale Registration Statement in connection with a disposition of the relevant Registrable Shares for the duration of such postponement or suspension, and the applicable time period during which such Resale Registration Statement is to remain effective shall be extended by that number of days equal to the number of days the effectiveness of such Resale Registration Statement was postponed or suspended.
(f)Parent shall indemnify and hold harmless each Selling Stockholder (along with (1) each Person, if any, who “controls” (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) a Selling Stockholder and (2) the members, directors and officers of each Selling Stockholder, each an “Indemnified Person”) with Registrable Shares included in the Resale Registration Statement against any Losses to which such Indemnified Person may become subject by reason of (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in or incorporated by reference into the Resale Registration Statement or any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (iii) any violation or alleged violation by Parent (or any of its Representatives or Affiliates) of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any state securities Law in connection with the Resale Registration Statement or the offer or sale of Registrable Shares thereunder, in each case, solely to the extent such Losses directly arise out of or result from any claim or cause of action made against such Indemnified Person by an unaffiliated third party (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Permitted Transferee) who purchased such Registrable Shares from such Selling Stockholder; provided that Parent shall not liable for any such Losses to the extent such Losses arise out of or are based upon information furnished to Parent by or on behalf of such Selling Stockholder expressly for use in the Resale Registration Statement; provided, further, that Parent shall not be liable under this Section 5.6(f) for any
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Losses arising out of or resulting from the diminution in value of the Registrable Shares held by any Selling Stockholder following the date of this Agreement; provided, further, that the indemnity obligations set forth in this Section 5.6(f) shall not apply (A) to amounts paid in settlement of any such Losses if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of Parent (such consent not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) or (B) if Parent is not given reasonably prompt notice of the claim. Parent shall have the right to assume the defense and settlement of any claim or suit for which Parent may be responsible for indemnification under this Section 5.6(f). Parent shall keep the Indemnified Person reasonably apprised as to the status of the defense or any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. The Indemnified Persons shall have the right to retain their own counsel with the reasonable fees and expenses for no more than one such counsel to be paid by the Parent, if, in the reasonable opinion of counsel retained by Parent, the representation by such counsel of the Indemnified Person and Parent would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such Indemnified Person and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. Parent shall not, without the consent of the applicable Indemnified Person, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Person of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.
(g)From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the date this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms and the end of the Registration Period, Parent shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, and file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required to be filed by Parent under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.
(h)All of the expenses incurred in connection with any registration of Registrable Shares pursuant to this Agreement, including all SEC fees, blue sky registration and filing fees, listing notices and filing fees, printing fees and expenses, transfer agents’ and registrars’ fees and expenses and all fees and expenses of Parent’s outside counsel and independent accountants of Parent shall be paid by Parent. Parent shall not be responsible for any selling expenses of any Selling Stockholder (including any broker’s fees or commissions) or fees or expenses of outside counsel or independent accountants of Selling Stockholder or, to the extent incurred prior to the Closing, the Company in connection with the Resale Registration Statement.
(i)Subject to the Company’s performance and compliance with its covenants set forth in this Section 5.6, Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock being issued in the Merger to be approved for listing (subject to notice of issuance) on the New York Stock Exchange effective as of the Closing.
(j)Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the obligations under this Section 5.6 shall not be terminated or modified in such a manner as to adversely affect in any material respect any Accredited Stockholder or Permitted Transferee to whom this Section 5.6 applies without the consent of the Stockholder Representative, it being understood and agreed that the Accredited Stockholders and Permitted Transferees are intended to be express third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement with rights of enforcement.
5.7R&W Policy. Parent shall cause the R&W Policy to be bound and in full force and effect as promptly as possible and in no event later than 10 Business Days following the Agreement Date, and, if it does not already, shall provide that the insurer thereof shall have no rights of subrogation against any party to this Agreement, or any Representative thereof, except against any Company Indemnitor solely in the case of Fraud. The R&W Premium Amount shall be paid by Parent, as and when required in accordance with the terms of the R&W Policy; provided that 50% of the R&W Premium Amount shall be borne by the Company and included as a Third-Party Expense. Parent shall not amend, modify or otherwise change, terminate or waive any subrogation, or any other provision, of the R&W Policy with
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respect to any Company Indemnitor in any manner that would be adverse in any material respect to the Company Indemnitor, without the prior written consent of the Stockholder Representative. Prior to the anticipated Closing Date, Parent shall provide the Company with documentation reflecting an accounting of the R&W Premium Amount.
ARTICLE VI

