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spk09: Thank you for joining us today for GitLab's first quarter of fiscal year 2023 financial results presentation. GitLab's co-founder and CEO, Sid C. Brandy, and GitLab's chief financial officer, Brian Robbins, will provide commentary on the quarter and fiscal year. Please note, we will be opening up the call for panelists' questions. To ask a question, please use the chat feature and post your question directly to IR Questions using the drop-down menu. Before we begin, I'll cover the safe harbor statement. During this conference call, we may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements involve assumptions and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or anticipated. For a complete discussion of risk associated with these forward-looking statements, in our business, we encourage you to refer to our earnings release distributed today in our SEC filings, including our most recently quarterly report on Form 10Q. Our forward-looking statements are based upon information currently available to us. We caution you to not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and we do not undertake any duty or obligation to update or release any revisions to any forward-looking statement or to report any future events. or circumstances or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. In addition, during this call, certain financial performance measures may be discussed that differ from comparable measures contained in our financial statements prepared in accordance with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles referred to by the Securities and Exchange Commission as non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not intended to be a substitute for our GAAP results. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures assist management and investors in evaluating our performance and comparing period-to-period results of operations as discussed in greater detail in the supplemental schedule to our earnings release. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures is included in our earnings press release submitted to the SEC. These reconciliations together with additional supplemental information are available at the investor relations section of our website, and a replay of today's call will also be posted on the website. I will now turn the call over to GitLab's co-founder and chief executive officer, Sid C. Brandy.
spk05: Thank you for joining us for our fiscal year 2023 first quarter earnings presentation. But before discussing the quarterly results, as I stated last quarter, we remain deeply saddened and concerned by the unprovoked and unjustified Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the horrific acts of violence against the sovereign nation and its people, and the terrible impact to all of those in the region. We continue to work directly with a small number of impacted GitLab team members in the region, and we're committed to providing ongoing assistance and support to them until the conflict is over. Now, turning to our results. We believe that every company needs to become a software company, regardless of the macroeconomic environment. Our OneDevOps platform drives compelling business outcomes, providing our customers with what we believe to be distinct competitive advantage, being able to build, deploy and secure software better. Our pipeline of opportunities remains strong across the globe as we are addressing a large and early stage market opportunity. In the first quarter of fiscal 2023 we exceeded our guidance with revenue of $87.4 million, and this represents revenue growth of 75% year over year. Our dollar based net retention rate remains strong and exceeded our reporting threshold level of 130%. The primary driver of this metric continues to be an increasing number of users at existing customers, which we believe to demonstrate a significant return on investment we provide. We are committed to growing in a responsible manner and believe our first quarter results demonstrate the attractive unit economics underlying our business. While continuing to accelerate revenue growth, we also were able to show significant operating leverage. Our non-GAAP operating margin improved by 1700 basis points year over year and by 700 basis points quarter over quarter. Underpinning this acceleration in revenue growth is both a higher velocity of new customer wins as well as larger strategic commitments We achieved momentum and growth in both $1 million deals and $500,000 deals. In addition, we continue to experience strong success in upgrading existing customers and signing new customers to our ultimate tier. Ultimate adoption represented the highest proportional mix of new logos landed during our first quarter of 2023. and Ultimate remains our fastest growing tier by addressing use cases for security, compliance, and portfolio management. Today's macroeconomic environment is extremely volatile. There are a number of challenges that very few would have predicted just a few short months ago. Our customers and the economy at large are grappling with the war in Ukraine, ongoing disruptions related to the pandemic, labour shortages, rising inflation, increasing interest rates and dislocated supply chains, among other issues. I want to dive more deeply into the broader factors driving our financial results. there are four main reasons why we believe GitLab is well positioned to achieve durable growth with improving unit economics over time. First, we believe the business imperative for digital transformations remains strong regardless of macro conditions. We are in the midst of a generational disruption whereby we believe all companies are becoming software driven businesses. And this requires an increasing number of companies to embrace modern software development practices. to deliver