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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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(Mark One)
ýQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended April 30, 2019
OR
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: 001-38413
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ZSCALER, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
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Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
26-1173892
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
110 Rose Orchard Way
San Jose, California 95134
(Address of Principal executive offices)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (408) 533-0288
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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
Common Stock, $0.001 Par ValueZSThe Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

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 ý No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted 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 and post such files) Yes ý No  ¨
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¨
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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. ý
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes  ¨ No  ý
As of May 31, 2019, the number of shares of registrant’s common stock outstanding was 125,661,928.

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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 the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements regarding our products, plans, strategy for our business and related financing, financial outlook and market positioning. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date they were first issued and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. The words "believe," "may," "will," "potentially," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "project," "plan," "expect," "predict," "project," "seek," "should," "target" and similar expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:
our future financial performance, including our expectations regarding our revenue, cost of revenue, gross profit or gross margin, operating expenses (including changes in sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses), and our ability to achieve, and maintain, profitability;
market acceptance of our cloud platform;
the effects of increased competition in our markets and our ability to compete effectively;
our ability to maintain the security and availability of our cloud platform;
our ability to maintain and expand our customer base, including by attracting new customers;
our ability to develop new solutions, or enhancements to our existing solutions, and bring them to market in a timely manner;
anticipated trends, growth rates and challenges in our business and in the markets in which we operate;
our business plan and our ability to effectively manage our growth and associated investments;
beliefs and objectives for future operations;
our relationships with third parties, including channel partners;
our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our intellectual property rights;
our ability to successfully defend litigation brought against us;
our ability to successfully expand in our existing markets and into new markets;
sufficiency of cash to meet cash needs for at least the next 12 months;
our ability to comply with laws and regulations that currently apply or become applicable to our business both in the United States and internationally;
the attraction and retention of qualified employees and key personnel; and
the future trading prices of our common stock.
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These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those described in "Risk Factors" elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment, and new risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our 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.
You should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2018 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on September 13, 2018.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item. 1 Financial Statements
ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)

April 30, 2019July 31, 2018
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$54,974 $135,579 
Short-term investments297,762 162,960 
Accounts receivable, net71,151 61,611 
Deferred contract acquisition costs19,391 16,136 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets12,765 10,878 
Total current assets456,043 387,164 
Property and equipment, net31,976 19,765 
Deferred contract acquisition costs, noncurrent44,714 39,774 
Other noncurrent assets4,803 1,078 
Total assets$537,536 $447,781 
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$3,585 $4,895 
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities11,815 12,313 
Accrued compensation21,845 23,393 
Liability for early exercised unvested stock options695 1,561 
Deferred revenue183,622 140,670 
Total current liabilities221,562 182,832 
Deferred revenue, noncurrent27,920 23,353 
Other noncurrent liabilities1,475 1,360 
Total liabilities250,957 207,545 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)
Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 200,000 shares authorized as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018; no shares issued and outstanding as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018
  
Common stock; $0.001 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018; 125,552 and 119,764 shares issued and outstanding as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018, respectively
126 119 
Additional paid-in capital505,531 438,392 
Notes receivable from stockholders (2,051)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)101 (124)
Accumulated deficit(219,179)(196,100)
Total stockholders’ equity286,579 240,236 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$537,536 $447,781 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)

Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
Revenue$79,128 $49,163 $216,728 $134,000 
Cost of revenue14,960 9,424 42,330 26,374 
Gross profit64,168 39,739 174,398 107,626 
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing45,295 29,892 120,596 83,930 
Research and development16,499 9,907 44,756 27,899 
General and administrative15,911 8,964 36,428 22,497 
Total operating expenses77,705 48,763 201,780 134,326 
Loss from operations(13,537)(9,024)(27,382)(26,700)
Interest income, net2,081 596 5,595 1,004 
Other income (expense), net(144)14 (82)15 
Loss before income taxes(11,600)(8,414)(21,869)(25,681)
Provision for income taxes636 357 1,510 1,003 
Net loss$(12,236)$(8,771)$(23,379)$(26,684)
Accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock
 (1,223) (6,332)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders
$(12,236)$(9,994)$(23,379)$(33,016)
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted
$(0.10)$(0.14)$(0.19)$(0.73)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted
124,672 73,818 122,644 45,047 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
(in thousands)
(unaudited)

Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
Net loss$(12,236)$(8,771)$(23,379)$(26,684)
Other comprehensive income, net of tax:
Unrealized net gains on available-for-sale securities160  225  
Other comprehensive income160  225  
Comprehensive loss$(12,076)$(8,771)$(23,154)$(26,684)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended April 30, 2019:
Redeemable Convertible
Preferred Stock
Common Stock Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Notes
Receivable
From
Stockholders
Accumulated Other Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Accumulated DeficitTotal
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
SharesAmountShares Amount  
Balance as of January 31, 2019 $ 123,897 $124 $483,951 $ $(59)$(206,943)$277,073 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options— — 1,642 2 8,028 — — — 8,030 
Vesting of restricted stock units— — 13 — — — — —  
Vesting of early exercised stock options— — — — 277 — — — 277 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 13,275 — — — 13,275 
Unrealized net gains on available-for-sale-securities— — — — — — 160 — 160 
Net loss— — — — — — — (12,236)(12,236)
Balance as of April 30, 2019 $ 125,552 $126 $505,531 $ $101 $(219,179)$286,579 

Three Months Ended April 30, 2018:
Redeemable Convertible
Preferred Stock
Common Stock Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Notes
Receivable
From
Stockholders
Accumulated Other Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Accumulated DeficitTotal
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
SharesAmountShares Amount  
Balance as of January 31, 201872,501 $206,086 32,831 $19 $21,045 $(7,755)$ $(180,367)$(167,058)
Accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock— 1,223 — — (1,223)— — — (1,223)
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options— — 687 1 2,173 — — — 2,174 
Repayments of principal amount on notes receivable from stockholders
— — — — — 5,346 — — 5,346 
Accrued interest on notes receivable from stockholders, net of repayments— — — — — 370 — — 370 
Vesting of early exercised stock options— — — 12 1,885 — — — 1,897 
Issuance of common stock upon initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts and issuance costs— — 13,800 14 199,825 — — — 199,839 
Conversion of redeemable convertible preferred stock to common stock upon initial public offering(72,501)(207,309)72,501 73 207,236 — — — 207,309 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 3,309 — — — 3,309 
Net loss— — — — — — — (8,771)(8,771)
Balance as of April 30, 2018 $ 119,819 $119 $434,250 $(2,039)$ $(189,138)$243,192 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Nine Months Ended April 30, 2019:
Redeemable
Convertible
Preferred Stock
Common Stock Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Notes
Receivable
From
Stockholders
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Accumulated Deficit
Total
Stockholders’ Equity
(Deficit)
SharesAmount Shares Amount  
Balance as of July 31, 2018 $ 119,764 $119 $438,392 $(2,051)$(124)$(196,100)$240,236 
Cumulative effect of accounting change— — — — (300)— — 300  
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options— — 5,153 6 23,517 — — — 23,523 
Issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan— — 627 1 8,690 — — — 8,691 
Vesting of restricted stock units— — 16 — — — — —  
Repurchases of unvested common stock— — (8)— — — — —  
Repayments of principal amount on notes receivable from stockholders— — — — — 1,905 — — 1,905 
Accrued interest on notes receivable from stockholders, net of repayments— — — — — 146 — — 146 
Adjustment to initial public offering costs— — — — 300 — — — 300 
Vesting of early exercised stock options— — — — 844 — — — 844 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 34,088 — — — 34,088 
Unrealized net gains on available-for-sale-securities— — — — — — 225 — 225 
Net loss— — — — — — — (23,379)(23,379)
Balance as of April 30, 2019 $ 125,552 $126 $505,531 $ $101 $(219,179)$286,579 
Nine Months Ended April 30, 2018:
Redeemable
Convertible
Preferred Stock
Common Stock Additional
Paid-In
Capital
Notes
Receivable
From
Stockholders
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)Accumulated Deficit
Total
Stockholders’ Equity
(Deficit)
SharesAmount Shares Amount  
Balance as of July 31, 201772,501 $200,977 32,359 $18 $18,734 $(7,878)$ $(162,016)$(151,142)
Cumulative effect of accounting change— — — — 438 — — (438) 
Accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock— 6,332 — — (6,332)— — — (6,332)
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options— — 1,528 2 4,343 — — — 4,345 
Issuance of common stock related to early exercised stock options— — 180 — — — — —  
Repurchases of unvested common stock— — (549)— — 214 — — 214 
Repayments of principal amount on notes receivable from stockholders— — — — — 5,346 — — 5,346 
Accrued interest on notes receivable from stockholders, net of repayments— — — — — 279 — — 279 
Vesting of early exercised stock options— — — 12 2,900 — — — 2,912 
Issuance of common stock upon initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts and issuance costs— — 13,800 14 199,825 — — — 199,839 
Conversion of redeemable convertible preferred stock to common stock upon initial public offering(72,501)(207,309)72,501 73 207,236 — — — 207,309 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 7,106 — — — 7,106 
Net loss— — — — — — — (26,684)(26,684)
Balance as of April 30, 2018 $ 119,819 $119 $434,250 $(2,039)$ $(189,138)$243,192 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZSCALER, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Nine Months Ended April 30,
20192018
Cash Flows From Operating Activities
Net loss$(23,379)$(26,684)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization expense7,331 5,842 
Amortization of acquired intangible assets405  
Amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs13,505 9,354 
Stock-based compensation expense34,088 7,106 
Accretion of purchased discounts, net of amortization of investment premiums(1,702) 
Other244 278 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable(9,540)(1,161)
Deferred contract acquisition costs(21,700)(21,200)
Prepaid expenses and other assets(3,361)(3,341)
Accounts payable(611)(1,620)
Accrued expenses and other liabilities(1,047)2,676 
Accrued compensation(1,548)3,212 
Deferred revenue47,519 28,187 
Net cash provided by operating activities40,204 2,649 
Cash Flows From Investing Activities
Purchases of property, equipment and other(16,698)(11,008)
Capitalized internal-use software(1,713)(1,424)
Acquired intangible assets(1,480) 
Payments for business acquisitions, net of cash acquired(823) 
Purchases of short-term investments(272,324) 
Proceeds from maturities of short-term investments139,361  
Net cash used in investing activities(153,677)(12,432)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities
Proceeds from initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts and commissions 205,344 
Payments of offering costs related to initial public offering(1,797)(3,566)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options23,523 4,345 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock related to early exercised stock options 869 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan8,691  
Repurchases of unvested common stock(22)(3,090)
Repayments of notes receivable from stockholders1,905 5,346 
Net cash provided by financing activities32,300 209,248 
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash(81,173)199,465 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period136,147 88,546 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period$54,974 $288,011 
Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information:
Cash paid for income taxes, net of tax refunds$1,500 $608 
Supplemental Disclosure of Noncash Investing and Financing Activities:
Net change in purchased equipment included in accounts payable and accrued expenses$1,551 $709 
Accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock$ $6,332 
Repurchases of unvested common stock by cancellation of indebtedness$ $214 
Vesting of early exercised common stock options$844 $2,912 
Net change in deferred offering costs accrued$(2,097)$1,462 
Conversion of redeemable convertible preferred stock to common stock$ $207,309 
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash within the condensed consolidated balance sheets to the amounts shown in the statements of cash flows above:
Cash and cash equivalents$54,974 $287,443 
Restricted cash, current 180 
Restricted cash, non-current 388 
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash$54,974 $288,011 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZSCALER, INC.
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of the Business
Zscaler, Inc. ("Zscaler," the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") is a cloud security company that developed a platform incorporating core security functionalities needed to enable users to safely utilize authorized applications and services based on an organization’s policies. Our solution is a purpose-built, multi-tenant, distributed cloud security platform that secures access for users and devices to applications and services, regardless of location. We deliver our solutions using a software-as-a-service ("SaaS") business model and sell subscriptions to customers to access our cloud platform, together with related support services. We were incorporated in Delaware in September 2007 and conduct business worldwide, with presence in North America, Europe and Asia. Our headquarters are in San Jose, California.
Reverse Stock Split
In March 2018, our board of directors approved an amendment to the Company's amended and restated certificate of incorporation effecting a 2-for-3 reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock and convertible preferred stock. The reverse stock split was effected on March 1, 2018. All issued and outstanding share and per share amounts included in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect this reverse stock split for all periods presented.
Initial Public Offering
In March 2018, we completed our initial public offering ("IPO") of common stock, in which we sold 13,800,000 shares. The shares were sold at an IPO price of $16.00 per share for net proceeds of $205.3 million, after deducting underwriters' discounts and commissions of $15.5 million. In connection with the IPO, we incurred offering costs of $6.2 million which were recorded in stockholders’ equity as a reduction of the net proceeds received from the IPO. Immediately prior to the closing of the IPO, all our outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock were automatically converted into 72,500,750 shares of common stock on a one-to-one basis.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("U.S. GAAP") and applicable regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") regarding interim financial reporting, and include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
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 the applicable required disclosures and regulations of the SEC. Therefore, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying footnotes should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements and related notes in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2018 (the "Fiscal 2018 Form 10-K"), as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2018.

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Interim Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
The accompanying condensed balance sheet as of July 31, 2018 was derived from the audited financial statements as of that date. The accompanying interim condensed consolidated financial statements, including the consolidated balance sheets as of April 30, 2019, the consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, the consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, the consolidated statement of redeemable convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit) for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018 are unaudited. The related financial data and the other financial information disclosed in the accompanying notes to these condensed consolidated financial statements are also unaudited. These interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with our annual consolidated financial statements and, in our opinion, include all normal recurring adjustments necessary to state fairly our quarterly results. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019 or for any other future fiscal year or interim period.
JOBS Act Extended Transition Period
We are an emerging growth company ("EGC") as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the "JOBS Act"). As an EGC, the JOBS Act allows us to take advantage of specified reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise generally applicable to public companies, including, but not limited to, delayed adoption of new or revised accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are made applicable to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of the extended transition periods available under the JOBS Act for complying with new and revised accounting standards and, therefore, we are subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.
As a result of our transition to large accelerated filer status as of July 31, 2019, we will cease to qualify as an emerging growth company and will no longer have the option to take advantage of the extended transition period.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, the determination of revenue recognition, deferred revenue, deferred contract acquisition costs, valuation of acquired intangible assets, the period of benefit generated from our deferred contract acquisition costs, allowance for doubtful accounts, valuation of common stock options and stock-based awards, useful lives of property and equipment, useful lives of acquired intangible assets, loss contingencies related to litigation and valuation of deferred tax assets. Management determines these estimates and assumptions based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable. Actual results could differ significantly from these estimates, and such differences may be material to the condensed consolidated financial statements.
Fiscal Year
Our fiscal year ends on July 31. References to fiscal 2019, for example, refer to our fiscal year ending July 31, 2019.
Significant Accounting Policies
Our significant accounting policies are discussed in the "Index to Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 1. Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" in the Fiscal 2018 Form 10-K. There have been no significant changes to these policies that have had a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019. The following describes the impact of certain policies.
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Revenue Recognition
We adopted Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 606, Revenue From Contracts With Customers ("ASC 606") on August 1, 2017, using the full retrospective transition method.
Disaggregation of Revenue
Subscription and support revenue is recognized over time and accounted for approximately 99% of our revenue for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018 and approximately 99% of our revenue for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018.
The following table summarizes the revenue by region based on the shipping address of customers who have contracted to use our cloud platform:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
Amount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% Revenue
(in thousands, except per percentage data)
United States$38,973 49 %$21,722 44 %$106,406 49 %$61,707 46 %
Europe, Middle East and Africa (*)32,340 41 %22,439 46 %89,286 41 %59,593 44 %
Asia Pacific6,353 8 %3,733 8 %16,816 8 %10,287 8 %
Other1,462 2 %1,269 2 %4,220 2 %2,413 2 %
Total $79,128 100 %$49,163 100 %$216,728 100 %$134,000 100 %
(*) Revenue from the United Kingdom ("U.K.") represented 11% and 12% of our revenue for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and 10% and 12% for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
The following table summarizes the revenue from contracts by type of customer:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
Amount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% RevenueAmount% Revenue
(in thousands, except per percentage data)
Channel partners$75,670 96 %$45,496 93 %$206,763 95 %$122,925 92 %
Direct customers3,458 4 %3,667 7 %9,965 5 %11,075 8 %
Total $79,128 100 %$49,163 100 %$216,728 100 %$134,000 100 %
Contract Balances
Contract liabilities consist of deferred revenue and include payments received in advance of performance under the contract. Such amounts are recognized as revenue over the contractual period. For the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, we recognized revenue of $125.7 million and $75.0 million, respectively, that was included in the corresponding contract liability balance at the beginning of these periods.
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Remaining Performance Obligations
The typical subscription and support term is one to three years. Most of our subscription and support contracts are non-cancelable over the contractual term. However, customers typically have the right to terminate their contracts for cause, if we fail to perform. As of April 30, 2019, the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations was $497.1 million. We expect to recognize 54% of the transaction price over the next 12 months and 97% of the transaction price over the next three years, with the remainder recognized thereafter.
Costs to Obtain and Fulfill a Contract
We capitalize sales commissions and associated payroll taxes paid to internal sales personnel that are incremental to the acquisition of channel partner and direct customer contracts. These costs are recorded as deferred contract acquisition costs in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The following table summarizes the activity of the deferred contract acquisition costs:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Beginning balance
$60,601 $39,943 $55,910 $34,662 
Capitalization of contract acquisition costs
8,228 9,987 21,700 21,200 
Amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs
(4,724)(3,422)(13,505)(9,354)
Ending balance
$64,105 $46,508 $64,105 $46,508 
Balance as of the end of the period:
Deferred contract acquisition costs, current
$19,391 $13,753 $19,391 $13,753 
Deferred contract acquisition costs, noncurrent
44,714 32,755 44,714 32,755 
Total deferred contract acquisition costs $64,105 $46,508 $64,105 $46,508 
Sales commissions accrued but not paid as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018, totaled $6.8 million and $10.0 million, respectively, which are included within accrued compensation in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Deferred Offering Costs
Deferred offering costs consisted of fees and expenses incurred in connection with our IPO, including legal, accounting, printing and other IPO-related costs. Total deferred offering costs of $6.2 million were reclassified to stockholders' equity (deficit) as a reduction of the net proceeds received from the IPO.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In January 2017, the Financial Accounting Standard Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standard Update ("ASU") No. 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business. The amendment was issued to clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions of assets or businesses. This standard provides a screen test to determine when a set (inputs and processes that produce an output) is not a business. The screen requires that when substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is concentrated in a single identifiable asset or a group of similar identifiable assets, the set is not a business. We adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018, and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.
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In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350), which simplifies the accounting for goodwill impairments by eliminating step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Instead, if the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss shall be recognized in an amount equal to that excess, limited to the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. For public business entities, this standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. We early adopted this standard on February 1, 2019, and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.
In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting, which provides clarity in applying the guidance in Topic 718 around modifications of share-based payment awards. We adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018, and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.
In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. The new standard eliminates the diversity in practice related to the classification of certain cash receipts and payments for debt prepayment or extinguishment costs, the maturing of a zero-coupon bond, the settlement of contingent liabilities arising from a business combination, proceeds from insurance settlements, distributions from certain equity method investees and beneficial interests obtained in a financial asset securitization. We adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018 using the retrospective transition method, and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.
In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash, which requires that amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. We adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018 using the retrospective transition method and we have adjusted our prior period condensed consolidated statement of cash flows to conform to the current presentation.
In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-07, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which simplifies the accounting for equity awards granted to nonemployees. For public business entities, it is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods therein. Early adoption is permitted. We early adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018 using the prospective transition method, which resulted in a cumulative-effect adjustment of $0.3 million recognized within stockholders' equity, as a reduction of additional paid-in capital against accumulated deficit, on the adoption date.
In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-15, “Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract,” which aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software. The new standard requires capitalized costs to be amortized on a straight-line basis generally over the term of the arrangement, and the financial statement presentation for these capitalized costs would be the same as that of the fees related to the hosting arrangements. For public business entities, this standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. We early adopted this standard as of August 1, 2018 using the prospective transition method, and it did not have a material impact to our consolidated financial statements.
In August 2018, the SEC adopted the final rule under SEC Release No. 33-10532, "Disclosure Update and Simplification," amending certain disclosure requirements that have become redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated or superseded. In addition, the amendments expanded the disclosure requirements on the analysis of stockholders' equity for interim financial statements. Under the amendments, an analysis of changes in each caption of stockholders' equity presented in the balance sheet must be provided in a note or separate statement. The analysis should present a reconciliation of the
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beginning balance to the ending balance of each period for which a statement of comprehensive income is required to be filed. The final rule was effective November 5, 2018. We early adopted this requirement as of August 1, 2018, presenting the activity of the stockholder's equity accounts in the accompanying condensed statements of redeemable convertible preferred stock and stockholders' equity (deficit) for the periods presented.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) ("ASU 2016-02"), which requires lessees to recognize most leases on their balance sheets that do not meet the definition of a short-term lease but recognize the expenses on their statements of operations in a manner similar to current accounting rules. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-10, Leases (Topic 842), Codification Improvements ("ASU 2018-10"), which clarifies certain adoption provisions of the new leases standard such as the application of implicit rate, lessee reassessment of lease classification and certain transition adjustments. In addition, in July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements ("ASU 2018-11"), which allows for the adoption of ASU 2016-02 to be applied at the beginning of the year of adoption, as opposed to at the beginning of the earliest year presented in the financial statements. These standards are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating the effect of these standards; however, we anticipate the most significant effects will relate to the recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities arising from our real estate and data center operating leases that do not meet the definition of a short-term lease on the adoption date and providing qualitative and quantitative disclosures in the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. This ASU amends guidance on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost basis and available-for-sale debt securities to require that credit losses on available-for-sale debt securities be presented as an allowance rather than as a write-down. The measurement of credit losses for newly recognized financial assets and subsequent changes in the allowance for credit losses are recorded in the statements of operations. For public business entities, it is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the potential impact of this standard on our consolidated financial statements.
Note 2. Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments
Cash equivalents and short-term investments consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Amortized
Cost
Unrealized
Gains
Unrealized
Losses

Fair Value
(in thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$39,977 $ $ $39,977 
Total cash equivalents$39,977 $ $ $39,977 
Short-term investments:
U.S. treasury securities$158,287 $63 $(8)$158,342 
U.S. government agency securities40,695 6 (33)40,668 
Corporate debt securities98,679 95 (22)98,752 
Total short-term investments$297,661 $164 $(63)$297,762 
Total cash equivalents and short-term investments$337,638 $164 $(63)$337,739 
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Cash equivalents and short-term investments consisted of the following as of July 31, 2018:
Amortized
Cost
Unrealized
Gains
Unrealized
Losses

Fair Value
(in thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$74,408 $ $ $74,408 
U.S. treasury securities17,488   17,488 
U.S. government agency securities1,999   1,999 
Corporate debt securities11,010  (1)11,009 
Total cash equivalents$104,905 $ $(1)$104,904 
Short-term investments:
U.S. treasury securities$55,768 $ $(17)$55,751 
U.S. government agency securities17,953  (19)17,934 
Corporate debt securities89,362 1 (88)89,275 
Total short-term investments$163,083 $1 $(124)$162,960 
Total cash equivalents and short-term investments$267,988 $1 $(125)$267,864 
The amortized cost and fair value of our short-term investments based on their stated maturities consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Amortized
Cost
Fair Value
(in thousands)
Due within one year$208,501 $208,521 
Due between one and two years89,160 89,241 
Total short-term investments$297,661 $297,762 
Short-term investments that were in an unrealized loss position consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Less than 12 MonthsGreater than 12 MonthsTotal
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
(in thousands)
U.S. treasury securities$49,690 $(8)$ $ $49,690 $(8)
U.S. government agency securities32,946 (33)  32,946 (33)
Corporate debt securities41,189 (22)  41,189 (22)
Total investments in a loss position$123,825 $(63)$ $ $123,825 $(63)
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Short-term investments that were in an unrealized loss position consisted of the following as of July 31, 2018:
Less than 12 MonthsGreater than 12 MonthsTotal
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
(in thousands)
U.S. treasury securities$55,750 $(17)$ $ $55,750 $(17)
U.S. government agency securities17,934 (19)  17,934 (19)
Corporate debt securities83,332 (88)  83,332 (88)
Total investments in a loss position$157,016 $(124)$ $ $157,016 $(124)
We review the individual securities that have unrealized losses in our short-term investment portfolio on a regular basis to evaluate whether or not any security has experienced an other-than-temporary decline in fair value. We evaluate, among others, whether we have the intention to sell any of these investments and whether it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell any of them before recovery of the amortized cost basis. Based on this evaluation, we determined that there were no other-than-temporary impairments associated with our short-term investments as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018.
Note 3. Fair Value Measurements
We measure our financial assets and liabilities at fair value at each reporting period using a fair value hierarchy which requires us to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s classification within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
Our money market funds are classified within Level I due to the highly liquid nature of these assets which also have quoted prices in active markets.
Certain of our investments in available-for-sale securities (i.e., U.S. treasury securities, U.S. government agency securities and corporate debt securities) are classified within Level II. The fair value of these securities is priced by using inputs based on non-binding market consensus prices that are primarily corroborated by observable market data or quoted market prices for similar instruments.
Assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Level ILevel IILevel III
Total
Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical Assets
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(in thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$39,977 $39,977 $ $ 
Total cash equivalents$39,977 $39,977 $ $ 
Short-term investments:
U.S. treasury securities$158,342 $ $158,342 $ 
U.S. government agency securities40,668  40,668  
Corporate debt securities98,752  98,752  
Total short-term investments$297,762 $ $297,762 $ 
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Assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of the following as of July 31, 2018:
Level ILevel IILevel III
Total
Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical Assets
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(in thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$74,408 $74,408 $ $ 
U.S. treasury securities17,488  17,488  
U.S. government agency securities1,999  1,999  
Corporate debt securities11,009  11,009  
Total cash equivalents$104,904 $74,408 $30,496 $ 
Short-term investments:
U.S. treasury securities$55,751 $ $55,751 $ 
U.S. government agency securities17,934  17,934  
Corporate debt securities89,275  89,275  
Total short-term investments$162,960 $ $162,960 $ 
We did not have transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy of assets measured at fair value during the periods presented.