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
6.1Conduct of the Business of the Company. During the period from the Agreement Date and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Effective Time, except (i) as expressly set forth on Section 6.2 of the Disclosure Schedule, (ii) as expressly contemplated by the terms hereof or (iii) as consented to in advance in writing by Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Company shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to (x) conduct its business in the Ordinary Course of Business and (y) use commercially reasonable efforts to:
(a)(i) pay and perform all of its undisputed debts and other obligations (including Taxes when due), (ii) collect accounts receivable when due and not extend credit outside of the Ordinary Course of Business and (iii) sell the Company’s or any Subsidiary of the Company’s products and services consistent with past practice as to license, service and maintenance terms, revenue recognition and other terms;
(b)preserve intact its present business organizations;
(c)keep available the services of its present officers and employees (other than any termination of service thereof for cause);
(d)preserve its relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, licensees, and others having material business dealings with it; and
(e)promptly notify Parent of any notice or other communication from any Person alleging that the consent of such Person is or may be required in connection with the Merger (it being understood and agreed that with respect to the matters specifically addressed by any provision of Section 6.2, to the extent such specific provisions conflict with the more general provision of this Section 6.1, such specific provisions shall govern).
6.2Restrictions on Conduct of the Business. Without limiting the generality or effect of the provisions of Section 6.1, except (i) as expressly set forth on Section 6.2 of the Disclosure Schedule, (ii) as required by applicable Law, (iii) as expressly contemplated by the terms hereof or (iv) as consented to in advance in writing by Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), during the period from the Agreement Date and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Effective Time, the Company shall not, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Company not to:
(a)amend its Charter Documents or Organizational Documents of its Subsidiaries;
(b)merge or consolidate itself with any other Person or adopt a plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization;
(c)declare or pay any dividends on or make any other distributions (whether in cash, stock or other property) in respect of any of its Equity Interests, or split, combine or reclassify any of its Equity Interests or issue or authorize the issuance of any Equity Interests or other securities in respect of,
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in lieu of or in substitution for its Equity Interests, or repurchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any of its Equity Interests except for purchases from former employees, non-employee directors and consultants in accordance with agreements providing for the repurchase of shares in connection with any termination of service and issuances in connection with the exercise of any Company Options or Company Warrants that are outstanding as of the Agreement Date or upon conversion of any shares of Company Preferred Stock;
(d)(i) enter into or amend or modify any (A) Material Contract or (B) any Contract that would (if entered into, amended, renewed or modified prior to the Agreement Date) constitute a Material Contract, (ii) violate, terminate (other than non-renewals occurring in the Ordinary Course of Business), or waive any of the terms of any of its Material Contracts, or (iii) enter into, amend, modify or terminate (other than non-renewals occurring in the Ordinary Course of Business) any Contract or waive or release any rights or claims thereunder, which if so entered into, modified, amended, terminated, waived or released would be reasonably likely to (x) adversely affect the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, following consummation of the Merger, Parent or any of its Affiliates) in any material respect, (y) impair the ability of the Company or the Stockholder Representative to perform their respective obligations under this agreement or (z) prevent or materially delay or impair the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby;
(e)issue, deliver, grant or sell or authorize or propose the issuance, delivery, grant or sale of, or purchase or propose the purchase of, any Company Voting Debt, any Equity Interests or any other indebtedness or other security granting its holder the right to vote on any matters on which any Company Security Holder may vote (or that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having such right), or enter into or authorize or propose to enter into any Contracts of any character obligating it to issue any Equity Interests, other than: (i) the issuance of shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to the exercise of Company Options that are outstanding as of the Agreement Date, (ii) the issuance of shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to the exercise of the Company Warrant or upon conversion of shares of Company Preferred Stock, (iii) the repurchase of any shares of Company Capital Stock from former employees, non-employee directors and consultants in accordance with Contracts providing for the repurchase of shares in connection with any termination of service and (iv) promises to grant Company RSUs to prospective Company Service Providers in the Ordinary Course of Business provided any such Company RSUs shall not be subject to acceleration under any circumstance (other than discretionary vesting acceleration provided for in the Company Equity Plan that shall not be exercised prior to the Effective Time) and (v) the grant of Company RSUs in accordance with Section 6.18 and to any Company Service Provider who is an Agreement Date Committed Equity Individual or who (A) received a promise in accordance with Section 6.2(e)(iv) and (B) commences employment and/or service prior to the Closing Date (such persons, a “Post-Signing Committed Equity Individual”);
(f)(i) hire, or offer to hire, any additional officers or Company Service Providers earning annual base compensation in excess of $250,000 (ii) terminate the employment or engagement of any current Company Service Provider earning annual base compensation in excess of $250,000 (which, for purposes of clarity, shall not include a voluntary termination by such Company Service Provider or a termination for cause by the Company or any Subsidiary), (iii) increase or modify the compensation of any Company Service Provider or otherwise alter the terms and conditions of employment for any current employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries, other than in accordance with Section 6.2(f)(iii) of the Disclosure Schedule (iv) enter into, amend, or extend the term of any (X) Contract providing for severance, retention benefits, or incentive compensation or (Y) change of control agreement with, or Company Option held by, any Company Service Provider, (v) recognize or enter into any Contract or other agreement with any labor organization or union or collective bargaining agreement (except as otherwise required by Law and after advance notice to Parent) or (vi) add any new members to the Board;
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(g)make any loans or advances (other than routine expense advances to Company Service Providers consistent with past practice) to, or any investments in or capital contributions to, any Person, or forgive or discharge in whole or in part any outstanding loans or advances, or prepay any indebtedness for borrowed money;
(h)except for non-exclusive licenses in connection with the provision of the Company Products (not including rights in any Company Source Code) and the Company services in the Ordinary Course of Business, transfer, sell, license to any Person any rights to any Intellectual Property Rights;
(i)except in connection with the provision of the Company Products in the Ordinary Course of Business, enter into any agreement with respect to the development of any Intellectual Property Rights or Technology with a third party (excluding agreements with consultants and independent contractors pursuant to Personnel Agreements);
(j)transfer or provide a copy of any Company Source Code to any Person (including any Company Service Provider or commercial partner of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company) (other than providing access to Company Source Code to current Company Service Providers actually involved in the development of the Company Products on a need to know basis in the Ordinary Course of Business and provided each such Company Service Provider has executed a Personnel Agreement);
(k)take any action regarding a patent, patent application or other Company Registered IP, other than filing continuations for existing patent applications or completing or renewing registrations of existing patents, domain names, trademarks or service marks in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(l)enter into any distribution, license, reseller, OEM, joint venture, strategic alliance, partnership or any similar arrangement or agreement (other than non-exclusive arrangements or agreements entered in the Ordinary Course of Business);
(m)sell, lease, license or otherwise dispose of or encumber (other than Permitted Liens) any of its properties or assets, other than non-exclusive licenses of Company Products in the Ordinary Course of Business, or enter into any Contract with respect to the foregoing;
(n)enter into any operating lease in excess of $200,000 or any leasing transaction of the type required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP in excess of $100,000 individually and $500,000 in the aggregate, other than equipment leases entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business in de minimis amounts;
(o)incur any indebtedness for borrowed money in excess of $1,000,000 or guarantee any such indebtedness or issue or sell any debt securities or guarantee any debt securities of others;
(p)(i) pay, discharge or satisfy any Liability to any Person who is an officer, director or stockholder of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, other than compensation due for services as an officer or director in the Ordinary Course of Business, (ii) defer payment of any accounts payable other than in the Ordinary Course of Business or (iii) give any discount, accommodation or other concession other than in the Ordinary Course of Business, with the goal of accelerating or inducing the collection of any receivable;
(q)make any capital expenditures, capital additions or capital improvements in excess of 110% of the capex budget for the 2021 fiscal year;
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(r)materially change the amount of, or terminate, any insurance coverage;
(s)agree to or take any actions to cancel, release or waive any material claims or rights held by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company;
(t)(i) adopt, establish, enter into, terminate, discontinue or amend any Company Employee Plan, except in each case as required under ERISA, applicable Law or as necessary to maintain the qualified status of such plan under applicable Law; provided the Company may enter into or terminate a Standard Offer Letter with any new hire permitted under Section 6.2(f)(i) or terminate any Standard Offer Letter permitted under Section 6.2(f)(ii), (ii) accelerate the payment, funding or vesting of any compensation or benefits of any current or former Company Service Provider of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) pay any bonus or other incentive compensation to any current or former Company Service Provider of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) increase the benefits of any current or former Company Service Providers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than, with respect to clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv), pursuant to preexisting plans, policies or Contracts that have been disclosed to Parent and are explicitly set forth on Section 3.20(a) of the Disclosure Schedule);
(u)except as required by Law, grant or pay any severance, change of control, retention or termination pay or benefits to any Person (other than payments or benefits provided pursuant to preexisting plans, policies or Contracts that have been disclosed to Parent and are explicitly set forth on Section 3.20(a) of the Disclosure Schedule);
(v)(i) commence a Legal Proceeding other than (A) for the routine collection of bills, (B) in such cases where it in good faith determines that failure to commence suit would result in the material impairment of a valuable aspect of its business (provided that the Company consults with Parent prior to the filing of such a suit) or (C) for a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement or (ii) settle or agree to settle any pending or threatened Legal Proceeding;
(w)acquire or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing a substantial portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, partnership, association or other business organization or division thereof, or otherwise acquire or agree to acquire any assets that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to its business, or enter into any Contract with respect to a joint venture, strategic alliance or partnership;
(x)make, change or revoke any Tax election, adopt or change any Tax accounting method or period, file any federal, state, or non-U.S. income Tax Return or any other material Tax Return other than in compliance with Section 5.2(a)(i), file any amended Tax Return, enter into any closing agreement within the meaning of Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provision of applicable state, local or non-U.S. Law) or voluntary disclosure application or agreement or similar process, apply for any Tax ruling, settle or compromise any Tax claim or assessment, consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any Tax claim or assessment, enter into any tax allocation agreement, tax sharing agreement or tax indemnity agreement (other than a Commercial Tax Agreement), or assume or agree to indemnify any liability for Taxes of another Person or surrender any right to claim a Tax refund, avail itself of any relief pursuant to Pandemic Response Laws that could reasonably be expected to impact the Tax payment and/or reporting obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date, or take any other similar action outside of the ordinary course of business relating to the filing of any Tax Return or the payment of any Tax if such similar action would have the effect of increasing the Tax liability the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for any Tax period ending after the Closing Date or decreasing any Tax attribute of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date.
(y)change accounting methods or practices (including any change in depreciation or amortization policies) or revalue any of its assets (including writing down the value of inventory or
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writing off notes or accounts receivable otherwise than in the Ordinary Course of Business), except in each case as required by changes in GAAP as concurred with its independent accountants and after notice to Parent;
(z)enter into any agreement for the purchase, sale or lease of any real property;
(aa)enter into any Contract that requires the procurement of any consent, waiver or novation or provide for any change in the obligations of any party thereto in connection with, or terminate as a result of the consummation of, the Merger;
(ab)place or allow the creation of any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) on any of its properties; or
(ac)materially change the manner in which it provides warranties, discounts or credits to customers; provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries may do so to the extent not doing so would negatively affect the competitive position of the Company relative to other companies in the industry in which it operates; or
(ad)take or agree in writing or otherwise to take, any of the actions described in clauses (a) through (cc).
Nothing in this Section 6.2 shall give Parent, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the operations of the Company in violation of the HSR Act or other Antitrust Laws.
6.3No Solicitation.
(a)During the period from the Agreement Date and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Effective Time, the Company will not, nor will it authorize or permit any of its Representatives to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, seek, initiate, willingly encourage others to solicit, or willingly encourage, entertain, respond to, facilitate or accept any discussions, proposals, expressions of interest or offers that constitute, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (ii) enter into, participate in, maintain or continue any communications (except solely to provide written notice as to the existence of these provisions) or negotiations regarding, or deliver or make available to any Person any non-public information with respect to, or take any other action regarding, any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (iii) agree to, accept, approve, endorse or recommend (or publicly propose or announce any intention or desire to agree to, accept, approve, endorse or recommend) any Acquisition Proposal, (iv) entertain, consider, agree to, accept, recommend, endorse, publicly propose or announce any attention to enter into, or enter into any letter of intent or any other Contract contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition Proposal, or (v) submit any Acquisition Proposal to the vote of any stockholders of the Company. The Company will, and will cause its Representatives to, (A) immediately cease and cause to be terminated any and all existing activities, discussions or negotiations with any Persons conducted prior to or on the Agreement Date with respect to any Acquisition Proposal and (B) immediately revoke or withdraw access of any Person (other than Parent and its Representatives) to any data room (virtual or actual) containing any non-public information with respect to the Company in connection with an Acquisition Proposal and request from each Person (other than Parent and its Representatives) the prompt return or destruction of all non-public information with respect to the Company previously provided to such Person in connection with an Acquisition Proposal. If any of the Company’s Representatives, takes any action at the direction of the Company that the Company is obligated pursuant to this Section 6.3 not to authorize or permit such Representative to take, then the Company shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement to have breached this Section 6.3.
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(b)The Company shall immediately (but in any event, within 24 hours) notify Parent in writing, which may be via email in accordance with Section 10.1, after receipt by the Company (or, to the Knowledge of the Company, by any of its Representatives), of (i) any Acquisition Proposal, (ii) any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (iii) any other notice that any Person is considering making an Acquisition Proposal or (iv) any request for non-public information relating to the Company or for access to any of the properties, books or records of the Company by any Person or Persons other than Parent and its Representatives reasonably expected to be in connection with a potential Acquisition Proposal. Such notice shall describe the material terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall keep Parent fully informed of the status and details of, and any modification to, any such inquiry, expression of interest, proposal or offer and any correspondence or communications related thereto. The Company shall provide Parent with 48 hours prior notice (or such lesser prior notice as is provided to the members of the Board) of any meeting of the Board at which the Board is reasonably expected to discuss any Acquisition Proposal.
6.4Access to Information.
(a)During the period from the Agreement Date and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Effective Time, (i) the Company shall afford Parent and its Representatives reasonable access during business hours to (A) the Company’s properties, books and records and (B) all other information concerning the business, properties and personnel of the Company as Parent may reasonably request and (ii) the Company shall provide to Parent and its Representatives correct and complete copies of the Company’s (A) internal financial statements, (B) Tax Returns, Tax elections and all other records and work papers relating to Taxes, (C) a schedule of any deferred intercompany gain or loss with respect to transactions to which the Company has been a party, and (D) receipts received for any Taxes paid to foreign Tax authorities; provided that the foregoing shall not require the Company to provide any information or documents if such access or disclosure, in the good faith reasonable belief of the Company, (1) access would, in light of COVID-19, jeopardize the health and safety of any officer or employee of the Company or (2) after consultation with the Company’s outside legal advisor, would violate any Law or Contract or otherwise result in the waiver of the Company’s attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or similar privilege or protection applicable to such information or documents.
(b)Subject to compliance with applicable Law, from the Agreement Date until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Closing, the Company and Parent shall each confer from time to time as requested by the other party with one or more Representatives of each party to discuss any material changes or developments in the operational matters of the Company or Parent and the general status of the ongoing operations of the Company and Parent.
(c)No information obtained by Parent or the Company during the pendency of the Merger in any investigation pursuant to this Section 6.4 shall affect or be deemed to modify any representation, warranty, covenant, agreement, obligation or condition set forth herein.
(d)For the avoidance of doubt, Section 6.7 shall apply to all information provided pursuant to this Section 6.4.
6.5Notification of Certain Matters.
(a)Each of the Company and Parent shall give the other prompt notice of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event that is reasonably likely to cause the failure of any of the conditions set forth in Article VII; provided that (i) the delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section 6.5 shall not limit or otherwise affect any remedies available to such notified party and the Company’s and
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Parent’s obligation, actions or inactions pursuant to this Section 6.5(a) shall be deemed excluded for purposes of determining whether the condition set forth in Section 7.2(a)(iv) or Section 7.3(a)(iii), as applicable, has been satisfied. No disclosure by the Company pursuant to this Section 6.5, however, shall be deemed to amend or supplement the Disclosure Schedule or prevent or cure any misrepresentation, breach of representation or warranty or breach of any covenant.
(b)Each of the Company and Parent shall give the other prompt notice of the commencement or known threat of commencement of any Legal Proceeding by or before any Governmental Entity with respect to the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, keep such notified party informed as to the status of any such Legal Proceeding or threat, and permit authorized Representatives of such notified party to be present at each meeting or conference relating to any such Legal Proceeding, to participate in, or review, any material communication before it is made to any Governmental Entity, and to have access to and be consulted in connection with any document, opinion or proposal made or submitted to any Governmental Entity in connection with any such Legal Proceeding, including by providing such notified party with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on any filing, submission, response to an information request or other (oral or written) communication to be submitted or made to any Governmental Entity and such receiving party shall consider any such received comments in good faith.
6.6Section 280G.
(a)The Company shall obtain and deliver to Parent prior to the initiation of the requisite stockholder approval procedure under Section 6.6(b), a Parachute Payment Waiver, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit J (the “Parachute Payment Waiver”), from each Person who the Company or Parent reasonably believes could be, with respect to the Company and/or any ERISA Affiliate, a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder), as determined immediately prior to the initiation of the requisite stockholder approval procedure under Section 6.6(b), and who might otherwise have received, receive or have the right or entitlement to receive a Section 280G Payment (as defined below), to the extent the value thereof equals or exceeds three times such Person’s “base amount” determined in accordance with Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder, unless the 280G Stockholder Approval (as defined below) is obtained pursuant to Section 6.6(b). No later than 10 Business Days prior to the 280G Stockholder Approval, Parent will provide to the Company any payments and/or benefits that may be payable or provided by Parent or an Affiliate or Subsidiary thereof (including the First Step Surviving Corporation or the Final Surviving Entity) that could separately or in the aggregate constitute “parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(b)At least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall submit to the Company Stockholders, for approval by such Company Stockholders holding the number of shares of stock required by the terms of Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code (as mutually determined by the Company and Parent), a written consent in favor of a proposal to render the parachute payment provisions of Section 280G of the Code and the regulations thereunder inapplicable to all Section 280G Payments. “Section 280G Payments” means any payments or benefits provided pursuant to Company Employee Plans or other plans, programs, arrangements or Contracts that might reasonably be expected to result, separately or in the aggregate, in the payment of any amount or the provision of any benefit that causes the payments or benefits to not be deductible by reason of Section 280G or that would be subject to an excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code as mutually determined by the Company and Parent. Prior to delivery of documents to the stockholders in connection with the stockholder approval contemplated by this Section 6.6(b), the Company shall provide Parent and its counsel with a reasonable opportunity (but, in any event, no less than two Business Days prior to such delivery) to review and approve all documents to be delivered to the stockholders in connection with such stockholder approval, which such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Any such stockholder approval shall be
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sought by the Company in a manner which satisfies all applicable requirements of Section 280G(b)(5)(B) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder, including Q-7 of Section 1.280G-1 of such Treasury Regulations (as mutually determined by the Company and Parent). Prior to the Closing, the Company shall deliver to Parent written notification and documentation reasonably satisfactory to Parent that (i) a vote of the holders of Company Capital Stock was solicited in conformance with Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder and the requisite stockholder approval was obtained with respect to any payments and benefits that were subject to the stockholder vote (as mutually determined by the Company and Parent) (the “280G Stockholder Approval”) or (ii) that the 280G Stockholder Approval was not obtained and as a consequence, that such payments and benefits shall not be made or provided (or shall be returned) to the extent they would cause any amounts to constitute Section 280G Payments, pursuant to the Parachute Payment Waivers that were executed by the affected individuals prior to the solicitation of the vote of the holders of Company Capital Stock pursuant to this Section 6.6(a).
6.7Confidentiality. The parties hereto acknowledge that Parent and the Company have previously executed that certain confidentiality agreement dated February 25, 2021, (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), which shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms. Each party hereto agrees that it and its Representatives shall hold the terms of this Agreement, and the fact of this Agreement’s existence, in strict confidence, and at no time shall any party or its Representatives disclose any of the terms of this Agreement (including the economic terms) or any non-public information about another party hereto to any other Person without the prior written consent of the other party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing (including in the Confidentiality Agreement), a party hereto shall be permitted to disclose any and all terms (i) to its financial, tax and legal advisors (each of whom is subject to a similar obligation of confidentiality), (ii) to any Governmental Entity or administrative agency to the extent necessary or advisable in compliance with applicable Law and the rules of the primary exchange on which such party is then listed, (iii) to Persons to which such party is otherwise incurring Third-Party Expenses (but only to the extent reasonably necessary for such Person to perform its services in connection therewith), (iv) as reasonably necessary for the Company to obtain the Company Stockholder Approval and the other consents and approvals of the Company Stockholders and other third parties contemplated by this Agreement, (v) in connection with enforcing its rights or defending itself against any claims hereunder and (vi) as otherwise permitted by Section 6.8. The Stockholder Representative hereby agrees to hold the terms of this Agreement, the fact of this Agreement’s existence, and information relating to the Merger or this Agreement received by the Stockholder Representative after the Closing or relating to the period after the Closing in strict confidence, and at no time shall the Stockholder Representative disclose any of the terms of this Agreement (including the economic terms) or any non-public information about a party hereto to any other Person without the prior written consent of Parent (and, prior to Closing, the Company); provided that following the Closing, the Stockholder Representative shall be permitted to disclose information as required by law or to employees, advisors, agents or consultants of the Stockholder Representative and to the Company Stockholders, in each case who have a need to know such information, provided that such persons are subject to confidentiality obligations with respect thereto.
6.8Public Disclosure. The parties agree that the initial press release to be issued with respect to the execution and delivery of this Agreement shall be in the form mutually agreed upon by Parent and the Company. Prior to the Effective Time or any earlier termination of this Agreement pursuant to the terms hereof, the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Representatives not to, issue any press release or other public communications (other than any communications permitted by this Section 6.8 or in accordance with the communications plan approved by Parent) relating to the terms of this Agreement or the Merger or use Parent’s name or refer to Parent directly or indirectly in connection with Parent’s relationship with the Company in any media interview, advertisement, news release, press release or professional or trade publication, or in any print media, whether or not in response to an inquiry, without the prior written approval of Parent, unless required by applicable Law and except as
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reasonably necessary for the Company to obtain the Company Stockholder Approval and the other consents and approvals of the Company Stockholders and other third parties contemplated by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in Section 6.7 or in the Confidentiality Agreement, (a) Parent may be permitted to make such public communications regarding this Agreement or the Merger as Parent may determine is reasonable and appropriate for a public reporting company and (b) the Company and its Affiliates may make such public communications regarding this Agreement or the Merger that are consistent with previous press releases or public announcements made in compliance with this Section 6.8.
6.9Reasonable Best Efforts.
(a)Each of the parties hereto (other than the Stockholder Representative) agrees to use its reasonable best efforts, and to cooperate with each other party hereto, to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, appropriate or desirable to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the satisfaction of the respective conditions set forth in Article VII, and including to execute and deliver such other instruments and do and perform such other acts and things as may be necessary or reasonably desirable for effecting completely the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b)The parties (other than the Stockholder Representative) shall promptly make all filings and notifications and other submissions with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any successor to such statute, rules or regulations (the “HSR Act”) and any other applicable Antitrust Laws and, in any event, shall each file the Notification and Report Form under the HSR Act, if required, no more than 10 Business Days after the Agreement Date. The parties agree to request at the time of filing early termination of the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each of the Company and Parent shall promptly inform the other of any material communication between the Company or Parent (as applicable) and any Governmental Entity regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (and if in writing, furnish the other party with a copy of such communication). If the Company or Parent or any affiliate thereof shall receive any formal or informal request for information or documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, then the Company or Parent (as applicable) shall make, or cause to be made, as soon as reasonably practicable, an appropriate response in compliance with such request. Without limiting the generality or effect of Section 6.9(a), to the extent permitted by applicable Law and except as may be prohibited by any Governmental Entity, the parties hereto (other than the Stockholder Representative) shall (i) permit the other to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the view of the other in connection with, any proposed written or oral communication with any Governmental Entity relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) not participate in any substantive meeting or telephone or video conference, or have any substantive communication with, any Governmental Entity unless it has given the other party a reasonable opportunity to consult with it in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, gives the other the opportunity to attend and participate therein; (iii) furnish the other party’s outside legal counsel with copies of all filings and communications between it and any such Governmental Entity with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby; provided that material provided pursuant to this Section 6.9(b): (A) may be redacted as necessary (1) to comply with contractual arrangements, (2) to address legal privilege concerns, or (3) to remove references concerning the valuation of the parties or (B) designated as “outside counsel only,” which materials and the information contained therein shall be given only to outside counsel and previously-agreed outside economic consultants of the recipient and will not be disclosed by such outside counsel or outside economic consultants to employees, officers, or directors of the recipient without the advance written consent of the party providing such materials; and (iv) furnish the other party’s outside legal counsel with
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such necessary information and reasonable assistance as the other party’s outside legal counsel may reasonably request in connection with its preparation of necessary submissions of information to any such Governmental Entity. All filing fees in connection with filings required by the HSR Act shall be borne by the acquiring person, as defined by 16 C.F.R. § 801.2. The Company and Parent shall each bear its own legal fees and expenses in connection with compliance with this Section 6.9. Neither Company nor Parent shall, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, commit to or agree with any Governmental Entity to (i) stay, toll or extend any applicable waiting period under the HSR Act, (ii) pull and refile under the HSR Act, (iii) not consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement for any period of time or (iv) enter into any timing agreement, without the prior written consent of the other.
(c)Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 6.9 or otherwise in this Agreement shall require Parent: (i) to take any action that would prohibit or limit in any respect, or place any conditions on, the ownership or operation by Parent of any portion of the business, assets, Intellectual Property Rights, categories of assets, relationships, contractual rights, obligations or arrangements of Parent or any of its Affiliates (including the Company), or compel Parent to divest, dispose of, hold separate or license any portion of the business, assets, Intellectual Property Rights, categories of assets, relationships, contractual rights, obligations or arrangements of Parent or any of its Affiliates (including the Company), (ii) to propose or agree to or effect any divestiture or hold separate any business or assets or (iii) to commence, contest or defend any Legal Proceeding relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided that the Company shall not take any of the foregoing actions without the prior written consent of Parent.
6.10Employment Matters.
(a)For the period commencing at the Effective Time and ending December 31 in the year which the Closing occurs, except to the extent better terms are provided to a Continuing Employee in any offer letter or employment agreement entered into between Parent and any Continuing Employee prior to the Effective Time, Parent agrees to provide each Continuing Employee with (i) base salary or wages, as applicable, and commission opportunity or target cash bonus opportunity, as applicable, in each case no less favorable than those provided to such Continuing Employees immediately prior to the Effective Time (which cash bonus may be replaced by other cash incentive awards in lieu thereof) and (ii) benefits (other than defined benefit pension benefits, retiree medical, severance, perquisites and equity-based incentives) which are no less favorable in the aggregate than either (A) those provided to such Continuing Employees immediately prior to the Effective Time or (B) those provided by Parent (including its Affiliates) to similarly situated employees of Parent (or its Affiliates), with the choice of (A) or (B) to be made by Parent in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, but subject to any employment agreement between a Continuing Employee and Parent or any of its Subsidiaries and other than with respect to Critical Employees (unless otherwise agreed between such Critical Employee and Parent), Parent may adjust the base salary or wages, as applicable, for certain of the Continuing Employees (i) who have a change of geographic work location or (ii) who take on a new role or position with Parent following the Effective Time; provided that such base salary or wages, as applicable, will be no less favorable than those provided by Parent (including its Affiliates) to similarly situated employees of Parent (or its Affiliates). Parent will treat, and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable benefit plans to treat, the service of the Continuing Employees with the Company attributable to any period before the Effective Time as service rendered to Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent for purposes of eligibility to participate in and vesting (other than with respect to equity-based incentives) under Parent’s health and welfare plan(s) and defined contribution plan(s), except where credit would result in duplication of benefits. Without limiting the foregoing, to the extent that any Continuing Employee participates in any health or other group welfare benefit plan of Parent following the Effective Time, Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to: (1) cause any pre-existing conditions or limitations, eligibility waiting periods or required physical examinations under any health or similar welfare plan of Parent to be waived with respect to the Continuing Employees and their eligible
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dependents, to the extent waived under the corresponding plan in which the Continuing Employee participated immediately prior to the Effective Time and (2) provide credit for any deductibles paid by Continuing Employees under any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ health plans in the plan year in which the Effective Time occurs towards deductibles under the health plans of Parent or any Subsidiary of Parent.
(b)Nothing contained herein, express or implied, (x) is intended to confer upon any Continuing Employee any right to continued employment for any period or continued receipt of any specific employee benefit, or shall constitute an amendment to or any other modification of any benefit plan, (y) shall alter or limit Parent’s or the Company’s or their Affiliates’ ability to amend, modify or terminate any particular benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement or (z) is intended to confer upon any individual (including employees, retirees or dependents or beneficiaries of employees or retirees) any right as a third party beneficiary of this Agreement.
6.11Consents.
(a)The Company shall, upon Parent’s request and using forms reasonably acceptable to Parent, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain prior to the Closing, the consents, waivers and approvals listed on Schedule B, listed on Section 3.5 of the Disclosure Schedule or under any Contract entered into after the Agreement Date that would have been required to be listed or described on Schedule B or Section 3.5 of the Disclosure Schedule if entered into prior to the Agreement Date, and the Company shall deliver copies of such consents, waivers and approvals to Parent promptly following the Company’s receipt thereof; provided that, subject to Section 1.5(a)(iii), each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that obtaining any such consent, waiver or approval shall not, in and of itself, be a condition to the Merger. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, none of Parent, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any consent or other similar fee, payment, or consideration, make any other concession or provide any additional security (including a guaranty), to obtain such third-party consents, waiver or approvals (except, in the case of the Company, if requested by Parent and either (a) reimbursed or indemnified for by Parent and (b) subject to the occurrence of the Merger).
(b)The Company shall be solely responsible for giving all notices and other information required to be given to the Company Service Providers, any collective bargaining unit representing any group of employees of the Company, and any applicable government authority under the WARN Act or similar state Law, the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, the Code, COBRA and other applicable Law in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
6.12Terminated Agreements. Prior to the Closing, the Company shall cause each of the agreements set forth on Schedule C of the Disclosure Schedule (the “Terminated Agreements”) to be terminated, effective as of and contingent upon the Closing, including by sending all required notices, such that each such agreement shall be of no further force or effect immediately following the Effective Time. Upon the Closing, the Company shall have paid all amounts owed under the Terminated Agreements (as a result of the termination of the Terminated Agreements or otherwise) such that the Final Surviving Entity shall not have any Liability under any Terminated Agreement following the Closing Date.
6.13Resignation of Officers and Directors. Prior to the Closing, the Company shall cause each officer and director of the Company to execute a Director and Officer Resignation Letter, effective as of the Effective Time.
6.14Expenses. Except as explicitly provided for otherwise in this Agreement, whether or not the Merger is consummated, except as otherwise set forth herein, each of the Company and Parent shall
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bear its own, and its respective legal, auditors’, financial advisors’ and other representatives’ fees and other expenses incurred with respect to this Agreement and the Merger.
6.15Corporate Matters. The Company shall retain its Seattle office, and use commercially reasonable efforts to make available to Parent, to the extent stored in physical form in such office as of the Agreement Date, all original minute books containing the records of all proceedings, consents, actions and meetings of the board of directors, committees of the board of directors and the stockholders of the Company and the stock ledgers, journals and other records reflecting all stock issuances and transfers.
6.16Joinder Agreements and Warrant Cancellation Agreements. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreements and the Warrant Cancellation Agreement to be executed and delivered to the Company on or prior to the Closing Date by each of the applicable Company Indemnitors (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any Company Indemnitors that executed and delivered Joinder Agreements in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement).
6.17Suitability Documentation. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Company Stockholder to deliver the Suitability Documentation at least five Business Days prior to the Closing. As promptly as practicable and in any event within at least five Business Days prior to the Closing, the Company shall provide copies of all Suitability Documentation received from each Company Stockholder to Parent.
6.18Promised Options. Prior to the Effective Time, subject to the last sentence of this Section 6.18, the Company will grant Company RSUs to individuals set forth on Schedule E, to the extent such individuals remain employed or otherwise in service through and including the grant date thereof, from the shares remaining available for issuance under the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan. Schedule E shall include each Agreement Date Committed Equity Individual listed on Section 3.2(e) of the Disclosure Schedule, and shall set forth such individual’s name, vesting commencement date, date of commencement of employment or service, and vesting schedule of such Company RSUs. No later than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver an updated Schedule E to Parent which will include each Post-Signing Committed Equity Individual in accordance with Section 6.2(e). Such updated Schedule E shall include (i) such individual’s name, vesting commencement date, number of Company RSUs, date of commencement of employment or service and vesting schedule of such Company RSUs, and (ii) the number of Company RSUs for each Agreement Date Committed Equity Individual which shall not be subject to acceleration under any circumstances (other than discretionary vesting acceleration provided for in the Company Equity Plan that will not be exercised prior to the Effective Time). The issuance of any Company RSUs in accordance with this Section 6.18, and the Company’s obligation to grant a Company RSU pursuant to this Section 6.18, shall be conditioned on such recipient of such Company RSUs executing a Company RSU Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit K prior to the Closing (the “RSU Agreement”).
6.19Invoices. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an invoice from each advisor or other service provider to the Company (other than any current employee, director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), in each case dated no more than one Business Day prior to the Closing Date, with respect to all Closing Third-Party Expenses estimated to be due and payable to such advisor or other service provider as of the Closing Date.
6.20Other Closing Deliverables. Each of the Company and Parent shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all of the closing deliverables required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 1.5(a) and Section 1.5(b), respectively, (and not otherwise specifically addressed by this Article VI) to be delivered to the other at or prior to the Closing.
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ARTICLE VII

CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER
7.1Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver, at or prior to the Effective Time, of the following conditions:
(a)No Order. No Governmental Entity shall have enacted, issued or promulgated any Law or issued or granted any Order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is in effect and which has the effect of making the Merger illegal or otherwise prohibiting or preventing consummation of the Merger.
(b)No Injunctions; Restraints; Illegality. There shall be no Law, Order or other legal restraint or prohibition in effect (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction) issued by any Governmental Entity (i) preventing or restraining, in any material respect, the consummation of the Merger, (ii) prohibiting Parent’s ownership or operation of any portion of the business of the Company or (iii) compelling Parent or Company to dispose of or hold separate all or any portion of the business or assets of Company or Parent as a result of the Merger.
(c)HSR Act. Any waiting period applicable to the Merger (and any extension thereof) under the HSR Act shall have expired or been terminated.
(d)Company Stockholder Approval. The Company Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained and shall be in full force and effect.
7.2Conditions to the Obligations of Parent and Merger Subs. The obligations of Parent and the Merger Subs to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by Parent and Merger Sub:
(a)Representations, Warranties and Covenants.
(i)The Fundamental Representations (1) that are not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to any Fundamental Representations that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such date) and (2) that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct in all respects, both as of the Agreement Date and as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to any Fundamental Representations that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such date);
(ii)The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3.8(b) shall be true and correct in all respects;
(iii)The representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement (other than the Fundamental Representations and the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.8(b)) shall be true and correct in all respects (without giving effect to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualification) as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to such representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct as of such date) except, in each case, where the failure of such
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representations and warranties collectively to be true and correct shall not have had a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company; and
(iv)The Company shall have performed and complied, in all material respects, with each agreement, covenant and obligation required by this Agreement to be so performed or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing.
(b)No Material Adverse Effect. Since the Agreement Date, there shall not have occurred and be continuing a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company.
(c)Company Certificate. Parent shall have received a certificate from the Company, validly executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company for and on the Company’s behalf, to the effect that, as of the Closing the conditions set forth in Sections 7.2(a) and 7.2(b) have been satisfied (the “Company Certificate”).
(d)Closing Deliverables. The Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to Parent the items required by Section 1.5(a).
(e)Employment Arrangements. (i) Each Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement and Offer Letter, in each case executed concurrently with this Agreement by a Key Employee, shall not have been revoked or repudiated by the Key Employee prior to the Closing (unless Parent has amended such Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement or Offer Letter without such Key Employee’s consent) and (ii) at least 80% of the total number of Critical Employees of the Company set forth on Schedule F shall (X) if Parent has made an offer of employment to such Person prior to the Closing, accepted such offer (unless such offer is not consistent with Section 6.10) or (Y) if Parent has not made an offer of employment to such Person prior to the Closing, have not terminated their employment with the Company or the Subsidiary at or prior to the Closing (or have delivered written notice prior to the Closing announcing an intention to revoke or repudiate such offer or terminate employment with the Company or the Subsidiary, as the case may be), excluding for such purposes any Company employees who Parent directs the Company in writing to terminate or who are otherwise informed by Parent in writing that Parent does not intend to continue such Person’s employment following the Closing or does not intend to comply with its obligations under Section 6.10 with respect to such Person.
(f)Certificate of Merger. Parent shall have received the First Certificate of Merger, duly executed by the Company.
7.3Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The obligations of the Company to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by the Company:
(a)Representations, Warranties and Covenants.
(i)The Parent Fundamental Representations (1) that are not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct in all material respects, both as of the Agreement Date and as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to any Parent Fundamental Representations that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such date) and (2) that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct in all respects, both as of the Agreement Date and as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to any Parent Fundamental Representations that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such date);
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(ii)The representations and warranties of Parent and the Merger Subs contained in this Agreement (other than the Parent Fundamental Representations) shall be true and correct in all respects, both as of the Agreement Date and as of the Closing Date as though made on the Closing Date (except with respect to such representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct as of such date) except, in each case, where the failure of such representations and warranties collectively to be true and correct (without giving effect to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualifications) shall not have had a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent or the Merger Subs; and
(iii)Each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II shall have performed and complied, in all material respects, with each agreement, covenant and obligation required by this Agreement to be so performed or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing.

(b)No Parent Material Adverse Effect. Since the Agreement Date, there shall not have occurred and be continuing a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(c)Share Listing. Parent shall have applied to have the shares of Parent Class A Common Stock issuable in connection with the Merger approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and evidence thereof shall have been delivered by Parent to the Company (provided that this condition shall not be applicable unless the Company has provided Parent with all information required for such application at least two Business Days before Closing).
(d)Closing Deliverables. Parent shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to the Company the items required by Section 1.5(b).
(e)WKSI. Parent shall be a WKSI on the Closing Date (assuming for this purpose that Parent’s eligibility for WKSI status is tested on the Closing Date).
(f)Certificate of Parent. Company shall have received a certificate executed for and on behalf of Parent by an officer of Parent to the effect that, as of the Closing, the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a), Section 7.3(b) and Section 7.3(e) have been satisfied (the “Parent Certificate”).
ARTICLE VIII

SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION; ESCROW
8.1Survival.
(a)The representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement and in the Certificates, and the right of any Parent Indemnified Party to assert a claim for indemnification hereunder with respect thereto, shall survive the Closing Date until the 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date (or, solely for purposes of claims under the R&W Policy, such longer period as specified in the R&W Policy); provided that (i) in the event of Fraud with respect to a representation or warranty contained in this Agreement or in the Certificates, as applicable, such representation or warranty, and the right to assert such a claim, shall survive for six years following the Closing Date and (ii) the representations and warranties contained in Section 3.9 (Tax Matters), and the right to assert such a claim, shall remain in full force and effect until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the date that is six years following the Closing Date; provided, further, that if an Indemnification Claim Notice or Third-Party Notice is given under, and in accordance with, this Article VIII with respect to any
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representation or warranty prior to the applicable expiration date, such claim shall be preserved until such claim is finally resolved.
(b)The representations and warranties of Parent and the Merger Subs set forth in this Agreement shall terminate at the Effective Time; provided that in the event of Fraud with respect to a representation or warranty contained in Article IV or in the Parent Certificate, as applicable, such representation or warranty, and the right to assert such a claim, shall survive for six years following the Closing Date.
(c)The Fundamental Representations and any right to assert such a claim for breach thereof shall survive until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the date that is three years following the Closing Date.
(d)The covenants and agreements of the Company that by their terms are to be performed or complied with at or prior to the Closing, and the right of any Parent Indemnified Party to assert a claim for indemnification hereunder with respect thereto, shall survive until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date. Each other covenant and agreement of any party herein shall survive until fully performed in accordance with its terms.
(e)The Company Indemnitors’ obligations to indemnify the Parent Indemnified Parties for all other matters described in Section 8.2(a)(iii) through (viii) (other than an indemnity claim arising under Section 8.2(a)(vii)) and any right to assert such a claim therefor shall survive until the applicable statute of limitations (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be six years for the any claims with respect to Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes under Section 8.2(a)(v)); provided that the Company Indemnitors’ obligations to indemnify the Parent Indemnified Parties for an indemnity claim arising under Section 8.2(a)(vii) shall survive until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the date that is the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date.
(f)For the avoidance of doubt, it is the intention of the parties hereto that the foregoing respective survival periods and termination dates supersede any applicable statutes of limitations that would otherwise apply to such representations and warranties and covenants and the right to make indemnification claims in respect thereof under this Agreement, and the Company Indemnitors and the Parent Indemnified Parties hereby waive any claims or defenses based on the statute of limitations to the extent inconsistent with the survival periods set forth herein.
8.2Indemnification.
(a)From and after the consummation of the Merger, the Company Indemnitors shall severally, and not jointly, in accordance with each Company Indemnitor’s Pro Rata Share, indemnify and hold harmless Parent and its directors, officers, employees, affiliates (including the Final Surviving Entity), agents and other representatives (the “Parent Indemnified Parties”), from and against all Losses paid, incurred, suffered or sustained by the Parent Indemnified Parties, or any of them, resulting from or arising out of any of the following:
(i)the failure of any representation or warranty of the Company in this Agreement or the Certificates to be true and correct on the Agreement Date and as of the Closing Date as if made on and as of the Closing Date, except that any such representations and warranties which by their express terms are made solely as of a specified earlier date shall be true and correct as of such specified earlier date; provided that all materiality qualifications (such as “material” and “Material Adverse Effect”, other than the use of the word “material” as part of any defined term) in such representations and warranties shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Article VIII (including for purposes of determining whether or not a breach occurred and amount of damages associated therewith);
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(ii)any failure by the Company to perform or comply with any covenant or agreement applicable to it contained in this Agreement that is to be performed or complied with at or prior to Closing;
(iii)regardless of the disclosure of any matter set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, (A) any inaccuracy in any information set forth in the Allocation Schedule, other than any inaccuracies with respect to the items set forth in the Estimated Closing Statement to the extent covered by Section 2.9, or (B) any claim by or on behalf of any Person asserting, alleging or seeking to assert that such Person is entitled in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to receive, in respect of any Company Securities, (1) any amounts in excess of the amounts indicated on the Allocation Schedule or (2) amounts not otherwise set forth on the Allocation Schedule;
(iv)regardless of the disclosure of any matter set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, any claims by any Company Indemnitees in respect of D&O Indemnifiable Matters that are not otherwise fully covered by the D&O Tail Policy;
(v)regardless of the disclosure of any matter set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, without duplication, any Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes, Closing Third Party Expenses or Closing Indebtedness, in each case to the extent not taken into account in the calculation of the Total Merger Consideration;
(vi)the exercise by any Company Stockholder of appraisal or dissenters’ rights, including appraisal rights under Section 262 of the DGCL, including payments in respect of such Person’s Dissenting Shares to the extent such payments exceed the cash amount to which such Person would have been entitled pursuant to Section 2.4(c) in respect of such Dissenting Shares if such Person had not exercised appraisal rights in respect thereof;
(vii)the matter set forth on Schedule G; and
(viii)any Fraud on the part of the Company in respect of the representations and warranties in Article III of this Agreement or in the Certificates.
(b)The rights of the Parent Indemnified Parties to indemnification, compensation or reimbursement, payment of Losses or any other remedy under this Agreement shall not be affected by any investigation conducted with respect to, or any knowledge acquired (or capable of being acquired) at any time (other than as a result of disclosures set forth on the face of the Disclosure Schedule, except to the extent expressly noted), whether before or after the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the Closing Date, with respect to the accuracy or inaccuracy of or compliance with, any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Company or any other matter. The waiver of any condition based on the accuracy of any such representation or warranty, or on the performance of or compliance with any such covenant or agreement, will not affect the right to indemnification, compensation or reimbursement, payment of Losses, or any other remedy under this Agreement based on any such representation, warranty, covenant or agreement. Other than with respect to any claim for fraud or intentional misrepresentation, no Parent Indemnified Party shall be required to show reliance on any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement in order for such Parent Indemnified Party to be entitled to indemnification, compensation or reimbursement hereunder. Nothing in this Agreement shall limit the right of any party to any Related Agreement to pursue remedies under such Related Agreement against any other party thereto with respect to any breaches of such Related Agreement by such other party.
(c)Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, there shall be no indemnification provided for, and the Company makes no representations or warranties regarding, the amount, value or condition of, or any limitations on, any net operating losses or Tax credit of the
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Company and its Subsidiaries arising in any Pre-Closing Tax Period (each, a “Tax Attribute”) in a Tax period (or portion thereof) beginning after the Closing Date, or the ability of Parent or any of its Affiliates (including the Final Surviving Entity) to utilize such Tax Attributes in a Tax period (or portion thereof) beginning after the Closing Date and Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries that are incurred as a result of any transaction undertaken by Parent, the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates outside the ordinary course of business on the Closing Date but after the Closing.
8.3Certain Limitations.
(a)Except in the case of Fraud and indemnification claims to the extent related to any inaccuracy or failure of any Fundamental Representations, and subject to Section 8.3(b), the Parent Indemnified Parties, as a group, may not recover any Losses pursuant to an indemnification claim under Section 8.2(a)(i) unless and until the Parent Indemnified Parties, as a group, shall have paid, incurred, suffered or sustained at least $3,187,500 in Losses in the aggregate (the “Deductible Amount”), at which time the Parent Indemnified Parties shall be entitled to recover in accordance with this Agreement all such Losses in excess of the Deductible Amount, subject to the other limitations in this Agreement.
(b)Except in the case of Fraud, the Parent Indemnified Parties’ sole and exclusive source of recovery for indemnification claims under Section 8.2(a)(i) shall be recourse against the Indemnity Escrow Account (other than recovery for any inaccuracy or failure of any Fundamental Representations or under Section 3.9), and the maximum aggregate liability of the Company Indemnitors with respect to any indemnifications claims under Section 8.2(a)(i) will not be in excess of the Deductible Amount (including, for the avoidance of doubt, recovery for any inaccuracy or failure of any Fundamental Representations or under Section 3.9).
(c)Except in the case of Fraud, the Parent Indemnified Parties’ sole and exclusive source of recovery for indemnification claims under Section 8.2(a)(ii) through Section 8.2(a)(vii) (an “Other Indemnity Claim”) shall be recourse against the Other Indemnity Escrow Account, and the maximum aggregate liability of the Company Indemnitors with respect to any indemnifications claims under Section 8.2(a)(ii) through Section 8.2(a)(vii) will not be in excess of the Other Indemnity Escrow Value.
(d)Subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 8.3(a), 8.3(b), 8.3(c), and 8.3(e), with respect to any claim for indemnification, the Parent Indemnified Parties shall (subject to Sections 8.4 and 8.5): (i) first, be required to seek to satisfy from the R&W Policy, Cyber Tail Policy or D&O Policy, as applicable, all such claims for Losses, unless such claims are expressly excluded from coverage under such policies; (ii) second, if and only to the extent the Parent is unable to recover all or any portion of such Losses from and against the R&W Policy, Cyber Tail Policy or D&O Policy (including as a result of applicable retention or other limitations on coverage under such policies); the Indemnity Escrow Account (to the extent thereof) or the Other Indemnity Escrow Account (to the extent thereof), as applicable, all such claims for Losses in accordance with the Escrow Agreement; and (iii) third, if and only to the extent that Parent is unable to recover under the Indemnity Escrow Account or the Other Indemnity Escrow Account, the Parent Indemnified Parties shall be entitled to bring indemnification claims directly against the Company Indemnitors (in accordance with each Company Indemnitor’s Pro Rata Share) pursuant to the claims procedures in Section 8.4; provided that with respect to indemnification claims related to the Company’s actions or omission (including any claim under Section 8.2(a)(i)), such indemnification claims must be asserted against all of the Company Indemnitors; provided, further, that (1) any Losses with respect to such claims under Section 8.2(a)(i) shall be recovered from the Indemnity Escrow Account to the extent of any Indemnity Escrow Cash then remaining therein and then, solely with respect to recovery for any inaccuracy or failure of any Fundamental Representations or the representations and warranties in Section 3.9, (A) first, from the Other Indemnity Escrow Account to the extent of any Other Indemnity Escrow Cash then remaining therein and (B) second, directly against the Company Indemnitors
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in accordance with this Section 8.3(d) and (2) any Losses with respect to such Other Indemnity Claims shall first be recovered from the Other Indemnity Escrow Account to the extent of any Other Indemnity Escrow Account then remaining therein and then directly against the Company Indemnitors in accordance with this Section 8.3(d).
(e)Anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement notwithstanding, (i) the aggregate liability of any Company Indemnitor for all indemnification claims under this Agreement shall not exceed the amount of Total Merger Consideration actually received by such Company Indemnitor (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Escrow Cash, if and to the extent released to the Company Indemnitor, and, in the case of each Key Employee, the amount of the Revested Stock Consideration for such Key Employee (as defined in the Joinder Agreement to which each such Key Employee is a party)), unless such indemnity claim is being made in respect of Fraud committed by such Company Indemnitor or Fraud to which such Company Indemnitor had actual knowledge (in which event there shall be no limitation on the liability of such Company Indemnitor hereunder with respect to such Fraud), and (ii) in no event shall any Company Indemnitor have any liability for any Fraud committed by any other Company Indemnitor (except to the extent such Company Indemnitor had actual knowledge of such Fraud) or for any breach by any other Company Indemnitor of any Related Agreement entered into by such Company Indemnitor.
(f)The amount of any Losses that are subject to indemnification under this Article VIII shall be calculated net of the amount of any insurance proceeds, indemnification payments or reimbursements actually received by the Parent Indemnified Parties from third parties (other than the Company Indemnitors) in respect of such Losses (net of any costs or expenses incurred in obtaining such insurance, indemnification or reimbursement, including any increases in insurance premiums or retro-premium adjustments resulting from such recovery); provided that, except for the following sentence, nothing in this Section 8.3(f) shall be construed to give rise to an obligation to seek any such insurance, indemnification or reimbursement. The Parent Indemnified Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to seek recovery under (i) the R&W Policy with respect to any applicable Losses in excess of the retention under the R&W Policy and (ii) the D&O Tail Policy and the Cyber Tail Policy, as applicable, with respect to any applicable Losses.
(g)For the avoidance of doubt, any Losses for indemnification under this Agreement shall be determined without duplication of recovery due to the facts giving rise to such Losses constituting a breach of more than one representation, warranty, covenant or agreement or other indemnifiable matter under Section 8.2. The Parent Indemnified Parties shall not be entitled to indemnification, compensation or reimbursement with respect to any amount or item to the extent such amount or item was actually included in the calculation of the Total Merger Consideration as finally determined in accordance with Section 2.9.
(h)Parent and the Merger Subs acknowledge and agree that the sole and exclusive remedy for the Parent Indemnified Parties against the Company Indemnitors with respect to any and all claims for any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant, agreement or obligation set forth herein, for any of the other matters set forth in Section 8.2, or otherwise resulting from or arising out of this Agreement, the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby will be pursuant to the indemnification provisions set forth in this Article VIII; provided that the foregoing clause of this sentence shall not be deemed a waiver by any party of (i) any right to specific performance or injunctive relief, (ii) any right or remedy of a party under any Related Agreement to which it is party, or (iii) any right or remedy against a particular Company Indemnitor with respect to such Company Indemnitor’s own Fraud or Fraud to which such Company Indemnitor had actual knowledge, and all claims related thereto shall survive until 90 days following the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. All claims for indemnification, compensation or reimbursement under this Article VIII shall be asserted by Parent on behalf of the applicable Parent Indemnified Parties. Subject to the other limitations contained
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herein, the obligations of the Company Indemnitors under this Article VIII shall not be reduced, offset, eliminated or subject to contribution by reason of any action or inaction by the Company that contributed to any inaccuracy or breach giving rise to such obligation, it being understood and agreed that the Company Indemnitors, not the Company, shall have the sole obligation for the indemnification obligations under this Article VIII.
8.4Claims for Indemnification; Resolution of Conflicts.
(a)Subject to Section 8.1, Section 8.2, and Section 8.3, if a Parent Indemnified Party wishes to make an indemnification claim under this Article VIII, Parent, on behalf of such Parent Indemnified Party, shall deliver a written notice (an “Indemnification Claim Notice”) to the Stockholder Representative (i) stating that such Parent Indemnified Party has paid, incurred, suffered or sustained, or reasonably anticipates that it may pay, incur, suffer or sustain Losses and (ii) specifying such Losses in reasonable detail (to the extent available), and, if applicable, the nature of the misrepresentation, breach of warranty or covenant to which such item is related. To the extent reasonably practicable, Parent shall include with the Indemnification Claim Notice such documents and other information available to Parent in support of the claims asserted therein, and shall provide such other information as the Stockholder Representative may reasonably request in order to allow the Stockholder Representative to assess the merits of the claims. Parent may update an Indemnification Claim Notice from time to time to reflect any change in circumstances following the date thereof, so long as such update reasonably relates to the underlying facts and circumstances specifically set forth in such original Indemnification Claim Notice.
(b)If the Stockholder Representative on behalf of the Company Indemnitors shall not object in writing within the 20 Business Day period after receipt of an Indemnification Claim Notice by delivery of a written notice of objection containing a reasonably detailed description of the facts and circumstances (if then known) supporting an objection to the applicable indemnification claim (an “Indemnification Claim Objection Notice”), such failure to so object shall be an irrevocable acknowledgment by the Stockholder Representative on behalf of the Company Indemnitors that the Parent Indemnified Party is entitled to the full amount of the claim for Losses set forth in such Indemnification Claim Notice if and to the extent such Losses are actually paid, incurred, suffered or sustained, but subject to the other limitations on recovery set forth herein. In such event, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall promptly (but in any event within three Business Days of the resolution of such Indemnification Claim Notice) deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to immediately release and distribute to Parent from the Indemnity Escrow Account (or the Other Indemnity Escrow Account with respect to an Other Indemnity Claim, Indemnity Escrow Cash (if any remains) or the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash with respect to an Other Indemnity Claim) with an aggregate value equal to the Losses set forth in such Indemnification Claim Notice (or to the extent then available in the Indemnity Escrow Account in the event such Losses exceed the then-available balance of the Indemnity Escrow Account (or to the extent then available in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account in the event such Losses exceed the then available balance of the Other Indemnity Escrow Account with respect to an Other Indemnity Claim)).
(c)In the event that the Stockholder Representative shall timely deliver an Indemnification Claim Objection Notice in accordance with Section 8.4(b), the Stockholder Representative and Parent shall attempt in good faith to agree upon the rights of the respective parties with respect to each of such claims. If the Stockholder Representative and Parent should so agree, a memorandum setting forth such agreement shall be prepared and signed by both parties and, in the case of an indemnification claim to be recovered from the Indemnity Escrow Account or Other Indemnity Escrow Account, as applicable, shall be furnished to the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any such memorandum and make distributions from the Indemnity Escrow Account or Other Indemnity Escrow Account, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms thereof. In such event, the Escrow Agent shall promptly release and distribute to Parent (i) from the Indemnity Escrow
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Account, the Indemnity Escrow Cash or (ii) from the Other Indemnity Escrow Account, the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash with respect to an Other Indemnity Claim, as applicable, with an aggregate value equal to the Losses set forth in such memorandum (or to the extent then available in the Indemnity Escrow Account in the event such Losses exceed the then available balance of the Indemnity Escrow Account (or, in the case of Losses arising from an Other Indemnity Claim, to the extent then available in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account in the event such Losses exceed the then available balance of the Other Indemnity Escrow Account)). Should the amount held in the Indemnity Escrow Account, if any, be insufficient to satisfy in whole the amount to be paid to a Parent Indemnified Party in accordance with such memorandum, then, subject to the limitations set forth in this Article VIII, each Company Indemnitor shall, within 20 Business Days following the date of such memorandum, pay to the Parent Indemnified Party, such Company Indemnitor’s Pro Rata Share of such shortfall. If such shortfall becomes payable prior to the Liquidity Date applicable to a particular Company Indemnitor, such Company Indemnitor may elect, in its sole discretion, whether to satisfy such shortfall in cash, in shares of Parent Class A Common Stock, or a combination thereof, with such shares to be valued for these purposes at the Parent Stock Price. If such shortfall becomes payable following the Liquidity Date applicable to a particular Company Indemnitor, the shortfall shall be payable solely in cash.
(d)In the event that there is a dispute relating to any Indemnification Claim Notice or Indemnification Claim Objection Notice that cannot be settled in accordance with Section 8.4(c), each of Parent or the Stockholder Representative may file suit with respect to such dispute in any court having jurisdiction in accordance with Section 10.11. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Parent and the Stockholder Representative mutually agree, Parent and the Stockholder Representative may submit any such dispute to alternative dispute resolution prior to, or in lieu of, pursuing the claim in court.
(e)On or before the third Business Day after the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, Parent will notify the Stockholder Representative in writing of the amount that Parent determines in good faith to be necessary to satisfy all claims for (i) indemnification, compensation or reimbursement that have been asserted in any Indemnification Claim Notice (other than for Other Indemnity Claims) that was delivered to the Stockholder Representative at or prior to 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, but not resolved, at or prior to such time (each such claim a “RW Indemnity Continuing Claim” and such amount, as may be reduced from time to time in accordance with this Agreement, the “RW Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount”) and (ii) indemnification, compensation or reimbursement that have been asserted in any Indemnification Claim Notice for Other Indemnity Claims that was delivered to the Stockholder Representative at or prior to 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, but not resolved, at or prior to such time (each such claim an “Other Indemnity Continuing Claim” and such amount, as may be reduced from time to time in accordance with this Agreement, the “Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount”). Within 10 Business Days following the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to release and distribute from (i) the Indemnity Escrow Account an amount equal to (A) the Indemnity Escrow Cash (as reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) as of the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, minus (B) the Indemnity Escrow Cash in the aggregate equal to the RW Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount, which amount shall be released and distributed to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Share of such amount pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable, and (ii) the Other Indemnity Escrow Account an amount equal to (A) the amount remaining in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account at such time in excess of $30,000,000 as of the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, minus (B) the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash in the aggregate equal to the Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount at such time, which amount shall be released and distributed to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Share of such amount pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable; provided if the amount in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account is less than $30,000,000 at the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, no amount therein shall be released.
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(f)Following the Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, after resolution and payment of a RW Indemnity Continuing Claim, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to release from the Indemnity Escrow Account the Indemnity Escrow Cash in an amount in the aggregate equal to (i) the RW Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount (as reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) as of the date of such resolution and payment, minus (ii) the amounts that Parent determines in good faith to be necessary to satisfy other RW Indemnity Continuing Claims (which amounts will continue to be held as the RW Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount) to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Share of such amount pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable.
(g)On or before the third Business Day after the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, Parent will notify the Stockholder Representative in writing of the amount that Parent determines in good faith to be necessary to satisfy all claims for indemnification, compensation or reimbursement that have been asserted in any Indemnification Claim Notice for an Other Indemnity Claim that was delivered to the Stockholder Representative at or prior to 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, but not resolved, at or prior to such time (each such claim, also an Other Indemnity Continuing Claim). Within 10 Business Days following the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to release and distribute from the Other Indemnity Escrow Account an amount equal to (i) the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash (as reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) as of the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, minus (ii) the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash in the aggregate equal to the Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount outstanding at such time, which amount shall be released and distributed to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Share of such amount pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable.
(h)Following the Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date, after resolution and payment of a Other Indemnity Continuing Claim, Parent and the Stockholder Representative shall deliver a joint instruction to the Escrow Agent instructing the Escrow Agent to release from the Other Indemnity Escrow Account the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash in an amount in the aggregate equal to (i) the Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount (as reduced from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) as of the date of such resolution and payment, minus (ii) the amounts that Parent determines in good faith to be necessary to satisfy other Other Indemnity Continuing Claims (which amounts will continue to be held as the Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount) to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Share of such amount pursuant to Section 2.1(a) or Section 2.1(c), as applicable.
(i)Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that as a condition to Parent’s and Paying Agent’s obligation to make any payments pursuant to Section 8.4(e) or Section 8.4(f), the Stockholder Representative shall first deliver to Parent an updated Allocation Schedule setting forth the amounts payable to each Company Indemnitor in accordance with such section. Parent and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon the updated Allocation Schedule delivered by the Stockholder Representative, including with respect to whether any individual Company Indemnitor received the appropriate portion of any such distribution, and in no event will Parent, the Final Surviving Entity or any of their Affiliates have any liability to any Person on account of payments or distributions made in accordance with the updated Allocation Schedule delivered by the Stockholder Representative.
(j)Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) any notice that is required to be delivered to any Company Indemnitors pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed satisfied by delivery of such notice to the Stockholder Representative and (ii) any notices required to be delivered by, or any actions that are required to be taken by, (other than any obligations to make or right to receive any payments) any
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Company Indemnitors pursuant to this Article VIII shall be satisfied by delivery by, or action taken by the Stockholder Representative.
8.5Third-Party Claims. In the event Parent becomes aware of a third-party claim (a “Third-Party Claim”) which Parent reasonably believes may result in a claim for indemnification pursuant to this Article VIII, Parent shall notify the Stockholder Representative of such claim with an Indemnification Claim Notice (a “Third-Party Notice”), and the Third-Party Notice shall be accompanied by copies of any documentation submitted by the third party making such Third-Party Claim (except that Parent may withhold from Stockholder Representative such communications with its legal counsel to the extent that legal counsel to Parent advises that providing such communication could result in the loss of any attorney-client privilege or right under the work-product doctrine of Parent or any Parent Indemnified Party in respect of such claim, after giving due consideration to any “community of interest” or similar privilege, if any); provided that no delay or failure on the part of Parent in delivering a Third-Party Notice shall cause any Parent Indemnified Party to forfeit any indemnification rights under this Article VIII except to the extent that the Company Indemnitors are actually prejudiced by such delay or failure. The costs and expenses incurred by Parent in connection with any investigation, defense, settlement or resolution of such Third-Party Claim and the enforcement and protection of its rights under this Agreement in respect thereof (including reasonable attorneys’ fees, other professionals’ and experts’ fees and court or arbitration costs) shall be included in the Losses for which Parent may seek indemnification pursuant to a claim made hereunder and such costs and expenses shall constitute Losses subject to indemnification under Section 8.2, solely to the extent it is determined in accordance with Section 8.4 that such Third-Party Claim itself is indemnifiable under this Article VIII or the Stockholder Representative has consented (or deemed to have consented) to a settlement of such Third-Party Claim under this Section 8.5. Upon receipt of a Third-Party Notice, the Stockholder Representative shall be entitled (on behalf of the Company Indemnitors and at their expense) to participate in, but not to control, determine or conduct, the defense of such Third-Party Claim. Subject to the last sentence of this paragraph, Parent shall have the right in its sole discretion to conduct the defense of, and to settle, any such claim and the Stockholder Representative shall not be entitled to control any negotiation of settlement, adjustment or compromise with respect to any such Third-Party Claim; provided that except with the written consent of the Stockholder Representative, no settlement of any such Third-Party Claim with third-party claimants shall be determinative of the right of any Parent Indemnified Party to be indemnified with respect to such Third-Party Claim or settlement or any Losses relating thereto; provided, further, that the consent of the Stockholder Representative with respect to any settlement of any such Third-Party Claim shall be deemed to have been given unless the Stockholder Representative shall have objected within 30 days after a written request for such consent by Parent. In the event that the Stockholder Representative has consented to any such settlement, adjustment or compromise, the Company Indemnitors shall have no power or authority to object under any provision of this Article VIII to the amount of such settlement, adjustment or compromise.
8.6Stockholder Representative.
(a)By voting in favor of the adoption of this Agreement, the approval of the principal terms of the Merger, and the consummation of the Merger, executing a Joinder Agreement or Warrant Cancellation Agreement or participating in the Merger and receiving the benefits thereof, including the right to receive the consideration payable in connection with the Merger, and without any further action of any of the Company Indemnitors or the Company, each Company Indemnitor shall be deemed to have approved the designation of, and hereby designates, Fortis Advisors LLC as the representative, exclusive agent and attorney-in-fact for and on behalf of the Company Indemnitors as of the Closing for all purposes in connection with this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Engagement Letter and the other agreements ancillary hereto, including to give and receive notices and communications, to authorize satisfaction of claims by Parent, to object to such payments, to agree to, negotiate, enter into settlements and compromises of, and demand arbitration and comply with orders of
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courts and awards of arbitrators with respect to such claims, to bring (or decide not to bring) actions on behalf of the Company Indemnitors, Selling Stockholders, Accredited Stockholders and Permitted Transferees to specifically enforce the terms of this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement and the other agreements ancillary hereto or for damages for breaches hereof or thereof, and to take all other actions that are either (i) necessary or appropriate in the judgment of the Stockholder Representative for the accomplishment of the foregoing or (ii) permitted by the terms of this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or the Engagement Letter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Stockholder Representative shall have no obligation to act on behalf of the Company Indemnitors, except as expressly provided herein and in the Engagement Letter, and for purposes of clarity, there are no obligations of the Stockholder Representative in any ancillary agreement, schedule, exhibit or the Disclosure Schedule. The powers, immunities and rights to indemnification granted to the Stockholder Representative Group hereunder: (i) are coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and survive the death, incompetence, bankruptcy or liquidation of any Company Indemnitor and shall be binding on any successor thereto, and (ii) shall survive the delivery of an assignment by any Company Indemnitor of the whole or any fraction of his, her or its interest in the Escrow Account. The Stockholder Representative may resign at any time upon at least 10 days prior written notice to the Company Indemnitors. Such agency may be changed by the Company Indemnitors from time to time upon not less than 10 days prior written notice to Parent; provided that the Stockholder Representative may not be removed unless the former holders of a majority of Company Capital Stock agree to such removal and to the identity of the substituted agent. A vacancy in the position of Stockholder Representative may be filled by the former holders of a majority of Company Capital Stock. No bond shall be required of the Stockholder Representative. After the Closing, notices or communications to or from the Stockholder Representative shall constitute notice to or from the Company Indemnitors.
(b)Certain Company Indemnitors have entered into an engagement agreement (the “Engagement Letter”) with the Stockholder Representative to provide direction to the Stockholder Representative in connection with its services under this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement and the Engagement Letter (such Company Indemnitors, including their individual representatives, collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Advisory Committee”). Neither the Stockholder Representative nor its members, managers, directors, officers, contractors, agents and employees nor any member of the Advisory Committee (collectively, the “Stockholder Representative Group”) shall incur liability of any kind with respect to any action or omission by the Stockholder Representative or the Advisory Committee in connection with their services pursuant to this Agreement, the Engagement Letter, the Escrow Agreement or any other agreements ancillary hereto, except to the extent resulting from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Stockholder Representative or such member of the Advisory Committee, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, the preceding sentence shall not prejudice the Stockholder Representative’s right to indemnification from the members of the Advisory Committee (in their capacity as Company Indemnitors) pursuant to the following sentence. The Company Indemnitors shall, on a several and not joint basis and based on their respective Pro Rata Shares, indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Stockholder Representative Group from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, actions, fees, claims, judgments, amounts paid in settlement and out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses of counsel and experts and their staffs, in connection with seeking recovery from insurers and all expense of document location, duplication and shipment) (collectively, “Representative Losses”) to the extent arising out of or in connection with the Stockholder Representative’s or the Advisory Committee’s execution and performance of this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Engagement Letter and any other agreements ancillary hereto, in each case as such Representative Loss is suffered or incurred; provided that in the event that any such Representative Loss is finally adjudicated to have been caused by the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Stockholder Representative or such member of the Advisory Committee, as applicable, the Stockholder Representative or such member of the Advisory Committee, as applicable, shall promptly reimburse the Company Indemnitors the amount of such indemnified Representative Loss to the extent attributable to such bad faith, gross negligence or
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willful misconduct. If not paid directly to the Stockholder Representative by the Company Indemnitors, any such Representative Losses may be recovered by the Stockholder Representative from (i) the funds in the Expense Fund Account and (ii) any other funds that become payable to the Company Indemnitors under this Agreement at such time as such amounts would otherwise be distributable to the Company Indemnitors; provided that while this Section 8.6(b) allows the Stockholder Representative to be paid from the aforementioned source of funds, this does not relieve the Company Indemnitors from their obligation to promptly pay, in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares, such Representative Losses as they are suffered or incurred, nor does it prevent the Stockholder Representative from seeking any remedies available to it at law or otherwise. In no event shall the Stockholder Representative be required to advance its own funds on behalf of the Company Indemnitors or otherwise incur any financial liability in the exercise or performance of any of its powers, rights, duties or privileges or pursuant to this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Engagement Letter or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. Furthermore, the Stockholder Representative shall not be required to take any action unless the Stockholder Representative has been provided with funds, security or indemnities which, in its determination, are sufficient to protect the Stockholder Representative against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by the Stockholder Representative in performing such actions. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any restrictions or limitations on liability or indemnification obligations of, or provisions limiting the recourse against non-parties otherwise applicable to, the Company Indemnitors set forth elsewhere in this Agreement are not intended to be applicable to the indemnities provided to the Stockholder Representative under this section. The Company Indemnitors acknowledge and agree that the foregoing indemnities and immunities shall survive the resignation or removal of the Stockholder Representative or any member of the Advisory Committee and the Closing or the termination of this Agreement.
(c)Upon the Closing, Parent shall wire to an account of Stockholder Representative as set forth on the Allocation Schedule (the “Expense Fund Account”) an amount of $1,000,000 in cash (the “Expense Fund”), which shall be used (i) for the purposes of paying directly, or reimbursing the Stockholder Representative for, any Representative Losses pursuant to this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Engagement Letter and any other agreements ancillary hereto or (ii) as otherwise determined by the Advisory Committee. The Company Indemnitors shall not receive any interest or earnings on the Expense Fund and irrevocably transfer and assign to the Stockholder Representative any ownership right that they may otherwise have had in any such interest or earnings. The Stockholder Representative is not providing any investment supervision, recommendations or advice and shall not be liable for any loss of principal of the Expense Fund other than as a result of its bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Stockholder Representative is not acting as a withholding agent or in any similar capacity in connection with the Expense Fund and has no tax reporting or income distribution obligations. Subject to Advisory Committee approval, the Stockholder Representative may contribute funds to the Expense Fund from any consideration otherwise distributable to the Company Indemnitors. The Stockholder Representative shall hold these funds separate from its corporate funds, shall not use these funds for its operating expenses or any other corporate purposes and shall not voluntarily make these funds available to its creditors in the event of bankruptcy. As soon as practicable after the completion of the Stockholder Representative’s responsibilities, the Stockholder Representative shall deliver any remaining balance of the Expense Fund to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Company Indemnitors the portion of such balance payable pursuant to Section 2.1(a), Section 2.1(b)(i) and Section 2.1(c), as applicable; provided that as a condition to Parent’s and Paying Agent’s obligation to make such payments, the Stockholder Representative shall first deliver to Parent an updated Allocation Schedule setting forth the portion of such Expense Fund distribution payable to each Company Indemnitor. For tax purposes, the Expense Fund shall be treated as having been received and voluntarily set aside by the Company Indemnitors at the time of Closing. Any Tax required to be withheld with respect to the deemed payment to a Company Indemnitor of its portion of the Expense Fund shall reduce the amount of cash to such Person at Closing in respect of Company Securities and shall not reduce the Expense Fund or amounts paid out of the Expense Fund.
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(d)The Stockholder Representative shall be entitled to: (i) rely upon the Allocation Schedule, (ii) rely upon any signature believed by it to be genuine, and (iii) reasonably assume that a signatory has proper authorization to sign on behalf of the applicable Company Indemnitor or other party. A decision, act, consent or instruction of the Stockholder Representative under this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or the Engagement Letter, including an amendment of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.7, in accordance with the authority granted to the Stockholder Representative hereunder shall constitute a decision of the Company Indemnitors and shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the Company Indemnitors and their successors as if expressly confirmed and ratified in writing by the Company Indemnitors, and all defenses which may be available to any Company Indemnitor to contest, negate or disaffirm the action of the Stockholder Representative taken in good faith under this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or the Engagement Letter are waived. Parent may rely upon any such decision, act, consent or instruction of the Stockholder Representative as being the decision, act, consent or instruction of the Company Indemnitors. Parent is hereby relieved from any Liability to any Person for any acts done by them in accordance with such decision, act, consent or instruction of the Stockholder Representative.
8.7Treatment of Payments. Any payment under Article VIII (other than Section 8.6(c)) shall be treated by the parties, including for U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. income Tax purposes, as a purchase price adjustment unless otherwise required by applicable Law.
ARTICLE IX

TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
9.1Termination. Except as provided in Section 9.2, this Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time:
(a)by mutual agreement of the Company and Parent;
(b)by Parent or the Company if the Closing Date shall not have occurred by 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on October 16, 2021 (the “End Date”); provided that if any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.1(a), Section 7.1(b) or Section 7.1(c) is not satisfied or waived by the End Date (but only to the extent such conditions under Section 7.1(a) or Section 7.1(b) relate to the HSR Act), then either the Company or Parent may extend the End Date to the 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) to May 16, 2022 by written notice to the other party on the End Date (and the End Date, as so extended, shall be deemed to be the End Date for all purposes of this Agreement); provided, further, that the right to extend the End Date or terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(b) shall not be available to any party whose action or failure to act has been a proximate cause of or resulted in the failure of the Merger to occur on or before such date and such action or failure to act constitutes breach of this Agreement;
(c)by Parent or the Company if any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued or promulgated any Law or issues or granted any Order, in each case, that is final and non-appealable, which has the effect of permanently making the Merger illegal or otherwise permanently prohibiting or preventing consummation of the Merger;
(d)by Parent if there shall be any statute, rule, regulation or Order enacted, promulgated or issued or deemed applicable to the Merger by any Governmental Entity, which would compel Parent to divest, dispose of, hold separate or license any portion of the business, assets, Intellectual Property, categories of assets, relationships, contractual rights, obligations or arrangements of Parent or any of its Affiliates (including the Company);
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(e)by Parent if it is not in material breach of its obligations under this Agreement and there has been a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of the Company contained in this Agreement such that the conditions set forth in Section 7.2(a) would not be satisfied and such breach has not been cured within 30 days after written notice thereof to the Company; provided that no cure period shall be required for a breach which by its nature cannot be cured and, in no event shall the cure period extend past the End Date;
(f)by the Company if the Company is not in material breach of its obligations under this Agreement and there has been a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of Parent or the Merger Subs contained in this Agreement such that the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) would not be satisfied and such breach has not been cured within 30 days after written notice thereof to Parent; provided that no cure period shall be required for a breach which by its nature cannot be cured and in no event shall the cure period extend past the End Date; or
(g)by Parent, by written notice to the Company, if the Company Stockholder Approval is not obtained by the Company within 24 hours following the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto; provided that such termination right shall expire if not invoked by Parent prior to the Company’s obtaining and delivering to Parent the Company Stockholder Approval.
9.2Effect of Termination. In the event of termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 9.1, this Agreement shall forthwith become void and there shall be no Liability or obligation on the part of Parent, the Company, or its officers, directors or stockholders; provided that nothing herein shall relieve any party from liability for the willful breach of any of its representations, warranties or covenants contained herein that occurred prior to such termination; and provided, further, that the provisions of Section 6.7 (Confidentiality), Section 6.8 (Public Disclosure), Section 6.14 (Expenses), Section 8.6 (Stockholder Representative), Article X (General Provisions) and this Section 9.2 (Effect of Termination) shall remain in full force and effect and survive any termination of this Agreement pursuant to the terms of this Article IX. For purposes of this Agreement, “willful breach” means with respect to any agreement or covenant in this Agreement, any intentional action or omission that constitutes a breach of such agreement or covenant and that the breaching party actually knows, or would reasonably be expected to know at such time, is or would constitute a breach of such agreement or covenant.
ARTICLE X

GENERAL PROVISIONS
10.1Notices. Any notice or other communication required or permitted to be delivered to any party under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed properly delivered, given and received (i) upon receipt when delivered by hand, (ii) upon transmission, if sent by electronic mail transmission, or (iii) one Business Day after being sent by courier or express delivery service; provided that in each case the notice or other communication is sent to the address or electronic mail address set forth beneath the name of such party below (or to such other address or electronic mail address as such party shall have specified in a written notice given to the other parties hereto), provided that with respect to notices deliverable to the Stockholder Representative, such notices shall be delivered solely via email or facsimile:
(a)if to Parent or the Merger Subs, to:
Twilio Inc.
101 Spear Street, First Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Attention: General Counsel
Email: legalnotices@twilio.com
with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Fenwick & West LLP
902 Broadway Suite 14
New York, NY 10010-6035
Attention: Ken S. Myers; Bomi Lee
Email: kmyers@fenwick.com; bomi.lee@fenwick.com
(b)if to the Company (prior to the Closing), to:
Zipwhip, Inc.
300 Elliot Ave. W #500
Seattle, WA 98119
Attention: Faye Ricci, General Counsel
Email: fricci@zipwhip.com
with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Cooley LLP
55 Hudson Yards
New York, NY 10001-2157
Attention: Ian A. Nussbaum; Steve Tonsfeldt
Email: inussbaum@cooley.com
; stonsfeldt@cooley.com
(c)If to a Company Indemnitor, to its address as set forth in the Allocation Schedule.
(d)If to the Stockholder Representative:
Fortis Advisors LLC
Attention: Notices Department (Project Zeus)
Email: notices@fortisrep.com
Facsimile: (858) 408-1843
10.2Interpretation. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” when used herein shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation.” The table of contents and headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. The words “hereof,” “herein” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. Article, Section, Subsection, paragraph, Exhibit and schedule references are to the Articles, Sections, Subsections, paragraphs, Exhibits and schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The meaning assigned to each term defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and the plural forms of such term, and words denoting any gender shall include all genders. The word “extent” and the phrase “to the extent” when used in this Agreement shall mean the degree to which a subject or other thing extends, and such word or phrase shall not merely mean “if.” Dollar thresholds shall not be indicative of what is material or create any standard with respect to any determination of a “Material Adverse Effect.” The term “or” is not exclusive and shall be interpreted as “and/or” unless the context clearly requires otherwise. A reference to any specific legislation or to any provision of any legislation shall include any amendment to, and any modification or re-enactment thereof, any legislative provision substituted therefor and all regulations and statutory instruments issued
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thereunder or pursuant thereto. When calculating the period of time before which, within which or following which, any act is to be done or step taken pursuant to this Agreement, the date that is the reference date in calculating such period will be excluded. If the last day of such period is not a Business Day, the period in question will end on the next succeeding Business Day. Unless indicated otherwise, all days, Business Days, times and time periods contemplated by this Agreement will be determined by reference to Pacific Time. All references herein to a “party” or “parties” are to a party or parties to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any accounting term used in this agreement will have, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the meaning customarily given such term in accordance with GAAP, and all financial computations hereunder will be computed, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, in accordance with GAAP.
10.3Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the parties actually executing such counterparts, and all of which together shall constitute one instrument. The exchange of copies of this Agreement and signature pages by email in .pdf or .tif format (and including any electronic signature complying with the U.S. ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com), or by any other electronic means intended to preserve the original graphic and pictorial appearance of a document, or by combination of such means, shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Agreement as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Agreement for all purposes. Such execution and delivery shall be considered valid, binding and effective for all purposes.
10.4Entire Agreement; Assignment. This Agreement, the Exhibits hereto, the Disclosure Schedule, the Confidentiality Agreement, and the Related Agreements: (a) constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, (b) except as set forth in Section 5.5, Section 5.6(f) and Section 8.6(b), are not intended to confer upon any other Person any rights or remedies hereunder, and (c) shall not be assigned by operation of law or otherwise without the prior written consent of the non-assigning parties.
10.5Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof, becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect and the application of such provision to other Persons or circumstances shall be interpreted so as reasonably to effect the intent of the parties hereto. The parties further agree to replace such illegal, void or unenforceable provision of this Agreement with a valid and enforceable provision that shall achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such illegal, void or unenforceable provision.
10.6Extension and Waiver. At any time prior to the Closing, Parent and the Merger Subs, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand, may, to the extent legally allowed, (a) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations of the other party or parties hereto, (b) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties made to such party or parties contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto, and (c) waive compliance with any of the covenants, agreements or conditions for the benefit of such party or parties contained herein. At any time following the Closing, the Stockholder Representative may (i) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations of Parent under the terms of this Agreement and (ii) waive compliance with any of the covenants or agreements of Parent contained herein. Any agreement on the part of a party or parties hereto to any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on behalf of such party or parties. For purposes of this Section 10.6, the Company Indemnitors are deemed to have agreed that any extension or waiver signed by the Company (prior to Closing) or the Stockholder Representative (following Closing) shall be binding upon and effective against all Company Indemnitors (including the Selling Stockholders, the Accredited Stockholders and the Permitted Transferees) whether or not they have signed such extension or waiver.
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10.7Amendment. Subject to applicable Law, this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto at any time by execution and delivery of an instrument in writing signed by each of the parties hereto, or in the case of a waiver by a party, signed by the party to whom such right hereunder inures, except that an amendment made subsequent to the Company Stockholder Approval shall not (a) alter or change the amount or kind of consideration to be received on conversion of Company Capital Stock or (b) alter or change any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement if such alteration or change would materially and adversely affect the holders of Company Capital Stock. For purposes of this Section 10.7, the Company Indemnitors agree that any amendment of this Agreement signed by, prior to the Closing Date, the Company and, after the Closing Date, the Stockholder Representative shall be binding upon and effective against the Company Indemnitors whether or not they have signed such amendment (subject to the authority granted to, and to the limitations thereon placed on, the Stockholder Representative hereunder to act on behalf of such Company Indemnitors), except that any amendment made in accordance with this sentence shall not (i) alter or change the amount or kind of consideration to be received on conversion of Company Capital Stock or (ii) alter or change any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement if such alteration or change would materially and adversely affect the stockholders of the Company immediately before the Effective Time. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, (A) the provisions of Section 5.4 and Section 5.6 and this clause (A) shall not be amended or waived in a manner adverse to any Accredited Stockholder or any Permitted Transferee without the prior written consent of the Stockholder Representative, (B) the provisions of Section 5.5 and this clause (B) shall not be amended or waived in a manner adverse to any Company Indemnitee without the prior written consent of the affected Company Indemnitee and (C) the provisions of Article VIII and this clause (C) shall not be amended or waived in a manner adverse to any Company Related Party without the prior written consent of the Stockholder Representative.
10.8Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that, in the event of any breach or threatened breach by the other party or parties hereto (including the Stockholder Representative) of any covenant, obligation or other agreement set forth in this Agreement, (i) each party shall be entitled, without any proof of actual damages (and in addition to any other remedy that may be available to it), to specific performance to enforce the observance and performance of such covenant, obligation or other agreement and to an injunction preventing or restraining such breach or threatened breach, and (ii) no party hereto shall be required to provide or post any bond or other security or collateral in connection with any such decree, order or injunction or in connection with any related Legal Proceeding.
10.9Other Remedies. Except as otherwise set forth herein, including in Section 2.9 and Section 8.3(g), any and all remedies herein expressly conferred upon a party shall be deemed cumulative with and not exclusive of any other remedy conferred hereby, or by law or equity upon such party, and the exercise by a party of any one remedy shall not preclude the exercise of any other remedy.
10.10Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to any choice or conflict of Law provision or rule (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction).