captivating mobile and digital experiences to their customers, as well as engage in cloud migrations designed to provide agility and future-proof their development, operational and infrastructure requirements. In essence, in a world where software defines the speed of innovation, we believe every company has to become great at developing, securing and operating software to remain competitive. Second, we believe the market we are targeting is very large and early stage in nature. We believe R1 DevOps platform is addressing an estimated $40 billion opportunity. We're focused on selling a business outcome and a time to value. Thus, our competition is largely the do-it-yourself known as DIY DevOps solutions that companies have in place today. Third, we're addressing this estimated large market opportunity with a compelling platform. GitLab's one DevOps platform provides one interface, one data store, one set of reports, one spot to secure your code, one location to deploy to any cloud, and one place for everyone to contribute. This empowers all of an enterprise's teams, including development, security, operations, IT, and business, to collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software across an end-to-end unified platform. We believe our platform is the only true cloud-independent end-to-end platform that brings together all of DevOps capabilities in one place. Combining all DevOps capabilities in one platform is so central to GitLab that we have incorporated the DevOps Infinity Loop into our new logo as part of a brand refresh we undertook late in the first quarter. Fourth, one of our credit values, iteration, is deeply ingrained and we believe creates competitive differentiation. We strive to do the smallest thing possible as quickly as possible. And this value leads to more improvements that address customer problems in a shorter timeframe. To provide some examples of this innovation, in the first quarter, we delivered enhancements in our ultimate product in the area of security, compliance, and planning. Security needs are the main driver of DevSecOps. Our customers are looking to solve the pinpoint of a fragmented security experience, which slows down innovation and creates more risk. Our recent launched integrated security training functionality aims to help developers improve their efficiency and ability to address security issues as part of their normal development workflow. GitLab provides a comprehensive set of security scanning tools that can identify all types of security issues. Security findings are presented in merge requests, pipelines, and in a dedicated vulnerability report. And when available, a recommended solution is given. Equally important to security is compliance. And this is an area where a single DevOps platform meets an important enterprise need. We released individual compliance violation reporting, which improves our compliance capabilities to capture a single view of projects. The compliance report now reports every individual merge request violation for projects within a group. This is a huge improvement over the previous version, which only showed the latest merge requests that have one or more violations. The new version allows you to see history and patterns of violation over time. Truly automating end-to-end software development and delivery begins with planning. And this is an area where all teams need to contribute. we introduced functionality that enables teams to collaborate better and track their dependencies across GitLab groups. Effective dependency management is a key component of reducing variability and increasing predictability in value delivery. We're excited about the improvements in the product, and we believe the four factors mentioned earlier will allow us to capitalize on a long-term, durable growth opportunity. This growth opportunity consists of helping companies transition from DIY DevOps to a DevOps platform. Most companies are still practicing DIY DevOps as they are juggling many different tools with homegrown integrations related to code development, deployment, and operations. These integrations take more and more effort, and over time it starts looking like digital duct tape. This results in a disjointed organization, which constrains their ability to deliver software innovation. We believe the digital duct tape problem is increasingly recognized among both customers and prospects. This is resulting in a broadening of the market awareness for the OneDevOps platform. we are seeing a more frequent number of engagements where the prospective buyers have gone from not realizing that their DIY DevOps approach was holding them back to now identifying that their complex and this join the tool chain is the issue. And from a business perspective, that means we can deliver both cost savings and productivity gains to our customers. We aim to accomplish this by eliminating the direct and indirect costs associated with manually integrating the complex tool chains inherent with the DIY DevOps approach. We believe our single application helps companies to deliver software faster and improve organizational efficiency, security and compliance. Based on a study conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by us, GitLab customers saw 407% return on investment within three years of deployment of our DevOps platform. These benefits can be broken down in four categories. First, there's a direct software tool license cost reduction, as customers are able to eliminate point vendors and consolidate software spend. Second, customers can remove tool chain integration costs. Third, customers realize greater productivity and a better overall developer experience. And finally, revenue acceleration can be achieved due to faster innovation as customer facing applications can be designed and deployed faster. The ONE DevOps platform delivers positive