Note 4. Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consisted of the following:
April 30, 2019July 31, 2018
(in thousands)
Hosting equipment$47,395 $30,743 
Computers and equipment2,658 2,335 
Purchased software1,311 1,324 
Capitalized internal-use software7,959 6,163 
Furniture and fixtures1,569 1,478 
Leasehold improvements2,135 2,123 
Property and equipment, gross63,027 44,166 
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization(31,051)(24,401)
Total property and equipment, net$31,976 $19,765 
Depreciation and amortization expense on property and equipment was $2.7 million and $1.9 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $7.3 million and $5.8 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

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Note 5. Acquired Intangible Assets
Acquired intangible assets consist of developed technology and customer relationships acquired through asset and business acquisitions. Acquired intangible assets are amortized using the straight-line method over their useful lives and are included within other noncurrent assets in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Goodwill was immaterial for all the periods presented.
The changes in acquired intangible assets for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and the net book value as of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018 consisted of the following:
Intangible Assets, GrossAccumulated AmortizationIntangible Assets, Net
July 31, 2018AdditionsApril 30, 2019Jul 31, 2018Amortization ExpenseApril 30, 2019July 31, 2018April 30, 2019Weighted Average Useful life
(in thousands) (years) 
Developed technology$ $2,456 $2,456 $ $(402)$(402)$ $2,054 2.5
Customer relationships 160 160  (3)(3) 157 4.9
$ $2,616 $2,616 $ $(405)$(405)$ $2,211 2.7

Amortization expense of developed technology and customer relationships is recorded primarily within cost of revenues and sales and marketing expenses in the condensed statements of operations.
Future amortization expense of acquired intangible assets consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Amortization
Year ending July 31,(in thousands)
2019 (remaining three months)$213 
2020851 
2021851 
2022244 
202332 
202420 
Total$2,211 

Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies
Operating Leases
We lease our office space under various operating lease agreements expiring at various dates through September 2026.
Effective April 2019, we entered into a sublease agreement, or lease agreement, for approximately 172,000 square feet of corporate office space in San Jose, California (the “leased premises”), which will serve as our new corporate headquarters. The lease agreement has a commencement date of October 1, 2019, and its initial lease term expires in September 2026. We will initially occupy approximately 69,000 square feet with the remainder of the leased premises to be occupied in phases over the initial term of the lease, with full occupancy occurring by October 2025. The total base rent through the end of the initial lease term is approximately $39.1 million. In addition to the base rent, we will also be responsible for our pro rata portion of operating and other related expenses. The lease contains escalating rent payments and lease incentives. In connection with this lease agreement, we were required to issue an unsecured letter of credit for $2.8 million to the sublessor to secure our payment obligations. Future non-cancelable minimum lease payments under this lease agreement are reflected
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in the below table. As of April 30, 2019, we have not taken possession of the initial phase and accordingly, we have not recognized any rent expense associated with this lease agreement during the three months ended April 30, 2019.
Future minimum payments under our non-cancelable operating leases consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Operating
Leases
(in thousands)
Year ending July 31,
2019 (remaining three months)$840 
20205,204 
20215,867 
20224,476 
20235,878 
20246,309 
Thereafter15,977 
Total
$44,551 
Rent expense was $0.8 million and $0.7 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $2.2 million and $1.8 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Data Center Contract Commitments
We enter into long-term non-cancelable agreements with providers in various countries to purchase data center capacity, such as bandwidth and colocation space, for our cloud platform.
Future minimum payments under our non-cancelable data center contracts consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Data Center
Contracts 
(in thousands)
Year ending July 31,
2019 (remaining three months)$2,584 
20208,410 
20215,535 
20221,560 
202378 
Total$18,167 
Bandwidth and colocation expenses are recognized as cost of revenue and were $3.6 million and $2.6 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $10.0 million and $6.9 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Non-cancelable Purchase Obligations
In the normal course of business, we enter into non-cancelable purchase commitments with various parties to purchase products and services such as technology equipment, subscription-based cloud service arrangements, corporate events and consulting services. As of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018, we had outstanding non-cancelable purchase obligations with a term of 12 months or longer of $2.3 million and $3.1 million, respectively.
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Legal Matters
Symantec Litigation
We are currently involved in legal proceedings with Symantec Corporation ("Symantec"). On December 12, 2016, Symantec filed a complaint, which we refer to as Symantec Case 1, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that "Zscaler’s cloud security platform" infringes U.S. Patent Nos. 6,279,113, 7,203,959 ("’959 patent"), 7,246,227 ("’227 patent"), 7,392,543, 7,735,116, 8,181,036 and 8,661,498. The complaint seeks compensatory damages, an injunction, enhanced damages and attorney fees. On August 2, 2017, the court granted our motion to transfer Symantec Case 1 from the District of Delaware to the Northern District of California. On March 23, 2018, the Northern District of California court granted our motion to dismiss the asserted claims of the ’959 and ’227 patents as invalid based on unpatentable subject matter.
On April 18, 2017, Symantec filed a second complaint, which we refer to as Symantec Case 2, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that "Zscaler’s cloud security platform" infringes U.S. Patent Nos. 6,285,658 ("’658 patent"), 7,360,249 ("’249 patent"), 7,587,488 ("’488 patent"), 8,316,429 ("’429 patent"), 8,316,446 ("’446 patent"), 8,402,540 and 9,525,696 ("’696 patent"). The complaint seeks compensatory damages, an injunction, enhanced damages and attorney fees.
On June 22, 2017, Symantec filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of its complaint in Symantec Case 2 along with a new complaint alleging infringement of the same patents and adding Symantec Limited as a plaintiff and alleging willful infringement of the ’429 and ’446 patents. On July 31, 2017, the court granted our motion to transfer Symantec Case 2 from the District of Delaware to the Northern District of California. On May 21, 2018, Symantec filed an amended complaint adding allegations of willful infringement of all of the asserted patents in Symantec Case 2.  On December 12, 2018, Symantec filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice of the ’658, ’249, and ’696 Patents asserted in Symantec Case 2. On March 4, 2019, the court granted our motion to dismiss the asserted claims of the ’488 patent as invalid based on unpatentable subject matter.
We have also received letters from Symantec alleging that our "cloud security platform" infringes U.S. Patent Nos. 7,031,327, 7,496,661, 7,543,036 and 7,624,110.
We believe that our technology does not infringe Symantec’s asserted patents and that these patents are invalid.
Should Symantec prevail with its infringement allegations, we could be required to pay substantial damages for past and future sales and/or licensing of our services, enjoined from making, using, selling or otherwise disposing of our services if a license or other right to continue selling our services is not made available to us, and required to pay substantial ongoing royalties and comply with unfavorable terms if such a license is made available to us. Any of these outcomes could result in a material adverse effect on our business. Even if we were to prevail, this litigation could be costly and time-consuming, divert the attention of our management and key personnel from our business operations, deter distributors from selling or licensing our services, and dissuade potential customers from purchasing our services, which would also materially harm our business. The expense of litigation and the timing of this expense from period to period are difficult to estimate, subject to change and could adversely affect our results of operations. In addition, any public announcements of the results of any proceedings in Symantec Case 1 or Case 2 could be negatively perceived by industry or financial analysts and investors, and could cause our stock price to experience volatility or decline.
We have not recorded a liability with respect to Symantec Case 1 or Case 2 based on our determination that a loss in either case is not probable under the applicable accounting standards.
We are vigorously defending Symantec Case 1 and Case 2. We are unable to predict the likelihood of success of Symantec’s infringement claims.
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Finjan Litigation
On December 5, 2017, Finjan, Inc. filed a complaint, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that certain of our products infringed four U.S. patents held by Finjan, Inc. and seeking compensatory damages, an injunction, enhanced damages and attorney fees. On April 30, 2019, we entered into patent license and settlement agreements with Finjan, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Finjan"), resolving all claims in the lawsuit, and made a payment of $7.3 million to Finjan, Inc. Pursuant to the agreements, Finjan provided us with a worldwide fully paid license to the broader Finjan patent portfolio, releases for past damages, and covenants not to sue. On May 1, 2019, the court dismissed Finjan, Inc.’s complaint with prejudice. We determined that there would be no material future economic benefit from the acquired Finjan license and accordingly, we recorded an incremental expense of $4.1 million as an operating expense within general and administrative expenses in the condensed consolidated statement of operations in the three months ended April 30, 2019. In prior periods, we previously had recorded related accruals for $0.7 million in the three months ended October 31, 2017 and $2.5 million in fiscal 2017.
Other Litigation and Claims
In addition, from time to time we are a party to various litigation matters and subject to claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, including patent, commercial, product liability, employment, class action, whistleblower and other litigation and claims, as well as governmental and other regulatory investigations and proceedings. In addition, third parties may from time to time assert claims against us in the form of letters and other communications. Except as otherwise described above, there is no pending or threatened legal proceeding to which we are a party that, in our opinion, is likely to have a material adverse effect on our future financial results or operations; however, the results of litigation and claims are inherently unpredictable. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors. The expense of litigation and the timing of this expense from period to period are difficult to estimate, subject to change and could adversely affect our results of operations.
Note 7. Preferred Stock
Upon completion of our IPO, as further described in Note 1, all shares of convertible preferred stock then outstanding, totaling 72,500,750 shares, were automatically converted into an equivalent number of shares of common stock on a one-to-one basis and their carrying value, totaling $207.3 million, inclusive of accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock of $24.7 million, was reclassified to stockholders' equity (deficit).
Prior to the IPO, we recognized accretion to the redemption price of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock. Accretion was recognized as a reduction of additional paid-in capital with a corresponding increase to the carrying value of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock. Upon completion of the IPO, the accretion rights of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock were terminated. We recognized accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock of $1.2 million for the three months ended April 30, 2018 and $6.3 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2018.

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Note 8. Common Stock
Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock held and are not entitled to receive dividends unless declared by our board of directors.
Shares of common stock reserved for future issuance consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Underlying Shares
(in thousands)
Equity awards outstanding:
Stock options10,243 
Unvested restricted stock units3,437 
Unvested performance stock units (*)1,460 
Share purchase rights committed under the employee stock purchase plan1,354 
Equity awards available for future grants:
Equity incentive plans15,542 
Employee stock purchase plan1,417 
Total reserved shares of common stock for future issuance33,453 
(*) Unvested performance stock units corresponding to fiscal 2019 are calculated based on the maximum number of shares that holders would be entitled if the maximum achievement of the target performance metrics is attained. Unvested performance stock units corresponding to fiscal years beyond fiscal 2019 are calculated based on the target number of shares granted. Refer to Note 9 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for further information.
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Note 9. Stock-Based Compensation
Equity Incentive Plans
We adopted the Fiscal Year 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2018 Plan") in fiscal 2018 and the 2007 Stock Plan (the "2007 Plan") in fiscal 2008, collectively referred to as the "Plans." Equity incentive awards which may be granted to eligible participants under the Plans include restricted stock units, restricted stock, stock options, nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance units and performance shares. In March 2018, in connection with our IPO, the 2007 Plan was terminated along with its remaining balance of shares of common stock available for grant. With the establishment of the 2018 Plan, we no longer grant stock-based awards under the 2007 Plan and any shares underlying stock options that expire or terminate or are forfeited or repurchased by us under the 2007 Plan are automatically transferred to the 2018 Plan. As of April 30, 2019, we have reserved a total of approximately 18,688,000 shares of common stock for the issuance of equity awards under the 2018 Plan, of which approximately 15,542,000 shares were available for grant.
Stock Options
Under the Plans, the exercise price of a stock option grant must not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant. Generally, stock options vest over four years with 25% of the option shares vesting one year from the vesting commencing date and monthly thereafter over the remaining vesting term. Stock options granted under the 2018 Plan and 2007 Plan are exercisable over a maximum term of ten years and seven years, respectively, from the date of grant. Stock options that are forfeited or canceled shall become available for future grant or sale under the 2018 Plan.
The activity of stock options for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 consisted of the following:
Outstanding
Stock
Options
Weighted-Average
Exercise
Price
Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual Term
(in years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Balance as of July 31, 201816,175 $6.20 5.1$470,860 
Stock options exercised(5,153)$4.57 $221,831 
Stock options canceled, forfeited or expired(779)$6.60 
Balance as of April 30, 201910,243 $7.00 4.8$628,067 
Exercisable and expected to vest as of July 31, 20185,499 $3.97 4.0$172,317 
Exercisable and expected to vest as of April 30, 20193,646 $5.40 4.1$229,351 
The aggregate intrinsic value of the stock options exercised represents the difference between the fair value of our common stock on the date of exercise and their exercise price. The total intrinsic value of options exercised for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018 was $221.8 million and $11.0 million, respectively. Since our IPO, we have not granted additional stock options. The weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of stock options granted for the nine months ended April 30, 2018 was $3.75.
We estimated the fair value of stock options granted during the nine months ended April 30, 2018 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and the following assumptions :
Underlying Assumptions
Expected term (in years)
4.6 - 5.1
Expected stock price volatility
40.3% - 42.3% 
Risk-free interest rate
1.7% - 2.8% 
Dividend yield
0.0 
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Restricted Stock Units
The 2018 Plan allows for the grant of restricted stock units ("RSUs"). Generally, RSUs are subject to a four-year vesting period, with 25% of the shares vesting approximately one year from the vesting commencing date and quarterly thereafter over the remaining vesting term. We began granting RSUs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018.
The activity of RSUs for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 consisted of the following:
RSUs OutstandingWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value per ShareAggregate
Intrinsic Value
(in thousands, except per share amounts) 
Balance as of July 31, 2018209 $26.26 $7,394 
Granted3,320 $42.37 
Vested(16)$37.69 $1,008 
Canceled or forfeited(76)$41.38 
Balance as of April 30, 20193,437 $41.44 $234,827 
Performance Stock Units
The 2018 Plan allows for the grant of performance stock units ("PSUs"). In October 2018, the compensation committee of our board of directors approved the grant of PSUs to certain members of our executive team corresponding to the performance periods of fiscal 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. In addition, the compensation committee determined and approved corporate performance metrics for fiscal 2019. The corporate performance metrics corresponding to future fiscal years will be determined and approved in the future for each corresponding fiscal year. Holders of PSUs corresponding to the performance period of fiscal 2019 have the ability to receive up to 150% of the target number of shares granted if maximum achievement of target performance metrics is achieved. The right to receive such awards is subject to achievement of the defined corporate performance metrics corresponding for each fiscal year and continuous service by the employee. Any earned awards are subject to additional time-based vesting in accordance with the respective award agreement. Since the performance conditions of future fiscal years have not been established as of April 30, 2019, these awards are not considered granted for accounting purposes. Therefore, we have not recognized stock-based compensation expense for PSUs corresponding to fiscal years beyond 2019.
The number of unvested PSUs outstanding based on the target number of shares granted consisted of the following as of April 30, 2019:
Underlying Shares
Performance periods(in thousands) 
Fiscal 2019464 
Fiscal 2020464 
Fiscal 2021150 
Fiscal 2022150 
Total1,228 
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The activity of PSUs for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 for which performance conditions have been established and are expected to be earned consisted of the following:
Underlying SharesWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value per ShareAggregate
Intrinsic Value
(in thousands, except for share amounts) 
Balance as of July 31, 2018  $ 
Granted464 $36.90 
Vested  $ 
Canceled or forfeited  
Balance as of April 30, 2019464 $36.90 $31,712 
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
We adopted the Fiscal Year 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "ESPP") in the third quarter of fiscal 2018. As of April 30, 2019, a total of approximately 3,398,000 shares of common stock were reserved for issuance under the ESPP. The ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase shares of our common stock through payroll deductions of up to 15% of their eligible compensation. A participant may purchase a maximum of 3,000 shares of common stock during a purchase period. The purchase price of the shares shall be 85% of the lower of the fair market value of our common stock on (i) the first trading day of the applicable offering period and (ii) the last trading day of each purchase period in the related offering period. The ESPP provides for consecutive offering periods that will typically have a duration of approximately 24 months in length and is comprised of four purchase periods of approximately six months in length. The offering periods are scheduled to start on the first trading day on or after June 15 and December 15 of each year. Our first ESPP offering period commenced on March 16, 2018. During the nine months ended April 30, 2019, employees purchased approximately 627,000 shares of common stock under the ESPP at an average purchase price of $13.86 per share, resulting in total cash proceeds of $8.7 million.
ESPP employee payroll contributions accrued at April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018, totaled $6.1 million and $4.6 million, respectively, and are included within accrued compensation in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Employee payroll contributions ultimately used to purchase shares will be reclassified to stockholders' equity on the purchase date.
The fair value of the share purchase rights granted under the ESPP for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
Underlying Assumptions
Expected term (in years)0.5 - 2.0
Expected stock price volatility44.0% - 61.9% 
Risk-free interest rate2.5% - 2.7% 
Dividend yield0.0 

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Early Exercise of Employee Options
The 2007 Plan allowed for the early exercise of stock options for certain individuals as determined by the board of directors. The consideration received for an early exercise of an option is considered to be a deposit of the exercise price and is reflected as liability in the condensed consolidated balance sheets and reclassified to additional paid-in capital as the awards vest. Upon an employee’s termination, we have the option to repurchase unvested shares at a price per share equal to the lesser of the fair market value of the shares at the time of the repurchase or the original purchase price. During the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, we reclassified to additional paid-in capital $0.8 million and $2.9 million, respectively, related to awards vested during these periods. As of April 30, 2019 and July 31, 2018, the number of shares of common stock subject to repurchase was approximately 154,000 shares and 423,000 shares with an aggregate purchase price of $0.7 million and $1.6 million, respectively.
Notes Receivable from Stockholders
Prior to fiscal 2017, we entered into notes receivable agreements with certain of our current and former executives and employees in connection with the exercise of their stock options. The outstanding principal amount and related accrued interest on the notes are presented as contra-equity in the condensed consolidated balance sheets until the notes are fully settled. As of July 31, 2018, the carrying amount of the outstanding notes receivable was $2.1 million, inclusive of accrued interest of $0.1 million. During the nine months ended April 30, 2019, the principal amount and accrued interest of the outstanding notes were fully repaid, resulting in cash proceeds of $2.1 million.
Stock-based Compensation Expense
The components of stock-based compensation expense recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations consisted of the following:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Cost of revenue$686 $199 $1,808 $434 
Sales and marketing6,459 1,493 14,777 3,263 
Research and development4,194 960 11,387 1,852 
General and administrative1,936 657 6,116 1,557 
Total stock-based compensation expense$13,275 $3,309 $34,088 $7,106 
As of April 30, 2019, the unrecognized stock-based compensation cost was $155.1 million, which we expect to amortize over a weighted-average period of 3.3 years.
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Note 10. Income Taxes
Our tax provision for interim periods is determined using an estimate of our annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items, if any, that arise during the period. Each quarter, we update our estimate of the annual effective tax rate, and if the estimated annual effective tax rate changes, we make a cumulative adjustment in such period.
Our quarterly tax provision, and estimate of our annual effective tax rate, is subject to variation due to several factors, including variability in pre-tax income (or loss), the mix of jurisdictions to which such income relates, changes in how we do business, and tax law developments. Our estimated annual effective tax rate for the year differs from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the earnings of our foreign subsidiaries being taxed at rates higher than the U.S. statutory rate.
We recorded a provision for income taxes of $0.6 million and $0.4 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $1.5 million and $1.0 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. We are subject to income tax in the U.S. as well as other tax jurisdictions in which we conduct business. Earnings from our non-U.S. operations are subject to income taxes in the countries in which we operate. Our provision for income taxes consists primarily of both income and withholding taxes in the foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business.
The realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of sufficient taxable income of the appropriate character in future periods. We assess our ability to realize the deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis and we establish a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We weigh all available positive and negative evidence, including our earnings history and results of recent operations, scheduled reversals of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies. Due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, including our history of losses in certain jurisdictions, we believe that it is more likely than not that our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets will not be realized. Accordingly, we have maintained a valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. During the three months ended October 31, 2018, we determined that due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, our U.K. deferred tax assets are no longer more likely than not to be realized in the future and a full valuation allowance was recorded. We have maintained the valuation allowance for fiscal 2019.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 or the Tax Act was enacted. The Tax Act contains several key tax provisions that affect us, including, but not limited to, reducing the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 34% to 21% imposing a one-time mandatory transition tax on previously untaxed foreign earnings, and changing rules related to the use of net operating loss carryforwards created in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. In December 2017, the SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“SAB 118”), which allows us to record provisional amounts during a measurement period not to extend beyond one year past the enactment date.
We currently maintain a full valuation allowance recorded against our U.S. federal deferred tax assets. As such, the provisional estimate associated with the remeasurement of our deferred tax assets and the one-time mandatory transition tax was offset by a change in our valuation allowance which resulted in no income tax expense or benefit. During the three months ended January 31, 2019, we completed our accounting for the Tax Act in accordance with SAB 118. Because of the full valuation allowance recorded against our U.S. federal deferred tax assets, there was no incremental tax expense (or benefit) recognized related to finalizing the accounting for the Tax Act. We have elected to account for the tax effects of GILTI as a period cost.
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Note 11. Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders:
Three Months Ended
April 30,
Nine Months Ended
April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Net loss $(12,236)$(8,771)$(23,379)$(26,684)
Accretion of Series C and D redeemable convertible preferred stock  (1,223) (6,332)
Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(12,236)$(9,994)$(23,379)$(33,016)
Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted $(0.10)$(0.14)$(0.19)$(0.73)
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted 124,672 73,818 122,644 45,047 
Since we have reported net losses for all periods presented, we have excluded all potentially dilutive securities from the calculation of the diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders as their effect is antidilutive and accordingly, basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is the same for all periods presented.
The following table summarizes the unweighted outstanding potentially dilutive securities that were excluded from the computation of the diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders because the impact of including them would have been antidilutive:
April 30,
20192018
(in thousands)
Outstanding stock options
10,243 16,935 
Shares subject to repurchase from early exercised stock options
154 773 
Share purchase rights under the ESPP
1,354 2,085 
Unvested RSUs
3,437  
Unvested PSUs (*)
464  
Total
15,652 19,793 
(*) The number of unvested PSUs is based on the target number of shares granted and excludes unvested PSUs for which performance conditions have not been established as of April 30, 2019, as they are not considered outstanding for accounting purposes. Refer to Note 9 for further information.
Note 12. Significant Customers and Geographic Information
No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenue for the three and nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018. Refer to Note 1 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for revenue by geography information. The following table summarizes 10% or more of the total balance of accounts receivable, net:
April 30, 2019July 31, 2018
Channel partner A
19  
Channel partner B
11 13 
Channel partner C
10  
Channel partner D*13 
(*) Represents less than 10%.
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Our long-lived assets consist of property, equipment and intangible assets, which are summarized by geographic area as follows:
April 30, 2019July 31, 2018
(in thousands)
United States
$27,012 $14,742 
Rest of the world
7,814 5,023 
Total long-lived assets
$34,826 $19,765 

Note 13. Related Party Transactions
We previously entered into notes receivable agreements with certain of our current and former executives and employees in connection with the exercise of their stock options. Outstanding notes receivable were fully repaid during the nine months ended April 30, 2019. Refer to Note 9 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for further information.


Note 14. Subsequent events
In May 2019 we acquired Appsulate, Inc., a browser isolation company, for approximately $13.0 million. This acquisition further expands our cloud architecture to provide users a safe environment for accessing web-based applications where the application content should not be downloaded to the end point due to security or data protection concerns. We are in the process of completing our initial accounting for this acquisition.




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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 included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and with our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2018, filed with the SEC. As discussed in the section titled "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements," the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed below. Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in the section titled "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Our fiscal year end is July 31, and our fiscal quarters end on October 31, January 31, April 30 and July 31. Our fiscal year ended July 31, 2018 is referred to as fiscal 2018 and our fiscal year ending July 31, 2019 is referred to as fiscal 2019.
Overview
Zscaler was incorporated in 2007, during the early stages of cloud adoption and mobility, based on a vision that the internet would become the new corporate network as the cloud becomes the new data center. We predicted that with rapid cloud adoption and increasing workforce mobility, traditional perimeter security approaches would provide inadequate protection for users and data and an increasingly poor user experience. We pioneered a security cloud that represents a fundamental shift in the architectural design and approach to network security.
We generate revenue primarily from sales of subscriptions to access our cloud platform, together with related support services. We also generate an immaterial amount of revenue from professional and other services, which consist primarily of fees associated with mapping, implementation, network design and training. Our subscription pricing is calculated on a per-user basis. We recognize subscription and support revenue ratably over the life of the contract, which is generally one to three years. As of July 31, 2018, we had expanded our operations to over 3,250 customers across every major industry, with users in 185 countries. Government agencies and some of the largest enterprises in the world rely on us to help them transform to the cloud, including more than 300 of the Forbes Global 2000 as of July 31, 2018.
We operate our business as one reportable segment. Our revenue has experienced significant growth, with revenue increasing from $134.0 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2018 to $216.7 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, representing a year-over-year revenue growth of 62%. However, we have incurred net losses in all periods since our inception. Our net loss decreased from $26.7 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2018 to $23.4 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019. We expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future, as we continue investing in our sales and marketing organization to take advantage of our market opportunity, continue to invest in research and development efforts to enhance the functionality of our cloud platform, continue to incur additional compliance and other related costs as we operate as a public company, and deal with ongoing legal matters and related accruals, certain of which are described in further detail in Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Certain Factors Affecting Our Performance
Increased Internet Traffic and Adoption of Cloud-Based Software and Security
The adoption of cloud applications and infrastructure, explosion of internet traffic volumes and shift to mobile-first computing generally, and the pace at which enterprises adopt the internet as their corporate network in particular, impact our ability to drive market adoption of our cloud platform. We believe that most enterprises are in the early stages of a broad transformation to the cloud. Organizations are increasingly relying on the internet to operate their businesses, deploying new SaaS applications and migrating internally managed line-of-business applications to the cloud. However, the growing
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dependence on the internet has increased exposure to malicious or compromised websites, and sophisticated hackers are exploiting the gaps left by legacy network security appliances. To securely access the internet and transform their networks, organizations must also make fundamental changes in their network and security architectures. We believe that most organizations have yet to fully make these investments. Since we enable organizations to securely transform to the cloud, we believe that the imperative for organizations to securely move to the cloud will increase demand for our cloud platform and broaden our customer base.
New Customer Acquisition
We believe that our ability to increase the number of customers on our cloud platform is an indicator of our market penetration and our future business opportunities. As of July 31, 2018 and 2017, we had over 3,250 customers and over 2,800 customers, respectively, across all major geographies. As of July 31, 2018, we had over 300 of the Forbes Global 2000 as customers. Our ability to continue to grow this number will increase our future opportunities for renewals and follow-on sales. We believe that we have significant room to capture additional market share and intend to continue to invest significantly in sales and marketing to engage our prospective customers, increase brand awareness, further leverage our channel partnerships and drive adoption of our solution.
Follow-On Sales
We typically expand our relationship with our customers over time. While most of our new customers route all of their internet-bound web traffic through our cloud platform, some of our customers initially use our services for specific users or specific security functionality. We leverage our land-and-expand model with the goal of generating incremental revenue, often within the term of the initial subscription, by increasing sales to our existing customers in one of three ways:
expanding deployment of our cloud platform to cover additional users;
upgrading to a more advanced Business, Transformation or Secure Transformation bundle; and
selling a ZPA subscription to a ZIA customer, a ZIA subscription to a ZPA customer, or other features on an a la carte basis.
Investing in Business Growth
Since our founding, we have invested significantly in growing our business. We intend to continue to invest in our research and development organization, our development efforts to offer new solutions on our platform and to continue dedicating resources to update and upgrade our existing solutions. We also intend to continue to invest significantly in sales and marketing to grow and train our sales force. Although we have a channel sales model, we use a joint sales approach in which our sales force develops relationships directly with our customers. We also are investing in programs to increase recognition of our brand and solutions, including joint marketing activities with our channel partners and strategic partners. In addition, we expect our general and administrative expenses to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future to support our growth as a result of additional costs associated with ongoing legal matters and related accruals, and in connection with accounting, compliance and investor relations as a public company.
Key Business Metrics and Other Financial Measures
We review a number of operating and financial metrics, including the following key metrics, to measure our performance, identify trends, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions.