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10.11Exclusive Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.
(a)ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR BASED UPON THIS AGREEMENT, THE RELATED AGREEMENTS AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY MAY BE INSTITUTED FIRST, IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY WITHIN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE (AND ANY APPELLATE COURT THEREOF LOCATED WITHIN SUCH COUNTY) AND TO THE EXTENT SUCH COURT OF CHANCERY (OR APPELLATE COURT THEREOF LOCATED WITHIN SUCH COUNTY) LACKS JURISDICTION OVER THE MATTER, THE FEDERAL COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LOCATED WITHIN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE (OR APPELLATE COURT THEREOF LOCATED WITHIN SUCH COUNTY), AND EACH PARTY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS IN ANY SUCH LEGAL PROCEEDING. SERVICE OF PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICE OR OTHER DOCUMENT BY MAIL TO SUCH PARTY’S ADDRESS SET FORTH HEREIN SHALL BE EFFECTIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS FOR ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT. THE PARTIES IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING IN SUCH COURTS AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE AND AGREE NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY SUCH COURT THAT ANY SUCH LEGAL PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
(b)EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR THE RELATED AGREEMENTS IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES AND, THEREFORE, EACH SUCH PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE RELATED AGREEMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (A) NO REPRESENTATIVE OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER IN THE EVENT OF A LEGAL PROCEEDING, (B) SUCH PARTY HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (C) SUCH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (D) SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 10.11(b).
10.12Rules of Construction. The parties hereto agree that they have been represented by counsel during the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore, waive the application of any law, regulation, holding or rule of construction providing that ambiguities in an agreement or other document shall be construed against the party drafting such agreement or document.
10.13Acknowledgments.
(a)The Company agrees that it has conducted its own independent review and analysis of the business, assets, condition, operations and prospects of Parent and the Merger Subs. In entering into this Agreement, the Company has relied solely upon its own investigation and analysis and the representations and warranties of Parent and the Merger Subs set forth in Article IV and in the Parent Certificate, and the Company acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties of Parent and the Merger Subs expressly set forth in Article IV and in the Parent Certificate, neither Parent, nor the Merger Subs, nor any of their respective Representatives nor any other Person acting on Parent’s or the Merger Subs’ behalf makes or has made, and the Company is not relying on and has not relied on, any representation or warranty, either express or implied, with respect to Parent, the Merger
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Subs, any of their businesses, the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company acknowledges and agrees that neither Parent, nor the Merger Subs nor any of their respective Representatives or any other Person has made, and the Company is not relying on and has not relied on, any representation or warranty with respect to (i) any projections, estimates or budgets for Parent or (ii) any materials, documents or information relating to Parent, the Merger Subs or their respective businesses made available to the Company, any Company Security Holder or any of their respective Representatives in any “data room,” online data site, confidential memorandum, other offering materials or otherwise, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), as specifically set forth in the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV and in the Parent Certificate.
(b)Each of Parent Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II agrees that it has conducted its own independent review and analysis of the business, assets, condition, operations and prospects the Company. In entering into this Agreement, each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II has relied solely upon its own investigation and analysis and the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Article III (as modified by the Disclosure Schedule) or in the Certificates, and each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties of the Company expressly set forth in Article III (as modified by the Disclosure Schedule) or in the Certificates, neither the Company nor any of its Representatives nor any other Person acting on the Company’s behalf makes or has made, and each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II is not relying on and has not relied on, any representation or warranty, either express or implied, with respect to the Company, its business, the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II acknowledges and agrees that neither the Company nor any its Representatives or any other Person has made, and each of Parent, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II is not relying on and has not relied on, any representation or warranty with respect to (i) any projections, estimates or budgets for the Company or (ii) any materials, documents or information relating to the Company or its business made available to Parent or the Merger Subs or any of their respective Representatives in any “data room,” online data site, confidential memorandum, other offering materials or otherwise, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), as specifically set forth in the representations and warranties set forth in Article III (as modified by the Disclosure Schedule) or in the Certificates. Nothing in this Section 10.13(b) shall be deemed to (A) limit any rights or remedies Parent may have under the terms and conditions of any of the Related Agreements, or (B) disclaim any reliance by Parent and the Merger Subs on the representations and warranties of the Company Indemnitors set forth in the Related Agreements, including the representations and warranties set forth in the Joinder Agreements and the representations and warranties of the Company Warrantholders set forth in the Warrant Cancellation Agreements.
10.14Attorney-Client Privilege. Parent, the Final Surviving Entity and their Affiliates agree that after the Closing, as to all communications among Cooley LLP (the “Firm”), the Stockholder Representative, the Company Indemnitors and their respective Affiliates (individually and collectively, the “Company Group”) that relate in any way to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Related Agreement (“Transaction Communications”), the attorney-client privilege and the exception of client confidence belongs solely to Parent and may be controlled only by Parent and shall not be claimed by any member of the Company Group. Parent agrees, solely with respect to any dispute that arises between Parent or, after the Closing, the Company or the Final Surviving Entity, on the one hand, and the Stockholder Representative or Company Indemnitor relating to this Agreement, any Related Agreement or the transactions contemplated this Agreement not to (i) invoke any attorney-client privilege, attorney work product protection or expectation of client confidentiality applicable to the Transaction Communications or (ii) use such Transaction Communications as evidence in any dispute with the Company Group (except for a claim arising from Fraud).
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10.15Terms Defined Elsewhere. The following terms are defined elsewhere in this Agreement, as indicated below:
Defined Term
Section
280G Stockholder Approval
6.6(b)
Adjustment Resolution Period
2.9(b)
Adjustment Review Period
2.9(b)
Advisory Committee8.6(b)
Agreement
Preamble
Agreement Date
Preamble
Agreement Date Committed Equity Individual3.2(e)
Allocation Schedule
5.3(a)
Anti-Corruption Laws
3.24
Audited Financials3.7(a)
Automatic Resale Registration Statement5.6(b)
Balance Sheet Date
3.7(b)
Behavioral Data3.12(a)(i)
Board
Recitals
Books and Records
3.17(b)
Cancelled Options2.1(b)(iii)
Cancelled RSU2.1(b)(vii)
Cancelled Shares2.1(f)
CASL3.12(a)(xv)
CCPA
3.12(a)(xv)
Certificate of Incorporation
3.1(d)
Charter Documents
3.1(d)
Closing
1.4
Closing Date1.4
Company
Preamble
Company Authorizations3.15
Company Board Resolutions
3.4(a)
Company Certificate
7.2(c)
Company Data
3.12(a)(iii)
Company Group10.14
Company Indemnitees
5.5(a)
Company IP
3.12(a)(v)
Company Owned IP
3.12(a)(v)
Company Prepared Returns
5.2(a)(i)
Company Privacy Policy
3.12(a)(vi)
Company Products
3.12(a)(vii)
Company Products Data3.12(a)(viii)
Company Registered IP
3.12(b)
Company Software
3.12(a)(ix)
Company Source Code
3.12(a)(x)
Company Stockholder Approval
Recitals
Company Systems3.12(q)(i)
Company Voting Debt
3.2(f)
Confidentiality Agreement
6.7
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Contaminants
3.12(a)(xi)
Converted Option
2.1(b)(ii)
Converted Option Exercise Price
2.1(b)(ii)
Converted RSU2.1(b)(v)
CRTC3.12(q)(v)
Current Balance Sheet
3.7(b)
Cyber Tail Policy5.5(b)
D&O Indemnifiable Matters
5.5(a)
D&O Tail Policy
5.5(b)
Deductible Amount
8.3(a)
Determination Date2.9(c)
DGCL1.1
Director and Officer Resignation Letters
1.5(a)(iv)
Disclosure Schedule
Article III
Dissenting Shares2.5(a)
DLLCA1.1
Effective Time
1.2
Embargoed Countries
3.23
End Date
9.1(b)
Enforcement Exceptions3.4(a)
Engagement Letter
8.6(b)
ePrivacy Directive
3.12(a)(xv)
Escrow Agreement
1.5(a)(ix)
Estimated Closing Cash Amount
2.9(a)
Estimated Closing Indebtedness Amount
2.9(a)
Estimated Closing Statement
2.9(a)
Estimated Closing Third-Party Expenses
2.9(a)
Estimated Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount
2.9(a)
Exchange Documents
2.3(b)
Expense Fund
8.6(c)
Expense Fund Account
8.6(c)
Export Approvals
3.23
FCPA
3.24
Final Closing Statement
2.9(c)
Final Surviving Entity1.1
Financials3.7(a)
Firm10.14
FIRPTA Compliance Certificate
1.5(a)(viii)
First Certificate of Merger1.2
First MergerRecitals
First Step Surviving Corporation1.1
Fund Transferee5.4(c)
GDPR
3.12(a)(xv)
HIPAA
3.12(a)(xv)
HSR Act
6.9(b)
Identified Stockholders
Recitals
Inbound Licenses
3.12(d)(i)
Indemnification Claim Notice
8.4(a)
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Indemnification Claim Objection Notice
8.4(b)
Indemnified Person5.6(f)
Independent Accountant
2.9(b)
Intellectual Property Rights
3.12(a)(xii)
Interested Party
3.14(a)
Interim Financials3.7(a)
Lease Agreements
3.11(b)
Leased Real Property
3.11(b)
Letter of Transmittal
2.3(a)
Material Contract
3.13(b)
Material Contracts
3.13(b)
MergerRecitals
Merger Sub I
Preamble
Merger Sub IIPreamble
Merger SubsPreamble
Notice of Adjustment Disagreement
2.9(b)
OFAC
3.23
Open Source Licenses
3.12(a)(xiii)
Open Source Material
3.12(a)(xiii)
Open Trading Window5.6(b)
Other Indemnity Claim8.3(c)
Other Indemnity Continuing Claim8.4(e)
Other Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount8.4(e)
Outbound Licenses
3.12(d)(ii)
Parachute Payment Waiver
6.6(a)
Parent
Preamble
Parent Board Approval4.2
Parent Certificate
7.3(f)
Parent Financial Statements
4.5(b)
Parent Indemnified Parties
8.2(a)
Parent Prepared Returns
5.2(a)(ii)
Parent SEC Documents4.5(a)
Parent Stock Issuance
Recitals
Patent Rights
3.12(a)(xii)
Paying Agent Agreement2.3(a)
Payoff Letter1.5(a)(vi)
Permitted Suspension5.6(e)
Permitted Transferee
5.4(c)
Personal Data
3.12(a)(xiv)
Personnel Agreements
3.12(f)(i)
PIPEDA3.12(a)(xv)
Post-Closing Deficit Amount
2.9(d)
Post-Closing Excess Amount
2.9(e)
Post-Closing Statement
2.9(b)
Post-Signing Committed Equity Individual6.1(e)
Privacy Requirements
3.12(a)(xv)
Process3.12(a)(xvi)
Processing3.12(a)(xvi)
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Prohibited Party Lists
3.23
PTO
3.12(b)
Registered IP
3.12(a)(xvii)
Registrable Shares
5.6(a)
Registration Deadline5.6(b)
Registration Period5.6(b)
Representative Losses
8.6(b)
Required Information
2.3(a)
Resale Registration Statement
5.6(a)
Resolved Matters
2.9(b)
Restricted Shares
3.2(a)
Rev. Proc. 2018-125.2(d)(ii)
RSU Agreement6.18
RW Indemnity Continuing Claim8.4(e)
RW Indemnity Retained Escrow Amount8.4(e)
Second Certificate of Merger1.2
Second Effective Time1.2
Second MergerRecitals
Secretary Certificate
1.5(a)(iv)
Section 280G Payments
6.6(b)
Selling Stockholder
5.6(a)
Selling Stockholder Questionnaires
5.6(a)
Shrink-Wrap Software
3.12(a)(xviii)
Standard Form Agreements
3.12(c)(i)
Standard Offer Letter3.20(a)
Statement No. 53.7(d)
Stockholder Notice
5.1(b)
Stockholder Representative
Preamble
Stockholder Representative Group8.6(b)
Subsidiary Ownership Interests3.3(b)
Systems
3.12(n)
Tax Attribute
8.2(c)
Tax Claim5.2(e)(i)
Technology
3.12(a)(xix)
Terminated Agreements
6.12
Third-Party Claim
8.5
Third-Party Notice
8.5
Top Customers
3.25(a)
Top Resellers
3.25(a)
Top Suppliers
3.25(a)
Trade Laws
3.23
Transaction Communications10.14
United States Real Property Holding Corporation
3.9(a)(viii)
Unresolved Matters
2.9(b)
Warrant Cancellation Agreement
2.1(c)
willful breach9.2

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In Witness Whereof, Parent, the Merger Subs, the Company and the Stockholder Representative have caused this Agreement to be signed, all as of the date first written above.
TWILIO INC.

By:    _________________________________
Name:    
Title:    

ZEUS MERGER SUB I, INC.

By:    _________________________________
Name:        
Title:    

ZEUS MERGER SUB II, LLC

By:    _________________________________
Name:        
Title:    

    
[Signature Page to Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization]



In Witness Whereof, Parent, the Merger Subs, the Company and the Stockholder Representative have caused this Agreement to be signed, all as of the date first written above.

ZIPWHIP, INC.

By:    _________________________________
Name:        
Title:            
[Signature Page to Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization]



In Witness Whereof, Parent, the Merger Subs, the Company and the Stockholder Representative have caused this Agreement to be signed, all as of the date first written above.
FORTIS ADVISORS LLC, solely in its capacity as the Stockholder Representative

By:    _________________________________
Name:        Ryan Simkin    
Title:        Managing Director


[Signature Page to Merger Agreement and Plan of Reorganization]



ANNEX A
CERTAIN DEFINED TERMS

Accounting Principles” shall mean (a) the accounting methods, policies, practices, principles, procedures (with consistent classifications), judgments and estimation methodologies that were used in the preparation of the Financials to the extent such accounting methods, policies, practices, principles, procedures (with consistent classifications), judgments and estimation methodologies were consistent with GAAP; and (b) to the extent that the accounting methods, policies, practices, principles, procedures (with consistent classifications), judgments and estimation methodologies used in the preparation of the Financials were not consistent with GAAP, such accounting methods, policies, practices, principles, procedures (with consistent classifications), judgments and estimation methodologies that are consistent with GAAP and most closely approximate the accounting methods, policies, practices, principles, procedures (with consistent classifications), judgments and estimation methodologies used in the preparation of the Financials.
Accredited Stockholder” shall mean a Company Stockholder or the Company Warrantholder who either (a) has completed and delivered to the Company and Parent prior to the Closing Date (i) duly executed Suitability Documentation, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Parent, certifying that such Company Stockholder is an “accredited investor” (as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act) (provided that notwithstanding the delivery of any such Suitability Documentation, any Company Stockholder may be deemed an “Unaccredited Stockholder” for purposes of this Agreement if Parent reasonably determines, that such Company Stockholder is not an accredited investor” (as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act)) and (ii) with respect to a Company Stockholder, a duly executed Joinder Agreement in accordance with the following sentence or (b) is determined by Parent, prior to the Closing, in its reasonable discretion and after notice to the Company, to be an “accredited investor” (as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act). Parent shall notify the Company of any such determination under clause (a) or (b) no later than three Business Days prior to the Closing Date and the Allocation Schedule will reflect such determination.
Acquisition Proposal” shall mean, with respect to the Company, any agreement, offer, proposal or bona fide indication of interest (other than this Agreement or any other offer, proposal or indication of interest by Parent or its Affiliates), or any public announcement of intention to enter into any such agreement or of (or intention to make) any offer, proposal or bona fide indication of interest, relating to, or involving an Acquisition Transaction.
Acquisition Transaction” shall mean (a) the purchase, issuance, grant, or disposition of (i) any capital stock or other equity securities of the Company or its Subsidiaries, (ii) any option, call, warrant or right (whether or not immediately exercisable) to acquire any capital stock or other equity security of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or (iii) any security, instrument or obligation that is or may become convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock or other equity security of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than the issuance of equity securities to existing, new, current or former Company Service Providers in the Ordinary Course of Business, including upon exercise of outstanding Company Options or Company RSUs); (b) the sale, license, disposition or acquisition of 10% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the exclusive license of 10% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company or its Subsidiaries; or (c) any merger, consolidation, business combination, sale of substantially all of the assets, reorganization, recapitalization, liquidation or similar transaction involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, other than with Parent or its Affiliates.
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Adjusted Company Shares” shall mean the number of shares, without duplication, equal to (a) the total number of shares of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (on an as-converted into Company Common Stock basis), plus (b) the total number of shares of Company Common Stock issuable upon (i) the exercise of Company Options (other than Cancelled Options), whether vested or unvested, and (ii) the settlement of all Company RSUs (other than Cancelled RSUs), whether vested or unvested, and (iii) the exercise of the Company Warrant, in each case, outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Cancelled Shares).
Adjustment Escrow Account” shall mean the escrow account established by the Escrow Agent to hold the Adjustment Escrow Cash in trust.
Adjustment Escrow Cash” shall mean, (a) as of the Closing, an aggregate amount of cash equal to (i) the Adjustment Escrow Value, and (b) thereafter, as of any time, the amount of cash in the Adjustment Escrow Account.
Adjustment Escrow Value” shall mean an amount equal to $3,000,000.
Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, directly or indirectly controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, such Person or, in the case of an individual, a member of such Person’s immediate family; or, if such Person is a partnership or a limited liability company, any general partner or managing member, as applicable, of such Person or a Person controlling any such general partner or managing member. For purposes of this definition, “control” (including the correlative terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) shall mean the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by Contract or otherwise.
Aggregate Parent Stock Value” shall mean an amount equal to 50% of the Total Merger Consideration.
Antitrust Laws” shall mean any applicable federal, state, local, foreign or multinational antitrust, competition, premerger notification or trade regulation law, statute, code, rule, regulation or Order that is designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or lessening competition through merger or acquisition, including the HSR Act, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act and antitrust, competition or trade regulation laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States.
Business Day” shall mean each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington is closed.
CARES Act” shall mean the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116-136), signed into law on March 27, 2020.
Cash Consideration” shall mean an amount equal to the Total Merger Consideration less the Aggregate Parent Stock Value.
Certificates” shall mean the Secretary Certificate, the Company Certificate and the FIRPTA Compliance Certificate.