business outcomes for a very wide range of customers, from single users to tens of thousands of users, from small organizations to Fortune 100 companies. from A to Z, from aerospace to zoology. We remain encouraged with the increasing numbers of strategic conversations happening at the sea level. We continue to see increasing traction with our channel partners. And over the last year, we have increased our number and depth of alliance partners. We have also continued to invest in our partner program. And please let me give you some customer examples representing both new logo wins and expansions. First, a UK-based retail chain with over 400 outlets and over 16,000 employees that sells household and homeware goods became a GitLab Ultimate SaaS customer in the first quarter of FY 2023. They chose GitLab to replace their do-it-yourself DevOps approach Their existing tool chain contained a broad mix of tools, which was holding back their culture shift to DevOps and agile practice. This shift is key to their future digital transformation strategy. Second, A North American-based technology company uses GitLab to drive efficiency and productivity throughout their development teams, primarily utilizing SCM and CI-CD capabilities. In late 2021, they began experiencing outages with another vendor that became worse over time. They evaluated GitLab's package management capabilities and they migrated their usage to improve performance and continue enabling developer productivity. In addition, they implemented more advanced infrastructure to allow them to scale, partnering with GitLab's professional services team. Through dedicated training, workshops, and strategic planning, this company was able to quickly expand and drive outcomes across developer self-service, high availability and automation, leading to growth in fiscal Q1 2023 that brought them to over 18,000 premium seats. Third, Trendial is the largest e-commerce company in Turkey. They serve more than 30 million shoppers and deliver more than 1 million packages every day. As Trendial has expanded its stable of services and platforms, its developer teams had amassed a diverse and complex assortment of DevOps tools. Adopting GitLab Premium has allowed its DevOps teams to simplify operations and organize using a single platform. As a result, TrendyL has experienced a 30% improvement in developer productivity and a 60% reduction in build times and the ability to launch a new application 50% faster. In summary, I'm extraordinarily pleased with the quarter, and I'm grateful to all our team members, partners, the wider GitLab community, and customers who contributed to our results. As we look forward, we are seeing continued strong momentum for customers adopting our one DevOps platform. I'll now turn the call over to Brian Robbins, GitLab's T financial officer. Thank you, Sid.
spk06: And thank you again to everyone joining us today. I will quickly recap our first core results for FY 2023 and key operating metrics, introduce guidance, and conclude with some additional context regarding our business and how strong demand for a DevOps platform translates into a strong financial profile. First, let me turn to the quarter. We are pleased with our results as our business continues to perform at a very high level, demonstrating improving unit economics despite macroeconomic volatility. We continually hear from our customers that GitLab is a highly strategic platform for them. Our platform is offered with a free version and two paid subscription tiers, which we call premium and ultimate. Our paid tiers are priced per user with different features per tier. every user within an organization is on the same plan which helps us keep our business model transparent and easy to understand our customer base is very well diversified across industry verticals customer sizes and geographic regions we do not see any slowdown in any key business metrics during the quarter in fact our pipeline in me is actually stronger than it's ever been are happy with how we executed on team member hiring as we added more new people to the organization this quarter than in each of the previous eight quarters we remain steadfast in our commitment to growing in a responsible manner we also view the uncertainty in the macro economy as a benefit for hiring new team members now turn into the numbers revenue of 87.4 million this quarter represents an increase of 75% organically from the prior year. As of quarter end, we had over 5,100 customers with ARR of at least $5,000 compared to 4,500 customers in the prior quarter and over 3,100 customers in the prior year. This represents a year-over-year growth rate of approximately 64%. Currently, customers with greater than $5,000 in ARR represents approximately 95% of our total ARR. Just a reminder, with ASC 606, we have some upfront revenue recognition that we analyze on an annual basis. This may cause some fluctuations to the amount of license revenue we're required to recognize upfront. If we normalize for this change this quarter, we still grew 70% year over year. We also measure the performance and growth of our larger customers, who we define as those spending more than $100,000 in ARR with us. At the end of the first quarter of FY 2023, we had 545 customers with ARR of at least $100,000, compared to 492 customers in the prior quarter and 324 customers in the first quarter of FY 2022. This represents a year-over-year growth rate of approximately 68%. As many of you know, we do not believe calculated billing is to be a good indicator for a business, given that prior period comparisons can be impacted by a number of factors, most notably our history of large prepaid multi-year deals. This quarter, total RPO grew 92% year-over-year to $336 million. we ended our first quarter with dollar-based net retention rate exceeding our reported threshold of 130 percent the