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Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate
We believe that dollar-based net retention rate is a key metric to measure the long-term value of our customer relationships because it is driven by our ability to retain and expand the recurring revenue generated from our existing customers. Our dollar-based net retention rate compares the recurring revenue from a set of customers against the same metric for the prior 12-month period on a trailing basis. Because our customers have repeat buying patterns and the average term of our contracts is more than 12 months, we measure this metric over a set of customers who were with us as of the last day of the same reporting period in the prior fiscal year. Our dollar-based net retention rate includes customer attrition. We have not experienced a material increase in customer attrition rates in recent periods.
We calculate our dollar-based net retention rate as follows:
Denominator: To calculate our dollar-based net retention rate as of the end of a reporting period, we first establish the annual recurring revenue, or ARR, from all active subscriptions as of the last day of the same reporting period in the prior fiscal year. This effectively represents recurring dollars that we expect in the next 12-month period from the cohort of customers that existed on the last day of the same reporting period in the prior fiscal year.
Numerator: We measure the ARR for that same cohort of customers representing all subscriptions based on confirmed customer orders booked by us as of the end of the reporting period.
Dollar-based net retention rate is obtained by dividing the numerator by the denominator. Our dollar-based net retention rate may fluctuate due to a number of factors, including the performance of our cloud platform, the rate of ARR expansion of our existing customers, potential changes in our rate of renewals and other risk factors described in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Trailing 12 Months Ended April 30, 2019Trailing 12 Months Ended April 30, 2018
Dollar-based net retention rate118%  120%  
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our results determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we believe the following non-GAAP measures are useful in evaluating our operating performance. We use the following non-GAAP financial information 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. However, non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In particular, free cash flow is not a substitute for cash used in operating activities. Additionally, the utility of free cash flow as a measure of our liquidity is further limited as it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance for a given period. In addition, other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate similarly-titled non-GAAP measures differently or may use other measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison. A reconciliation is provided below for each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. 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, and not to rely on any single financial measure to evaluate our business.
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Non-GAAP Gross Profit and Non-GAAP Gross Margin
We define non-GAAP gross profit as GAAP gross profit excluding stock-based compensation expense and amortization of acquired intangible assets. We define non-GAAP gross margin as non-GAAP gross profit as a percentage of revenue.
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
(in thousands)
Gross profit$64,168 $39,739 $174,398 $107,626 
Add:
Stock-based compensation expense686 199 1,808 434 
Amortization expense of acquired intangible assets
163 — 307 — 
Non-GAAP gross profit$65,017 $39,938 $176,513 $108,060 
Gross margin81 %81 %80 %80 %
Non-GAAP gross margin
82 %81 %81 %81 %
Non-GAAP Income (Loss) from Operations and Non-GAAP Operating Margin
We define non-GAAP income (loss) from operations as GAAP loss from operations excluding stock-based compensation expense, certain litigation-related expenses and amortization expense of acquired intangible assets. We define non-GAAP operating margin as non-GAAP income (loss) from operations as a percentage of revenue. These excluded litigation-related expenses are professional fees and related costs incurred by us in defending against significant claims that we deem not to be in the ordinary course of our business and, if applicable, actual losses and accruals related to estimated losses in connection with these claims. There are many uncertainties and potential outcomes associated with any litigation, including the expense of litigation, timing of such expenses, court rulings, unforeseen developments, complications and delays, each of which may affect our results of operations from period to period, as well as the unknown magnitude of the potential loss relating to any lawsuit, all of which are inherently subject to change, difficult to estimate and could adversely affect our results of operations.
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
(in thousands)
Loss from operations$(13,537)$(9,024)$(27,382)$(26,700)
Add:
Stock-based compensation expense
13,275 3,309 34,088 7,106 
Litigation-related expenses6,164 2,836 10,106 6,612 
Amortization expense of acquired intangible assets166 — 405 — 
Non-GAAP income (loss) from operations$6,068 $(2,879)$17,217 $(12,982)
Operating margin(17)%(18)%(13)%(20)%
Non-GAAP operating margin
%(6)%%(10)%
Free Cash Flow and Free Cash Flow Margin
Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure that we calculate as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software. Free cash flow margin is calculated as free cash flow divided by revenue. We believe that free cash flow and free cash flow margin are useful indicators of liquidity that provide information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated from our operations that, after the
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investments in property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software, can be used for strategic initiatives, including investing in our business, and strengthening our financial position.
Free cash flow includes the cyclical impact of inflows and outflows resulting from contributions to our employee stock purchase plan for which the purchase period of approximately six months ends in each of our second and fourth fiscal quarter. As of April 30, 2019, the employee contributions to our employee stock purchase plan was $6.1 million, which will be reclassified to stockholders' equity upon issuance of the shares during our fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
(in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities$13,483 $8,117 $40,204 $2,649 
Less:
Purchases of property and equipment
(8,091)(3,963)(16,698)(11,008)
Capitalized internal-use software
(810)(474)(1,713)(1,424)
Free cash flow
$4,582 $3,680 $21,793 $(9,783)
As a percentage of revenue:
Net cash provided by operating activities17 %17 %19 %%
Less:
Purchases of property and equipment(10)%(9)%(8)%(8)%
Capitalized internal-use software(1)%(1)%(1)%(1)%
Free cash flow margin
%%10 %(7)%

Calculated Billings
We believe that calculated billings is a key metric to measure our periodic performance. Calculated billings represents our revenue plus the change in deferred revenue in a period. Calculated billings in any particular period aims to reflect amounts invoiced for subscriptions to access our cloud platform, together with related support services related to our new and existing customers. We typically invoice our customers annually in advance, and to a lesser extent quarterly in advance, monthly in advance or multi-year in advance.
Calculated billings increased $29.9 million, or 55%, for the three months ended April 30, 2019 over the three months ended April 30, 2018, and $102.1 million, or 63%, for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 over the nine months ended April 30, 2018. As calculated billings continues to grow in absolute terms, we expect our calculated billings growth rate to trend down over time. We also expect that calculated billings will be affected by seasonality in terms of when we enter into agreements with customers; and the mix of billings in each reporting period as we typically invoice customers annually in advance, and to a lesser extent quarterly in advance, monthly in advance or multi-year in advance.
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
(in thousands)
Revenue$79,128 $49,163 $216,728 $134,000 
Add: Total deferred revenue, end of period
211,542 124,806 211,542 124,806 
Less: Total deferred revenue, beginning of period
(206,020)(119,257)(164,023)(96,619)
Calculated billings
$84,650 $54,712 $264,247 $162,187 


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Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
We generate revenue primarily from sales of subscriptions to access our cloud platform, together with related support services. These subscription and related support services accounted for approximately 99% of our revenue for the three months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018, and approximately 99% for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018. Our contracts with our customers do not at any time provide the customer with the right to take possession of the software that runs our cloud platform. Our customers may also purchase professional services, such as mapping, implementation, network design and training. Professional services account for an immaterial portion of our revenue.
We generate revenue from contracts with typical durations ranging from one to three years. We typically invoice our customers annually in advance, and to a lesser extent quarterly in advance, monthly in advance or multi-year in advance. We recognize revenue ratably over the life of the contract. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded in deferred revenue, or they are recorded in revenue if the revenue recognition criteria have been met. Subscriptions that are invoiced annually in advance or multi-year in advance represent a significant portion of our short-term and long-term deferred revenue in comparison to invoices issued quarterly in advance or monthly in advance. Accordingly, we cannot predict the mix of invoicing schedules in any given period.
We generally experience seasonality in terms of when we enter into agreements with our customers. We typically enter into a higher percentage of agreements with new customers, as well as renewal agreements with existing customers, in our second and fourth fiscal quarters. However, because we recognize revenue ratably over the terms of our subscription contracts, a substantial portion of the revenue that we report in each period is attributable to the recognition of deferred revenue relating to agreements that we entered into during previous periods. Consequently, increases or decreases in new sales or renewals in any one period may not be immediately reflected as revenue for that period. Any downturn in sales, however, may negatively affect our revenue in future periods. Accordingly, the effect of downturns in sales and market acceptance of our platform, and potential changes in our rate of renewals, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue includes expenses related to operating our cloud platform in data centers, depreciation of our data center equipment, amortization of acquired intangible assets and the amortization of our capitalized internal-use software. Cost of revenue also includes employee-related costs, including salaries, bonuses, stock-based compensation expense and employee benefit costs associated with our customer support and cloud operations organizations. Cost of revenue also includes overhead costs for facilities, IT, and amortization and depreciation expense.
As our customers expand and increase the use of our cloud platform driven by additional applications and connected devices, our cost of revenue will increase due to higher bandwidth and data center expenses. However, we expect to continue to benefit from economies of scale as our customers increase the use of our cloud platform. We intend to continue to invest additional resources in our cloud platform and our customer support organizations as we grow our business. The level and timing of investment in these areas could affect our cost of revenue in the future.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit, or revenue less cost of revenue, and gross margin, or gross profit as a percentage of revenue, have been and will continue to be affected by various factors, including the timing of our acquisition of new customers and our renewals of and follow-on sales to existing customers, the average sales price of our services, mix of services offered in our solutions,
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the data center and bandwidth costs associated with operating our cloud platform, the extent to which we expand our customer support and cloud operations organizations and the extent to which we can increase the efficiency of our technology, infrastructure and data centers through technological improvements. We expect our gross profit to increase in absolute dollars and gross margin to remain relatively unchanged over the long-term, although our gross margin could fluctuate from period to period depending on the interplay of all of the above factors.
Operating Expenses
Our operating expenses consist of sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative expenses. Personnel costs are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses, stock-based compensation expense and, with respect to sales and marketing expenses, sales commissions that are recognized as expenses. Operating expenses also include overhead costs for facilities, IT and depreciation expense.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of employee compensation and related expenses, including salaries, bonuses and benefits for our sales and marketing employees, sales commissions that are recognized as expenses over the period of benefit, stock-based compensation expense, marketing programs, travel and entertainment expenses, expenses for conferences and events and allocated overhead costs. We capitalize our sales commissions and associated payroll taxes and recognize them as expenses over the estimated period of benefit. The amount recognized in our sales and marketing expenses reflects the amortization of cost previously deferred as attributable to each period presented in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as described below under "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates."
We intend to continue to make significant investments in our sales and marketing organization to drive additional revenue, further penetrate the market and expand our global customer base. As a result, we expect our sales and marketing expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars and to be our largest operating expense category for the foreseeable future. In particular, we will continue to invest in growing and training our sales force, broadening our brand awareness and expanding and deepening our channel partner relationships. However, we expect our sales and marketing expenses to decrease as a percentage of our revenue over the long term, although our sales and marketing expenses may fluctuate as a percentage of our revenue from period to period due to the timing and extent of these expenses.
Research and Development
Our research and development expenses support our efforts to add new features to our existing offerings and to ensure the reliability, availability and scalability of our solutions. Our cloud platform is software-driven, and our research and development teams employ software engineers in the design, and the related development, testing, certification and support, of these solutions. Accordingly, a majority of our research and development expenses result from employee-related costs, including salaries, bonuses and benefits, stock-based compensation expense and costs associated with technology tools used by our engineers. We expect our research and development expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future, as we continue to invest in research and development efforts to enhance the functionality of our cloud platform, improve the reliability, availability and scalability of our platform and access new customer markets. However, we expect our research and development expenses to decrease as a percentage of our revenue over the long term, although our research and development expenses may fluctuate as a percentage of our revenue from period to period due to the timing and extent of these expenses.
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General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of employee-related costs, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation expense and employee benefit costs for our finance, legal, human resources and administrative personnel, as well as professional fees for external legal services (including certain litigation-related expenses), audit, accounting and other related consulting services. Litigation-related expenses include professional fees and related costs incurred by us in defending significant claims that we deem not to be in the ordinary course of our business and, if applicable, actual losses and accruals related to estimated losses in connection with these claims. We expect our general and administrative expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future, due to additional costs associated with audit, accounting, compliance, insurance and investor relations as we operate as a public company, and due to ongoing legal matters and related accruals, certain of which are described in further detail in Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. However, we expect our general and administrative expenses to decrease as a percentage of our revenue over the long term, although our general and administrative expenses may fluctuate as a percentage of our revenue from period to period due to the timing and extent of these expenses. In particular, litigation-related expenses related to significant litigation claims may result in significant fluctuations from period to period as they are inherently subject to change and difficult to estimate.
Interest Income, net
Interest income consist primarily of income earned on our cash equivalents and short-term investments and interest earned on outstanding notes receivable extended to certain current and former employees who early exercised their stock options. During the three months ended October 31, 2018, the principal amount and accrued interest of the outstanding notes receivable were fully repaid. For more information on these notes receivable, refer to Note 9 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Other income (expense), net
Other income (expense), net consists primarily of foreign currency transaction gains and losses.
Provision for Income Taxes
Our provision for income taxes consists primarily of income and withholding taxes in the foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business, offset by the tax benefit for excess stock-based compensation deductions. We have not recorded any U.S. federal income tax expense. We have recorded deferred tax assets for which we provide a full valuation allowance, which includes net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits. We expect to maintain this full valuation allowance for the foreseeable future as it is more likely than not that some or all of those deferred tax assets may not be realized based on our history of losses. During the three months ended October 31, 2018, we determined that due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, our deferred tax assets in United Kingdom ("U.K.") are no longer more likely than not to be realized in future and a full valuation allowance was recorded during the period.
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Results of Operations
The following table set forth our results of operations for the periods presented:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
(in thousands) 
Revenue$79,128 $49,163 $216,728 $134,000 
Cost of revenue(1)(2)
14,960 9,424 42,330 26,374 
Gross profit64,168 39,739 174,398 107,626 
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing(1)(2)
45,295 29,892 120,596 83,930 
Research and development(1)(2)
16,499 9,907 44,756 27,899 
General and administrative(1)(3)
15,911 8,964 36,428 22,497 
Total operating expenses77,705 48,763 201,780 134,326 
Loss from operations(13,537)(9,024)(27,382)(26,700)
Interest income, net2,081 596 5,595 1,004 
Other income (expense), net(144)14 (82)15 
Loss before income taxes(11,600)(8,414)(21,869)(25,681)
Provision for income taxes636 357 1,510 1,003 
Net loss$(12,236)$(8,771)$(23,379)$(26,684)
(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Cost of revenue$686 $199 $1,808 $434 
Sales and marketing6,459 1,493 14,777 3,263 
Research and development4,194 960 11,387 1,852 
General and administrative1,936 657 6,116 1,557 
Total$13,275 $3,309 $34,088 $7,106 
(2) Includes amortization expense of acquired intangible assets as follows:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Cost of revenue$163 $— $307 $— 
Sales and marketing— — 
Research and development— — 95 — 
Total$166 $— $405 $— 
(3) Includes certain litigation-related expenses as follows:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019201820192018
(in thousands)
Litigation-related expenses$6,164 $2,836 $10,106 $6,612 

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The following table set forth our results of operations for the periods presented as a percentage of our revenue:
Three Months Ended April 30,Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 2019 2018 
Revenue100%  100%  100%  100%  
Cost of revenue19  19  20  20  
Gross margin81  81  80  80  
Operating expenses
Sales and marketing57  61  55  62  
Research and development21  20  21  21  
General and administrative20  18  17  17  
Total operating expenses98  99  93  100  
Operating margin(17) (18) (13) (20) 
Interest income, net    
Other income (expense), net—  —  —  —  
Loss before income taxes(15) (17) (10) (19) 
Provision for income taxes—     
Net loss(15)% (18)% (11)% (20)% 

Comparison of the Three Months Ended April 30, 2019 and 2018
Revenue
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Revenue$79,128 $49,163 $29,965 61 %
Revenue increased by $30.0 million, or 61% for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was driven by the addition of new customers, which contributed $13.2 million in revenue, as we increased our customer base from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019. The remainder of the increase was attributable to an increase in users and sales of additional subscriptions to existing customers as reflected by our dollar-based net retention rate of 118% for the trailing 12 months ended April 30, 2019.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Cost of revenue $14,960 $9,424 $5,536 59 %
Gross margin81 %81 %
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Cost of revenue increased by $5.5 million, or 59%, for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The overall increase in cost of revenue was driven primarily by the expanded use of our cloud platform by existing and new customers, which led to an increase of $2.4 million in data center expenses related to hosting and operating of our cloud platform for our expanded customer base. Additionally, our employee-related expenses increased by $2.2 million, inclusive of an increase of $0.5 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven primarily by a 58% increase in headcount in our customer support and cloud operations organizations from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and by the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $0.5 million for professional fees.
Gross margin remained at 81% for the three months ended April 30, 2019 compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018, as the increase in our cost of providing our services were equally offset by growth in our revenue.
Operating Expenses
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Sales and marketing$45,295 $29,892 $15,403 52 %
Sales and marketing expenses increased by $15.4 million, or 52%, for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was primarily due to an increase of $9.3 million in employee-related expenses, inclusive of an increase of $5.0 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 29% increase in headcount from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019, and by an increase of $2.1 million in sales commissions expense. The increase in stock-based compensation was also attributable to the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $1.8 million in marketing and advertising expenses, $1.5 million in travel expenses and $0.5 million for facility and IT expenses.
Research and Development Expenses
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
20192018$%
(in thousands)
Research and development$16,499 $9,907 $6,592 67 %
Research and development expenses increased by $6.6 million, or 67%, for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018 as we continued to develop and enhance the functionality of our cloud platform. The increase was primarily driven by an increase of $5.7 million in employee-related expenses, inclusive of an increase of $3.2 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 33% increase in headcount from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and by the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $0.4 million for professional fees and $0.4 million for facility and IT expenses.
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General and Administrative Expenses
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
General and administrative$15,911 $8,964 $6,947 77 %
General and administrative expenses increased by $6.9 million, or 77%, for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The overall increase was primarily due to a $4.1 million expense recognized in the three months ended April 30, 2019 as a result of a legal settlement reached with Finjan in April 2019. For further information on this settlement refer to Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies of our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The remaining increase was primarily attributable to $2.4 million in employee-related costs, inclusive of $1.3 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 52% increase in headcount from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and due to shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO.
Interest Income, Net
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Interest income, net$2,081 $596 $1,485 249 %
Interest income, net increased by $1.5 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was primarily driven by increased interest income earned from our investments in cash equivalents and short-term investments, as a result of additional cash received from our IPO and cash generated from our operations.
Other Income (Expense), net
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Other income (expense), net$(144)$14 $(158)(1,129)%
Other income (expense), net decreased by $0.2 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018. The decrease was primarily driven by fluctuations in foreign currency transaction gains and losses for the three months ended April 30, 2019 as compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018.
Provision for Income Taxes
Three Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Provision for income taxes$636 $357 $279 78 %
Our provision for income taxes increased by $0.3 million for the three months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the three months ended April 30, 2018, primarily related to income taxes in the foreign jurisdictions in which we operate.
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Our tax provision for interim periods is determined using an estimate of our annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items, if any, that arise during the period. Each quarter, we update our estimate of the annual effective tax rate, and if the estimated annual effective tax rate changes, we make a cumulative adjustment in such period.
Our quarterly tax provision, and estimate of our annual effective tax rate, is subject to variation due to several factors, including variability in pre-tax income (or loss), the mix of jurisdictions to which such income relates, changes in how we do business, and tax law developments. Our estimated annual effective tax rate for the year differs from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the benefit of a portion of our earnings being taxed at rates lower than the U.S. statutory rate.
The realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of sufficient taxable income of the appropriate character in future periods. We assess our ability to realize our deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis and we establish a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We weigh all available positive and negative evidence, including our earnings history and results of recent operations, scheduled reversals of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies. Due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, including our history of losses in certain jurisdictions, we believe that it is more likely than not that our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets will not be realized. Accordingly, we have maintained a valuation allowance on its U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. During the three months ended October 31, 2018, we also determined that due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, our U.K. deferred tax assets are no longer more likely than not to be realized in the future and a full valuation allowance was recorded. We have maintained the valuation allowance for fiscal 2019.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, or the Tax Act, was enacted. The Tax Act contains several key tax provisions that affect us, including, but not limited to, reducing the U.S. federal corporate tax rate, imposing a one-time mandatory transition tax on previously untaxed foreign earnings and changing rules related to the use of net operating loss carryforwards created in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. During the three months ended January 31, 2019 we completed our accounting of the impacts of the Tax Act, including the remeasurement of our deferred taxes, the one-time mandatory transition tax, and the policy decision regarding whether to record deferred taxes associated with GILTI during the second quarter of this fiscal year in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, Income Tax Accounting Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("SAB 118"). Because of the full valuation allowance recorded against our U.S. federal deferred tax assets, there was no incremental tax expense (or benefit) recognized related to finalizing the accounting for the Tax Act. We have elected to account for the tax effects of GILTI as a period cost.
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Comparison of the Nine Months Ended April 30, 2019 and 2018
Revenue
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Revenue$216,728 $134,000 $82,728 62 %
Revenue increased by $82.7 million, or 62% for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was in part driven by the addition of new customers, which contributed $27.4 million as we increased our customer base from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019. The remainder of the increase was attributable to an increase in users and sales of additional subscriptions to existing customers as reflected by our dollar-based net retention rate of 118% for the trailing 12 months ended April 30, 2019.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Cost of revenue $42,330 $26,374 $15,956 60 %
Gross margin80 %80 %
Cost of revenue increased by $16.0 million, or 60%, for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The overall increase in cost of revenue was driven by expanded use of our cloud platform by existing and new customers. The increase in cost of revenue was primarily due to an increase of $7.4 million for data center expenses related to hosting and operating of our cloud platform for our expanded customer base and an increase in employee-related expenses of $6.0 million, including an increase of $1.4 million in stock-based compensation expense. The increase of employee-related expenses was driven primarily by a 58% increase in headcount in our customer support and cloud operations organizations from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and by the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $0.8 million for facility and IT expenses.
Gross margin remained at 80% for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018, as the increase in our cost of providing our services were equally offset by growth in our revenue.
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Operating Expenses
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
20192018$%
(in thousands)
Sales and marketing$120,596 $83,930 $36,666 44 %
Sales and marketing expenses increased by $36.7 million, or 44%, for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was primarily driven by an increase of $22.5 million in employee-related costs, inclusive of an increase of $11.5 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 29% increase in headcount in our sales and marketing organization from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and by an increase of $4.1 million in sales commissions expense. The increase in stock-based compensation was also attributable to the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $5.7 million in marketing and advertising expenses, $2.1 million in travel expenses and $1.5 million in facility and IT expenses.
Research and Development Expenses
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Research and development$44,756 $27,899 $16,857 60 %
Research and development expenses increased by $16.9 million, or 60%, for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018 as we continued to develop and enhance the functionality of our cloud platform. The increase was primarily driven by an increase of $15.5 million in employee-related costs, inclusive of an increase of $9.5 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 33% increase in headcount from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and by the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $0.9 million for facility and IT expenses.
General and Administrative Expenses
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
General and administrative$36,428 $22,497 $13,931 62 %
General and administrative expenses increased by $13.9 million, or 62%, for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The overall increase was primarily due to an increase of $7.1 million in employee-related costs, inclusive of an increase of $4.6 million in stock-based compensation expense, driven by a 52% increase in headcount from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 and due to the shift from granting stock options to restricted stock units subsequent to our IPO. Additionally, during the three months ended April 30, 2019, we recognized $4.1 million expense as a result of a legal settlement reached with Finjan in April
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2019. For further information on this settlement refer to Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies of our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The remainder of the increase was primarily attributable to increased expenses of $1.3 million in professional services as we transitioned to being a public company.
Interest Income, Net
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Interest income, net$5,595 $1,004 $4,591 457 %
Interest income, net increased by $4.6 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The increase was primarily driven by increased interest income earned from our investments in cash equivalents and short-term investments, as a result of additional cash received from our IPO and cash generated from our operations.
Other Income (Expense), net
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Other income (expense), net$(82)$15 $(97)(647)%
Other income (expense), net decreased by $0.1 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018. The decrease was primarily driven by fluctuations in foreign currency transaction gains and losses for the nine months ended April 30, 2019 as compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018.
Provision for Income Taxes
Nine Months Ended April 30,
Change
2019 2018 $%
(in thousands)
Provision for income taxes$1,510 $1,003 $507 51 %
Our provision for income taxes increased by $0.5 million for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, compared to the nine months ended April 30, 2018, primarily related to income taxes in the foreign jurisdictions in which we operate.
Our tax provision for interim periods is determined using an estimate of our annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items, if any, that arise during the period. Each quarter, we update our estimate of the annual effective tax rate, and if the estimated annual effective tax rate changes, we make a cumulative adjustment in such period.
Our quarterly tax provision, and estimate of our annual effective tax rate, is subject to variation due to several factors, including variability in pre-tax income (or loss), the mix of jurisdictions to which such income relates, changes in how we do business, and tax law developments. Our estimated annual effective tax rate for the year
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differs from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily due to the benefit of a portion of our earnings being taxed at rates lower than the U.S. statutory rate.
The realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of sufficient taxable income of the appropriate character in future periods. We assess our ability to realize our deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis and we establish a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We weigh all available positive and negative evidence, including our earnings history and results of recent operations, scheduled reversals of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies. Due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, including our history of losses in certain jurisdictions, we believe that it is more likely than not that our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets will not be realized. Accordingly, we have maintained a valuation allowance on its U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. During the three months ended October 31, 2018, we also determined that due to the weight of objectively verifiable negative evidence, our U.K. deferred tax assets are no longer more likely than not to be realized in the future and a full valuation allowance was recorded. We have maintained the valuation allowance for fiscal 2019.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, or the Tax Act, was enacted. For further information, refer to discussion for provision for income taxes under "Comparison of the Three Months Ended April 30, 2019 and 2018."
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of April 30, 2019, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $352.7 million which were held for working capital and general corporate purposes. Our cash equivalents and investments consist of highly liquid investments in money market funds, U.S. treasury securities, U.S. government agency securities and corporate debt securities.
In March 2018, upon completion of our IPO, we received net proceeds of $205.3 million, net of underwriters' discounts and commissions of $15.5 million. In connection with the IPO, we incurred offering costs of $6.2 million which were recorded in stockholders' equity (deficit) as a reduction of the net proceeds received from the IPO. Previously, we have financed our operations principally through private placements of our equity securities, as well as payments received from customers using our cloud platform and services.
We have generated significant operating losses from operations, as reflected in our accumulated deficit of $219.2 million as of April 30, 2019. We expect to continue to incur operating losses and generate negative cash flows from operations in future periods due to expected investments to grow our business.
We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments will be sufficient to fund our operating and capital needs for at least the next 12 months from the issuance of our financial statements. Our assessment of the period of time through which our financial resources will be adequate to support our operations is a forward-looking statement and involves risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could vary as a result of, and our future capital requirements, both near-term and long-term, will depend on, many factors, including our growth rate, the timing and extent of spending to support our research and development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing and international operating activities, the timing of new introductions of solutions or features, and the continuing market acceptance of our services. We have and may in the future enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, services and technologies, including intellectual property rights. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. 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, or if we cannot expand our operations or otherwise capitalize on our business opportunities because we lack sufficient capital, our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely affected.
We typically invoice our customers annually in advance, and to a lesser extent quarterly in advance, monthly in advance or multi-year in advance. Therefore, a substantial source of our cash is from such prepayments, which are included on our consolidated balance sheets as a contract liability. Deferred revenue consists of the unearned portion of billed fees for our subscriptions, which is subsequently recognized as revenue in accordance with our revenue recognition policy. As of April 30, 2019, we had deferred revenue of $211.5 million, of which $183.6 million was recorded as a current liability and is expected to be recorded as revenue in the next 12 months, provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been met. Subscriptions that are invoiced annually in advance or multi-year in advance contribute significantly to our short-term and long-term deferred revenue in comparison to our invoices issued quarterly in advance or monthly in advance. Accordingly, we cannot predict the mix of invoicing schedules in any given period.
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The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented:
Nine Months Ended April 30,
2019 2018 
(in thousands)
Net cash provided by operating activities$40,204 $2,649 
Net cash used in investing activities$(153,677)$(12,432)
Net cash provided by financing activities$32,300 $209,248 
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities during the nine months ended April 30, 2019 was $40.2 million, which resulted from a net loss of $23.4 million, adjusted for non-cash charges of $53.9 million and net cash inflows of $9.7 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $34.1 million for stock-based compensation expense, $13.5 million for amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs and $7.3 million for depreciation and amortization expense, partially offset by accretion of purchased discounts, net of amortization of investment premiums of $1.7 million.
Net cash inflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were primarily the result of an increase of $47.5 million in deferred revenue from advanced invoicing in accordance with our subscription contract. Net cash inflows were partially offset by cash outflows resulting from an increase of $21.7 million in deferred contract acquisition costs, as our sales commission payments increased due to addition of new customers and expansion of our existing customer subscriptions, an increase of $9.5 million in accounts receivable due to seasonality in terms of when we enter into agreements with customers, an increase of $3.4 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, a decrease of $1.5 million in accrued compensation, a decrease of $1.0 million in accrued expenses and other liabilities and a decrease of $0.6 million in accounts payable.
Net cash provided by operating activities during the nine months ended April 30, 2018 was $2.6 million, which resulted from a net loss of $26.7 million, adjusted for non-cash charges of $22.6 million and net cash inflows of $6.8 million from changes in operating assets and liabilities. Non-cash charges primarily consisted of $7.1 million of stock-based compensation expense, $9.4 million of amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs and $5.8 million of depreciation and amortization expense. Net cash inflows from changes in operating assets and liabilities were primarily the result of an increase of $28.2 million in deferred revenue from advanced invoicing in accordance with our subscription contracts, a increase of $3.2 million in accrued compensation, an increase of $2.7 million in accrued expenses and other liabilities, offset by an increase of $21.2 million in deferred contract acquisition costs as our sales commission payments increased due to addition of new customers and expansion of our existing customer subscriptions, an increase of $3.3 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, a decrease of $1.6 million in accounts payable and an increase of $1.2 million in accounts receivable primarily due to timing of receivable collections.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities during the nine months ended April 30, 2019 of $153.7 million was primarily attributable to the purchases of short-term investments of $272.3 million, capital expenditures of $18.4 million to support our cloud platform and headcount, payments for acquired intangible assets of $1.5 million and payments for business acquisitions, net of cash acquired of $0.8 million. These transactions were partially offset by proceeds from the maturities of short-term investments of $139.4 million.
Net cash used in investing activities during the nine months ended April 30, 2018 of $12.4 million resulted primarily from capital expenditures to support our cloud platform, additional office space and headcount.
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Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities of $32.3 million during the nine months ended April 30, 2019 was primarily attributable to $23.5 million in proceeds from the exercise of stock options, driven mainly by the end of our initial public offering lock-up period in September 2018, $8.7 million in proceeds from issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan and $1.9 million in proceeds from repayments of notes receivable for early exercised stock options. Proceeds were partially offset by $1.8 million in payments of offering costs related to our IPO.
Net cash provided by financing activities of $209.2 million during the nine months ended April 30, 2018 was primarily due to $205.3 million in proceeds from the completion of our IPO, net of underwriter's discounts and commissions, $5.3 million in proceeds from the repayment of notes receivable from stockholders, $4.3 million in proceeds from the exercise of stock options and $0.9 million in proceeds from early exercised stock options. These transactions were partially offset by $3.1 million to repurchase common stock related to early exercised stock options upon termination of employment services and $3.6 million in payments of offering costs related to our IPO.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of April 30, 2019:
Payments Due by Period
TotalLess than 1 Year1 to 3 Years3 to 5 YearsMore than 5 Years
(in thousands)
Operating leases (*)$44,551 $4,751 $10,516 $11,722 $17,562 
Data center contracts18,167 9,222 8,778 167 — 
Non-cancelable purchase obligations11,499 10,374 1,125 — — 
Total contractual obligations$74,217 $24,347 $20,419 $11,889 $17,562 