Closing Cash Amount” shall mean, as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents (including money market accounts, money market funds, money market instruments, certificates of deposit and demand deposits but excluding Restricted Cash), marketable securities, drafts and wires, calculated in accordance with the Accounting Principles, but excluding uncleared checks, drafts and wires issued by the Company.
Closing Indebtedness Amount” shall mean, as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Company’s Indebtedness, calculated in accordance with the Accounting Principles. For the avoidance of doubt, Closing Indebtedness Amount shall exclude any amounts included in the calculation of Closing Third-Party Expenses (it being the intention of the parties to avoid duplication or double counting).
Closing Net Working Capital Amount” shall mean (a) the sum of the Company’s current assets consisting of (1) accounts receivable (net of the allowance for doubtful accounts), (2) current portion of prepaid expenses and (3) other current assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case as of immediately prior to the Effective Time less (b) the sum of the Company’s current liabilities consisting of (1) accounts payable, (2) accrued expenses (including commissions and bonuses), (3) current and long-term deferred revenues, and (4) other current liabilities (including accrued liabilities) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case as of immediately prior to the Effective Time. For purposes of calculating the Closing Net Working Capital Amount, (i) the Company’s current assets shall exclude all cash, long-term assets, interest receivable, deferred financing costs, security deposits, Tax assets and non-operating receivables, and (ii) the Company’s current liabilities shall exclude, without duplication, all Tax liabilities, all Indebtedness included in the final calculation of the Closing Indebtedness Amount and any Third-Party Expenses. The Closing Net Working Capital Amount shall be determined in accordance with the Accounting Principles.
Closing Target Net Working Capital Amount” shall mean $(2,800,000).
Closing Third-Party Expenses” shall mean the Third-Party Expenses of the Company that shall not have been fully and finally satisfied as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount” shall mean the amount equal to (a) the Closing Net Working Capital Amount less (b) the Closing Target Net Working Capital Amount (which amount may be a positive or negative number).
COBRA” shall mean the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Commercial Tax Agreement” shall mean any commercial Contract, such as a loan or a lease, entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business, the primary purpose of which is unrelated to Taxes.
Company Capital Stock” shall mean the Company Common Stock and the Company Preferred Stock.
Company Common Stock” shall mean shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company.
Company Employee Plan” shall mean any plan, program, policy, practice, contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for employment or service, compensation, severance, termination pay, deferred compensation, performance awards, stock or stock related awards, welfare benefits, fringe



benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind, whether written, unwritten or otherwise, funded or unfunded, including each “employee benefit plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which is maintained, sponsored, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate for the benefit of any current or former Company Service Provider, or with respect to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has or may reasonably have any Liability, and including any such plan, program, policy, practice, contract, agreement or other arrangement maintained for any current or former Company Service Provider by a professional employer organization.
Company Equity Plan” shall mean, collectively, the Company’s Amended and Restated 2008 Stock Plan and the Company’s 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.
Company Indemnitor Share Number” shall mean the number of shares equal to (a) the total number of shares of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (on an as-converted into Company Common Stock basis), plus (b) the total number of shares of Company Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Company Warrant outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Cancelled Shares and Dissenting Shares).
Company Indemnitors” shall mean the Company Stockholders and the Company Warrantholder.
Company Optionholder” shall mean any Person holding any Company Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Company Options” shall mean all issued and outstanding options (whether or not vested) to purchase or otherwise acquire shares of Company Capital Stock that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Company Preferred Stock” shall mean, collectively, the Company Series Z Preferred Stock, the Company Series 1 Preferred Stock, the Company Series 2 Preferred Stock, the Company Series 3 Preferred Stock and the Company Series D Preferred Stock.
Company RSU Holder” shall mean any Person holding any Company RSU that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Company RSUs” shall mean all issued and outstanding restricted stock units (whether or not vested) to acquire shares of Company Capital Stock that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Company Securities” shall mean all (a) options, warrants or other rights, arrangements or commitments to acquire the capital stock of the Company, in each case pursuant to Contracts to which the Company is a party, (b) shares of capital stock of or other voting securities or ownership interests in the Company, and (c) restricted shares, restricted share units, stock appreciation rights, performance shares, contingent value rights, “phantom” stock or similar securities or rights that are derivative of or provide economic benefits based, directly or indirectly, on the value or price of, any capital stock or other voting securities (including any bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness having voting rights or convertible into or exchangeable for securities having voting rights) or ownership interests in the Company that in each case have been issued or granted by the Company or are pursuant to Contracts to which the Company is a party.



Company Security Holders” shall mean the Company Stockholders, the Company Optionholders, the Company RSU Holders, and the Company Warrantholders.
Company Series 1 Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series 1 Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share.
Company Series 2 Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series 2 Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share.
Company Series 3 Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series 3 Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share.
Company Series D Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series D Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share.
Company Series Z Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series Z Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share.
Company Service Provider” shall mean any employee, consultant, advisor, non-employee director or individual independent contractor of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
Company Stockholder” shall mean any holder of Company Capital Stock.
Company Vested Optionholders” shall mean the holders of Vested Company Options as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Company Warrant” shall mean that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Stock, dated as of May 17, 2017, issued in connection with that certain Loan and Security Agreement, dated May 31, 2017, by and between Pacific Western Bank, a California state chartered bank and the Company.
Company Warrantholder” shall mean each holder of a Company Warrant as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Continuing Employees” shall mean current or former Company Service Providers who remain or become employees or contractors of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (including the First Step Surviving Corporation) immediately following the Effective Time.
Contract” shall mean any written or oral agreement, contract, subcontract, settlement agreement, lease, sublease, instrument, permit, concession, franchise, binding understanding, note, option, bond, mortgage, indenture, trust document, loan or credit agreement, license, sublicense, insurance policy or other legally binding commitment or undertaking of any nature.
Deferred Payroll Taxes” shall mean the “applicable employment taxes” (as defined in Section 2302(d) of the CARES Act) payable by the Company or any Subsidiary that (a) relate to the portion of the “payroll tax deferral period” (as defined in Section 2302(d) of the CARES Act) that occurs prior to the Closing and (b) are payable following the Closing as permitted by Section 2302(a) of the CARES Act, calculated after giving effect to any Tax credits afforded under the CARES Act, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act or any similar applicable federal, state or local Law that are available to reduce the amount of any such Taxes payable or owed.



DOL” shall mean the United States Department of Labor.
Dollars” or “$” shall mean United States Dollars.
Employee Option” shall mean each Vested Company Option that was granted to the holder in the holder’s capacity as, or that has ever had vesting tied to the holder’s performance of services as, a service provider who is or was an employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for applicable employment Tax purposes.
Employer of Record” shall mean any third party engaged by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for the purpose of taking responsibility for or administering the employment of any employee on behalf of the Company or of any of its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, with respect to payroll, benefits, pension, and workers compensation, and includes, without limitation, PEO Canada Ltd.
Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements” shall mean all applicable Law concerning or relating to worker/occupational health and safety, or pollution or protection of the environment, including those relating to the presence, use, manufacturing, refining, production, generation, handling, transportation, treatment, recycling, transfer, storage, disposal, distribution, importing, labeling, testing, processing, discharge, release, threatened release, control or other action or failure to act involving cleanup of any hazardous materials, substances or wastes, chemical substances or mixtures, pesticides, pollutants, contaminants, toxic chemicals, petroleum products or byproducts, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, noise or radiation.
Equity Interests” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any capital stock of, or other ownership, membership, partnership, joint venture or equity interest in, such Person or any indebtedness, securities, options, warrants, call, subscription or other rights or entitlements of, or granted by, such Person or any of its Affiliates that are convertible into, or are exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right or entitlement to acquire any such capital stock or other ownership, partnership, joint venture or equity interest, in all cases, whether vested or unvested.
ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
ERISA Affiliate” shall mean any Subsidiary or other current or former Person or entity under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code, and the regulations issued thereunder.
Escrow Account” shall mean the Adjustment Escrow Account, the Indemnity Escrow Account and the Other Indemnity Escrow Account.
Escrow Agent” shall mean PNC Bank, National Association.
Escrow Cash” shall mean the Adjustment Escrow Cash plus the Indemnity Escrow Cash plus the Other Indemnity Escrow Account.
Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Fraud” shall mean actual fraud under Delaware law (and, for the avoidance of doubt, does not include constructive fraud, equitable fraud or negligent misrepresentation or omission).



Fundamental Representations” shall mean the representations and warranties contained in Section 3.1(a) (Organization of the Company), Section 3.2(a) (Company Capital Structure), Section 3.3 (Subsidiaries; Ownership Interests), Section 3.4(a) (Authority and Enforceability), Section 3.5(a) (No Conflict with Charter Documents or Organizational Documents) and Section 3.19 (Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees).
GAAP” shall mean United States generally accepted accounting principles.
Governmental Entity” shall mean (a) any supranational, national, federal, state, county, municipal, local, or foreign government or any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory, taxing, or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, (b) any public international governmental organization or (c) any agency, division, bureau, department, or other political subdivision of any government, entity or organization described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b) of this definition (including patent and trademark offices and self-regulatory organizations).
Indebtedness” of any Person at any time shall mean, without duplication: (a) all liabilities of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes (convertible or otherwise) or similar instruments, and all liabilities in respect of mandatorily redeemable or purchasable share capital or securities convertible into share capital, (c) all liabilities of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (including any milestone, earnout or similar payments but excluding accounts payable), (d) all Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes (including, for the avoidance of doubt, all Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes from those certain secondary sales dated January 4, 2019 and January 7, 2019, each as identified by the Company on Section 3.9(a)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule, but excluding Transaction Payroll Taxes and any reserves or other uncertain Tax Liabilities), (e) all liabilities in respect of any lease (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) which are required to be classified and accounted for under GAAP as capital leases, (f) all liabilities of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction securing obligations of a type described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above to the extent of the obligation secured, (g) all accrued interest, fees and prepayment penalties on the items described in clauses (a) through (e) above (including any amounts payable in connection with the repayment of the Company’s loan with Pacific Western Bank), (h) all obligations of such Person under swaps, collars, caps, hedges, derivatives of any kind or similar instruments, (i) all guarantees by such Person of any liabilities of a third party of a nature similar to the types of liabilities described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h), to the extent of the obligation guaranteed, and (j) outstanding severance obligations of such Person (other than severance obligations included in the definition of Third-Party Expenses or expressly excluded from the definition of Third-Party Expense).
Indemnity Escrow Account” shall mean the escrow account established by the Escrow Agent to hold the Indemnity Escrow Cash in trust.
Indemnity Escrow Cash” shall mean, (a) as of the Closing, an aggregate amount of cash equal to the Indemnity Escrow Value and (b) thereafter, as of any time, the amount of cash in the Indemnity Escrow Account.
Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date” shall mean the 15-month anniversary of the Closing Date.
Indemnity Escrow Value” shall mean an amount equal to $3,187,500.
International Employee Plan” shall mean each Company Employee Plan that has been adopted, sponsored, contributed to, or maintained by the Company or its ERISA Affiliates, whether formally or



informally, or with respect to which the Company or its ERISA Affiliates shall or reasonably may have any Liability, for the benefit of any current or former Company Service Provider who performs services outside the United States.
IRS” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Joinder Agreement” shall mean each Key Employee Joinder Agreement and each Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreement.
Key Employee” shall mean each individual listed on Schedule H attached hereto.
Key Employee Joinder Agreement” shall mean each Key Employee Joinder Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L executed and delivered concurrently with the execution of this Agreement by the Key Employees.
Knowledge” (or any derivation thereof) shall mean, with respect to the Company, the actual knowledge of the Company’s employees listed on Schedule I attached hereto after reasonable inquiry of their direct reports who have primary responsibility for the matters in question.
Law” shall mean any applicable U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state, local or other constitution, law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, published administrative position, policy or principle of common law, or any Order or award, in any case issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into legal effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Entity.
Legal Proceeding” shall mean any action, suit, charge, formal complaint, litigation, arbitration, proceeding (including any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or appellate proceeding), hearing, inquiry, audit or investigation by or before any court or other Governmental Entity.
Liability” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all debts, liabilities and obligations of any kind (whether known or unknown, contingent, accrued, due or to become due, secured or unsecured, matured or otherwise), including accounts payable, royalties payable, accrued bonuses, accrued vacation, employee expense obligations and all other liabilities of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, including those arising under applicable Law or any Legal Proceeding or any Order of a Governmental Entity and those arising under any Contract, regardless of whether such liabilities are required to be reflected on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, including, with respect to the Company, Third-Party Expenses incurred by the Company on or prior to the Effective Time.
Lien” shall mean any lien, pledge, charge, claim, mortgage, security interest or other encumbrance of any sort.
Liquidity Date” shall mean (a) with respect to a Company Indemnitor who is an Accredited Stockholder but not a Continuing Employee, the date on which the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective, (b) with respect to a Company Indemnitor who is an Accredited Stockholder and a Continuing Employee, the first date after the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective that such Company Indemnitor is free to trade his or her stock pursuant to Parent’s insider trading policies and (c) with respect to any other Company Indemnitor, the Closing Date.
Losses” shall mean any and all deficiencies, judgments, settlements, losses, damages, interest, fines, penalties, Taxes, costs and expenses (including reasonable out-of-pocket legal, accounting and other costs and expenses of professionals incurred in connection with investigating, defending, settling or



satisfying any and all demands, claims, actions, causes of action, suits, proceedings, assessments, judgments or appeals, and in seeking indemnification, compensation or reimbursement therefor); provided that “Losses” shall not include any exemplary or punitive damages (except to the extent paid or payable by a Parent Indemnified Party to a third party in connection with a Third-Party Claim).
made available” shall mean that a correct and complete copy of the document (including any amendments, exhibits and schedules thereto) referenced in such statement has been posted in the electronic data site managed by the Company on Datasite Diligence (Project Zeus) for the express purpose of facilitating the Merger prior to 9:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the day that is two days prior to the Agreement Date.
Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any fact, state of facts, condition, change, circumstance, development, occurrence, event or effect that, either alone or in combination with any other fact, state of facts, condition, change, circumstance, development, occurrence, event or effect, that (a) is, or would reasonably be expected to be, materially adverse to the business, assets (whether tangible or intangible) and liabilities, financial condition or operations of such Person and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (b) would reasonably be expected to prevent or otherwise materially delay the consummation of the Merger by the End Date; provided that with respect to clause (a) (and only clause (a)) of this definition of “Material Adverse Effect” none of the following to the extent resulting or arising from the following shall be taken into account in determining whether there is or would reasonably be expected to be a Material Adverse Effect: (i) the announcement of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, execution and delivery of this Agreement, consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or the public or industry knowledge of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, including the application of Antitrust Laws to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the impact of any of the foregoing on relationships with customers, suppliers, licensors, vendors, carriers, employees or regulators (provided that this clause (i) shall not apply to any representation or warranty the purpose of such representation or warranty is to address the consequences resulting from the execution and delivery of this Agreement); (ii) any changes generally in the industries in which such Person participates, or general economic conditions or financial markets; (iii) any act of God, any act of terrorism, war or other armed hostilities, any regional, national or international calamity, or the continuation or worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic or any derivative or variation thereof; (iv) any failure by such Person to meet any projections, budgets or estimates of revenue or earnings (it being understood that the facts giving rise to such failure may be taken into account in determining whether there has been a Material Adverse Effect (except to the extent such facts are otherwise excluded from being taken into account by this proviso)); (v) any changes (or proposed changes) after the Agreement Date in any applicable Law or GAAP (or other applicable accounting standards); (vi) any changes in general United States or global economic conditions, including any changes affecting financial, credit, foreign exchange or capital market conditions; (vii) with respect to the Company, any action or failure to take action which action or failure to act is requested in writing by Parent or expressly required by, or expressly prohibited to be taken by, this Agreement; and (viii) with respect to Parent, (A) any change in the market price or trading volume of Parent’s stock or the credit rating of Parent (it being understood that the facts giving rise to such change may be taken into account in determining whether there has been a Material Adverse Effect (except to the extent such facts are otherwise excluded from being taken into account by this proviso)) or (B) any action or failure to take action which action or failure to act is expressly required by, or expressly prohibited to be taken by, this Agreement; provided that with respect to the exceptions set forth in clauses (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi) in the event that such fact, state of facts, condition, change, circumstance, development, occurrence, event or effect has had a disproportionate effect on such Person relative to other companies operating in the industry or industries in which such Person operates, then the incremental effect of such fact, state of facts, condition, change, circumstance, development, occurrence, event or effect shall be



taken into account for the purpose of determining whether a Material Adverse Effect exists or would reasonably be expected to occur.
Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement” shall mean each Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit M executed and delivered concurrently with the execution of this Agreement by the Key Employees.
Non-Employee Option” shall mean each Vested Company Option that is not an Employee Option.
Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreement” shall mean the Non-Key Employee Joinder Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N.
Offer Letter” shall mean an offer letter to a Key Employee for at-will employment with Parent (or one of its Subsidiaries) and confidentiality and invention assignment agreement executed by Parent’s employees in the ordinary course, in each case, contingent and effective on the Closing.
Option Exchange Ratio” shall mean a fraction: (a) the numerator of which shall be the Per Share Consideration and (b) the denominator of which shall be the Parent Stock Price.
Order” shall mean any order, judgment, injunction, ruling, edict, or other decree, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered by any Governmental Entity.
Ordinary Course of Business” shall mean, with respect to the Company, the ordinary course of the Company’s business, and solely for purposes of Section 6.2, such term will be deemed to be followed by the phrase “consistent with the Company’s past practices”; provided that, deviations from such ordinary course of business shall not be deemed outside the Ordinary Course of Business (i) to the extent such deviations were reasonably necessary with respect to actions taken prior to the Agreement Date, or, are reasonably necessary with respect to actions taken after the Agreement Date, in each case, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to protect the health and safety of the Company’s employees and other individuals having business dealings with the Company and (ii) to the extent such deviations are accounted for in the Company’s operating budget for fiscal year 2021, which operating budget has been provided to Parent prior to the Agreement Date.
Organizational Documents” shall mean, with respect to each of Parent, the Company and their respective Subsidiaries (other than an individual), (a) the certificate or articles of incorporation or organization and any limited liability company, operating or partnership agreement adopted or filed in connection with the creation, formation or organization of such Person, and (b) all bylaws and equityholder agreements to which such Person is a party relating to the organization or governance of such Person, in each case, as amended or supplemented.
Other Indemnity Escrow Account” shall mean the escrow account established by the Escrow Agent to hold the Other Indemnity Escrow Cash in trust.
Other Indemnity Escrow Cash” shall mean, (a) as of the Closing, an aggregate amount of cash equal to the Other Indemnity Escrow Value and (b) thereafter, as of any time, the amount of cash in the Other Indemnity Escrow Account.
Other Indemnity Escrow Value” shall mean an amount equal to $50,000,000.