ultimate tier is our fastest growing tier now representing 39 percent of annual recurring revenue for the first quarter of fy 2023 compared with 26 percent of annual recurring revenue for the first quarter of fy 2022 and continuing to grow in excess of 100 percent Non-GAAP gross margins were 90% for the quarter, which compares 89% in the immediately preceding quarter and 87% for the first quarter of FY 2022. As we move forward, we are estimating a moderate reduction in this metric due to the rapid year-over-year growth rate of our SAS offerings. We saw improved operating leverage across the business this quarter, largely driven by revenue outperformance. Non-GAAP operating loss was 24.8 million or 28% of revenue compared to a loss of 22.5 million or 45% of revenue in Q1 of the last fiscal year. Q1 FY 2023 includes 3.7 million of expenses related to our JV and majority owned subsidiary. Operating cash use was 28.2 million in the first quarter of FY 2023, compared to 21.5 million use in the same quarter last year. In summary, we performed extraordinary well during the first quarter of FY 2023 on both the top and bottom line, and we believe our business is set up for continued strength. now let's turn to guidance for the second quarter of fy 2023 we expect total revenue of 93.5 million to 94.5 million representing a growth rate of 61 to 63 percent year over year we expect non-gap operating loss of 34 to 33 million And we expect a non-GAAP net loss per share of $0.24 to $0.23, assuming 147 million weighted average shares outstanding. For the full year FY2023, we now expect total revenue of 398 to 402 million, representing a growth rate of 58% to 59% year over year. We expect the non-GAAP operating loss of 130.5 to 127.5 million, and we expect the non-GAAP net loss per share of 93 cents to 89 cents, assuming 148 million weighted average shares outstanding. As Sid mentioned earlier, we believe we're addressing a very substantial market that is currently under-penetrated and that we're well positioned to capture an outsized portion of it. Despite the volatility in the macroeconomic environment in the first quarter, we have not seen any impact to our business. There has been no philosophical change how we run the business to maximize shareholder value over the long term. We continue to be focused on growth while driving incremental improvements in the unit economics of our business. A few more details on guidance and our model. As I mentioned last quarter, we will incur approximately 20 million of incremental expenses related to the resumption of travel and in-person customer marketing events, as well as new public company costs that were not incurred in the first three quarters of FY 2022. In addition, we now forecast approximately 22 million of expenses related to Jihoo, our China joint venture. This compares to 12 million of combined Jihoo and Meltano costs in FY 2022. I'd like to note we have deconsolidated Meltano, our majority owned subsidiary. On a percentage basis, our new annual FY 2023 guidance implies a non-GAAP operating margin improvement of approximately 700 basis points year over year at the midpoint of our guidance ranges. Over the longer term, we believe that a continued targeted focus on growth initiatives and scale in the business will yield further improvements in unit economics. With that, we'll now move to Q&A. To ask a question, please use the chat feature and post your question directly to IR questions. We are ready for the first question.
spk09: Thank you, Brian and Syd. We will begin by going to Cash at Goldman Sachs. Cash, will you please verbalize your question?
spk04: Sure. Happy to. Congratulations on the quarter. Sid, I'm curious to get your take on the product roadmap, as impressive and as wide as it is. I wonder how you prioritize which features you will be investing in so as to maximize the revenue productivity and also to further the company's ambition of getting to as many users as possible on the ultimate edition. And as a follow-up to Brian, just a logical sequence there, what would be the company's targets or ambitions? with respect to ultimate edition. And therefore, if that works out well, whatever that ambition is, what could be the impact of the financial model of the company? Thank you so much. Congrats again.
spk05: Yeah, thanks so much for your question. We're focusing our investment to enable people to go from DIY DevOps to the platform. We know if they can do that, if they can replace the point solutions, they see a great return on investment. On average, they're able to replace four point solutions in year one, year two, year three. The majority of our investment is going into create, verify, and secure. but we're also making long-term investments. For example, in compliance and in model ops, because with model ops, we see that software development, code development, and ML and AI will converge in the future, and we want GitLab to be ready for that. This month, we released GitLab 15, our annual major release, and we're excited about having our launch event in the third week of June. Brian?
spk06: Thanks, Cash. Appreciate the question. In terms of adoption for Ultimate, we see tremendous business outcomes from our customers who adopt Ultimate. And so we as a company, GitLab, believe that every customer should adopt Ultimate over time, given their tremendous value at the price point of only $1,200 per developer per year. So Ultimate gives our customers enhanced security features, compliance, vulnerability management, and so forth, just to name a few. And so Ultimate now, just to remind you, is 39% of our ARR, up from 26% first quarter of last year. Got it. Thank you so much. Thanks, guys.
spk09: Great. Our next question will be from Michael at KeyBank.
spk00: Hey, guys. How are you? I was trying to gracefully unmute. Didn't happen to gracefully.
spk06: Doing well.