(*) Effective April 2019, we entered into a sublease agreement, or lease agreement, for approximately 172,000 square feet of corporate office space in San Jose, California, which will serve as our new corporate headquarters. The initial term of the lease expires in September 2026 and the total base rent over the initial lease term is approximately $39.1 million. Future non-cancelable minimum rental payments related to this lease agreement are included in the table above. Refer to Note 6 Commitments and Contingencies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information.
The contractual commitment amounts in the table above are associate with agreements that are enforceable and legally binding. Obligations under contracts, including purchase orders, that we can cancel without a significant penalty are not included in the table above.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of April 30, 2019, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated organizations or financial partnerships, such as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.
As of April 30, 2019, we had outstanding irrevocable standby unsecured letters of credits for an aggregate value of $3.2 million with a bank, which serve as security under certain operating leases included in Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, as well as 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. We refer to accounting estimates of this type as critical accounting policies and estimates, which we discuss below.
Our significant accounting policies are discussed in Note 1. Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Form 10-K filed with the SEC on September 13, 2018. There have been no significant changes to these policies for the nine months ended April 30, 2019, except as described in Note 1. Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
JOBS Act Extended Transition Period
We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act. Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards issued subsequent to the enactment of the Act until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption from new or revised accounting standards and, therefore, we will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies. As a result of our transition to large accelerated filer status as of July 31, 2019, we will cease to qualify as an emerging growth company and will no longer have the option to take advantage of the extended transition period.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 1. Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for more information regarding recently issued accounting pronouncements.
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We have operations in the United States and internationally, and we are exposed to market risk in the ordinary course of our business.
Interest Rate Risk
As of April 30, 2019, we had cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $352.7 million, which were held for working capital and general corporate purposes. Our cash equivalents and investments consist of highly liquid investments in money market funds, U.S. treasury securities, U.S. government agency securities and corporate debt securities. The primary objectives of our investment activities are the preservation of capital, the fulfillment of liquidity needs and the fiduciary control of cash and investments. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. The carrying amount of our cash equivalents reasonably approximates fair value, due to the short maturities of these instruments. Our investments are exposed to market risk due to a fluctuation in interest rates, which may affect our interest income and the fair market value of our investments. As of April 30, 2019, the effect of a hypothetical 100 basis points change in interest rates would have changed the fair value of our investments in available-for-sale securities by $2.1 million. Fluctuations in the fair value of our investments in available-for-sale securities caused by a change in interest rates (gains or losses on the carrying amount) are recorded in other comprehensive gain (loss), and are realized only if we sell the underlying securities prior to maturity.
Foreign Currency Risk
The vast majority of our sales contracts are denominated in U.S. dollars, with a small number of contracts denominated in foreign currencies. A portion of our operating expenses are incurred outside the United States, denominated in foreign currencies and subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the British Pound, Indian Rupee and Euro. Additionally, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may cause us to recognize transaction gains and losses in our consolidated statements of operations. The effect of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates applicable to our business would not have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements for nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018. As the impact of foreign currency exchange rates has not been material to our historical operating results, we have not entered into derivative or hedging transactions, but we may do so in the future if our exposure to foreign currency becomes more significant.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rule 13a–15(e) and Rule 15d–15(e) under the Exchange Act that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of April 30, 2019. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of April 30, 2019, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.
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Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, our management 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. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. 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, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. 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 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
The information called for by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to Note 6, Commitments and Contingencies, Legal Matters, included in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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, as well as the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." The occurrence of any of the events or developments described below, or of additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial, could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and growth prospects. In such an event, the market price of our common stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment.
Risks Related to Our Business
We have a history of losses and may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future.
We have incurred net losses in all periods since our inception, and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future. We experienced net losses of $33.6 million and $35.5 million for fiscal 2018 and 2017, respectively. As of April 30, 2019, we had an accumulated deficit of $219.2 million. Because the market for our cloud platform is rapidly evolving and cloud security solutions have not yet reached widespread adoption, it is difficult for us to predict our future results of operations. We expect our operating expenses to increase significantly over the next several years as we continue to hire additional personnel, particularly in sales and marketing, expand our operations and infrastructure, both domestically and internationally, and continue to develop our platform. In addition to the expected costs to grow our business, we also expect to incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses as a newly public company. If we fail to increase our revenue to offset the increases in our operating expenses, we may not achieve or sustain profitability in the future.
If organizations do not adopt our cloud platform, our ability to grow our business and operating results may be adversely affected.
Cloud technologies are still evolving, and it is difficult to predict customer demand and adoption rates for our solutions or cloud-based offerings generally. We believe that our cloud platform offers superior protection to our customers, who are becoming increasingly dependent on the internet as they move their applications and data to the cloud. We also believe that our cloud platform represents a major shift from on-premises appliance-based security solutions. However, traditional on-premises security appliances are entrenched in the infrastructure of many of our potential customers, particularly large enterprises, because of their prior investment in and the familiarity of their IT personnel with on-premises appliance-based solutions. As a result, our sales process often involves extensive efforts to educate our customers on the benefits and capabilities of our cloud platform, particularly as we continue to pursue customer relationships with large organizations. Even with these efforts, we cannot predict market acceptance of our cloud platform, or the development of competing products or services based on other technologies. If we fail to achieve market acceptance of our cloud platform or are unable to keep pace with industry changes, our ability to grow our business and our operating results will be materially and adversely affected.
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If we are unable to attract new customers, our future results of operations could be harmed.
To increase our revenue and achieve and maintain profitability, we must add new customers. To do so, we must successfully convince IT decision makers that, as they adopt SaaS applications and the public cloud, security delivered through the cloud provides significant advantages over legacy on-premises appliance-based security products. Additionally, many of our customers broadly deploy our products, which requires a significant commitment of resources. These factors significantly impact our ability to add new customers and increase the time, resources and sophistication required to do so. In addition, numerous other factors, many of which are out of our control, may now or in the future impact our ability to add new customers, including potential customers’ commitments to legacy IT security vendors and products, real or perceived switching costs, our failure to expand, retain and motivate our sales and marketing personnel, our failure to develop or expand relationships with our channel partners or to attract new channel partners, failure by us to help our customers to successfully deploy our cloud platform, negative media or industry or financial analyst commentary regarding us or our solutions, litigation and deteriorating general economic conditions. If our efforts to attract new customers are not successful, our revenue and rate of revenue growth may decline, we may not achieve profitability and our future results of operations could be materially harmed.
If our customers do not renew their subscriptions for our services and add additional users and services to their subscriptions, our future results of operations could be harmed.
In order for us to maintain or improve our results of operations, it is important that our customers renew their subscriptions for our services when existing contract terms expire and that we expand our commercial relationships with our existing customers. Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our services after the expiration of their contractual subscription period, which is typically one to three years, and in the normal course of business, some customers have elected not to renew. In addition, in certain cases, customers may cancel their subscriptions without cause either at any time or upon advance written notice (typically ranging from 30 days to 60 days), typically subject to an early termination penalty for unused services. In addition, our customers may renew for fewer users, renew for shorter contract lengths or switch to a lower-cost suite. If our customers do not renew their subscription services, we could incur impairment losses related to our deferred contract acquisition costs. It is difficult to accurately predict long-term customer retention because of our varied customer base and given the length of our subscription contracts. Our customer retention and expansion may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including our customers’ satisfaction with our services, our prices and pricing plans, our customers’ spending levels, decreases in the number of users to which our customers deploy our solutions, mergers and acquisitions involving our customers, competition and deteriorating general economic conditions.
Our future success also depends in part on the rate at which our current customers add additional users or services to their subscriptions, which is driven by a number of factors, including customer satisfaction with our services, customer security and networking issues and requirements, general economic conditions and customer reaction to the price per additional user or of additional services. If our efforts to expand our relationship with our existing customers are not successful, our business may materially suffer.
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We face intense and increasing competition and could lose market share to our competitors, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The market for network security solutions is intensely competitive and characterized by rapid changes in technology, customer requirements, industry standards and frequent introductions of new and improvements of existing products and services. Our business model of delivering security through the cloud rather than legacy on-premises appliances is still relatively new and has not yet gained widespread market traction. Moreover, we compete with many established network and security vendors who are aggressively competing against us with their legacy appliance-based solutions and are also seeking to introduce cloud-based services that have functionality similar to our cloud platform. We expect competition to increase as other established and emerging companies enter the security solutions market, in particular with respect to cloud-based security solutions, as customer requirements evolve and as new products, services and technologies are introduced. If we are unable to anticipate or effectively react to these competitive challenges, our competitive position could weaken, and we could experience a decline in revenue or our growth rate that could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Our competitors and potential competitors include:
independent IT security vendors, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Fortinet, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc. and Symantec Corporation, which offer a broad mix of network and endpoint security products;
large networking vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc. and Juniper Networks, Inc., which offer security appliances and incorporate security capabilities in their networking products;
companies such as FireEye, Inc., Forcepoint Inc. (previously, Websense, Inc.), F5 Networks, Inc. and Pulse Secure, LLC with point solutions that compete with some of the features of our cloud platform, such as proxy, firewall, sandboxing and advanced threat protection, data loss prevention, encryption, load balancing and virtual private network vendors; and
other providers of IT security services that offer, or may leverage related technologies to introduce, products that compete with or are alternatives to our cloud platform.
Many of our existing competitors have, and some of our potential competitors could have, substantial competitive advantages such as:
greater name recognition, longer operating histories and larger customer bases;
larger sales and marketing budgets and resources;
broader distribution and established relationships with channel partners and customers;
greater customer support resources;
greater resources to make acquisitions and enter into strategic partnerships;
lower labor and research and development costs;
larger and more mature intellectual property rights portfolios; and
substantially greater financial, technical and other resources.
Our competitors may be successful in convincing IT decision makers that legacy appliance-based security products are sufficient to meet their security needs and provide security performance that competes with our cloud platform. Accordingly, these IT decision makers may continue allocating their information technology budgets to legacy appliance-based products
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and may not adopt our cloud platform. Further, many organizations have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to design and operate their appliance-based networks and have established deep relationships with appliance vendors. As a result, these organizations may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers rather than add or switch to a new supplier.
Our larger competitors have substantially broader and more diverse product and services offerings, which may allow them to leverage their relationships based on other products or incorporate functionality into existing products to gain business in a manner that discourages users from purchasing our services, including through selling at zero or negative margins, offering concessions, bundling products or maintaining closed technology platforms. Many competitors that specialize in providing protection from a single type of security threat may be able to deliver these targeted security products to the market more quickly than we can or to convince organizations that these limited products meet their needs.
Conditions in our market could change rapidly and significantly as a result of technological advancements, partnering or acquisitions by our competitors or continuing market consolidation. New start-up companies that innovate and large competitors that are making significant investments in research and development may invent similar or superior products, services and technologies that compete with our cloud platform. In addition, large companies with substantial communications infrastructure, such as global telecommunications services provider partners or public cloud providers, could choose to enter the security solutions market. Some of our current or potential competitors have made or could make acquisitions of businesses or establish cooperative relationships that may allow them to offer more directly competitive and comprehensive solutions than were previously offered and adapt more quickly to new technologies and customer needs. These competitive pressures in our market or our failure to compete effectively may result in price reductions, fewer orders, reduced revenue and gross margins, increased net losses and loss of market share. Any failure to meet and address these factors could materially harm our business and operating results.
 We have experienced rapid revenue and other growth in recent periods, which may not be indicative of our future performance.
We have experienced rapid growth in revenue, operations and employee headcount in recent periods. In addition, the number of customers, users and internet traffic on our cloud platform has increased rapidly in recent years. You should not consider our recent growth in these areas as indicative of our future performance. While we expect to continue to expand our operations and to increase our headcount significantly in the future, both domestically and internationally, our growth may not be sustainable. In particular, our recent revenue growth rates may decline in the future and may not be sufficient to achieve and sustain profitability, as we also expect our costs to increase in future periods. We believe that historical comparisons of our revenue may not be meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. Accordingly, you should not rely on our revenue and other growth for any prior quarter or fiscal year as an indication of our future revenue or revenue growth.
If we fail to effectively manage our growth, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of service, adequately address competitive challenges or maintain our corporate culture, and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be harmed.
Our growth has placed, and future growth will continue to place, a significant strain on our management and our administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. Our success will depend in part on our ability to manage this growth effectively, which will require that we continue to improve our administrative, operational, financial and management systems and controls by, among other things:
effectively attracting, training and integrating a large number of new employees, particularly members of our sales and management teams;
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further improving our key business applications, processes and IT infrastructure, including our data centers, to support our business needs;
enhancing our information and communication systems to ensure that our employees and offices around the world are well coordinated and can effectively communicate with each other and our growing base of channel partners, customers and users; and
appropriately documenting and testing our IT systems and business processes.
These and other improvements in our systems and controls will require significant capital expenditures and the allocation of valuable management and employee resources. If we fail to implement these improvements effectively, our ability to manage our expected growth, ensure uninterrupted operation of our cloud platform and key business systems and comply with the rules and regulations applicable to public companies could be impaired, the quality of our platform and services could suffer and we may not be able to adequately address competitive challenges.
In addition, we believe that our corporate culture has been a contributor to our success, which we believe fosters innovation, teamwork and an emphasis on customer-focused results. We also believe that our culture creates an environment that drives and perpetuates our strategy and cost-effective distribution approach. As we grow and develop the infrastructure of a public company, we may find it difficult to maintain our corporate culture. Any failure to preserve our culture could harm our future success, including our ability to retain and recruit personnel, innovate and operate effectively and execute on our business strategy. If we experience any of these effects in connection with future growth, it could materially impair our ability to attract new customers, retain existing customers and expand their use of our platform, all of which would materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our relatively limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and prospects and may increase the risk that we will not be successful.
Our relatively limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and prospects and plan for our future growth. We were incorporated in 2007, with much of our growth occurring in recent years. As a result, our business model has not been fully proven, which subjects us to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. While we have continued to develop our solutions to incorporate multiple security and compliance applications into a single purpose-built, multi-tenant, distributed cloud security platform, we have encountered and will continue to encounter risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by rapidly growing companies in developing markets, including our ability to achieve broad market acceptance of our cloud platform, attract additional customers, grow partnerships, withstand increasing competition and manage increasing expenses as we continue to grow our business. If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties are incorrect or change in response to changes in the market for network security solutions, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations and our business could suffer.
Our operating results may fluctuate significantly, which could make our future results difficult to predict and could cause our operating results to fall below expectations.
Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter as a result of a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control and may be difficult to predict. Some of the factors that may cause our results of operations to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:
broad market acceptance and the level of demand for our cloud platform;
our ability to attract new customers, particularly large enterprises;
our ability to retain customers and expand their usage of our platform, particularly our largest customers;
our ability to successfully expand internationally and penetrate key markets;
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the effectiveness of our sales and marketing programs;
the length of our sales cycle, including the timing of renewals;
technological changes and the timing and success of new service introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive landscape of our market;
increases in and timing of operating expenses that we may incur to grow and expand our operations and to remain competitive;
pricing pressure as a result of competition or otherwise;
seasonal buying patterns for IT spending;
the quality and level of our execution of our business strategy and operating plan;
adverse litigation judgments, settlements or other litigation-related costs;
changes in the legislative or regulatory environment;
the impact and costs related to the acquisition of businesses, talent, technologies or intellectual property rights; and
general economic conditions in either domestic or international markets, including geopolitical uncertainty and instability.
Any one or more of the factors above may result in significant fluctuations in our results of operations. We also intend to continue to invest significantly to grow our business in the near future rather than optimizing for profitability or cash flows. In addition, we generally experience seasonality in terms of when we enter into agreements with customers. We typically enter into a higher percentage of agreements with new customers, as well as renewal agreements with existing customers, in the second and fourth quarters of our fiscal year. This seasonality is reflected to a much lesser extent, and sometimes is not immediately apparent, in revenue, due to the fact that we recognize subscription revenue ratably over the term of the subscription, which is generally one to three years. We expect that seasonality will continue to affect our operating results in the future and may reduce our ability to predict cash flow and optimize the timing of our operating expenses.
The variability and unpredictability of our quarterly results of operations or other operating metrics could result in our failure to meet our expectations or those of industry or financial analysts. If we fail to meet or exceed such expectations for these or any other reasons, the market price of our common stock could fall substantially, and we could face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
If the delivery of our services to our customers is interrupted or delayed for any reason, our business could suffer.
Any interruption or delay in the delivery of our services will negatively impact our customers. Our solutions are deployed via the internet, and our customers’ internet traffic is routed through our cloud platform. Our customers depend on the continuous availability of our cloud platform to access the internet, and our services are designed to operate without interruption in accordance with our service level commitments. If our entire platform were to fail, customers and users could lose access to the internet until such disruption is resolved or customers deploy disaster recovery options that allow them to bypass our cloud platform to access the internet. The adverse effects of any service interruptions on our reputation and financial condition may be disproportionately heightened due to the nature of our business and the fact that our customers expect continuous and uninterrupted internet access and have a low tolerance for interruptions of any duration. While we do not consider them to have been material, we have experienced, and may in the future experience, service disruptions and other performance problems due to a variety of factors.
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The following factors, many of which are beyond our control, can affect the delivery and availability of our services and the performance of our cloud:
the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the internet;
the performance and availability of third-party telecommunications services with the necessary speed, data capacity and security for providing reliable internet access and services;
decisions by the owners and operators of the data centers where our cloud infrastructure is deployed or by global telecommunications service provider partners who provide us with network bandwidth to terminate our contracts, discontinue services to us, shut down operations or facilities, increase prices, change service levels, limit bandwidth, declare bankruptcy or prioritize the traffic of other parties;
the occurrence of earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, system failures, physical or electronic break-ins, acts of war or terrorism, human error or interference (including by disgruntled employees, former employees or contractors) and other catastrophic events;
cyberattacks, including denial of service attacks, targeted at us, our data centers, our global telecommunications service provider partners or the infrastructure of the internet;
failure by us to maintain and update our cloud infrastructure to meet our traffic capacity requirements;
errors, defects or performance problems in our software, including third-party software incorporated in our software, which we use to operate our cloud platform;
improper classification of websites by our vendors who provide us with lists of malicious websites;
improper deployment or configuration of our services;
the failure of our redundancy systems, in the event of a service disruption at one of our data centers, to provide failover to other data centers in our data center network; and
the failure of our disaster recovery and business continuity arrangements.
The occurrence of any of these factors, or if we are unable to efficiently and cost-effectively fix such errors or other problems that may be identified, could damage our reputation, negatively impact our relationship with our customers or otherwise materially harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition, we provide our services through a cloud-based inline proxy, and some governments, third-party products, websites or services may block proxy-based traffic under certain circumstances. For example, vendors may attempt to block traffic from our cloud platform or blacklist our IP addresses because they cannot identify the source of the proxy-based traffic. Our competitors may use this as an excuse to block traffic from their solutions or blacklist our IP addresses, which may result in our customers’ traffic being blocked from our platform. If our customers experience significant instances of traffic blockages, they will experience reduced functionality or other inefficiencies, which would reduce customer satisfaction with our services and likelihood of renewal.
The actual or perceived failure of our cloud platform to block malware or prevent a security breach could harm our reputation and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our cloud platform may fail to detect or prevent security breaches for any number of reasons. Our cloud platform is complex and may contain performance issues that are not detected until after its deployment. We also provide frequent solution updates and fundamental enhancements, which increase the possibility of errors, and our reporting, tracking, monitoring and quality assurance procedures may not be sufficient to ensure we detect any such defects in a timely manner.
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The performance of our cloud platform can be negatively impacted by our failure to enhance, expand or update our cloud platform, errors or defects in our software, improper classification of websites by our vendors who provide us with lists of malicious websites, improper deployment or configuration of our services and many other factors.
In addition, because the techniques used by computer hackers to access or sabotage networks change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, there is a risk that a cyber threat could emerge that our services are unable to detect or prevent until after some of our customers are impacted. Moreover, as our services are adopted by an increasing number of enterprises, it is possible that the individuals and organizations behind cyber threats will focus on finding ways to defeat our services. If this happens, our cloud platform could be targeted by attacks specifically designed to disrupt our business and create the perception that our cloud platform is not capable of providing superior security, which, in turn, could have a serious impact on our reputation as a provider of security solutions. Further, if a high profile security breach occurs with respect to another cloud services provider, our customers and potential customers may lose trust in cloud solutions generally, and with respect to security in particular, which could materially and adversely impact our ability to retain existing customers or attract new customers.
Increasingly, companies are subject to a wide variety of attacks on their networks and systems, including traditional computer hackers, malicious code (such as viruses and worms), distributed denial-of-service attacks, sophisticated attacks conducted or sponsored by nation-states, advanced persistent threat intrusions, ransomware, and theft or misuse of intellectual property or business or personal data, including by disgruntled employees, former employees or contractors. No security solution, including our cloud platform, can address all possible security threats or block all methods of penetrating a network or otherwise perpetrating a security incident. Our customers must rely on complex network and security infrastructures, which include products and services from multiple vendors, to secure their networks. If any of our customers becomes infected with malware or experiences a security breach, they could be disappointed with our services, regardless of whether our services are intended to block the attack or would have blocked the attack if the customer had properly configured our cloud platform. Additionally, if any enterprises that are publicly known to use our services are the subject of a cyberattack that becomes publicized, our current or potential customers may look to our competitors for alternatives to our services.
From time to time, industry or financial analysts and research firms test our solutions against other security products. Our services may fail to detect or prevent threats in any particular test for a number of reasons, including misconfiguration. To the extent potential customers, industry or financial analysts or testing firms believe that the occurrence of a failure to detect or prevent any particular threat is a flaw or indicates that our services do not provide significant value, our reputation and business could be materially harmed.
Any real or perceived flaws in our cloud platform or any real or perceived security breaches of our customers could result in:
a loss of existing or potential customers or channel partners;
delayed or lost sales and harm to our financial condition and results of operations;
a delay in attaining, or the failure to attain, market acceptance;
the expenditure of significant financial resources in efforts to analyze, correct, eliminate, remediate or work around errors or defects, to address and eliminate vulnerabilities and to address any applicable legal or contractual obligations relating to any actual or perceived security breach;
negative publicity and damage to our reputation and brand; and
legal claims and demands (including for stolen assets or information, repair of system damages, and compensation to customers and business partners), litigation, regulatory inquiries or investigations and other liability.
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Any of the above results could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If our global network of data centers which deliver our services was damaged or otherwise failed to meet the requirement of our business, our ability to provide services to our customers and maintain the performance of our cloud platform could be negatively impacted, which could cause our business to suffer.
We currently host our cloud platform and serve our customers from a global network of over 100 data centers. While we have electronic access to the components and infrastructure of our cloud platform that are hosted by third parties, we do not control the operation of these facilities. Consequently, we may be subject to service disruptions as well as failures to provide adequate support for reasons that are outside of our direct control. Our data centers are vulnerable to damage or interruption from a variety of sources, including earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, system failures, computer viruses, physical or electronic break-ins, human error or interference (including by disgruntled employees, former employees or contractors), and other catastrophic events. Our data centers may also be subject to local administrative actions, changes to legal or permitting requirements and litigation to stop, limit or delay operations. Despite precautions taken at these facilities, such as disaster recovery and business continuity arrangements, the occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems at these facilities could result in interruptions or delays in our services, impede our ability to scale our operations or have other adverse impacts upon our business. In addition, if we do not accurately plan for our infrastructure capacity requirements and we experience significant strains on our data center capacity, we may experience delays and additional expenses in arranging new data centers, and our customers could experience performance degradation or service outages that may subject us to financial liabilities, result in customer losses and materially harm our business.
Our business and growth depend in part on the success of our relationships with our channel partners.
We currently derive most of our revenue from sales through our channel partner network, and we expect for the foreseeable future most of our future revenue growth will also be driven through this network. Not only does our joint sales approach require additional investment to grow and train our sales force, but we believe that continued growth in our business is dependent upon identifying, developing and maintaining strategic relationships with our existing and potential channel partners, including global systems integrators and regional telecommunications service providers that will in turn drive substantial revenue and provide additional value-added services to our customers. Our agreements with our channel partners are generally non-exclusive, meaning our channel partners may offer customers the products of several different companies, including products that compete with our cloud platform. In general, our channel partners may also cease marketing or reselling our platform with limited or no notice and without penalty. If our channel partners do not effectively market and sell subscriptions to our cloud platform, choose to promote our competitors’ products or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our ability to grow our business and sell subscriptions to our cloud platform may be adversely affected. For example, sales through our top five channel partners and their affiliates, in aggregate, represented 42% and 47% of our revenue for fiscal 2018 and 2017, respectively, and 42% of our revenue for each of the nine months ended April 30, 2019 and 2018. In addition, our channel partner structure could subject us to lawsuits or reputational harm if, for example, a channel partner misrepresents the functionality of our cloud platform to customers or violates applicable laws or our corporate policies. Our ability to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend in large part on our success in maintaining successful relationships with our channel partners, identifying additional channel partners and training our channel partners to independently sell and deploy our platform. If we are unable to maintain our relationships with our existing channel partners or develop successful relationships with new channel partners or if our channel partners fail to perform, our business, financial position and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
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If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.
We believe that maintaining and enhancing our reputation as a provider of high-quality security solutions is critical to our relationship with our existing customers and channel partners and our ability to attract new customers and channel partners. The successful promotion of our brand will depend on a number of factors, including our marketing efforts, our ability to continue to develop high-quality features and solutions for our cloud platform and our ability to successfully differentiate our platform from competitive products and services. Our brand promotion activities may not be successful or yield increased revenue. In addition, independent industry or financial analysts often provide reviews of our platform, as well as products and services of our competitors, and perception of our platform in the marketplace may be significantly influenced by these reviews. If these reviews are negative, or less positive as compared to those of our competitors’ products and services, our brand may be adversely affected. Additionally, the performance of our channel partners may affect our brand and reputation if customers do not have a positive experience with our channel partners’ services. The promotion of our brand requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that the expenditures will increase as our market becomes more competitive, we expand into new markets and more sales are generated through our channel partners. To the extent that these activities yield increased revenue, this revenue may not offset the increased expenses we incur. If we do not successfully maintain and enhance our brand, our business may not grow, we may have reduced pricing power relative to competitors and we could lose customers or fail to attract potential customers, all of which would materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we do not effectively expand and train our sales force, we may be unable to add new customers or increase sales to our existing customers, and our business will be adversely affected.
Although we have a channel sales model, our sales representatives typically engage in direct interaction with our prospective customers. Therefore, we continue to be substantially dependent on our sales force to obtain new customers. Increasing our customer base and achieving broader market acceptance of our cloud platform will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to expand and further invest in our sales and marketing operations and activities. There is significant competition for sales personnel with the advanced sales skills and technical knowledge we need. We believe that selling a cloud-based security solution requires particularly talented sales personnel with the ability to communicate the transformative potential of our cloud platform. Our ability to achieve significant growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, on our success in recruiting, training and retaining sufficient numbers of these talented sales personnel in both the U.S. and international markets. In particular, in the near term, we expect to expand our sales and marketing organization significantly. New hires require significant training and may take significant time before they achieve full productivity. As a result, our new hires and planned hires may not become as productive as we would like, and we may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future. As a result of our rapid growth, a large percentage of our sales and marketing team is new to our company and selling our solutions, and therefore this team may be less effective than our more seasoned employees. Furthermore, hiring sales personnel in new countries, or expanding our existing presence, requires upfront and ongoing expenditures that we may not recover if the sales personnel fail to achieve full productivity. We cannot predict whether, or to what extent, our sales will increase as we expand our sales force or how long it will take for sales personnel to become productive. If we are unable to hire and train a sufficient number of effective sales personnel, or the sales personnel we hire are not successful in obtaining new customers or increasing sales to our existing customer base, our business and future growth prospects will be materially and adversely affected.
Our sales cycles can be long and unpredictable, and our sales efforts require considerable time and expense.
The timing of our sales and related revenue recognition is difficult to predict because of the length and unpredictability of the sales cycle for our cloud platform, particularly with respect to large organizations. Our sales efforts typically involve educating our prospective customers about the uses, benefits and the value proposition of our cloud platform. Customers often view the subscription to our cloud platform as a significant strategic decision and, as a result, frequently require
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considerable time to evaluate, test and qualify our platform prior to entering into or expanding a relationship with us. Large enterprises and government entities in particular often undertake a significant evaluation process that further lengthens the sales cycle.
Our sales force develops relationships directly with our customers, and together with our channel account teams, works with our channel partners on account penetration, account coordination, sales and overall market development. We spend substantial time and resources on our sales efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce a sale. Platform purchases are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals and unanticipated administrative, processing and other delays. As a result, it is difficult to predict whether and when a sale will be completed and when revenue from a sale will be recognized.
Sales to larger customers involve risks that may not be present, or that are present to a lesser extent, with sales to smaller customers, which can act as a disincentive to our sales team to pursue these larger customers. These risks include:
competition from companies that traditionally target larger enterprises and that may have pre-existing relationships or purchase commitments from such customers;
increased purchasing power and leverage held by larger customers in negotiating contractual arrangements with us;
more stringent requirements in our support obligations; and
longer sales cycles and the associated risk that substantial time and resources may be spent on a potential customer that elects not to purchase our solutions.
The failure of our efforts to secure sales after investing resources in a lengthy sales process could materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.
If we fail to develop or introduce new enhancements to our cloud platform on a timely basis, our ability to attract and retain customers, remain competitive and grow our business could be impaired.
The industry in which we compete is characterized by rapid technological change, frequent introductions of new products and services, evolving industry standards and changing regulations, as well as changing customer needs, requirements and preferences. Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers will depend in significant part on our ability to anticipate and respond effectively to these changes on a timely basis and continue to introduce enhancements to our cloud platform. The success of our cloud platform depends on our continued investment in our research and development organization to increase the reliability, availability and scalability of our existing solutions. The success of any enhancement depends on several factors, including the timely completion and market acceptance of the enhancement. Any new service that we develop might not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner and might not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate significant revenue. If new technologies emerge that deliver competitive products and services at lower prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more securely, these technologies could adversely impact our ability to compete effectively. Any delay or failure in the introduction of enhancements could materially harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Because we recognize revenue from subscriptions for our services over the term of the subscription, downturns or upturns in new business may not be immediately reflected in our operating results and may be difficult to discern.
We generally recognize revenue from customers ratably over the terms of their subscription, which are typically one to three years. As a result, a substantial portion of the revenue we report in each period is attributable to the recognition of deferred revenue relating to agreements that we entered into during previous periods. Consequently, any increase or decline in new sales or renewals in any one period may not be immediately reflected in our revenue for that period. Any such change, however, may affect our revenue in future periods. Additionally, subscriptions that are invoiced annually in advance or multi-
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year in advance contribute significantly to our short-term and long-term deferred revenue in comparison to our invoices issued quarterly and monthly in advance, which will also affect our financial position in any given period. Accordingly, the effect of downturns or upturns in new sales and potential changes in our rate of renewals may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. We may also be unable to reduce our cost structure in line with a significant deterioration in sales or renewals. Our subscription model also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as revenue from new customers must be recognized over the applicable subscription term.
If our cloud platform or internal networks, systems or data are or are perceived to have been breached, our solution may be perceived as insecure, our reputation may be damaged and our financial results may be negatively impacted.
It is virtually impossible for us to entirely mitigate the risk of breaches of our cloud platform or other security incidents affecting our internal systems, networks or data. In addition, the functionality of our platform may be disrupted by third parties, including disgruntled employees, former employees or contractors. The security measures we use internally and have integrated into our cloud platform, which are designed to detect unauthorized activity and prevent or minimize security breaches, may not function as expected or may not be sufficient to protect against certain attacks. Companies are subject to a wide variety of attacks on their networks and systems, and techniques used to sabotage or to obtain unauthorized access to networks in which data is stored or through which data is transmitted change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target. As a result, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate measures to prevent an electronic intrusion into our customers through our cloud platform or to prevent breaches and other security incidents affecting our cloud platform, internal networks, systems or data. Actual or perceived security breaches of our cloud platform could result in actual or perceived breaches of our customers’ networks and systems, which, in turn, could lead to litigation, governmental audits and investigations and significant legal fees, and could damage our relationships with our existing customers and have a negative impact on our ability to attract and retain new customers.
Our internal systems are exposed to the same cybersecurity risks and consequences of a breach as our customers and other enterprises. However, since our business is focused on providing reliable security services to our customers, we believe that an actual or perceived breach of, or security incident affecting, our internal networks, systems or data, could be especially detrimental to our reputation, customer confidence in our solution and our business.
If our cloud platform does not interoperate with our customers’ network and security infrastructure or with third-party products, websites or services, our cloud platform may become less competitive and our results of operations may be harmed.
Our cloud platform must interoperate with our customers’ existing network and security infrastructure. These complex systems are developed, delivered and maintained by the customer and a myriad of vendors and service providers. As a result, the components of our customers’ infrastructure have different specifications, rapidly evolve, utilize multiple protocol standards, include multiple versions and generations of products and may be highly customized. We must be able to interoperate and provide our security services to customers with highly complex and customized networks, which requires careful planning and execution between our customers, our customer support teams and our channel partners. Further, when new or updated elements of our customers’ infrastructure or new industry standards or protocols, such as HTTP/2, are introduced, we may have to update or enhance our cloud platform to allow us to continue to provide service to customers. Our competitors or other vendors may refuse to work with us to allow their products to interoperate with our solutions, which could make it difficult for our cloud platform to function properly in customer networks that include these third-party products.
We may not deliver or maintain interoperability quickly or cost-effectively, or at all. These efforts require capital investment and engineering resources. If we fail to maintain compatibility of our cloud platform with our customers’ network and security infrastructures, our customers may not be able to fully utilize our solutions, and we may, among other consequences, lose or fail to increase our market share and experience reduced demand for our services, which would
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materially harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
We provide service level commitments under our customer contracts. If we fail to meet these contractual commitments, we could be obligated to provide credits for future service and our business could suffer.
Our customer agreements contain service level commitments, which contain specifications regarding the availability and performance of our cloud platform. Any failure of or disruption to our infrastructure could impact the performance of our platform and the availability of services to customers. If we are unable to meet our stated service level commitments or if we suffer extended periods of poor performance or unavailability of our platform, we may be contractually obligated to provide affected customers with service credits for future subscriptions, and, in certain cases, refunds. To date, there has not been a material failure to meet our service level commitments, and we do not currently have any material liabilities accrued on our balance sheet for such commitments. Our revenue, other results of operations and financial condition could be harmed if we suffer performance issues or downtime that exceeds the service level commitments under our agreements with our customers.
Our ability to maintain customer satisfaction depends in part on the quality of our customer support, including the quality of the support provided on our behalf by certain channel partners. Failure to maintain high-quality customer support could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If we do not provide superior support to our customers, our ability to renew subscriptions, increase the number of users and sell additional services to customers will be adversely affected. We believe that successfully delivering our cloud solution requires a particularly high level of customer support and engagement. We or our channel partners must successfully assist our customers in deploying our cloud platform, resolving performance issues, addressing interoperability challenges with a customer’s existing network and security infrastructure and responding to security threats and cyberattacks. Many enterprises, particularly large organizations, have very complex networks and require high levels of focused support, including premium support offerings, to fully realize the benefits of our cloud platform. Any failure by us to maintain the expected level of support could reduce customer satisfaction and hurt our customer retention, particularly with respect to our large enterprise customers. Additionally, if our channel partners do not provide support to the satisfaction of our customers, we may be required to provide this level of support to those customers, which would require us to hire additional personnel and to invest in additional resources. We may not be able to hire such resources fast enough to keep up with demand, particularly if the sales of our platform exceed our internal forecasts. To the extent that we or our channel partners are unsuccessful in hiring, training and retaining adequate support resources, our ability and the ability of our channel partners to provide adequate and timely support to our customers will be negatively impacted, and our customers’ satisfaction with our cloud platform could be adversely affected. We currently rely in part on contractors provided by third-party service providers internationally to provide support services to our customers, and we expect to expand our international customer service support team to other countries. Any failure to properly train or oversee such contractors could result in a poor customer experience and an adverse impact on our reputation and ability to renew subscriptions or engage new customers. Furthermore, as we sell our solutions internationally, our support organization faces additional challenges, including those associated with delivering support, training and documentation in languages other than English. Any failure to maintain high-quality customer support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could materially harm our reputation, adversely affect our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective customers and could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We rely on our key technical, sales and management personnel to grow our business, and the loss of one or more key employees or the inability to attract and retain qualified personnel could harm our business.
Our future success is substantially dependent on our ability to attract, retain and motivate the members of our management team and other key employees throughout our organization. In particular, we are highly dependent on the services of Jay Chaudhry, our president, chief executive officer and chairman of our board of directors, who is critical to our future vision and strategic direction. We rely on our leadership team in the areas of operations, security, marketing, sales, support and general and administrative functions, and on individual contributors on our research and development team.
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Although we have entered into employment agreements with our key personnel, these agreements have no specific duration and constitute at-will employment. We do not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees. The loss of one or more of our executive officers or key employees could seriously harm our business. For example, William Welch resigned as our chief operating officer in May 2018. If we are unable to effectively replace him or manage his responsibilities on an interim basis, particularly with respect to our sales activities, our business and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
To execute our growth plan, we must attract and retain highly qualified personnel. Competition for these personnel in the San Francisco Bay Area, where our headquarters are located, and in other locations where we maintain offices, is intense, especially for experienced sales professionals and for engineers experienced in designing and developing cloud applications and security software. We have from time to time experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications. For example, in recent years, recruiting, hiring and retaining employees with expertise in the cybersecurity industry has become increasingly difficult as the demand for cybersecurity professionals has increased as a result of the recent cybersecurity attacks on global corporations and governments. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. In addition, job candidates and existing employees often consider the value of the equity awards they receive in connection with their employment. Volatility or lack of performance in our stock price may also affect our ability to attract and retain our key employees. Also, many of our employees have become, or will soon become, vested in a substantial amount of equity awards, which may give them a substantial amount of personal wealth. This may make it more difficult for us to retain and motivate these employees, and this wealth could affect their decision about whether or not they continue to work for us. Any failure to successfully attract, integrate or retain qualified personnel to fulfill our current or future needs could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our business is subject to the risks of 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 a flood, occurring at our headquarters, at one of our other facilities or where a key channel partner or data center 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 component suppliers or other third-party providers, this could materially and adversely affect our ability to provide services in a timely or cost-effective manner. In addition, natural disasters and acts of terrorism could cause disruptions in our or our customers’ businesses, national economies or the world economy as a whole. In addition, computer malware, viruses and computer hacking, fraudulent use attempts and phishing attacks have become more prevalent in our industry, and our internal systems may be victimized by such attacks. 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. 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 and availability of our platform to the satisfaction of our users may materially harm our reputation and our ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers.
We incorporate technology from third parties into our cloud platform, and our inability to obtain or maintain rights to the technology could harm our business.
We license software and other technology from third parties that we incorporate into or integrate with, our cloud platform. We cannot be certain that our licensors are not infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties or that our licensors have sufficient rights to the licensed intellectual property in all jurisdictions in which we may sell our services. In addition, many licenses are non-exclusive, and therefore our competitors may have access to the same technology licensed to us. Some of our agreements with our licensors may be terminated for convenience by them, or otherwise provide for a limited
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term. If we are unable to continue to license any of this technology for any reason, our ability to develop and sell our services containing such technology could be harmed. Similarly, if we are unable to license necessary technology from third parties now or in the future, we may be forced to acquire or develop alternative technology, which we may be unable to do in a commercially feasible manner or at all, and we may be required to use alternative technology of lower quality or performance standards. This could limit and delay our ability to offer new or competitive products and services and increase our costs of production. As a result, our business and results of operations could be significantly harmed. Additionally, as part of our longer-term strategy, we plan to open our cloud security platform to third-party developers and applications to further extend its functionality. We cannot be certain that such efforts to grow our business will be successful.
Some of our technology incorporates "open source" software, and we license some of our software through open source projects, which could negatively affect our ability to sell our platform and subject us to possible litigation.
Our solutions incorporate software licensed by third parties under open source licenses, including open source software included in software we receive from third-party commercial software vendors. Use of open source software may entail greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide support, updates or warranties or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. In addition, the wide availability of open source software used in our solutions could expose us to security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by U.S. courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to market or commercialize our solutions. As a result, we could be subject to lawsuits by parties claiming ownership of what we believe to be open source software. Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our results of operations and financial condition or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our solutions. In addition, by the terms of some open source licenses, under certain conditions we could be required to release the source code of our proprietary software, and to make our proprietary software available under open source licenses, including authorizing further modification and redistribution. In the event that portions of our proprietary software are determined to be subject to such requirements by an open source license, we could be required to publicly release the affected portions of our source code, re-engineer all or a portion of our platform or otherwise be limited in the licensing of our services, each of which provide an advantage to our competitors or other entrants to the market, create security vulnerabilities in our solutions and could reduce or eliminate the value of our services. Further, if we are held to have breached or otherwise failed to comply with the terms of an open source software license, we could be required to release certain of our proprietary source code under open source licenses, pay monetary damages, seek licenses from third parties to continue offering our services on terms that are not economically feasible or be subject to injunctions that could require us to discontinue the sale of our services if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis. Many of the risks associated with use of open source software cannot be eliminated and could negatively affect our business. Moreover, we cannot assure you that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our platform will be effective.
Responding to any infringement or noncompliance claim by an open source vendor, regardless of its validity, or discovering open source software code in our platform could harm our business, operating results and financial condition, by, among other things:
resulting in time-consuming and costly litigation;
diverting management’s time and attention from developing our business;
requiring us to pay monetary damages or enter into royalty and licensing agreements that we would not normally find acceptable;
causing delays in the deployment of our platform or service offerings to our customers;
requiring us to stop offering certain services on or features of our platform;
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requiring us to redesign certain components of our platform using alternative non-infringing or non-open source technology, which could require significant effort and expense;
requiring us to disclose our software source code and the detailed program commands for our software; and
requiring us to satisfy indemnification obligations to our customers.
We rely on third parties for certain essential financial and operational services, and a failure or disruption in these services could materially and adversely affect our ability to manage our business effectively.
We rely on third parties to provide many essential financial and operational services to support our business. Many of these vendors are less established and have shorter operating histories than traditional software vendors. Moreover, these vendors provide their services to us via a cloud-based model instead of software that is installed on our premises. As a result, we depend upon these vendors to provide us with services that are always available and are free of errors or defects that could cause disruptions in our business processes. Any failure by these vendors to do so, or any disruption in our ability to access the internet, would materially and adversely affect our ability to manage our operations.
 We rely on a limited number of suppliers for certain components of the equipment we use to operate our cloud platform, and any disruption in the availability of these components could delay our ability to expand or increase the capacity of our global data center network or replace defective equipment in our existing data centers.
We rely on a limited number of suppliers for several components of the equipment we use to operate our cloud platform and provide services to our customers. Our reliance on these suppliers exposes us to risks, including reduced control over production costs and constraints based on the then current availability, terms and pricing of these components. For example, we generally purchase these components on a purchase order basis, and do not have long-term contracts guaranteeing supply. In addition, the technology industry has experienced component shortages and delivery delays in the past, and we may experience shortages or delays, including as a result of natural disasters, increased demand in the industry or if our suppliers do not have sufficient rights to supply the components in all jurisdictions in which we may host our services. If our supply of certain components is disrupted or delayed, there can be no assurance that additional supplies or components can serve as adequate replacements for the existing components or that supplies will be available on terms that are favorable to us, if at all. Any disruption or delay in the supply of our components may delay opening new data centers, delay increasing capacity or replacing defective equipment at existing data centers or cause other constraints on our operations that could damage our channel partner or customer relationships.
Claims by others that we infringe their proprietary technology or other rights, such as the lawsuits filed by Symantec Corporation, or other lawsuits asserted against us, could result in significant costs and substantially harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
A number of companies in our industry hold a large number of patents and also protect their copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property rights, and companies in the networking and security industry frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of patent infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. In addition, patent holding companies seek to monetize patents they previously developed, have purchased or otherwise obtained. Many companies, including our competitors, may now, and in the future, have significantly larger and more mature patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret portfolios than we have, which they may use to assert claims of infringement, misappropriation and other violations of intellectual property rights against us. In addition, future litigation may involve non-practicing entities or other patent owners who have no relevant product offerings or revenue and against whom our own patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence or protection. As we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly higher profile, including as a result of becoming a public company, the possibility of intellectual property rights claims against us grows. Third parties have asserted in the past and may in the future assert claims of infringement of intellectual property rights against us and these claims, even without merit, could harm our business, including by increasing our costs, reducing our revenue, creating customer concerns
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that result in delayed or reduced sales, distracting our management from the running of our business and requiring us to cease use of important intellectual property. In addition, because patent applications can take years to issue and are often afforded confidentiality for some period of time, there may currently be pending applications, unknown to us, that later result in issued patents that could cover one or more of our services. Moreover, in a patent infringement claim against us, we may assert, as a defense, that we do not infringe the relevant patent claims, that the patent is invalid or both. The strength of our defenses will depend on the patents asserted, the interpretation of these patents, and our ability to invalidate the asserted patents. However, we could be unsuccessful in advancing non-infringement and/or invalidity arguments in our defense. In the United States, issued patents enjoy a presumption of validity, and the party challenging the validity of a patent claim must present clear and convincing evidence of invalidity, which is a high burden of proof. Conversely, the patent owner need only prove infringement by a preponderance of the evidence, which is a lower burden of proof. Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with patent and other intellectual property rights litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by the discovery process.
For example, we are currently involved in legal proceedings with Symantec. For additional details, see Part II, Item 1 - Legal Proceedings of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We are vigorously defending ourselves against these claims; however, we cannot assure you that we will be successful in defending against these lawsuits or any future allegations of infringement. We are unable to predict the likelihood of success in defending against these infringement claims. If we are not successful, we could be required to pay substantial damages for past and future sales and/or licensing of our services, enjoined from making, using, selling or otherwise offering our services if a license or other right to continue selling our services is not made available to us, and required to pay substantial ongoing royalties and comply with unfavorable terms even if such a license is made available to us. Any of these outcomes could result in a material adverse effect on our business. Even if we were to prevail, these lawsuits, and any other third-party infringement claims, could be costly and time-consuming, divert the attention of our management and key personnel from our business operations, deter channel partners from selling or licensing our services and dissuade potential customers from purchasing our services, which would also materially harm our business. In addition, any public announcements of the results of any proceedings in these or other third-party infringement claims could be negatively perceived by industry or financial analysts and investors and could cause our stock price to experience volatility or decline. The expense of litigation and the timing of this expense from period to period are difficult to estimate, subject to change and could adversely affect our results of operations.
As the number of products and competitors in our market increases and overlaps occur, claims of infringement, misappropriation and other violations of intellectual property rights may increase. Our insurance may not cover intellectual property rights infringement claims. Third parties have in the past and may in the future also assert infringement claims against our customers or channel partners, with whom our agreements may obligate us to indemnify against these claims. In addition, to the extent we hire personnel from competitors, we may be subject to allegations that such employees have divulged proprietary or other confidential information to us.
In the event that we fail to successfully defend ourselves against an infringement claim, a successful claimant could secure a judgment or otherwise require payment of legal fees, settlement payments, ongoing royalties or other costs or damages; or we may agree to a settlement that prevents us from offering certain services or features; or we may be required to obtain a license, which may not be available on reasonable terms, or at all, to use the relevant technology. If we are prevented from using certain technology or intellectual property, we may be required to develop alternative, non-infringing technology, which could require significant time, during which we could be unable to continue to offer our affected services or features, effort and expense and may ultimately not be successful.
From time to time, the U.S. Supreme Court, other U.S. federal courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Appeals Board, and their foreign counterparts, have made and may continue to make changes to the interpretation of patent laws in their respective jurisdictions. We cannot predict future changes to the interpretation of existing patent laws or whether U.S. or foreign legislative bodies will amend such laws in the future. Any changes may lead to uncertainties or increased costs and risks surrounding the outcome of third-party infringement claims brought against us and the actual or enhanced damages,
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including treble damages, that may be awarded in connection with any such current or future claims and could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.
Any of these events could materially and adversely harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may become involved in other litigation that may materially adversely affect us.
From time to time, we may become involved in various legal proceedings relating to matters incidental to the ordinary course of our business, including patent, commercial, product liability, employment, class action, whistleblower and other litigation and claims, and governmental and other regulatory investigations and proceedings. Such matters can be time-consuming, divert management’s attention and resources, cause us to incur significant expenses or liability and/or require us to change our business practices. In addition, the expense of litigation and the timing of this expense from period to period are difficult to estimate, subject to change and could adversely affect our results of operations. Because of the potential risks, expenses and uncertainties of litigation, we may, from time to time, settle disputes, even where we have meritorious claims or defenses, by agreeing to settlement agreements. Because litigation is inherently unpredictable, we cannot assure you that the results of any of these actions will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
The success of our business depends in part on our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights.
We believe our intellectual property is an essential asset of our business, and our success and ability to compete depend in part upon protection of our intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions, to establish and protect our intellectual property rights, all of which provide only limited protection. The efforts we have taken to protect our intellectual property rights may not be sufficient or effective, and our patents, trademarks and copyrights may be held invalid or unenforceable. Moreover, we cannot assure you that any patents will be issued with respect to our currently pending patent applications in a manner that gives us adequate defensive protection or competitive advantages, or that any patents issued to us will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. We have filed for patents in the United States and in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions, but such protections may not be available in all countries in which we operate or in which we seek to enforce our intellectual property rights, or may be difficult to enforce in practice. For example, many foreign countries have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner must grant licenses to third parties. In addition, many countries limit the enforceability of patents against certain third parties, including government agencies or government contractors. In these countries, patents may provide limited or no benefit. Moreover, we may need to expend additional resources to defend our intellectual property rights in these countries, and our inability to do so could impair our business or adversely affect our international expansion. Our currently issued patents and any patents that may be issued in the future with respect to pending or future patent applications may not provide sufficiently broad protection or they may not prove to be enforceable in actions against alleged infringers. Additionally, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and various foreign governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar provisions during the patent application process and to maintain issued patents. There are situations in which noncompliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. If this occurs, it could materially harm our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects.
We may not be effective in policing unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, and even if we do detect violations, litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights. In addition, our intellectual property may be stolen, including by cybercrimes, and we may not be able to identify the perpetrators or prevent the exploitation of our intellectual property by our competitors or others. Protecting against the unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights, technology and other proprietary rights is expensive and difficult, particularly outside of the United States. Any enforcement efforts we undertake, including litigation, could be time-consuming and expensive and could divert management’s attention, either of which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Further, attempts to enforce our rights against third parties could also provoke these third parties to assert their own intellectual property or other rights against us,
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or result in a holding that invalidates or narrows the scope of our rights, in whole or in part. The inability to adequately protect and enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights could seriously harm our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects. Even if we are able to secure our intellectual property rights, we cannot assure you that such rights will provide us with competitive advantages or distinguish our services from those of our competitors or that our competitors will not independently develop similar technology, duplicate any of our technology, or design around our patents.
Our business depends, in part, on sales to government organizations, and significant changes in the contracting or fiscal policies of such government organizations could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
We derive a portion of our revenue from contracts with government organizations, and we believe the success and growth of our business will in part depend on our successful procurement of additional public sector customers. However, demand from government organizations is often unpredictable, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain or grow our revenue from the public sector. Sales to government entities are subject to substantial risks, including the following:
selling to government agencies can be highly competitive, expensive and time-consuming, often requiring significant upfront time and expense without any assurance that such efforts will generate a sale;
U.S. or other government certification requirements applicable to our cloud platform, including the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, are often difficult and costly to obtain and maintain and failure to do so will restrict our ability to sell to government customers;
government demand and payment for our services may be impacted by public sector budgetary cycles and funding authorizations; and
governments routinely investigate and audit government contractors’ administrative processes and any unfavorable audit could result in fines, civil or criminal liability, further investigations, damage to our reputation and debarment from further government business.
The occurrence of any of the foregoing could cause governments and governmental agencies to delay or refrain from purchasing our solutions in the future or otherwise have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
Failure to comply with laws and regulations applicable to our business could subject us to fines and penalties and could also cause us to lose customers in the public sector or negatively impact our ability to contract with the public sector.
Our business is subject to regulation by various federal, state, local and foreign governmental agencies, including agencies responsible for monitoring and enforcing privacy and data protection laws and regulations, employment and labor laws, workplace safety, product safety, environmental laws, consumer protection laws, anti-bribery laws, import and export controls, federal securities laws and tax laws and regulations. In certain jurisdictions, these regulatory requirements may be more stringent than in the United States. These laws and regulations impose added costs on our business. Noncompliance with applicable regulations or requirements could subject us to:
investigations, enforcement actions and sanctions;
mandatory changes to our cloud platform;
disgorgement of profits, fines and damages;
civil and criminal penalties or injunctions;
claims for damages by our customers or channel partners;
termination of contracts;
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loss of intellectual property rights; and
temporary or permanent debarment from sales to government organizations.
If any governmental sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any possible civil or criminal litigation, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a significant diversion of management’s attention and resources and an increase in professional fees. Enforcement actions and sanctions could materially harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
We endeavor to properly classify employees as exempt versus non-exempt under applicable law. Although there are no pending or threatened material claims or investigations against us asserting that some employees are improperly classified as exempt, the possibility exists that some of our current or former employees could have been incorrectly classified as exempt employees.
In addition, we must comply with laws and regulations relating to the formation, administration and performance of contracts with the public sector, including U.S. federal, state and local governmental organizations, which affect how we and our channel partners do business with governmental agencies. Selling our solutions to the U.S. government, whether directly or through channel partners, also subjects us to certain regulatory and contractual requirements. Failure to comply with these requirements by either us or our channel partners could subject us to investigations, fines and other penalties, which could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects. As an example, the U.S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, and the General Services Administration, or GSA, have in the past pursued claims against and financial settlements with IT vendors under the False Claims Act and other statutes related to pricing and discount practices and compliance with certain provisions of GSA contracts for sales to the federal government. The DOJ and GSA continue to actively pursue such claims. Violations of certain regulatory and contractual requirements could also result in us being suspended or debarred from future government contracting. Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our revenue, operating results, financial condition and prospects.
These laws and regulations impose added costs on our business, and failure to comply with these or other applicable regulations and requirements could lead to claims for damages from our channel partners or customers, penalties, termination of contracts, loss of exclusive rights in our intellectual property and temporary suspension or permanent debarment from government contracting. Any such damages, penalties, disruptions or limitations in our ability to do business with the public sector could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.
If we were not able to satisfy data protection, security, privacy and other government- and industry-specific requirements or regulations, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed.
Personal privacy, data protection, information security and other telecommunications regulations are significant issues in the United States, Europe and in other jurisdictions where we offer our solutions. The regulatory framework for privacy and security matters is rapidly evolving and is likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. Our handling of data is subject to a variety of laws and regulations, including regulation by various government agencies.
The U.S. federal government, and various state and foreign governments, have adopted or proposed limitations on the collection, distribution, use and storage of personally identifiable information of individuals. Laws and regulations outside the United States, and particularly in Europe, often are more restrictive than those in the United States. Such laws and regulations may require companies to implement privacy and security policies, permit customers to access, correct and delete personal information stored or maintained by such companies, inform individuals of security breaches that affect their personal information, and, in some cases, obtain individuals’ consent to use personally identifiable information for certain purposes. In addition, some foreign governments require that any personally identifiable information collected in a country not be disseminated outside of that country. We also may find it necessary or desirable to join industry or other self-regulatory bodies or other information security or data protection-related organizations that require compliance with their rules
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pertaining to information security and data protection. We also may be bound by additional, more stringent contractual obligations relating to our collection, use and disclosure of personal, financial and other data.
We also expect that there will continue to be new proposed laws, regulations and industry standards concerning privacy, data protection, information security and telecommunications services in the United States, the European Union and other jurisdictions in which we operate or may operate, and we cannot yet determine the impact such future laws, regulations and standards may have on our business. For example, the European Union implemented the General Data Protection Regulation, in May 2018, which imposes stringent data protection requirements and provides for significant penalties for noncompliance. In addition, changes in laws or regulations that adversely affect the use of the internet, including laws impacting net neutrality, could impact our business. Similarly, California recently adopted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which will take effect in in January 2020 and seeks to provide California consumers with increased privacy rights and protections for their personal information. Further, China and Russia, countries in which we offer our solutions, recently enacted legislation prohibiting certain technologies, and it is not clear how broadly such prohibitions will be interpreted or applied in relation to our business. We expect that existing laws, regulations and standards may be interpreted in new manners in the future. Future laws, regulations, standards and other obligations, and changes in the interpretation of existing laws, regulations, standards and other obligations could require us to modify our solutions, restrict our business operations, increase our costs and impair our ability to maintain and grow our customer base and increase our revenue.
Although we work to comply with applicable laws and regulations, industry standards, contractual obligations and other legal obligations, those laws, regulations, standards and obligations are evolving and may be modified, interpreted and applied in an inconsistent manner from one jurisdiction to another, and may conflict with one another. In addition, they may conflict with other requirements or legal obligations that apply to our business or the security features and services that our customers expect from our solutions. As such, we cannot assure ongoing compliance with all such laws, regulations, standards and obligations. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with applicable laws, regulations, standards or obligations, or any actual or suspected security incident, whether or not resulting in unauthorized access to, or acquisition, release or transfer of personally identifiable information or other data, may result in governmental enforcement actions and prosecutions, private litigation, fines and penalties or adverse publicity, and could cause our customers to lose trust in us, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation and business. Any inability to adequately address privacy and security concerns, even if unfounded, or comply with applicable laws, regulations, standards and obligations, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales, and materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.
We are subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery and similar laws, and noncompliance with such laws can subject us to criminal penalties or significant fines and harm our business and reputation.
We are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the U.K. Bribery Act 2010 and other anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and similar laws in the United States and other countries in which we conduct activities. Anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, which have been enforced aggressively and are interpreted broadly, prohibit companies and their employees and agents from promising, authorizing, making or offering improper payments or other benefits to government officials and others in the private sector. We leverage third parties, including channel partners, to sell subscriptions to our platform and conduct our business abroad. We and these third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities and we may be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party business partners and intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, channel partners and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize such activities. While we have policies and procedures to address compliance with such laws, we cannot assure you that all of our employees and agents will not take actions in violation of our policies and applicable law, for which we may be ultimately held responsible. As we increase our international sales and business, our risks under these laws may increase. Noncompliance with these laws could subject us to investigations, severe criminal or civil sanctions, settlements, prosecution, loss of export privileges, suspension or debarment from U.S. government contracts, other enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits, significant fines, damages,
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other civil and criminal penalties or injunctions, whistleblower complaints, adverse media coverage and other consequences. Any investigations, actions or sanctions could materially harm our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition.
We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets and subject us to liability if we are not in full compliance with applicable laws.
Our business activities are subject to various restrictions under U.S. export and similar laws and regulations, including the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Administration Regulations and various economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The U.S. export control laws and U.S. economic sanctions laws include restrictions or prohibitions on the sale or supply of certain products and services to U.S. embargoed or sanctioned countries, governments, persons and entities. In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain technology and have enacted or could enact laws that could limit our ability to provide our services and operate our cloud platform or could limit our customers’ ability to access or use our services in those countries.
Although we take precautions to prevent our services from being provided in violation of such laws, our services may have been in the past, and could in the future be, provided inadvertently in violation of such laws, despite the precautions we take. If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we and certain of our employees could be subject to civil or criminal penalties, including the possible loss of export privileges and fines. We may also be materially and adversely affected through penalties, reputational harm, loss of access to certain markets, or otherwise. Obtaining the necessary authorizations, including any required license, for a particular transaction may be time-consuming, is not guaranteed and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. In addition, changes in our platform, or changes in export, sanctions and import laws, could delay the introduction and sale of subscriptions to our platform in international markets, prevent users in certain countries from accessing our services or, in some cases, prevent the provision of our services to certain countries, governments, persons or entities altogether. Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions or related laws, shift in the enforcement or scope of existing regulations or change in the countries, governments, persons or technologies targeted by such regulations could decrease our ability to sell subscriptions to our platform to existing customers or potential new customers with international operations. Any decrease in our ability to sell subscriptions to our platform could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our international operations expose us to significant risks, and failure to manage those risks could materially and adversely impact our business.
Historically, we have derived a significant portion of our revenue from outside the United States. We derived approximately 55% and 54% of our revenue from our international customers for fiscal 2018 and 2017, respectively. As of July 31, 2018, approximately 53% of our full-time employees were located outside of the United States. We are continuing to adapt to and develop strategies to address international markets and our growth strategy includes expansion into target geographies, such as Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, but there is no guarantee that such efforts will be successful. We expect that our international activities will continue to grow in the future, as we continue to pursue opportunities in international markets. These international operations will require significant management attention and financial resources and are subject to substantial risks, including:
political, economic and social uncertainty;
unexpected costs for the localization of our services, including translation into foreign languages and adaptation for local practices and regulatory requirements;
greater difficulty in enforcing contracts and accounts receivable collection, and longer collection periods;
reduced or uncertain protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
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greater risk of unexpected changes in regulatory practices, tariffs and tax laws and treaties;
greater risk of a failure of foreign employees, partners, distributors and resellers to comply with both U.S. and foreign laws, including antitrust regulations, anti-bribery laws, export and import control laws, and any applicable trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices;
requirements to comply with foreign privacy, data protection and information security laws and regulations and the risks and costs of noncompliance;
increased expenses incurred in establishing and maintaining office space and equipment for our international operations;
greater difficulty in identifying, attracting and retaining local qualified personnel, and the costs and expenses associated with such activities;
differing employment practices and labor relations issues;
difficulties in managing and staffing international offices and increased travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with multiple international locations; and
fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies in markets where we do business, including the British Pound, Indian Rupee and Euro, and related impact on sales cycles.
As we continue to develop and grow our business globally, our success will depend, in large part, on our ability to anticipate and effectively manage these risks. The expansion of our existing international operations and entry into additional international markets will require significant management attention and financial resources. Our failure to successfully manage our international operations and the associated risks could limit the future growth of our business.
Our failure to raise additional capital necessary to expand our operations and invest in new solutions could reduce our ability to compete and could harm our business.
We expect that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. We may, however, need to raise additional funds in the future to fund our operating expenses, make capital purchases and acquire or invest in business or technology, and we may not be able to obtain those funds on favorable terms, or at all. If we raise additional equity financing, our stockholders may experience significant dilution of their ownership interests and the per share value of our common stock could decline. Furthermore, if we engage in debt financing, the holders of debt would have priority over the holders of our common stock, and we may be required to accept terms that restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness or our ability to pay any dividends on our common stock, though we do not intend to pay dividends in the foreseeable future. We may also be required to take other actions, any of which could harm our business and operating results. 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 and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited, and our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects could be materially and adversely affected.
Adverse economic conditions or reduced IT security spending may adversely impact our revenue and profitability.
Our operations and performance depend in part on worldwide economic conditions and the impact these conditions have on levels of spending on IT networking and security solutions. Our business depends on the overall demand for these solutions and on the economic health and general willingness of our current and prospective customers to purchase our security services. Weak economic conditions, or a reduction in IT security spending, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition in a number of ways, including by reducing sales, lengthening sales cycles and lowering prices for our services.
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We believe our long-term value as a company will be greater if we focus on growth, which may negatively impact our profitability in the near term.
Part of our business strategy is to primarily focus on our long-term growth. As a result, our profitability may be lower in the near term than it would be if our strategy were to maximize short-term profitability. Significant expenditures on sales and marketing efforts, and expenditures on growing our cloud platform and expanding our research and development, each of which we intend to continue to invest in, may not ultimately grow our business or cause long-term profitability. If we are ultimately unable to achieve profitability at the level anticipated by industry or financial analysts and our stockholders, our stock price may decline.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the rules and regulations of The Nasdaq Global Select Market, or Nasdaq. The requirements of these rules and regulations will increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs; make some activities more difficult, time-consuming and costly; and place significant strain on our personnel, systems and resources.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. We are continuing to develop and refine our disclosure controls, internal controls over financial reporting and other procedures that are designed to ensure information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we will file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers.
Our current controls and any new controls we develop may become inadequate because of changes in conditions in our business. Further, weaknesses in our internal controls 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 operating results 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 controls 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 we will file with the SEC under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 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, which would likely have a negative effect on the market price of our common stock.
In order to maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting, we have expended and anticipate we will continue to expend significant resources, including accounting-related costs, and provide significant management oversight. Any failure to maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, or consequent inability to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis, could increase our operating costs and could materially impair our ability to operate our business. If our internal controls are perceived as inadequate or we are unable to produce timely or accurate financial statements, investors may lose confidence in our operating results and our stock price could decline. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on Nasdaq.
Our independent registered public accounting firm is not required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting until after we are no longer an emerging growth company. At such time, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is adverse in the event it is not satisfied with the level at which our controls are documented, designed or operating. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial
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reporting could have a material and adverse effect on our business and operating results and could cause a decline in the price of our stock.
We are exposed to fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our operating results.
The vast majority of our sales contracts are denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, substantially all of our revenue is not subject to foreign currency risk. However, a strengthening of the U.S. dollar could increase the real cost of our solutions to our customers outside of the United States, which could adversely affect our financial condition and operating results. In addition, an increasing portion of our operating expenses is incurred outside the United States, is denominated in foreign currencies, such as the British Pound, Indian Rupee and Euro, and is subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. If we become more exposed to currency fluctuations and are not able to successfully hedge against the risks associated with currency fluctuations, our operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
Taxing authorities may successfully assert that we should have collected or in the future should collect sales and use, value added or similar taxes, and we could be subject to liability with respect to past or future sales, which could adversely affect our operating results.
We do not collect sales and use, value added or similar taxes in all jurisdictions in which we have sales because we have been advised that such taxes are not applicable to our services in certain jurisdictions. Sales and use, value added and similar tax laws and rates vary greatly by jurisdiction. Certain jurisdictions in which we do not collect such taxes may assert that such taxes are applicable, which could result in tax assessments, penalties and interest, to us or our customers for the past amounts, and we may be required to collect such taxes in the future. If we are unsuccessful in collecting such taxes from our customers, we could be held liable for such costs, which may materially and adversely affect our operating results.
Our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements are subject to the tax laws of various jurisdictions, and we could be obligated to pay additional taxes, which would harm our results of operations.
We are expanding our international operations and staff to support our business in international markets. Our corporate structure and associated transfer pricing policies contemplate the business flows and future growth into the international markets, and consider the functions, risks and assets of the various entities involved in the intercompany transactions. The amount of taxes we pay in different jurisdictions may depend on the application of the tax laws of the various jurisdictions, including the United States, to our international business activities, changes in tax rates, new or revised tax laws or interpretations of existing tax laws and policies, and our ability to operate our business in a manner consistent with our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements. The taxing authorities of the jurisdictions in which we operate may challenge our methodologies for pricing intercompany transactions pursuant to the intercompany arrangements or disagree with our determinations as to the income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. If such a challenge or disagreement were to occur, and our position was 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. Our financial statements could fail to reflect adequate reserves to cover such a contingency.
Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be limited.
As of July 31, 2018, we had net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. federal income tax purposes and state income tax purposes of $173.6 million and $62.4 million, respectively, available to offset future taxable income. If not utilized, the federal net operating loss carryforwards will begin to expire in 2027 and the state net operating loss carryforwards will begin to expire in 2024. Realization of these net operating loss and research tax credit carryforwards depends on future income, and there is a risk that our existing carryforwards could expire unused and be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities, which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
In addition, under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, if a corporation undergoes an "ownership change," generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s
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ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes, such as research tax credits, to offset its post-change income may be limited. Although, we did not experience an ownership change in connection with the IPO, we may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of subsequent shifts in our stock ownership. As a result, if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our pre-change net operating loss carry-forwards to offset U.S. federal taxable income may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us.
Future acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships or alliances could be difficult to identify and integrate, divert the attention of key management personnel, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our operating results, financial condition and prospects.
Our business strategy may, from time to time, include acquiring other complementary solutions, technologies or businesses. In order to expand our security offerings and features, we also may enter into relationships with other businesses, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution or investments in other companies. Negotiating these transactions can be time-consuming, difficult and costly, and our ability to close these transactions may be subject to third-party approvals, such as government regulatory approvals, which are beyond our control. Consequently, we cannot assure you that these transactions, once undertaken and announced, will close.
These kinds of acquisitions or investments may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products and services, personnel or operations of companies that we may acquire, particularly if the key personnel of an acquired business choose not to work for us. We may have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business or using or continuing the development of the acquired technologies. Acquisitions may also disrupt our ongoing business, divert our resources and require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for development of our business. We may not successfully evaluate or utilize the acquired technology or personnel, or accurately forecast the financial impact of an acquisition transaction, including accounting charges. Any acquisition or investment could expose us to unknown liabilities. Moreover, we cannot assure you that the anticipated benefits of any acquisition or investment would be realized or that we would not be exposed to unknown liabilities. In connection with these types of transactions, we may:
issue additional equity securities that would dilute our stockholders;
use cash that we may need in the future to operate our business;
incur debt on terms unfavorable to us or that we are unable to repay;
incur large charges or substantial liabilities;
encounter difficulties integrating diverse business cultures; and
become subject to adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation or deferred compensation charges.
These challenges related to acquisitions or investments could adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect or financial reporting standards or interpretations change, 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 our 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 the section titled "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,
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and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. Significant assumptions and estimates used in preparing our consolidated financial statements include those related to determination of revenue recognition, deferred revenue and deferred contract acquisition costs, specifically related to our adoption of the new revenue recognition standard; allowance for doubtful accounts; valuation of common stock options; useful lives of property and equipment; the period of benefit generated from our deferred contract acquisition costs; loss contingencies related to litigation; and valuation of deferred tax assets. 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 industry or financial analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.
Additionally, we regularly monitor our compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and review new pronouncements and drafts thereof that are relevant to us. As a result of new standards, changes to existing standards and changes in their interpretation, we might be required to change our accounting policies, alter our operational policies and implement new or enhance existing systems so that they reflect new or amended financial reporting standards, or we may be required to restate our published financial statements. Such changes to existing standards or changes in their interpretation may have an adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial position and profit, or cause an adverse deviation from our revenue and operating profit target, which may negatively impact our financial results.
Risks Related to the Ownership of Our Common Stock
The concentration of our stock ownership with insiders will likely limit your ability to influence corporate matters, including the ability to influence the outcome of director elections and other matters requiring stockholder approval.
As of April 30, 2019, our executive officers, directors, current 5% or greater stockholders and affiliated entities together beneficially owned approximately 55% of our common stock outstanding with Jay Chaudhry, our president, chief executive officer and chairman of our board of directors, and his affiliates beneficially owning approximately 19.9% of our common stock. As a result, these stockholders, acting together, will have control over most matters that require approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. Corporate action might be taken even if other stockholders oppose them. This concentration of ownership might also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of us that other stockholders may view as beneficial.
The issuance of additional stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes us to issue up to one billion shares of common stock and up to two hundred million shares of preferred stock with such rights and preferences as may be determined by our board of directors. Subject to compliance with applicable rules and regulations, we may issue shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of our common stock from time to time in connection with a financing, acquisition, investment, our stock incentive plans or otherwise. Any such issuance could result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
Certain provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove members of our board of directors or current management and may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect
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directors that are not nominated by the current members of our board of directors or take other corporate actions, including effecting changes in our management. These provisions include:
a classified board of directors with three-year staggered terms, which could delay the ability of stockholders to change the membership of a majority of our board of directors;
the ability of our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;
the exclusive right of our board of directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;
a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken at an annual or special meeting of our stockholders;
the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by the chairperson of our board of directors, chief executive officer or president (in the absence of a chief executive officer) or a majority vote of our board of directors, which could delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;
the requirement for the affirmative vote of holders of at least 66 23% of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the voting stock, voting together as a single class, to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation relating to the issuance of preferred stock and management of our business or our amended and restated bylaws, which may inhibit the ability of an acquirer to affect such amendments to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;
the ability of our board of directors, by majority vote, to amend our amended and restated bylaws, which may allow our board of directors to take additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend our amended and restated bylaws to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and
advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, 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 may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or combining with us for a certain period of time.
The market price of our common stock may be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
There was no public market for our common stock prior to the IPO. The market price of our common stock following the IPO has fluctuated substantially and may fluctuate significantly in the future in response to a number of factors, including those described in this "Risk Factors" section, many of which are beyond our control and may not be related to our operating performance. These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment in our common stock. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the market price of our common stock include the following:
actual or anticipated changes or fluctuations in our operating results;
the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
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announcements by us or our competitors of new products or new or terminated significant contracts, commercial relationships or capital commitments;
industry or financial analyst or investor 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;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
volume fluctuations in the trading of our common stock from time to time;
changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;
the expiration of market stand-off or contractual lock-up agreements and sales of shares of our common stock by us or our stockholders;
failure of industry or financial analysts to maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
actual or anticipated developments in our business or 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 rights or our solutions, or third-party proprietary rights;
announced or completed acquisitions of businesses or technologies by us or our competitors;
new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;
any major changes in our management or our board of directors, particularly with respect to Mr. Chaudhry;
general economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets; and
other events or factors, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism or responses to these events.
In addition, the stock market in general, and the market for technology companies in particular, has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. Broad market and industry factors may seriously affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance. In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market prices of a particular company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against that company. Securities litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources from our business. This could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public markets, or the perception that they might occur, could reduce the price that our common stock might otherwise attain and may dilute your voting power and your ownership interest in us.
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Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers and significant stockholders, or the perception that these sales could occur, could adversely affect the market price of our common stock and may make it more difficult for you to sell your common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate.
In addition, certain holders of our common stock are entitled to rights with respect to registration of their shares under the Securities Act pursuant to our amended and restated investors’ rights agreement. If these holders of our common stock, by exercising their registration rights, sell a large number of shares, they could adversely affect the market price for our common stock.
We may also issue our shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of our common stock from time to time in connection with a financing, acquisition, investments or otherwise. Any such issuance could result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
We do not intend to pay dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock.
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation of our business and do not anticipate paying any dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments.
If industry or financial analysts issue inaccurate or unfavorable research regarding our common stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our common stock is influenced by the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about us or our business. We do not control these analysts or the content and opinions included in their reports. As a new public company, we may be slow to attract research coverage and the analysts who publish information about our common stock will have had relatively little experience with our company, which could affect their ability to accurately forecast our results and make it more likely that we fail to meet their estimates. If any of the analysts who cover us issues an inaccurate or unfavorable opinion regarding our stock price, our stock price would likely decline. In addition, the stock prices of many companies in the technology industry have declined significantly after those companies have failed to meet, or significantly exceed, the financial guidance publicly announced by the companies or the expectations of analysts. If our financial results fail to meet, or significantly exceed, our announced guidance or the expectations of analysts or public investors, analysts could downgrade our common stock or publish unfavorable research about us. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to publish reports on us regularly, our visibility in the financial markets could decrease, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forums 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 amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for:
any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf;
any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty;
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any action asserting a claim against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws;
any action to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws; and
any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal-affairs doctrine.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act.
Each of these exclusive-forum provisions 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 other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees.