Other Indemnity Escrow Expiration Date” shall mean the 24-month anniversary of the Closing Date.
Pandemic Response Laws” shall mean the CARES Act, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the American Rescue Plan Act, and any other similar or additional federal, state, local, or foreign law, or administrative guidance intended to benefit taxpayers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic downturn.
Parent Class A Common Stock” shall mean shares of Class A Common Stock of Parent, par value $0.001 per share.
Parent Fundamental Representations” shall mean the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.1 (Organization), Section 4.2 (Authority and Enforceability), Section 4.3 (Capitalization), Section 4.4(a) (No Conflict with Parent Organizational Documents or the Organizational Documents of the Merger Subs), Section 4.8 (No Prior Activities of Merger Subs), Section 4.9 (Reorganization), Section 4.12 (WKSI) and Section 4.14 (Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees).
Parent Organizational Documents” shall mean Parent’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated June 13, 2016, and its Amended and Restated Bylaws.
Parent Stock Price” shall mean $321.6329.
Paying Agent” shall mean PNC Bank, National Association.
Payroll Tax Executive Order” shall mean the Presidential Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster, as issued on August 8, 2020, any similar U.S. presidential memorandum, executive order or similar publication of the same or similar subject matter, and including any administrative or other guidance published with respect thereto by any Governmental Entity (including IRS Notice 2020-65).
Pension Plan” shall mean each Company Employee Plan that is an “employee pension benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA.
Per Share Accredited Cash Consideration” shall mean an amount of cash equal to (a)(i) the Cash Consideration less (ii) the aggregate Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration payable to all Unaccredited Stockholders plus the aggregate cash consideration paid in respect of the Vested Company Options and Vested Company RSUs divided by (b) the aggregate number of shares of Company Capital Stock held by the Accredited Stockholders (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the shares of Company Capital Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Company Warrant).
Per Share Accredited Consideration” shall mean, in respect of each share of Company Capital Stock held by an Accredited Stockholder or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Warrant, (a) an amount in cash equal to the Per Share Accredited Cash Consideration and (b) the Per Share Accredited Stock Consideration.
Per Share Accredited Stock Consideration” shall mean a number of shares of Parent Class A Common Stock equal to (a)(i) the Per Share Consideration less the (ii) Per Share Accredited Cash Consideration divided by (b) the Parent Stock Price.



Per Share Adjustment Escrow Amount” shall mean, with respect to each share of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Closing or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Warrant, an amount in cash equal to (i) the Adjustment Escrow Value divided by (ii) the Company Indemnitor Share Number.
Per Share Consideration” shall mean an amount equal to (a) the Total Merger Consideration divided by (b) the Adjusted Company Shares.
Per Share Expense Fund Amount” shall mean, with respect to each share of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Closing or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Warrant, an amount in cash equal to (i) the Expense Fund divided by (ii) the Company Indemnitor Share Number.
Per Share Indemnity Escrow Amount” shall mean, with respect to each share of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Closing or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Warrant, an amount in cash equal to (i) the Indemnity Escrow Value divided by (ii) the Company Indemnitor Share Number.
Per Share Other Indemnity Escrow Amount” shall mean, with respect to each share of Company Capital Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Closing or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Warrant, an amount in cash equal to (i) the Other Indemnity Escrow Value divided by (ii) the Company Indemnitor Share Number.
Per Share Unaccredited Cash Consideration” shall mean, in respect of each share of Company Capital Stock held by an Unaccredited Stockholder or issuable upon the exercise of a Company Option, an amount of cash equal to the Per Share Consideration.
Permit” shall mean any permit, license, certification, approval, registration, consent, authorization, notification, franchise, variance, exemption or order issued or granted by a Governmental Entity to any Person necessary to conduct such Person’s business as currently conducted, except where the failure to have any such Permit, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to (A) have a Material Adverse Effect or (B) prevent or materially delay the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby.
Permitted Liens” shall mean (a) statutory liens for Taxes that are not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established on the Financials in accordance with GAAP, (b) statutory liens to secure obligations to landlords, lessors or renters under leases or rental agreements, (c) deposits or pledges made in connection with, or to secure payment of, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or similar programs mandated by applicable Law, (d) inchoate statutory liens in favor of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics and materialmen, to secure claims for labor, materials or supplies and other like liens, (e) any minor imperfection of title or similar liens, charges or encumbrances which individually or in the aggregate with other such liens, charges and encumbrances does not impair the value of or the ability to use or transfer the property subject to such lien, charge or encumbrance or the use of such property in the conduct of the Company’s business, (f) non-exclusive licenses to Company IP granted in the Ordinary Course of Business and (g) the items set forth in Schedule J to the extent released or required to be released at Closing pursuant to this Agreement.
Person” shall mean an individual or entity, including a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, or a Governmental Entity.



Pre-Closing Tax Period” shall mean any taxable period ending on or prior to the Closing Date and the portion of any Straddle Period ending on the Closing Date.
Pro Rata Share” shall mean, with respect to a particular Company Indemnitor, a fraction (a) whose numerator is the aggregate number of shares of the Company Indemnitor Share Number held by such Company Indemnitor as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and (b) whose denominator is the Company Indemnitor Share Number. For the avoidance of doubt, the total of all Pro Rata Shares shall equal one.
R&W Policy” shall mean the representation and warranty insurance policy issued to Parent naming Parent or an Affiliate thereof as the insured, which policy insures Parent for breaches of the representations and warranties given by the Company under this Agreement.
R&W Premium Amount” shall mean the fees and costs paid by or on behalf of Parent in connection with obtaining the R&W Policy, including diligence and underwriter costs.
R&W Retention Amount” shall mean $6,375,000.
Related Agreements” shall mean the Offer Letters, the Escrow Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement, the Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Agreements, the Joinder Agreements, the Warrant Cancellation Agreements, the Letters of Transmittal and all other agreements and certificates entered into by the Company or the Company Security Holders in connection with the Closing and the transactions contemplated herein.
Representatives” shall mean, with respect to a Person, such Person’s officers, directors, Affiliates or employees, or any investment banker, attorney, accountant, auditor or other advisor or representative retained by any of them.
Restricted Cash shall mean all cash that is not freely usable by the Company because it is subject to restrictions or limitations on use or distribution by any Law, Contract or Taxes otherwise imposed on distributions thereof.
RSU Exchange Ratio” shall mean a fraction: (a) the numerator of which shall be the Per Share Consideration and (b) the denominator of which shall be the Parent Stock Price.
SEC” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933.
Straddle Period” shall mean any taxable period beginning on or prior to, and ending after, the Closing Date.
Subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any party, any corporation or other organization or Person, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of which (a) such party or any other subsidiary of such party is a general partner (excluding such partnerships where such party or any subsidiary of such party does not have a majority of the voting interest in such partnership) or (b) at least a majority of the securities or other interests having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions with respect to such corporation or other organization is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such party or by any one or more of its subsidiaries or affiliates.



Suitability Documentation” shall mean the accredited stockholder questionnaire and related documentation in the form of Exhibit O.
Tax” or, collectively, “Taxes” shall mean (a) any and all U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, duties (including stamp duty), impositions and liabilities, including capital gains tax, taxes based upon or measured by gross receipts, income, profits, sales, use and occupation, value added, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, payroll, recapture, employment, escheat, excise and property taxes as well as social security charges (including health, unemployment, workers’ compensation and pension insurance) or similar or other taxes governmental fee, governmental assessment or governmental charge in the nature of a tax, together with all interest, penalties, and additions imposed with respect to such amounts, (b) any liability for the payment of any amounts of the type described in clause (a) as a result of being a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined, unitary or similar group (including any arrangement for group or consortium relief or similar arrangement) for any period, and (c) any liability for the payment of any amounts of the type described in clauses (a) or (b) as a result of any express or implied obligation to indemnify any other Person or as a result of any obligation under any agreement or arrangement with any other Person (other than pursuant to a Commercial Tax Agreement) with respect to such amounts and including any liability for taxes of a predecessor or transferor or otherwise by operation of Law.
Tax Return” shall mean any return, declaration, notice, statement, claim for refund, report or form (including estimated Tax returns and reports, withholding Tax returns and reports, any schedule or attachment, and information returns and reports) or other document filed or required to be filed with any Governmental Entity respect to Taxes and including all amendments or supplements thereof.
Third-Party Expenses” shall mean: all out-of-pocket costs, fees and expenses, including all legal, accounting, financial advisory, consulting and all other costs, fees and expenses of third parties (including Company Security Holders), incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the Effective Time in connection with the negotiation, consummation or effectuation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including: (a) any payments made or required to be made by the Company as a brokerage or finders’ fee, agents’ commission or any similar charge, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (b) any bonus, severance, single-trigger change-in-control payments or similar payment obligations (which shall include the aggregate amount of cash payable to Parent in respect of Vested Company Options pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(i) to the extent resulting from the single-trigger vesting acceleration for Company Options held by current or former Company Service Providers) of the Company that become due and payable in whole or in part as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (c) any Transaction Payroll Taxes; (d) an amount equal to 50% of the R&W Premium Amount; and (e) the cost of the D&O Tail Policy and 50% of the Cyber Tail Policy; provided that “Third-Party Expenses” shall not include (i) any amounts payable pursuant to the Offer Letters, (ii) bonuses, severance or any other payments to Continuing Employees (including vesting acceleration) pursuant to arrangements that contain “double-triggers” where the Merger is the first trigger and termination of employment after the Closing is the second trigger or (iii) any severance payments or similar compensatory payments made or provided, or agreed or required to be made or provided, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or ERISA Affiliates or Employer of Record engaged by the Company or a Subsidiary to any current or former Company Service Provider whose service Parent requests or requires that the Company or the applicable Subsidiary, Affiliate or ERISA Affiliate or Employer of Record engaged by the Company or a Subsidiary terminate on or prior to the Closing or (if any) shall not be deemed Third-Party Expenses, including any payroll taxes in respect thereof.



Total Merger Consideration” shall mean an amount equal to the sum of (a) $850,000,000.00, plus (b) the Closing Cash Amount, plus (c) the aggregate amount of the exercise price of all Company Options, whether vested or unvested, outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than the exercise price of all Cancelled Options), plus (d) the aggregate amount of the exercise price of the Company Warrant outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, plus (e) the Closing Working Capital Adjustment Amount (which amount may be a positive or negative number), less (f) the Closing Indebtedness Amount, less (g) the Closing Third-Party Expenses.
Transaction Payroll Taxes” shall mean the employer’s portion of any employment, payroll or similar Taxes with respect to any bonuses, option cashouts, option exercises or other payments in respect of Company Options, payments on Company Capital Stock (to the extent applicable), bonus in lieu of any previously promised but ungranted equity award, severance, change-in-control or other compensatory payments in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement paid prior to or substantially contemporaneously with the Closing Date (including, for clarity, all payments in connection with Section 2.1(b)(i)), whether payable by Parent, the Company, the Final Surviving Entity or any of their respective Affiliates, other than any payroll taxes expressly excluded from Third Party Expenses.
Transaction Tax Deductions” means, without duplication and regardless by whom or when paid, any Tax deductions arising as a result of or that are otherwise attributable to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation any Tax deduction attributable to the following: (i) any item included in Third-Party Expenses (including any such items paid before the Closing that if unpaid as of the Closing would have constituted a Third-Party Expense) (computed assuming an election is made under Revenue Procedure 2011-29 to deduct 70% of any success based fees under Treasury Regulation Section 1.263(a)(-5(f))); (ii) all fees, expenses, and interest (including amounts treated as interest for U.S. federal income Tax purposes), original issue discount, unamortized debt financing costs, breakage fees, tender premiums, consent fees, redemption, retirement or make-whole payments, defeasance in excess of par, or similar payments by the Company as a result of the payment of any Indebtedness in connection with the Closing; (iii) any stay bonuses, sale bonuses, change in control payments, retention payments, or similar payments made or to be made by the Company as a result of the Closing, including the employer portion of any employment Taxes related to such payments; and (iv) any other fees, costs, and expenses incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with or incident to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including, any such legal, accounting and investment banking fees, costs and expenses.
Transfer Taxes” shall mean any transfer, stamp, documentary, sales, use, registration, goods and services, harmonized sales, recording, filing, value-added and other similar Taxes incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Unaccredited Stockholder” shall mean a Company Stockholder or Company Warrantholder that is not an Accredited Stockholder.
Unpaid Pre-Closing Taxes” shall mean (a) any Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries for any Pre-Closing Tax Period that are not yet paid (including such Taxes that are not yet due and payable) as of the Closing Date (including any Deferred Payroll Taxes and any Taxes imposed pursuant to Sections 951 or 951A of the Code with respect to income earned by a Subsidiary in any Pre-Closing Tax Period, calculated in accordance with this definition), (b) any Taxes of a Person other than the Company or its Subsidiaries for which the Company (or any predecessor of the Company) is liable (i) under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law) as a result of having been a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined, unitary or similar group



(including any arrangement for group or consortium relief or similar arrangement) before the Closing or (ii) as a result of an express or implied obligation to indemnify such Person, as a transferee or successor, by Contract, by operation of Law or otherwise as a result of an event or transaction occurring before the Closing, and (c) any withholding, payroll or similar Taxes attributable to the payments made at or around Closing pursuant to this Agreement and any Transaction Payroll Taxes and the portion of Transfer Taxes borne by the Company Indemnitors pursuant to Section 5.2(c) (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Taxes associated with the exercise of options of Parent granted pursuant to Section 2.1(b)(ii)); provided, however, that Unpaid Pre Closing Taxes shall (x) be calculated so as to take into account all Transaction Tax Deductions that are deductible at a “more likely than not” (or higher) level in a Pre-Closing Tax Period, (y) exclude all Taxes resulting from a Section 338 election made with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and Taxes that are incurred as a result of any transaction outside the ordinary course of business on the Closing Date after the Closing, and (z) exclude Taxes on any deferred revenue or prepaid amount received prior to the Closing that is included in taxable income in any Tax period or portion thereof ending after the Closing Date. For this purpose, in the case of Taxes based on income, sales, proceeds, profits, receipts, wages, compensation or similar items and all other Taxes that are not imposed on a periodic basis, the amount of such Taxes that have accrued through the Closing Date for a Straddle Tax Period shall be deemed to be the amount that would be payable if the taxable year or period ended at the end of the day on the Closing Date based on an interim closing of the books (and in the case of any Taxes attributable to the ownership of any equity interest in any partnership or other “flowthrough” entity or “controlled foreign corporation” (within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code or any comparable state, local or non-U.S. Law), as if the taxable period of such partnership or other “flowthrough” entity or “controlled foreign corporation” ended as of the end of the Closing Date), except that exemptions, allowances or deductions that are calculated on an annual basis (including depreciation and amortization deductions, other than with respect to property placed in service after the Closing), shall be allocated on a per diem basis. In the case of any other Taxes that are imposed on a periodic basis for a Straddle Period, the amount of such Taxes that have accrued through the Closing Date shall be the amount of such Taxes for the relevant period (or, in the case of such Taxes determined on an arrears basis, the amount of such Taxes for the immediately preceding period) multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the number of calendar days from the beginning of the period up to and including the Closing Date and the denominator of which shall be the number of calendar days in the entire period. For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of allocating Taxes imposed under Section 951A of the Code in respect of a Subsidiary of the Company, the “qualified business asset investment” (as such term is used in Section 951A(d) of the Code) in respect of the Pre-Closing Tax Period shall equal the product of (i) the Subsidiary’s “qualified business asset investment” (as defined in Section 951A(d)(1) of the Code) for the taxable year of the Subsidiary that includes the Closing Date (determined as though such taxable year ended on the Closing Date) and (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the portion of such taxable year ending on the Closing Date and the denominator of which is the total number of days in such taxable year.
Unvested Company Option” shall mean any Company Option (or portion thereof) that is unvested (after giving effect to any applicable vesting acceleration) and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Unvested Company RSU” shall mean any Company RSU (or portion thereof) that is unvested and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
Vested Company Option” shall mean any Company Option (or portion thereof) that is vested (after giving effect to any vesting acceleration) and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.



Vested Company RSU” shall mean any Company RSU (or portion thereof) that is vested and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (or that would have become vested effective as of the Closing by its terms but for the cancellation and conversion provided for in Section 2.1(b)(iv) hereof).
WARN” shall mean the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
WKSI” shall mean a “well-known seasoned issuer” as such term is defined under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.


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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-14(a) OR 15d-14(a) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Jeff Lawson, certify that:
1.I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Twilio Inc.;
2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a)Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b)Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c)Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d)Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: July 29, 2021
/s/ JEFF LAWSON
Jeff Lawson
Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)


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Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-14(a) OR 15d-14(a) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Khozema Shipchandler, certify that:
1.I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Twilio Inc.;
2.Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3.Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:
(a)Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
(b)Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c)Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
(d)Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5.The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: July 29, 2021
/s/ KHOZEMA Z. SHIPCHANDLER
Khozema Z. Shipchandler
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)


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Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
Pursuant to the requirement set forth in Rule 13a-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”) and Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. §1350), Jeff Lawson, Chief Executive Officer of Twilio Inc. (the “Company”), and Khozema Shipchandler, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, each hereby certifies that, to the best of his knowledge:
1.The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, to which this Certification is attached as Exhibit 32.1 (the “Periodic Report”), fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; and
2.The information contained in the Periodic Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Date: July 29, 2021
/s/ JEFF LAWSON
Jeff Lawson
Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ KHOZEMA Z. SHIPCHANDLER
Khozema Z. Shipchandler
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)