spk00: Thanks. So two things. So fantastic that the quarter results are great and fantastic that you are not seeing any negative impact. But maybe, Sid and Brian, you can drill down on how you see customers, enterprises, midsize reacting to fears of recession slash inflation in terms of development projects. Brian G McAdoo, Simply saying okay no problem development full speed ahead, are they shifting those development project from one priority to the next, and then Brian I just have a question for you on the base.
spk05: Yeah, thanks for that great question. We believe that every company needs to become a software company, regardless of what the macroeconomic environment is. And the way to do that is DevOps. And maybe I can share a story what happened during the pandemic. Global Airlines saw their revenue crash 90% plus reduction in revenue. And at that time, we partnered with three global airlines to help them expand their GitLab footprint and to help them make that transformation. So our message resonates well. The platform approach helps customers to consolidate tools. And with that, they save money both on licensing and on integration costs. Brian?
spk06: Yeah, Michael, what was your question in regards to JV?
spk00: So this is to be, just if I could get there, just a quick follow up before the JV questions. Do you see any change in the priority of projects, obviously? You're saving them money, but are you seeing them shift the type of projects they want to do through you?
spk05: I believe we've not seen changes in any key indicators. In fact, our pipeline in Europe is stronger than it's ever been.
spk00: All right. And then, Brian, on the JVs. So the GEHU expenses go from 12 to 22. Meltano deconsolidated. Bruce Bunnick, Jr.: : Is there any benefit to the income statement above the line by moving that below those expenses below the line.
spk06: No, Meltano is the only thing that we're deconsolidating. We did say that this would be last quarter that approximately be about 30 million. And now it's going to be 22 million because we're deconsolidating that. We still are consolidating Jihoo, our Chinese joint venture. And so, you know, all of our guidance basically incorporates us. And you'll see the details on Jihoo when we follow our 10Q later this evening.
spk00: Okay. So 8 million benefit from the deconsolidation, sounds like. Correct.
spk06: Correct.
spk09: Thank you. Now we're moving on to Joel Fishbein at Truist.
spk02: Congrats on the strong execution. I get two questions often. I'd just love you to address them both. First on competition and profitability, can you discuss the competitive win rates and then maybe give us some color on the balance or how you're thinking about the balance of growth and profitability going forward? Thanks.
spk06: Absolutely. Thanks, Joel. You know, I guess first, it's important to say we're really, really early in a $40 billion market. And our main competition, as we talk about, continues to be DIY DevOps. Companies need a way to plan, build, and secure and deploy software. In our deals, in about half the deals, we don't see anyone else in the deal. We're competing against DIY or what they currently have. When we do see companies, we typically most run into Microsoft, Atlassian, and Jenkins. They're the three that make up over 70% of what we run into on the deals. It's important to note that our win rate against Microsoft, whether they're in a deal or not in a deal, is almost identical. And if you look at the total amount of deals that we're in, Microsoft accounts for less than 20% of the deals that we see them in. And so that's a little bit on the competition side. On profitability, I just want to go back and remind everyone, we land small and expand over time. And the Corley cohorts from over six years ago are still expanding today, which is remarkable, which helps us with our net dollar retention rate. And these cohorts, not only are they still expanding, they're extremely predictable. And so we're continuing to show improvement in unit economics in the business. You know, as a private company, a newly public company where grow at any expense or a public company at uncertain times, we have not deviated from our strategy one bit. And so if you look at this quarter versus this quarter last year, I think we actually demonstrated that. If you exclude Jihoo, we almost had identical non-GAAP operating income for this quarter versus this quarter last year, but we grew revenue 75%, which basically added $38 million of revenue for the same absolute profitability. And this is really consistent with the four-year guidance we gave as well. And so Sid and I, as we said before, and we remain to this, is we're committed and responsible growth.
spk02: That's fantastic. Thank you.
spk06: Thanks, Joel.
spk09: Matt at RBC, you have the next question.
spk07: Oh, thanks for, uh, thanks for the question. Congrats from me as well. Um, so Sid, I had a question, you know, it's great to hear about all the success in the platform. I'm wondering, um, you know, with all the advancements you're making in security, are you increasingly seeing customers, uh, come to GitLab from a security first perspective?