If a court were to find either exclusive-forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation 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. For example, on December 19, 2018, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a decision in Matthew Sciabacucchi v. Matthew B. Salzberg et al., C.A. No. 2017-0931-JTL (Del. Ch.), finding that provisions such as selecting the federal district courts of the United States of America as the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933 are not valid under Delaware law.
We are an "emerging growth company" and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors.
For so long as we remain an "emerging growth company" as defined in the JOBS Act, we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various requirements that are applicable to public companies that are not "emerging growth companies," including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We may take advantage of these exemptions until we are no longer an emerging growth company, which will occur with our transition to large accelerated filer status as of July 31, 2019. We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile
The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified board members.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting and corporate governance requirements of the Exchange Act, the listing requirements of Nasdaq and other applicable securities rules and regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Compliance with these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increase demand on our systems and resources., particularly after we are no longer an emerging growth company. Among other things, the Exchange Act requires that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and results of operations and maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. In order to improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight may be required. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Although we have
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hired additional personnel to help comply with these requirements, we may need to further expand our legal and finance departments in the future, which will increase our costs and expenses.
In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time-consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expense and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business and prospects may be harmed. As a result of disclosure of information in the filings required of a public company, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially harmed, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and materially harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.
In addition, as a result of our disclosure obligations as a public company, we will have reduced strategic flexibility and will be under pressure to focus on short-term results, which may materially and adversely affect our ability to achieve long-term profitability.

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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
There were no purchases of shares of our common stock during the three months ended April 30, 2019.
On March 20, 2018, we closed our IPO. The offer and sale of the shares in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-223072), which was declared effective by the SEC on March 15, 2018. There has been no material change in the use of proceeds from our IPO as described in our final prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act and other periodic reports previously filed with the SEC.
Item 6. Exhibits.
We have filed the exhibits listed on the accompanying Exhibit Index, which is incorporated herein by reference. 
 Index to Exhibits
Incorporated by Reference
 
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Exhibit Description
FormFile No.ExhibitFiling DateFiled Herewith
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31.1X
31.2X
32.1*X
101.INSXBRL Instance DocumentX
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema DocumentX
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase DocumentX
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase DocumentX
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase DocumentX
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase DocumentX
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† Certain portions of this exhibit (indicated by "[***]") have been omitted as Registrant determined the omitted information (i) is not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful to Registrant if publicly disclosed.

* 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 the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Zscaler, Inc.
June 5, 2019/s/Remo Canessa
Remo Canessa
Chief Financial Officer

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Exhibit 10.1
CERTAIN IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE EXHIBIT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED, AND THE EXCLUDED TERMS HAVE BEEN MARKED AT THE APPROPRIATE PLACE WITH THREE ASTERISKS [***].
SUBLEASE
THIS SUBLEASE (this “Sublease”) is dated for reference purposes as of March 26, 2019, and is made by and between Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Sublessor”), and Zscaler, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Sublessee”). Sublessor and Sublessee hereby agree as follows:
1.Recitals: This Sublease is made with reference to the fact that MT Silicon Valley One LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Master Lessor”), as landlord, successor-in-interest to 110 Holger Owner LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, 120 Holger Owner LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and 130 Holger Owner LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Sublessor, as tenant, entered into that certain Office Lease Agreement, dated as of May 18, 2018 (the “Master Lease”), with respect to premises consisting of approximately 603,666 square feet of space, located at 110 Holger Way, San Jose, California (the “110 Premises”), 120 Holger Way, San Jose, California (the “120 Premises”) and 130 Holger Way, San Jose, California (the “130 Premises” and together with 110 Premises and 120 Premises, collectively, the “Premises”, or, alternatively, the “Buildings”). A redacted copy of the Master Lease is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
2. Premises:
A. Subleased Premises. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Sublease Sublessor hereby subleases to Sublessee, and Sublessee hereby subleases from Sublessor, a portion of the 120 Premises consisting of approximately 68,962 square feet of space constituting the entirety of the fifth and seventh floors (the “Phase I Premises”), approximately 34,481 square feet of space located on the sixth floor (the “Phase II Premises”), approximately 34,481 square feet of space located on the fourth floor (the “Phase III Premises”), approximately 34,481 square feet of space located on the third floor (the “Phase IV Premises”, and, together with the Phase I Premises, the Phase II Premises and the Phase III Premises, the “Subleased Premises”, and with each such phase sometimes being referred to individually as a “Phase” of the Subleased Premises). The total rentable square footage of the Subleased Premises, following the occurrence of the Commencement Date as to all Phases of the Subleased Premises, will be 172,405 rentable square feet. The Subleased Premises and each Phase thereof are more particularly described on Exhibit B attached hereto.
B. Common Area. In connection with its use of the Subleased Premises, Sublessee shall have the non-exclusive right to use, together with the other occupants of the 120 Premises and the other Buildings, the lobbies, stairways, elevators and other common areas from time to time designated by Sublessor for the common use of the occupants of the 120 Premises (including the fitness center, game room, training center and cafe located on the first floor of the 120 Premises) (the “120 Common Areas”). In addition, in connection with its use of the Subleased Premises, Sublessee shall also have the non-exclusive right to use, together with the other occupants of the 120 Premises and the other Buildings, exterior walkways, driveways, parking areas and other exterior areas used in common by the occupants of the 120 Premises and occupants of the other Buildings, including the Exterior Amenities, as defined below (the “Project Common Areas”, together with the 120 Common Areas, the “Common Areas”). Sublessee’s use of such 120 Common Areas and Project Common



Areas shall be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as Sublessor may establish from time to time and all applicable rules, regulations, covenants, conditions and restrictions of any Association or the Master Lessor or otherwise arising under the Master Lease or applicable to the Buildings. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any use of the training center in the 120 Building and the Exterior Amenities (defined below) shall be subject to availability (with Sublessor and its employees having priority rights to use such facilities), Sublessor’s policies and procedures governing the use of such facilities, and Sublessor’s charges for any out-of-pocket costs associated with Sublessee’s use of such facilities (such as set-up and cleaning charges). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sublessee shall not be entitled to use the outside pavilion space, sports courts and similar exterior amenities (collectively, the “Exterior Amenities”) for any exclusive use (such as planned events, company meetings and similar company events or occasions) without Sublessor’s prior written approval, which approval may be withheld in Sublessor’s sole discretion and may be conditioned upon, without limitation compliance with such policies, procedures, insurance requirements, documentation requirements, scheduling protocols and fees as Sublessor shall determine.
3. Term:
A. The term (the “Term”) of this Sublease with respect to the Phase I Premises shall be for the period commencing on October 1, 2019, (the “Commencement Date”). Subject to Paragraph 27 below, the “Commencement Date” of the Term of this Sublease for the remainder of the Subleased Premises shall occur as follows:
(1) The Term of the Sublease as to the Phase II Premises shall commence on the later of (a) October 1, 2020 (the “Scheduled Phase II Commencement Date”) or (b) sixty (60) days after Sublessor delivers early access to the Phase II Premises in accordance with Paragraph 3.C(3) below;
(2) The Term of the Sublease as to the Phase III Premises shall commence on the later of (a) October 1, 2022 (the “Scheduled Phase III Commencement Date”) or (b) sixty (60) days after Sublessor delivers early access to the Phase III Premises in accordance with Paragraph 3.C(3) below; and
(3) The Term of the Sublease as to the Phase IV Premises shall commence on the later of (a) October 1, 2025 or (b) sixty (60) days after Sublessor delivers early access to the Phase IV Premises in accordance with Paragraph 3.C(3)below.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Sublessee occupies any portion of any Phase of the Subleased Premises for the conduct of business prior to the applicable Commencement Date set forth above, then the Term of the Sublease shall be deemed to commence as to such Phase of the Subleased Premises as of the date that Sublessee occupies any portion of such Phase of the Subleased Premises for the conduct of business.
B. The Term of the Sublease shall end on September 30, 2026 (the “Expiration Date”), unless this Sublease is sooner terminated pursuant to its terms or the Master Lease is sooner terminated pursuant to its terms.
C.  Provided that the Early Access Conditions are satisfied, Sublessor shall permit Sublessee to access portions of the Sublease Premises prior to the applicable Commencement Date as set forth in this Paragraph 3.C. All such early access shall be for the limited purpose of constructing improvements, installing furniture, fixtures and equipment and preparing the Subleased Premises for occupancy and not for the purpose of conducting business therein. Sublessee shall identify in writing from time to time the areas of the Subleased Premises to be accessed by Sublessee
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for the construction of improvements. Such early access (i) shall be subject to all of the provisions of this Sublease, except for the obligation to pay Base Rent and Expenses (as such terms are defined below) with respect to such portion of the Subleased Premises being occupied pursuant this Section; and (ii) shall not advance the Expiration Date of this Sublease. As used in this Paragraph 3.C, the term “Early Access Conditions” means: (i) Master Lessor’s consent to this Sublease has been received, (ii) Sublessee has delivered to Sublessor the Letter of Credit and first month’s Base Rent as required under Paragraph 4 below, (iii) Sublessee has delivered to Sublessor evidence of all insurance required to be carried by Sublessee under this Sublease and (iv) with respect to subparagraphs (1) and (4) below), such early access does not interfere with or delay Sublessor’s performance of the Sublessor’s Work (as defined below) or any other use, occupancy or construction activities of Sublessor in the Project.
(1) Sublessor shall permit Sublessee to access the Phase I Premises and the Phase II Premises on a non-exclusive basis for the purposes described above upon the full execution of this Sublease and receipt of Master Lessor’s written consent to this Sublease (the “Initial Access Date”) until May 31, 2019.
(2) From and after June 1, 2019 until the Commencement Date, Sublessor shall permit Sublessee to access the Phase I Premises and the Phase II Premises on an exclusive basis for the purposes described above; provided, that Sublessor shall be permitted to access the Phase 1 Premises and the Phase II Premises during such period for the purposes of completing alterations required to directly meter electricity usage in the Subleased Premises. Sublessee shall access only those areas of the Phase I Premises and Phase II Premises as necessary for the construction of improvements. As of the date hereof, Sublessee intends to construct improvements in only approximately 6,000 square feet on the fifth floor, 2,000 square feet on the sixth floor and 2,800 square feet on the seventh floor. Sublessee shall identify in writing from time to time the areas of the Phase I and Phase II Premises to be accessed by Sublessee for the construction of improvements.
(3) Sublessor shall permit Sublessee to access each of the Phase II Premises, the Phase III Premises and the Phase IV Premises on an exclusive basis for sixty (60) days prior to the applicable Scheduled Commencement Date for such Phase.
(4) Sublessor shall permit Sublessee to access a portion of the fourth floor of the 120 Premises on a non-exclusive basis for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days commencing on a date selected by Sublessee by written notice to Sublessor that is from and after June 1, 2019 and before August 31, 2019 solely for the purpose of preparing the fifth (5th) floor substructure for the installation of the Server Room (as defined in the Work Letter attached as Exhibit D).
D. Except as provided in Paragraph 3.C above, Sublessee shall not have any right to access, use or occupy any Phase of the Subleased Premises prior to the applicable Commencement Date for such Phase. Sublessor shall have the right to license, sublease, use, occupy or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Phase of the Subleased Premises (other than the Phase I Premises or the Phase II Premises) prior to the applicable Commencement Date for such Phase, provided, however, that (i) any such license or sublease agreement shall be for a term expiring or terminable on a date no later than sixty (60) days prior to the Scheduled Commencement Date for such Phase, (ii) any occupancy by Sublessor shall terminate on a date no later than sixty (60) days prior to the Scheduled Commencement Date for such Phase, (iii) any license or sublease shall prohibit any such licensees or subtenants from allowing pets, other than qualified service animals, to occupy any portion of such premises.
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4. Rent:
A. Base Rent. Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor as base rent for the Subleased Premises for each month during the Term the following amounts per month (“Base Rent”):