spk05: Yeah, I think it's an important driver. We know that for ultimate, the main driver is security and ultimate is our fastest growing tier. So it's a very important driver. We said in the prepared remarks, C-level execs are increasingly coming to us and they already know that their DIY DevOps isn't scaling and they need to consolidate. So that's very encouraging. And our security solution is helping customers shift security left. do it earlier so that it can be more comprehensive, that it's easier to incorporate. I believe we have a very strong offering with static and dynamic analysis, first testing, container scanning, and also increasingly our compliance is a selling point, where with GitLab it's much easier to prove to the auditors that you've done everything that's needed they can just point at something and you have all the relevant documentation where today a lot of customers are doing that with diy devops where they have to make all of that themselves so it's increasing and we more and more view ourselves as not just a devops company but a dev sec ops company that's that's fantastic i couldn't agree more that's certainly what our checks indicate and then you know i guess just as a question one question i think we all get on the phone here is you know the priority of spend
spk07: If the economy were to slow, and it's great to hear a record pipeline in EMEA, how do you think your customers prioritize your spending? And I think we all believe we're in an apps-driven economy, and that what you guys are delivering is super important. I mean, is it that level of criticality? And I suppose, especially if there's a security angle here as well, you have to be pretty high up on the priority list. Is that kind of what you're hearing as well?
spk05: I think I've touched on that with the global airlines. Brian, you have anything to add to that?
spk06: Yeah, man, absolutely. You know, I guess I learned, you know, in prep for this earnings call, I listened to several of the earnings announcements. And one common theme that I heard is, you know, the economic downturn and some of the uncertainty has been a catalyst for digital transformation. And we sit right at that critical spot where we run one platform. We have great business outcomes. You and every company needs a plan, manage, secure and deploy software. And so we're positioned really well at that. We added more base customers this quarter than in the history of the company. And metrics across the board were extremely positive. And I think that really is, you know, attributed to the value proposition that we're offering our customers.
spk07: Got it. Makes a lot of sense. Well done, guys.
spk06: Thanks, Matt.
spk09: Carl at UBS, will you please ask your question?
spk03: Okay, great. Thanks, team. Maybe this one for Sid. Sid, I think everybody on the line has heard a lot of anecdotes about smaller VC-backed tech internet companies that are being forced to cut their OpEx and headcount. I'm just wondering whether, and I'm assuming, by the way, that a lot of those young engineering-focused companies use GitLab. So maybe the question is twofold. Are you seeing any pressure from that customer cohort that may have been offset by enterprise strength? And secondly, a related question, Brian, how large is the enterprise exposure of GitLab? I think at the time of the IPO, you gave us a 60% number, if I remember correctly. Are you able to update that? So really just trying to get at your exposure to these younger customers that might be under a little bit of duress. Thank you.
spk05: Yeah, and a lot. Thanks for the question. Great question. I'll let Brian add to my answer. GitLab is the best when you have like a ton of point solutions that you replace. So the more complex the organization, the bigger the compliance requirements, the more value we can add. So we've always been very strong in large organizations. And what you see now is that maybe there's a hiring slowdown, but most people aren't on GitLab yet. So we have a lot of room to expand within the organizations in which we already landed. Together, GitLab and GitHub, we believe to be less than 5% of the $40 billion market. And as customers are forced to slow down hiring, they want to get more out of their existing people. And that's what GitLab can bring. They can do more with the people they already have instead of hiring without an end. Brian?
spk06: Yeah, absolutely. Just to echo what Sid said and what Sid said was spot on. We looked at sort of the VC-backed startup community and to see how much of our current AR was comprised of that and how much we think it would be. And we cut it several different ways, and it was less than 5% every way that we looked at it. And so really, really small by sort of ARR and absolute volume. And then the enterprise amount as a percent of the total continues to be about the same. There's really been no change to that. So it's approximately 60%. If you throw PubSec on that, you're over 70%. And so the two of those combined is pretty strong. And so very little exposure to startup VC-backed companies. And approximately 70% when you add enterprise and PubSec. And enterprise as a percentage of the total has been very consistent since we went public. for a long period of time.
spk03: Got it. Those are really helpful metrics. Thank you both and congrats on a great quarter.
spk06: Thanks, Carl. Appreciate it.
spk09: Our next question is from Koji at Bank of America.