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Base Rent and Additional Rent, as defined in Paragraph 4.B below, shall be paid on or before the first (1st) day of each month. Base Rent and Additional Rent for any period during the Term hereof which is for less than one (1) month of the Term shall be a pro rata portion of the monthly installment based on the number of days in such month. If an increase in Base Rent becomes effective on a date other than the first day of a calendar month, the Base Rent for that month shall be the sum of the two applicable rates, each prorated for the portion of the month during which the rate is in effect. Base Rent and Additional Rent shall be payable without notice or demand and without any deduction, offset, or abatement, in lawful money of the United States of America. Base Rent and Additional Rent shall be paid directly to Sublessor at 8000 S. Federal Way, Boise, ID 83707, Attention: Accounts Receivable, or such other address as may be designated in writing by Sublessor.
B. Additional Rent. In addition to the Base Rent for the Subleased Premises, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor the amounts set forth below. As hereafter used in this Sublease, the term “Additional Rent” shall include all sums owing by Sublessee to Sublessor under the terms of this Sublease other than Base Rent; and the term “Rent” shall include all Base Rent and Additional Rent owing under the terms of this Sublease.
(1) Direct Expenses. Sublessee shall pay Sublessor the cost of (i) the cost of all electricity consumed in the Subleased Premises as determined pursuant to direct meters for each floor of the Subleased Premises, (ii) any use of any other utility or service in the Subleased Premises which is disproportionate in consumption amount from the average level generally consumed for typical office use, as reasonably determined by Sublessor, (iii) the cost of HVAC services provided outside of the normal business hours at Sublessee’s request, (iv) the cost of any special purpose or supplemental HVAC in the Subleased Premises (to the extent not already measured by the separate electric meters serving the Subleased Premises) and (v) any other costs for additional or special services requested by Sublessee. As used in this Sublease, “normal business hours” means Monday – Friday from 8am - 6pm, excluding holidays.
(2) Master Lease Expenses. Sublessee shall also pay to Sublessor its project pro rata share (“Project Pro Rata Share”) based on the ratio of the square footage of the Subleased Premises to the square footage of the Premises of all “CAM Expenses” and “Premises RE Taxes” (as defined in Article 4 of the Master Lease and subject to the exclusions thereunder) payable by Sublessor to Master Lessor (herein collectively the “Master Lease Expenses”). As of the date of this Sublease, Sublessee’s Project Pro Rata Share with respect to the Phase I Premises is [***]; provided, however, that such Project Pro Rata Share shall increase upon the occurrence of the Commencement Date as to each subsequent Phase of the Subleased Premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this Sublease and as between Sublessor and Sublessee only, the amount of Premises RE Taxes included in Master Lease Expenses for purposes of calculating Sublessee’s Project Pro Rata Share of Master Lease Expenses shall not exceed [***] for the 2019 calendar year and shall not increase more than [***] per annum on a cumulative compounding basis over such amount. For examples, the amount of Premises RE Taxes included in Master Lease Expenses for the calendar year 2020 shall not exceed [***] of the Premises and the amount of Premises RE Taxes included in Master Lease Expenses for the calendar year 2021 shall not exceed [***] of the Premises.
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(3) Premises Operating Expenses. In addition, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor in the manner described in this Paragraph its “Premises Pro Rata Share” of the “Premises Operating Expenses,” as defined below. Sublessee’s “Premises Pro Rata Share” shall be based on the ratio of the square footage of the Subleased Premises to the square footage of the 120 Building. As of the date of this Sublease, Sublessee’s Premises Pro Rata Share with respect to the Phase I Premises is [***]; provided, however, that such Premises Pro Rata Share shall increase upon the occurrence of the Commencement Date as to each Phase of the Subleased Premises. For the purpose of this section, “Premises Operating Expenses” shall mean all expenses, costs and amounts reasonably allocated to the 120 Building which Sublessor pays or incurs in connection with the management, maintenance, security, repair, replacement, restoration or operation of the 120 Building, the Premises and the Common Areas, or any portion thereof, including without limitation, the cost incurred by Sublessor for: (a) utilities and maintenance of utility systems, including Generators and back¬up power systems,; (b) repairs, window cleaning, and relamping; (c) supplies, tools, equipment, and maintenance materials; (d) service and vendor contracts; (e) licenses, permits and inspections; (f) enforcement, interpreting, or defending the Master Lease or any governmental enactments; (g) transportation system management programs; (h) consulting, legal, and accounting fees; (i) wages, salaries and other compensation and benefits, including taxes levied thereon, of all persons engaged in the operation, maintenance and security of the Premises and Common Areas (including, but not limited to, all fringe benefits, workers’ compensation, insurance premiums and payroll taxes); (j) operation, repair, maintenance and replacement of all systems, equipment, and components of the Premises and Common Areas; (k) alarm, security and other services; (l) insurance premiums, co-insurance payments and insurance deductibles; (m) all impositions, including all taxes imposed against Sublessee’s personal property, as well as any taxes, fees or assessments levied by any city, county, state or federal government or any improvement or other district or division thereof, on any gross income, gross receipts or excise tax levied by any of the foregoing authorities with respect to the Rent and/or other sums due under this Sublease; (n) janitorial services; and (o) a reasonable property management fee. Nothing in this section shall impose upon Sublessor any obligation to provide any service not otherwise required of Sublessor under the terms of this Sublease. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining Premises Operating Expenses under this Sublease, the amount of any management fee paid to any third party vendor hired by Sublessor to operate the fitness center for the Project shall not exceed [***] per annum and the amount of any management fee paid to any third-party vendor hired by Sublessor to operate the cafe in the 120 Premises for the Project shall not exceed [***] per annum, in each case excluding any actual charges for repairs, maintenance, replacements, additional equipment, consumables (including all food and beverage charges in the cafe) and other reimbursable expenses or costs under such vendor contracts). Any Premises Operating Expenses that are capital improvements that are (a) performed primarily to reduce current or future operating costs, (b) required to comply with any Applicable Laws that are enacted after the date of this Sublease or to comply with any CC&Rs, or (c) for repair or replacement of any equipment or improvements needed to operate and/or maintain the Common Areas and/or the 120 Building at the same quality levels as prior to the repair or replacement, (i) shall be capitalized in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied (“U.S. GAAP”), (ii) shall be amortized over the useful life of the improvement (as reasonably determined by Sublessor in accordance with U.S. GAAP), and (iii) only the amortized portion shall be included in Premises Operating Expenses for the applicable year.