spk01: Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Just one for me here. Maybe this question is for Brian. You know, just wanted to kind of ask you the magnitude of the B question. You know, we got this question a lot over the past few months thinking about your performance here and where it could go. And clearly here, 12% of the revenue top line beat above the high end of the guide versus 10% last quarter, you know, clearly better this quarter. So any thought process or, you know, just from a high level change to the guidance methodology here? Or the way you're thinking about the annual guide versus the beats or, you know, the beat and the raise cadence. Just what we experienced in the first quarter, you know, especially considering the commentary that you had with the demand environment. Sure sounds really strong out there, even with EMEA, you know, even stronger than today. So any sort of help there in the way we should be thinking about your guidance methodology. Thank you.
spk06: Appreciate it, Koji. Thanks for the question. Super happy with the quarterly results. It was a great quarter overall and happy that we committed to guidance at the midpoint of delivering $400 million in revenue, which is approximately 59% year-over-year growth. There's no change in the guidance philosophy. Early in the year, there's lots of variables. And so we guided to the number. We had an excellent quarter. And so we did, obviously, a beat and raise. One of the most favorite things about our model is the visibility that we have into our business. And so almost all of our revenue is ratable, which when you come up with guidance, makes it a little bit easier. And so as we reported the quarter, we're extremely happy with our results and guidance. And like I said, we raised our guidance for the remainder of the year.
spk01: Got it. Just and just one quick follow up, you know, kind of the the license line with how it has the self-managed and professional services and other, you know, kind of 10 million there in the quarter. Real strong growth. Just, you know, could you talk a little bit about the components there? You know, is there a bit more professional services than anticipated or, you know, maybe, you know, could you break that down just a little bit?
spk06: Matt Bolian- yeah absolutely is, as I said in my prepared remarks we re evaluate our standalone selling price every year. Matt Bolian- This analysis, you know is required and we're taking a little bit more upfront revenue, and so this quarter, we had roughly about two and a half million dollars worth of revenue that we took. Matt Bolian- Our growth rate would have still been 70% additionally as a reminder. We've changed our business practice around our licensing earlier in the year. And so true ups have gone down from last year to this year. True ups in the SSP difference pretty much canceled out one another. And so all this is baked into our guidance for the full year.
spk01: Got it. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it, Culler. Thank you so much.
spk06: Thanks, Koji.
spk09: Thank you. And it looks like our final question is from Derek Wood at Cohen. Can you please verbalize your question?
spk08: Yeah, great. Thanks. Congrats, guys. Fine. I mean, you had mentioned the strength in the new customer generation. And I think of, you know, maybe kind of three core variables on what drives that. And we've been seeing that number, you know, very strong for quite some time. But if you think about, you know, putting more feet on the street from direct sales versus, you know, more of a C-level agenda around, you know, around DevOps platform initiatives versus, You know, companies kind of moving off of open source and wanting to get to a commercial vendor. How would you guys comment on kind of the rank order of those drivers?
spk05: I think what's thanks for the great question. So I think what's really important is the increase in channel. So channel is getting more and more important for us. And the other thing we're seeing is that increasingly C-level execs are already convinced that they wanna consolidate tools. Where a few years ago, maybe they said, look, I'm doing this DIY DevOps thing. I just need some version control. And can you sell me that? And we had to start from, hey, you know, there's something better. There's a DevOps platform. Today, they come in and say, look, I want to consolidate. I'm just looking for the best platform out there. So that helps us. And it's great to see that recognition. I think it was first us, then maybe our competitors who realized it, then the analysts. And now we see traction with customers. Brian?
spk06: Yeah, absolutely, Derek. Great question. When we were going public, I talked about all the new go-to-market motions that we're adding. We're starting to see the benefit from all those. I think that plus the fact that the overall economy, the uncertainty, there's been a catalyst for this whole digital transformation. Really happy as well with the AWS GCP. Since we're sort of Switzerland and aren't aligned with one specific cloud provider, it's great to see the deals and the momentum that we're getting with them as well.
spk08: Great. And I guess just a follow-up on that same topic. You guys hired Ashley Kramers as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Anything to highlight that we should be looking at of what she's going to be trying to do as she's on boards?
spk05: Yeah, we're super happy to be able to have her in the organization. She's really talented. I think what's important for us is that we appeal both to buyers and to users. So we have to do both right. And it's still a question of like telling the story, telling the story of, hey, you've got to move from DIY DevOps to a DevOps platform. We're so very early in this market. And that's where we're focusing our marketing efforts on.
spk08: That's great. Congrats again. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.
spk09: All right, thank you for the questions and with that I'll turn things back over to Sid for closing remarks.
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