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Premises Operating Expenses shall exclude the following: (a) the cost of capital improvements or expenditures except as set forth in the preceding sentence; (b) any charge for depreciation of the Project or equipment and any interest or other financing charge; (c) debt service related to mortgages, deeds of trust or similar instruments encumbering the 120 Building or any other debt of Sublessor, prepayment penalties, refinancing costs or any other amounts payable in connection with such indebtedness; (d) expenses incurred in connection with the marketing, negotiation, execution or enforcement of subleases (excluding the enforcement of this Sublease), including, without limitation, brokerage commissions, attorneys’ fees, advertising or promotional expenses or rent concessions, or expenses incurred in the relocation or movement of any subtenant in the Project (other than Sublessee), or the preparation of any leased space or other tenant improvement work that Sublessor performs for any subtenant (other than Sublessee) or prospective subtenant of the Project; (e) items for which Sublessor is otherwise reimbursed, including, without limitation, by insurance or condemnation proceeds; (f) any management fee to the extent in excess of three percent (3%) of Base Rent; (g) expenses resulting from the violation of any Applicable Laws or CC&Rs by Sublessor or its employees, agents or contractors or other subtenants (excluding Sublessee) of the Project; (h) Sublessor’s income, franchise, capital stock, inheritance, estate, gift, sales, capital levy, excess profits, transfer, revenue or other taxes, assessments or charges imposed on or measured by gross income or Sublessor’s general corporate overhead (as opposed to rents, receipts or income attributable to operations at the Project), or leasehold taxes on other subtenants’ personal property; (i) to the extent of such excess, any expense paid to an affiliate of Sublessor that is in excess of the amount that would be paid in the absence of such relationship; (j) [intentionally deleted]; (k) [intentionally deleted]; (l) expenses in connection with services or other benefits provided on an ongoing basis to other Project subtenants that are not available to Sublessee; (m) costs incurred by Sublessor as a result of (i) the negligence or willful misconduct of Sublessor or its employees, agents or contractors, or (ii) the breach by Sublessor of the Master Lease (to the extent no due to the breach of this Sublease by Sublessee); (n) costs for which Sublessor is entitled to bill other subtenants directly (other than as a part of Premises Operating Expenses) under the provisions of such subtenants’ subleases, or the cost of any item or service for which Sublessee separately reimburses Sublessor or pays third parties; (o) rental under the Master Lease; (p) charitable or political contributions or professional dues; (q) costs for the acquisition, leasing, maintenance or insurance of paintings, sculptures or other objects of art located in the Project; (r) [intentionally deleted]; (s) [intentionally deleted]; (t) all costs associated with the operation of the business of the entity which constitutes “Sublessor” (other than its operation, maintenance, subleasing, management, or repair of the Project); (u) [intentionally deleted]; (v) reserves of any kind, including but not limited to replacement reserves, and all bad debt loss, rent loss, or reserves for bad debt or rent loss; (w) insurance costs for coverage not customarily paid by tenants of similar projects in the vicinity of the Premises and co- insurance payments; (x) [intentionally deleted]; and (y) Master Lease Expenses and Premises RE Taxes.
(4) Calculation of Expenses. If the Premises are not 100% occupied during any period, Sublessor may make an appropriate adjustment to the components of the Master Lease Expenses or Premises Operating Expenses (collectively, “Expenses”) for such year to determine the amount of Expenses that would have been incurred had the Premises been fully occupied.
(5) Estimation and Payment by Sublessee of Additional Rent. Sublessor may invoice Sublessee directly for the Additional Rent payable under this Paragraph 4.B and Sublessee will pay the amount so invoiced within thirty (30) days following delivery of the invoice to Sublessee. Alternatively for all of any portion of the Additional Rent owing by Sublessee to Sublessor under this Paragraph 4.B, Sublessor may estimate the amount payable under this Paragraph 4.B for any calendar year, and, upon receipt of Sublessor’s notice of such estimated amount, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor in equal monthly installments on or before the first day of each calendar month, an
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amount equal to 1/12 of Sublessor’s annual estimate. Sublessor may adjust its estimate by delivery of written notice to the Sublessee and, upon receipt of such notice, the estimated monthly amounts thereafter payable by Sublessee shall be deemed modified as set forth in Sublessor’s notice. Sublessor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to give to Sublessee within one hundred twenty (120) days following the end of each calendar year and each calendar year thereafter during the Term, a statement of the actual Expenses incurred for each such calendar year, and any difference between such amounts and the estimated amounts paid by Sublessee for such calendar year. Any underpayment by Sublessee shall be paid by Sublessee to Sublessor within thirty (30) days after delivery of Sublessor’s statement and any overpayment shall be refunded by Sublessor to Sublessee concurrently with delivery of the statement. The failure of Sublessor to timely furnish any such estimate shall not prejudice Sublessor from enforcing its rights under this Paragraph 4.B. If the Term ends on other than December 31st, the Expenses for the last calendar year shall be prorated based on the actual number of days of the Term during the calendar year.
(6) Rent Abatement. Provided that no Event of Default exists and is continuing, with respect to the fifth floor of the Subleased Premises consisting of approximately 34,481 rentable square feet, Sublessee shall be entitled to an abatement of Base Rent and Expenses for the first fifteen (15) months of the Term.
C. Payment of First Month’s Rent. Upon execution hereof by Sublessee, Sublessee shall pay to Sublessor the sum of [***], which shall constitute Base Rent for the first month of the Term.
5. Security Deposit: Within ten (10) business days after this Sublease has been executed by Sublessor and Sublessee and Master Lessor’s written consent to this Sublease has been obtained pursuant to Paragraph 20 below, as security for the full and faithful performance by Sublessee of all of its obligations under this Sublease and for all losses and damages Sublessor may suffer as a result of any default by Sublessee under this Sublease, Sublessee shall deliver to Sublessor an irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit (the “Letter of Credit”) governed by the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993 revisions), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 500, as revised from time to time, in an amount equal to [***], issued to Sublessor, as beneficiary, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Sublessor, by a bank reasonably approved by Sublessor qualified to transact banking business in California. Sublessee shall maintain the Letter of Credit for the entire Sublease Term. The Letter of Credit shall provide that it will be automatically renewed until sixty (60) days after the Expiration Date unless the issuer provides Sublessor with written notice of non-renewal at the notice address herein at least sixty (60) days prior to the expiration thereof. If, not later than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the Letter of Credit, Sublessee fails to furnish Sublessor with a replacement Letter of Credit pursuant to this section, Sublessor shall have the right to draw the full amount of the Letter of Credit, and shall have the right to hold and apply the proceeds of the Letter of Credit in accordance with this Paragraph. If Sublessee fails to pay Rent or other charges due hereunder or otherwise defaults with respect to any provision of this Sublease, then Sublessor may draw upon, use, apply or retain all or any portion of the proceeds of the Letter of Credit for the payment of any Rent or other charge in default, for the payment of any other sum which Sublessor has become obligated to pay by reason of Sublessee’s default, or to compensate Sublessor for any loss or damage which Sublessor has suffered thereby, including future rent damages under California Civil Code Section 1951.2, without prejudice to any other remedy provided herein or by law. Sublessee hereby waives the provisions of any law, now or hereafter in force, including, without limitation, California Civil Code Section 1951.7,
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that provides that Sublessor may claim from a security deposit only those sums reasonably necessary to remedy defaults in the payment of Rent, to repair damage caused by Sublessee, or to clean the Subleased Premises, it being agreed that Sublessor, in addition, may claim those sums reasonably necessary to compensate Sublessor for any other loss or damage, foreseeable or unforeseeable, caused by the act or omission of Sublessee, including future rent damages following the termination of this Sublease. If Sublessor so uses or applies all or any portion of the Letter of Credit, then Sublessee, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, shall deliver to Sublessor a replacement Letter of Credit in the full amount of the original Letter of Credit set forth above. If the Sublease terminates prior to the scheduled expiration of the Term for any reason other than a default by Sublessee under the Sublease, Sublessor shall return to Tenant the Letter of Credit within ninety (90) days after such earlier termination of the Sublease and shall execute any documents reasonably required by the issuing bank for the cancellation thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing but subject to the provisions of Paragraph 8.B below, so long as no Event of Default of Sublessee has occurred under this Sublease (and no event has occurred and is then continuing, that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a Sublessee Event of Default), Sublessee shall have the right to reduce the Letter of Credit by the amount of [***] on each of the 30th, 48th and 60th months of the Term. Any reduction in the Letter of Credit shall be accomplished by Sublessee’s delivery to Sublessor of a substitute Letter of Credit in the reduced amount or an amendment to the existing Letter of Credit reflecting the reduced amount. Sublessor agrees that it shall provide its consent to any such amendment provided that Sublessor shall have first received a request for such consent from the issuing bank and all conditions to such reduction set forth above have been satisfied.
6. Holdover: In the event that Sublessee does not surrender the Subleased Premises by the Expiration Date or any earlier termination of this Sublease in accordance with the terms of this Sublease, Sublessee shall indemnify, defend, protect and hold harmless Sublessor from and against all loss and liability resulting from Sublessee’s delay in surrendering the Subleased Premises. In addition, Sublessee shall pay Sublessor holdover rent equal to one hundred fifty percent (150%) of Base Rent plus any Additional Rent payable hereunder for any period from the Expiration Date or such earlier termination date through the date Sublessee surrenders the Subleased Premises in the condition required hereunder.
7. Repairs:
A. Sublessor shall deliver each Phase of the Subleased Premises professionally deep cleaned (inclusive of carpets to the extent such carpets will not be removed by Sublessee as part of their initial improvements) and with the glass panels on top of existing workstations in such Phase removed (“Sublessor’s Work) and otherwise in their current as-is condition as of the date of this Sublease. The parties acknowledge and agree that Sublessee is subleasing the Subleased Premises on an “as is” basis, and that Sublessor has made no representations or warranties with respect to the condition of the Subleased Premises or the Common Areas, except as set forth in this Sublease. Except as expressly provided in this Sublease, Sublessor shall have no obligation whatsoever to make or pay the cost of any alterations, improvements or repairs to the Subleased Premises, including, without limitation, any improvement or repair required to comply with any law. Master Lessor shall be solely responsible for performance of any repairs required to be performed by Master Lessor under the terms of the Master Lease. Sublessee shall maintain and repair the interior non¬structural portions of the Subleased Premises in a good, clean condition, normal wear and tear and damage from casualty or condemnation excepted, and otherwise in accordance with the Master
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Lease, as incorporated herein. Sublessee shall, at its sole cost and expense, maintain a janitorial contract using Sublessor’s preferred vendor or such other vendor approved by Sublessor (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and with a scope of services at least equal to Sublessor’s janitorial scope of services as to typical office space in the Buildings. Subject to Sublessee’s obligations pursuant to this Sublease, Sublessor shall repair and maintain the Building Systems serving the Subleased Premises and the 120 Common Areas in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Master Lease.
B. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sublessor represents and warrants to Sublessee that (i) the path of travel to the Subleased Premises conforms with the Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility standards in effect as of the date of this Sublease and (ii) the Building Systems (as defined in the Master Lease) serving the Subleased Premises shall be in good working condition as of the Commencement Date of this Sublease. Any claims by Sublessee under the preceding sentence shall be made in writing not later than December 31, 2019. In the event Sublessee fails to deliver a written claim to Sublessor with respect to such matters on or before such date, then Sublessor shall be conclusively deemed to have satisfied its obligations under this Paragraph 7.B.
8. Assignment and Subletting:
A. Sublessee may not assign this Sublease, sublet the Subleased Premises, transfer any interest of Sublessee therein or permit any use of the Subleased Premises by another party (collectively, “Transfer”), without the prior written consent of Sublessor and Master Lessor. A sale or other transfer of the Control of Sublessee (a “Change of Control”) shall constitute a Transfer requiring Sublessor’s consent hereunder, subject to Paragraph 8.B below. Any Transfer shall be subject to the terms of Section 14 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein.
B. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Paragraph 8, as between Sublessor and Sublessee only (and without limiting any consent of Master Lessor that may be required) (i) an assignment or subletting of all or a portion of the Subleased Premises to an affiliate of Sublessee (an entity which is controlled by, controls, or is under common control with, Sublessee) (an “Affiliate”), (ii) an assignment or sublease of all or any portion of the Subleased Premises to an entity which acquires all or a substantial portion of the assets or interests (partnership, stock or other) of Sublessee, (iii) an assignment or sublease of the Subleased Premises to an entity which is the resulting entity of a merger or consolidation of Sublessee, (iv) an assignment or sublease of the Subleased Premises to an entity which is the resulting entity of a reorganization of Sublessee or (v) a Change of Control (each, a “Permitted Transfer”), shall not be deemed a Transfer under this Paragraph 8, provided that (i) Sublessee notifies Sublessor of any such assignment or sublease and promptly supplies Sublessor with any documents or information requested by Sublessor regarding such assignment or sublease or such affiliate, (ii) such assignment or sublease is not a subterfuge by Sublessee to avoid its obligations under this Sublease or otherwise effectuate any “release” by Sublessee of such obligations, (iii) any such Permitted Transferee that is an assignee shall execute a written assumption of this Sublease such that it thereafter becomes directly liable under this Sublease for all obligations arising from and after the date of such assignment, (iv) the Permitted Transferee (or Sublessee following a Change of Control) shall have a tangible net worth (not including goodwill as an asset) computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP (“Net Worth”) at least equal to the Net Worth of Sublessee on the day immediately preceding the effective date of such Permitted Transfer and (v) if required, Sublessee shall have delivered to Sublessor a replacement Letter of Credit or an amendment to the existing Letter of Credit pursuant to the last sentence of this Paragraph. The transferee under a transfer specified in items (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) above shall be referred to as a “Permitted Transferee.” “Control,” as used in this Paragraph 8.B, shall mean (A) the ownership,
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directly or indirectly, of at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the voting securities of, or possession of the right to vote, in the ordinary direction of its affairs, of at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the voting interest in, any person or entity, or (B) the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such entity. If Sublessee desires to engage in a Permitted Transfer without Sublessor’s consent as set forth above and its Net Worth is less than its Net Worth on the date of this Sublease, then, as a condition to Sublessee’s right to engage in such Permitted Transfer without Sublessor’s consent as set forth above, Sublessee must deliver to Sublessor a substitute Letter of Credit in the original amount of the Letter of Credit specified in Paragraph 5 above or an amendment to the existing Letter of Credit increasing the existing Letter of Credit to such amount, and, Sublessee’s failure to do so shall constitute an Event of Default under this Sublease.
9. Use: Sublessee may use the Subleased Premises only for general office and research and development (including a computer lab) uses consistent with a Class A office building. Sublessee shall not use, store, transport or dispose of any Hazardous Material in or about the Subleased Premises except in accordance with the terms of the Master Lease and with Sublessor’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Sublessee shall not do or permit anything to be done in or about the Subleased Premises which would (i) injure the Subleased Premises; or (ii) vibrate, shake, overload, or impair the efficient operation of the Subleased Premises or the sprinkler systems, heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment, security stations, or utilities systems located therein or exceed any density requirement imposed by applicable law or this Sublease. Sublessee shall not store any materials, supplies, finished or unfinished products or articles of any nature outside of the Subleased Premises. For purposes of this Sublease and the Master Lease, Sublessee shall comply with all reasonable rules and regulations promulgated from time to time by Sublessor, any Association and Master Lessor and with all CC&Rs. Sublessee’s use of the electrical and systems infrastructure in support of its Server Room shall be subject to the specifications attached hereto as Exhibit E. In no event shall Sublessee occupy the Subleased Premises at a density greater than one (1) person per one hundred forty-five (145) rentable square feet. Subject to the applicable provisions of this Sublease and the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, Sublessee shall have access to the Subleased Premises twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.
10. Effect of Conveyance: As used in this Sublease, the term “Sublessor” means the holder of the tenant’s interest under the Master Lease. In the event of any assignment, transfer or termination of the tenant’s interest under the Master Lease, which assignment, transfer or termination may occur at any time during the Term hereof in Sublessor’s sole discretion, Sublessor shall be and hereby is entirely relieved of all covenants and obligations of Sublessor hereunder accruing thereafter, and it shall be deemed and construed, without further agreement between the parties, that any transferee has assumed and shall carry out all covenants and obligations thereafter to be performed by Sublessor hereunder. Sublessor shall transfer and deliver any security of Sublessee to the transferee of the tenant’s interest under the Master Lease, and thereupon Sublessor shall be discharged from any further liability with respect thereto.
11. Delivery and Acceptance: If Sublessor fails to deliver possession of any Phase of the Subleased Premises by the applicable Scheduled Commencement Dates set forth in Paragraph 3.A hereof for any reason whatsoever, then this Sublease shall not be void or voidable, nor shall Sublessor be liable to Sublessee for any loss or damage; provided, however, that in such event, Rent shall abate with respect to the undelivered Phase of the Subleased Premises until Sublessor delivers possession of such Phase of the Subleased Premises to Sublessee. By taking possession of the Subleased Premises, Sublessee conclusively shall be deemed to have accepted the Subleased Premises in their as-is, then-existing condition, without any warranty whatsoever of Sublessor with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) if Sublessor fails to deliver early exclusive access
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to the Phase I Premises and the Phase II Premises as set forth in Paragraph 3.B(2) above on or before June 1, 2019, then this Sublease shall not be void or voidable, nor shall Sublessor be liable to Sublessee for any loss or damage; provided, however, that in such event, the Commencement Date with respect to the Phase I Premises shall be delayed by one (1) day for each day of such delay in delivery of early access beyond June 1, 2019, (ii) if Sublessor fails to deliver early exclusive access to the Phase I Premises and the Phase II Premises as set forth in Paragraph 3.B(2) above on or before August 1, 2019 for any reason other than Force Majeure, then this Sublease shall not be void or voidable, nor shall Sublessor be liable to Sublessee for any loss or damage; provided, however, that in such event, the Commencement Date with respect to the Phase I Premises shall be delayed by two (2) days for each day of such delay in delivery of early access beyond August 1, 2019 for any reason other than Force Majeure and (iii) if Sublessor fails to deliver early exclusive access to the Phase I Premises and the Phase II Premises as set forth in Paragraph 3.B(2) on or before January 1, 2020 for any reason other than Force Majeure, then Sublessor shall not be liable to Sublessee for any loss or damage; provided, however, that in such event, Sublessee shall have the right to terminate this Sublease by delivery of written notice of such termination to Sublessor on or before the earlier of (x) the delivery of such exclusive possession of the Phase 1 Premises and the Phase II Premises or (y) January 10, 2020, and, if Sublessee fails to exercise such termination right as aforesaid, then the provisions of clause (ii) of this sentence shall immediately cease. Upon any termination of this Sublease by Sublessee in accordance with this Paragraph, Sublessor shall return to Sublessee its payment of the first month’s Rent paid by Sublessee pursuant to Paragraph 4 hereof and any remaining proceeds of the Letter of Credit.
12. Improvements: No Alterations or improvements shall be made to the Subleased Premises, except in accordance with the Master Lease, and with the prior written consent of both Master Lessor and Sublessor. Sublessee shall obtain the prior written approval of Master Lessor and Sublessor to (i) all architects, contractors, subcontractors and other vendors engaged by or for Sublessee in connection with the performance of any Alterations, including, without limitation, any repairs, maintenance and replacements and (ii) all plans, specifications and permits related to all Alterations. Furthermore, Sublessor may, by written notice to given at the time Sublessor provides consent to any Alterations, require Sublessee, at Sublessee’s expense, to remove any such Alterations or improvements made by or on behalf of Sublessee, and to repair any damage to the Subleased Premises caused by such removal and return the affected portion of the Subleased Premises to the condition existing prior to such installation; provided, however, that Sublessor shall not require Sublessee to remove the Proposed Initial Improvements (as defined in Exhibit D of this Sublease).
13. Insurance; Waiver of Subrogation: Sublessee shall obtain and keep in full force and effect, at Sublessee’s sole cost and expense, during the Term the insurance required to be carried by Sublessor, as “Tenant” under the Master Lease with respect to the Subleased Premises. Sublessee shall name Master Lessor and Sublessor as additional insureds under its liability insurance policy. The release and waiver of subrogation set forth in Section 10.3.4 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, shall be binding on the parties and shall apply between the parties notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein.
14. Default: Sublessee shall be in material default of its obligations under this Sublease upon the occurrence of any of the events set forth in Section 19.1 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein (each, an “Event of Default”). Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default by Sublessee, Sublessor shall have all remedies provided pursuant to 19.2 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, and by applicable Laws.
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15. Surrender: Prior to expiration of this Sublease, Sublessee shall remove all of its trade fixtures and shall surrender the Subleased Premises to Sublessor in the condition required under the Master Lease; provided, however, that (i) Sublessee shall be required to remove any Alterations designated for removal pursuant to Paragraph 12 above, but Sublessor shall not require Sublessee to remove the Proposed Initial Improvements, (ii) Sublessee shall not be required to remove any alterations or improvements existing in each Phase of the Subleased Premises as of the Commencement Date as to such Phase of the Subleased Premises, (iii) unless waived by Sublessor, Sublessee shall be required to remove all data and telecommunications lines in the Subleased Premises and (iv) Sublessee shall remove all of its signage and shall repair and restore any damage caused by the installation or removal of such signage. If the Subleased Premises are not so surrendered, then Sublessee shall be liable to Sublessor for all liabilities Sublessor incurs as a result thereof, including costs incurred by Sublessor in returning the Subleased Premises to the required condition, plus interest thereon at the rate set forth in Section 25 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein (the “Interest Rate”).
16. Broker: Sublessor and Sublessee each represent to the other that they have dealt with no real estate brokers, finders, agents or salesmen other than Cushman & Wakefield U.S., Inc., representing Sublessor, and Newmark Knight Frank, representing Sublessee, in connection with this transaction. Each party agrees to hold the other party harmless from and against all claims for brokerage commissions, finder’s fees or other compensation made by any other agent, broker, salesman or finder as a consequence of such party’s actions or dealings with such agent, broker, salesman, or finder.
17. Notices: Unless at least five (5) days’ prior written notice is given in the manner set forth in this paragraph, the address of each party for all purposes connected with this Sublease shall be that address set forth below its signature at the end of this Sublease. All notices, demands or communications in connection with this Sublease shall be (a) personally delivered; or (b) properly addressed and (i) submitted to an overnight courier service, charges prepaid, or (ii) deposited in the mail (certified, return receipt requested, and postage prepaid). Notices shall be deemed delivered upon receipt, if personally delivered, one (1) business day after being submitted to an overnight courier service and three (3) business days after mailing, if mailed as set forth above. All notices given to Master Lessor under the Master Lease shall be considered received only when delivered in accordance with the Master Lease.
18. Miscellaneous: Sublessee and Sublessor each represent and warrant to the other that each person executing this Sublease on behalf of such party is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Sublease on behalf of that party. Sublessor has not had an inspection of the Premises performed by a Certified Access Specialist as described in California Civil Code § 1938. A Certified Access Specialist (CASp) can inspect the Subleased Premises and determine whether the Subleased Premises complies with all of the applicable construction-related accessibility standards under state law. Although state law does not require a CASp inspection of the Subleased Premises, the commercial property owner or lessor may not prohibit the lessee or tenant from obtaining a CASp inspection of the Subleased Premises for the occupancy or potential occupancy of the lessee or tenant, if requested by the lessee or tenant. The parties shall mutually agree on the arrangements for the time and manner of the CASp inspection, the payment of the fee for the CASp inspection, and the cost of making any repairs necessary to correct violations of construction-related accessibility standards within the Subleased Premises. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Sublease shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Master Lease. When Sublessor’s consent is required under this Sublease (including the Work Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D) and Master Lessor’s consent is also required, if no standard for Sublessee’s consent is expressly stated in this
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Sublease, then such consent of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delatyed so long as Master Lessor’s consent is either given or waived by Master Lessor.
19. Other Sublease Terms:
A. Incorporation by Reference. Except as set forth below, the terms and conditions of this Sublease shall include all of the terms of the Master Lease and such terms are incorporated into this Sublease as if fully set forth herein, except that: (i) each reference in such incorporated sections to “Lease” shall be deemed a reference to “Sublease”; (ii) each reference to the “Premises” shall be deemed a reference to the “Subleased Premises” and each reference to the “Tenant Improvements” shall be deemed a reference to the “Sublessee Improvements”; (iii) each reference to “Landlord” and “Tenant” shall be deemed a reference to “Sublessor” and “Sublessee”, respectively, except as otherwise expressly set forth herein; (iv) with respect to work, services, repairs, restoration, insurance, indemnities (except for the indemnity by Sublessor pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein), representations, warranties or the performance of any other obligation of Master Lessor under the Master Lease, the sole obligation of Sublessor shall be to request the same in writing from Master Lessor as and when requested to do so by Sublessee, and to use Sublessor’s reasonable efforts (without requiring Sublessor to spend more than a nominal sum) to obtain Master Lessor’s performance; (v) with respect to any obligation of Sublessee to be performed under this Sublease, wherever the Master Lease grants to Sublessor a specified number of days to perform its obligations under the Master Lease, except as otherwise provided herein, Sublessee shall have three (3) fewer days to perform the obligation, including, without limitation, curing any defaults, two (2) fewer days if the Master Lease provides five (5) or fewer days to perform the obligation or cure the default and one (1) fewer business day if the Master Lease provides for three (3) or fewer business days to perform the obligation or cure the default; (vi) with respect to any approval required to be obtained from the “Landlord” under the Master Lease, such consent must be obtained from both Master Lessor and Sublessor, and the approval of Sublessor may be withheld if Master Lessor’s consent is not obtained; (vii) in any case where the “Landlord” reserves or is granted the right to manage, supervise, control, repair, alter, regulate the use of, enter or use the Premises or any areas beneath, above or adjacent thereto, perform any actions or cure any failures, such reservation or right shall be deemed to be for the benefit of both Master Lessor and Sublessor; (viii) in any case where “Tenant” is to indemnify, release or waive claims against “Landlord”, such indemnity, release or waiver shall be deemed to cover, and run from Sublessee to, both Master Lessor and Sublessor; (ix) in any case where “Tenant” is to execute and deliver certain documents or notices to “Landlord”, such obligation shall be deemed to run from Sublessee to both Master Lessor and Sublessor; (x) all payments shall be made to Sublessor; (xi) Sublessee shall pay all consent and review fees set forth in the Master Lease to each of Master Lessor and Sublessor; (xii) Sublessee shall not have the right to terminate this Sublease due to casualty or condemnation unless Sublessor has such right under the Master Lease the proportion of Sublessee’s Rent abated in connection with a casualty and condemnation shall not exceed the proportion of Sublessor’s rent actually abated under the Master Lease with respect to the Subleased Premises (as an example only, if Sublessor is entitled to receive an abatement of 50% of the rent payable under the Master Lease with respect to the Subleased Premises, then Sublessee shall be entitled to receive an abatement of 50% of the Rent payable under this Sublease for such period); (xiii) fifty percent (50%) of all “profit” under subleases and assignments remaining after Master Lessor has received its share of such “profit” shall be paid to Sublessor; and (xiv) Sublessor’s obligations under Section 4.3 are limited to forwarding statements and refunds provided by Master Lessor.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following provisions of the Master Lease shall not be incorporated herein: Summary of Basic Lease Information Items 1, 2.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11,
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Sections 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (the first sentence only), 1.1.3 (except the third and fourth sentences), 1.2, 1.4, 2, 3, 4, 5.1 (the second sentence only), 5.3 (the last sentence only), 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2 (the fourth sentence only), 7.1 (first sentence and penultimate sentence only), 7.3, 7.4, 8.4, 8.5 (last sentence only), 14.2 (third sentence only), 14.2.3 (text following the phrase, “provided, that” only), 14.5, 14.7, 16 (references to holdover rates and last sentence only), 18 (the second clause of the first sentence, the second sentence, the third sentence, and the last sentence only), 23.1, 23.2, 23.2, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 24 (clause (iii) of the second sentence and the second grammatical paragraph only), 28, 29.6, 29.13 (first sentence), 29.17, 29.23, 29.31.2 (the first sentence and the last sentence only), 29.31.5 (the second sentence only), 29.36 (definition of Rooftop Equipment only, which definition shall be deemed to be replaced by the rooftop equipment permitted by Paragraph 30 below), 29.37, 29.38, 31, and Exhibits B, C, F and G. In addition, notwithstanding subpart (iii) above, references in the following provisions to “Landlord” shall mean Master Lessor only: Sections 1.1.3 (third and fourth sentences only), 1.3, 7.2, 10.7, 11.1, 11.2 and 13.
B. Assumption of Obligations. This Sublease is and at all times shall be subject and subordinate to the Master Lease and the rights of Master Lessor thereunder. Sublessee hereby expressly assumes and agrees: (i) to comply with all provisions of the Master Lease which are incorporated hereunder; and (ii) to perform all the obligations on the part of the “Tenant” to be performed with respect to the Subleased Premises under the terms of the Master Lease during the Term of this Sublease which are incorporated hereunder, except as otherwise set forth in the Sublease. In the event the Master Lease is terminated for any reason whatsoever, this Sublease shall terminate simultaneously with such termination without any liability of Sublessor to Sublessee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sublessor shall not, without Sublessee’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, (i) enter into an agreement to terminate the Master Lease as to the Subleased Premises (unless Master Lessor agrees to recognize this Sublease as a direct lease with Sublessee upon such termination), except in connection with Sublessor’s exercise of any termination right under the Master Lease in connection with a casualty or condemnation, or (ii) amend any provisions of the Master Lease in a manner that would materially adversely affect Sublessee’s use or occupancy of the Subleased Premises or materially increase Sublessee’s liability hereunder. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this Sublease and the Master Lease, as between Sublessor and Sublessee, the provisions of this Sublease shall control. In the event of a conflict between the express provisions of this Sublease and the provisions of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, the express provisions of this Sublease shall prevail.
20. Conditions Precedent: This Sublease and Sublessor’s and Sublessee’s obligations hereunder are conditioned upon the written consent of Master Lessor. Unless waived by Sublessee (which waiver shall be deemed to have been made upon Sublessee’s and Sublessor’s execution of Master Lessor’s consent form), such consent shall provide that Master Lessor approves Sublessee’s right to install the Exterior 237 Sign (defined below), subject to Master Lessor’s approval of the design and specifications thereof and all applicable terms of the Master Lease and this Sublease. Sublessor shall pay all consent and review fees set forth in the Master Lease for Master Lessor’s consent to the subletting hereunder (but Sublessee shall be responsible for any fees relating to its proposed alterations). If Sublessor fails to obtain Master Lessor’s consent within sixty (60) days after execution of this Sublease by Sublessor, then Sublessor or Sublessee may terminate this Sublease by giving the other party written notice thereof prior to the date such consent is received, and Sublessor shall return to Sublessee its payment of the first month’s Rent paid by Sublessee pursuant to Paragraph 4 hereof and the Letter of Credit.
21. Termination; Recapture: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Sublessee acknowledges that, under the Master Lease, both Master Lessor and Sublessor have certain
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termination and recapture rights in Articles 11 and 13. Nothing herein shall prohibit Master Lessor or Sublessor from exercising any such rights and neither Master Lessor nor Sublessor shall have any liability to Sublessee as a result thereof. In the event Master Lessor or Sublessor exercise any such termination or recapture rights, this Sublease shall terminate without any liability to Master Lessor or Sublessor.
22. Intentionally Omitted.
23. Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment: Sublessee shall have the right to use during the Term the office furnishings within the Subleased Premises (the “Furniture”) at no additional cost to Sublessee. Sublessor shall remove the Furniture that Sublessee does not require at Sublessor’s sole cost, provided, however, that Sublessee shall provide written notice specifying such Furniture requiring removal prior to the date which is forty-five (45) days after the applicable Commencement Date, and, following such removal, the term “Furniture” shall no longer include such removed items. Sublessor and Sublessee shall prepare an inventory of the Furniture in each Phase of the Subleased Premises not later than sixty (60) days after the Commencement Date of each such Phase and those inventories shall be attached hereto as Exhibit C. The Furniture is provided in its “AS IS, WHERE IS” condition as of the date of this Sublease, without representation or warranty whatsoever. Sublessee shall insure the Furniture under the property insurance policy required under the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, and pay all taxes with respect to the Furniture. Sublessee shall maintain the Furniture in good condition and repair, reasonable wear and tear excepted, and shall be responsible for any loss or damage to the same occurring during the Term. Sublessee shall surrender the Furniture to Sublessor upon the termination of this Sublease in the same condition as exists as of the Commencement Date, reasonable wear and tear excepted.
24. Parking: Sublessee shall, at no additional cost unless required by a government agency, CC&Rs or applicable law, have the non-exclusive right to use unreserved parking in the Project Parking Facility not to exceed the ratio of 3.2 spaces per 1,000 rentable square feet of the Subleased Premises, which upon the Commencement Date of the Phase I Premises shall be 221 parking spaces. All such parking shall be located within the Project Parking Facility. Sublessor shall cause 5 of such spaces to consist of dedicated visitor spaces in the exterior parking lot immediately adjacent to the 120 Premises. Parking shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of the Master Lease.
25. Signage:
A. Subject to Sublessor’s and Master Lessor’s consent (which consent of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and the requirements of the Master Lease, CC&Rs and applicable law, Sublessee may install Sublessee’s name and logo in a location reasonably approved by Sublessor (i) on the building top of the 120 Premises facing Highway 237 (the “Exterior 237 Sign”), (ii) on the monument sign for the 120 Premises located on Holger Way, (iii) at the exterior ground floor lobby entrance, (iv) in the interior ground floor lobby, (v) on the interior ground floor lobby directory, (vi) in the elevator vestibule lobby and (vii) at the suite entry on each floor of the Subleased Premises. In addition, subject to Sublessor’s and Master Lessor’s consent (which consent of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and the requirements of the Master Lease, CC&Rs and applicable law, Sublessee may install minor exterior directional signage in a mutually agreed upon location at the exterior of the 120 Premises. Any and all costs associated with the foregoing (including costs of obtaining consent) shall be the responsibility of Sublessee. Sublessee shall comply with all signage specifications and all conditions of installing and removing signage included in the Master Lease.
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B. Each such signs shall: (i) be installed, maintained, and removed at Sublessee’s sole cost and expense and (ii) comply with applicable law, the Master Lease and all CC&Rs. Sublessee’s rights under this Paragraph 29 shall be subject to (1) applicable zoning requirements and other applicable law, and (2) Sublessee obtaining and maintaining all necessary permits and approvals to install, maintain and operate such signs, including, without limitation, Master Lessor consent (the “Signage Approvals”). Nothing in this Sublease shall be deemed to constitute any assurance or guarantee on the part of Sublessor that Sublessee may be able to, or will, obtain the Signage Approvals. Without limiting the foregoing, Sublessor and Master
Lessor shall have the right to approve the size, locations, materials, lighting (if any), manner of installation and other specifications related to Sublessee’s signs, all of which shall be set forth on detailed installation plans submitted by Sublessee for review and approval by Sublessor and Master Lessor, which approval of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Sublessee shall, at Sublessee’s sole cost and expense, maintain its signs in good condition throughout the Term, and on or before the expiration or prior termination of the Term, Sublessee shall remove its signs and shall repair any damage caused by the installation or removal of its signs. Sublessor reserves the right to install signage for itself and other subtenants and occupants of the Buildings in such other interior and exterior areas of the Buildings as Sublessor from time to time determines in its sole and absolute discretion, subject to Sublessee’s rights under this Paragraph 25. Sublessee’s rights under this Paragraph 25 shall be personal to the original Sublessee named in this Sublease (the “Original Sublessee”) and shall not be exercised by any licensee, subtenant, occupant or assignee (other than a Permitted Transferee) and shall be terminated upon any sublease of more than fifty percent (50%) of the Subleased Premises (other than to a Permitted Transferee) or assignment of this Sublease or the Subleased Premises (other than to a Permitted Transferee); provided, that, subject to the applicable provisions of this Paragraph 25, Sublessee shall have the right to identify its sub-subtenants in the interior ground floor lobby directory and to install a sign identifying the name and logo of its sub-subtenants at each such sub-subtenant’s suite entry.
26. Option to Extend:
A. Option Right: Sublessor hereby grants Sublessee two (2) options (the “Extension Options”) to extend the initial Term of this Sublease for the entire Subleased Premises each for a period of approximately one (1) year commencing on the day following the last day of the then existing Term (each an “Option Term”), which Extension Options shall be exercisable only by written Exercise Notice (as defined below) delivered by Sublessee to Sublessor as provided below. Upon the proper exercise of such Extension Option, the Term shall be extended for the respective Option Term.
B. Option Rent: The Base Rent payable by Sublessee during the Option Term (the "Option Rent") shall be equal to the amount that is a [***] increase to the Base Rent payable by Sublessee during the last month of the then existing Term.
C. Exercise of Option: The Extension Options shall be exercised by Sublessee, if at all, only in the following manner: Sublessee shall deliver written notice (the "Exercise Notice") to Sublessor not more than twelve (12) months nor less than six (6) months prior to the expiration of then existing Term stating that Sublessee irrevocably exercises its Extension Option. Sublessee’s failure to deliver the Exercise Notices as set forth above shall be deemed to constitute Sublessee’s
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waiver of its Extension Option hereunder, in which event Sublessee’s respective Extension Option shall be null and void and Sublessor shall have no further liability to Sublessee under this Paragraph 26.
D. Suspension of Extension Option. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, at Sublessor’s option, and in addition to all of Sublessor’s remedies under this Sublease, at law or in equity, the Extension Options hereinabove granted to Sublessee shall not be deemed to be properly exercised if, as of the date Sublessee delivers the respective Exercise Notice or as of the end of the then existing Term, Sublessee is in monetary default or material non-monetary default under this Sublease. In addition, Sublessee’s Extension Options are personal to the Original Sublessee, and may not be assigned or exercised, voluntarily or involuntarily, by or to, any person or entity other than the Original Sublessee (other than a Permitted Transferee), and shall only be available to and exercisable by the Sublessee or a Permitted Transferee when the Original Sublessee or such Permitted Transferee is in actual and physical possession of the entire Subleased Premises.
27. Expansion Option: Sublessee shall be permitted to accelerate the Commencement Date as to each Phase of the Subleased Premises at the then current Base Rent under this Sublease in affect at such time, provided that such Phase is not being occupied, subleased, licensed or otherwise used by Sublessor in accordance with this Sublease and Sublessor has no intention to use, license or sublease such Phase prior to the scheduled Commencement Date for such Phase set forth in Paragraph 3.A above. If a Commencement Date as to a Phase is accelerated in accordance with the foregoing, Sublessor shall be permitted to require Sublessee to enter into an amendment of this Sublease to amend the Base Rent schedule in Paragraph 4.A and other applicable provisions of this Sublease herein to reflect such acceleration. If, during the Term, Sublessor elects to sublease to an unaffiliated third-party all or any portion of the Phase III Premises or Phase IV Premises (the “ROFR Space”), Sublessee shall have the right of first refusal to accelerate the Commencement Date of this Sublease as to such ROFR Space in accordance with the terms of this Paragraph. On a receipt of any bona fide third party offer with respect to the ROFR Space that Sublessor intends to accept (the “Third Party Offer”), Sublessor shall deliver to Sublessee notice that Sublessor intends to accept such offer (the “Offer Notice”). Sublessee shall have seven (7) business days after Sublessor’s delivery of the Offer Notice to deliver written notice to Sublessor of Sublessee’s election to accelerate the Commencement Date as to such ROFR Space identified in the Offer Notice to the commencement date specified in the Third Party Offer. Failure by Sublessee to timely deliver a notice to Sublessor shall constitute a refusal. Upon such refusal, Sublessee shall be free to sublease the ROFR Space described in the Third Party Offer to the party making the Third Party Offer or any other party on any terms and conditions that Sublessor elects and thereafter Sublessee shall have no further right of first refusal with respect to such ROFR Space; provided, however, such refusal shall not affect Sublessee’s right and obligation to add the ROFR Space to the Subleased Premises on the applicable Commencement Date for such Phase.
28. Sublessor Representations: Sublessor represents and warrants to Sublessee that: (i) the Master Lease is in full force and effect, and to Sublessor’s knowledge there exists under the Master Lease no default or event of default by either Master Lessor or Sublessor, nor, to Sublessor’s knowledge, has there occurred any event which, with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, could constitute such a default or event of default, (ii) except as redacted, the copy of the Master Lease attached hereto is a true, correct and complete copy thereof, (iii) to Sublessor’s knowledge, there are no pending or threatened actions, suits or proceedings before any court or administrative agency against Sublessor that could, in the aggregate, materially adversely affect the Subleased Premises or the Sublease.
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29. Counterparts/Electronic Signatures: This Sublease may be executed in one (1) or more counterparts each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one (1) and the same instrument. Signature copies may be detached from the counterparts and attached to a single copy of this Sublease physically to form one (1) document. The signatures of all of the parties need not appear on the same counterpart, and delivery of an executed counterpart signature page by facsimile or in PDF is as effective as executing and delivering this Sublease in the presence of the other parties to this Sublease.
30. Rooftop Equipment. Subject to Master Lessor’s consent and the provisions of Section 29.36 of the Master Lease, as incorporated herein, Sublessee shall have the right, at its sole cost and expense, to install a satellite dish, antenna or similar item on the roof of the 120 Building in a location approved by Sublessor and Master Lessor.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Sublease as of the day and year first above written.

SUBLESSOR:
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
By:
Name:
Its:
Address:
8000 S. Federal Way
Boise. ID 83707
Attention: General Counsel
With a copy to:
8000 S. Federal Way
Boise, ID 83707
Attention: Director of Global Real Estate

SUBLESSEE:
ZSCALER, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
By: /s/Remo E. Canessa
Name: Remo E. Canessa
Its:
Address:
Prior to the Commencement Date:
110 Rose Orchard Way
San Jose, CA 95134
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
After the Commencement Date:
120 Holger Way
San Jose, CA 95134
Attention: Chief Legal Officer




IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Sublease as of the day and year first above written.
SUBLESSOR:
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
By: /s/Stefan Guth
Name: Stefan Guth
Its: CVP, Chief Procurement Officer
Address:
8000 S. Federal Way
Boise. ID 83707
Attention: General Counsel
With a copy to:
8000 S. Federal Way
Boise, ID 83707
Attention: Director of Global Real Estate

SUBLESSEE:
ZSCALER, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
By:
Name:
Its:
Address:
Prior to the Commencement Date:
110 Rose Orchard Way
San Jose, CA 95134
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
After the Commencement Date:
120 Holger Way
San Jose, CA 95134
Attention: Chief Legal Officer




EXHIBIT A
MASTER LEASE




EXHIBIT B
SUBLEASED PREMISES
[***]






















____________________________________________
Certain confidential information contained in this document, marked by brackets, has been omitted because it is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed.





EXHIBIT C
FURNITURE
[To be added post-execution per Sublease]




EXHIBIT D
WORK LETTER
This Exhibit D (referred to herein as the “Work Letter”) forms a part of that certain Sublease Agreement (the “Sublease”) by and between Micron Technology, Inc., as Sublessor, and Zscaler, Inc., as Sublessee, to which this Work Letter is attached. All defined terms referred to in this Work Letter shall have the same meaning as defined in the Sublease to which this Work Letter is a part, except where expressly defined to the contrary.
2.Sublessee’s Improvements. Subject to Master Lessor’s and Sublessor’s prior written consent and the applicable provisions of the Master Lease and the Sublease, Subtenant may construct or perform, at Subtenant's sole cost and expense (except for Sublessor's payment of the Subtenant Improvement Allowance (as defined in Paragraph 4 below)), within the Subleased Premises those interior improvements (the “Sublessee Improvements”) shown on the Final Plans and Specifications (hereafter defined) approved by Sublessor and Master Lessor. Subject to Sublessee’s compliance with the terms and provisions with this Work Letter and the Sublease, Sublessor agrees that it shall not unreasonably withhold its consent to the following Sublessee improvements (the “Proposed Initial Improvements”): executive briefing center installation, network operation center installation, minor office reconfiguration, installation of an approximately 1,900 square foot server room on the fifth (5th) floor of the Subleased Premises (the “Server Room”), lobby enhancement on the seventh (7th) floor of the Subleased Premises, painting and other cosmetic improvements.
2. Plans and Specifications. Sublessee shall retain a reputable architect (“Architect”) to prepare architectural and engineering plans and specifications (“Plans and Specifications”) for the Sublessee Improvements. The Architect shall be subject to the prior written approval of Master Lessor and Sublessor, which approval of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Upon completion of the Plans and Specifications, Sublessee shall deliver the same to Master Lessor and Sublessor. The Plans and Specifications shall show with reasonable detail the proposed Sublessee Improvements and locations of all proposed partitions and doors and shall include a typical office plan which shows electrical and data/communication outlets and fixtures.
3. Contractor. Sublessee at its sole cost and expense shall employ a reputable general contractor (“Contractor”) to construct the Sublessee Improvements in accordance with the Plans and Specifications. The Contractor shall: (i) be a licensed general contractor in the State of California, (ii) be bonded, (iii) have substantial experience in the construction of improvements similar to the Sublessee Improvements, and (iv) be subject to the prior written approval of Master Lessor and Sublessor, which approval of Sublessor shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
4. Improvement Allowance. Sublessee shall pay for all Sublessee Improvements, except that Sublessor shall provide to Sublessee an allowance (the “Initial Improvement Allowance”) in the amount of up to [***] of the Subleased Premises (i.e., [***]. In addition, upon Sublessee’s completion of the Server Room, Sublessor shall reimburse to Sublessee the costs incurred by Sublessee to design and construct the Server Room up to [***] (the “Server Room Allowance”, and, together with the Initial Improvement Allowance, the “Sublessee Improvement Allowance”).


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The Sublessee Improvement Allowance may be used by Sublessee for any costs incurred by Sublessee in connection with the renovation, modernization, fit up, fixturization, signage and/or IT wiring of the Subleased Premises, including the design and construction of the Sublessee Improvements (the “Reimbursable Costs”); provided, that, the Server Room Allowance shall only be available for the costs to design and construct the Server Room. The Sublessee Improvement Allowance shall be paid in phases upon completion of the Sublessee Improvements in any Phase of the Subleased Premises and delivery to Sublessor of an invoice together with appropriate lien release documentation evidencing the full payment by Sublessee of all Reimbursable Costs for which Sublessee seeks reimbursement. Sublessor will make disbursements of the Sublessee Improvement Allowance within thirty (30) days after Sublessor's receipt of Sublessee's invoice and documentation; provided, however, to the extent that the total aggregate costs of the design and construction of the Sublessee Improvements and Reimbursable Costs is less than the Sublessee Improvement Allowance, Sublessor shall have no obligation to provide to Sublessee the portion of the Sublessee Improvement Allowance that exceeds such aggregate costs. In no event shall the Sublessee Improvement Allowance be available for costs other than the cost of the design and construction of the Sublessee Improvements and Reimbursable Costs or be applied as a credit against Rent under the Sublease.
5. Construction. The Sublessee Improvements shall be constructed in accordance with the approved Plans and Specifications and all applicable laws, in a good and workmanlike manner, free of defects and using new materials and equipment of good quality and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Sublease and Master Lease. Sublessee shall be solely responsible for the construction, installation and completion of the Sublessee Improvements in accordance with the Plans and Specifications approved by Master Lessor and Sublessor and is solely responsible for the payment of all amounts when payable in connection therewith without any cost or expense to Sublessor or Master Lessor, except for Sublessor's payment of the Sublessee Improvement Allowance. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if any appicable governmental authority conditions the approval and performance of the Proposed Initial Improvements (other than the improvements related to Sublessee’s Server Room) on the performance of modifications to the Building foundation, shell or roof or the Project Common Areas exterior to any Building in the Project, then Sublessor shall perform such modifications at its sole cost and expense; provided, that, any such modifications that are required due to Sublessee’s improvements related to its Server Room shall be performed at Sublessee’s sole cost and expense.






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EXHIBIT E
SERVER ROOM INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIFICATIONS
Note: Under further analysis, but please include the following in the specifications:
Condenser Water: 120 GPM
Power: 320 amps at 480 volts taken from the bus duct using a 400 AMP bus duct tap

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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
EXCHANGE ACT RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a),
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Jagtar S. Chaudhry, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Zscaler, 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)) 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) 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
(c) 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: June 5, 2019
ZSCALER, INC.
By:/s/ Jagtar S. Chaudhry
Name:Jagtar S. Chaudhry
Title:
Chief Executive Officer and President
(Principal Executive Officer)



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Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
EXCHANGE ACT RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a),
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Remo Canessa, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Zscaler, 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)) 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) 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
(c) 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: June 5, 2019
ZSCALER, INC.
By:/s/ Remo Canessa
Name:Remo Canessa
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)



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Exhibit 32.1
CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

Each of the undersigned hereby certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Zscaler, Inc. for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2019 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that information contained in such Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Zscaler, Inc.

Date:
June 5, 2019
By:
/s/ Jagtar S. Chaudhry
Name:
Jagtar S. Chaudhry
Title:
Chief Executive Officer and President
(Principal Executive Officer)

Date:
June 5, 2019
By:
/s/ Remo Canessa
Name:
Remo Canessa
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)