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| We see an opportunity to improve that in the coming quarters |
| We continue to see opportunities to improve our overall gross margin as we scale our business and we expect our higher margin subscription revenue to become a greater portion of our overall revenue mix |
| We delivered another strong top line outperformance, while also generating positive free cash flow for the second consecutive quarter |
| We believe that our outperformance reflects the growing demand for external cybersecurity platform, demonstrates our team's consistent execution and validates our balanced approach to growth and increased profitability |
| As you may have seen in our press release this morning, we reported strong results |
| To conclude, we are pleased with our 3Q results, for which we again exceeded top and bottom line expectations and are raising guidance for Q4 |
| We ended the quarter with record ARR of $186 million, an increase of 21% year-over-year, and we accomplished this while also improving profitability and generating positive free cash flow quarter-over-quarter |
| Our Q3 cash flow performance was positively impacted by the timing of collections from our enterprise customers, and also reflects our focus on improving profitability |
| Q3 was another strong quarter for ZeroFox, where, as you heard, we made significant progress on many fronts |
| Our continued success with enterprise customers was reflected in the 27% year-over-year growth in subscription customers with ARR greater than $100,000, and in general, our overall growth in large enterprise deals |
| federal government's fiscal year-end during the middle of our Q3, I thought it was relevant to highlight our public sector business this call, with a very strong performance with record bookings, new customers and public sector ARR |
| And I think this improved profitability will actually help our optionality, and we'll show the sustainability of the company that we've built |
| You said that you're assuming macro stays the same in your guidance, but you raised full year revenue by more than the beat in the quarter, which is really impressive |
| While public sector benefit -- business benefited from the end of the government fiscal year and its seasonally strong spending, we believe there are underlying fundamental drivers that give us confidence in the future growth outlook and our One Platform approach |
| We've just put up the best quarter in company history for the third consecutive quarter |
| We experienced another record quarter resulting in year-to-date revenue growth of nearly 100% |
| Our strong performance was driven by continued high levels of cybersecurity breach activity, including a significant increase in large scale breaches, and our continued success in capturing market share |
| We had a really strong Q3 |
| As you saw, we raised guidance above beat for Q4 |
| Again, we said it, we believe we've got certainly the ability to be free cash flow positive next year |
| As Foster mentioned, in Q3, we saw continued success winning larger deals |
| We also believe that our technical EAS and capabilities from our acquisition of LookingGlass will provide immense value to our customers |
| So I think we're pretty bullish about Q4 and decided to kind of finish out the year strong |
| We're proud of that one |
| And so that's a great example of them, an organization with a strong security program has good capabilities to identify and help kick off the response and then pull in trusted third-parties to help and then the 8-K that |
| As you've heard from Foster, we feel well positioned to continue winning enterprise service opportunities |
| We had a six-figure new customer win with a large retail organization that is leveraging the power of nearly our entire platform |
| The significant outperformance in services revenue was driven by another record quarter of on-demand response bookings as we benefited from continued high levels of cyber breach activity and continued success winning enterprise deals |
| Congrats on another strongly executed quarter on revenue momentum and free cash flow generation |
| As I was telling Joe, just a second ago, I think we've done a really nice job in the last two quarters putting up consecutive back-to-back free cash flow quarters where we grew it almost double quarter-over-quarter here in Q3 |
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| And then ultimately, the way this is going to play out in the market, I guess, in my opinion here is everyone's going to say it's worse than expected because they are going to set expectations on, hey, we're looking into this, we're trying to get our arms around this |
| However, given our significant performance in Q3, we currently anticipate a sequential decline in 4Q services revenue |
| This Q1 was indeed more challenging than most |
| federal government and the FBI saying, don't pay ransomware, yet the majority of customers that we engage or know of still paying it and still getting hit, I think it becomes a real challenge |
| The days where insider threats were a top concern for CISOs are behind us |
| Q1 is always our most challenging quarter |
| The challenge so far, though is, it's very, very difficult to adhere to that SEC requirement and have full details that fast |
| Our services revenue continues to be less predictable when compared to our subscription revenue |
| We're not done growing profitability year |
| But in general, Q1 tends to be our toughest quarter from a cash flow generation standpoint, and then we tend to turn around in Q2, Q3, Q4 |
| And then like moving on, right, there's a recent attack on a, let's say, cloud-native identity player on their customer support system that happened this quarter |
| In general, with the macro environment that we're seeing right now, we haven't really seen a slowdown in large deals and we've seen some of the pressures maybe in other parts of the world that were there in previous quarters improved in the last quarter or so |
| Please review our earnings press release and recent SEC filings for a description of these material risks and uncertainties |
| I was wondering, has the elevated threat environment helping the pipeline building generation as well as deal expansion activities? And is there any pushback from customers in terms of like, let's say, budget concerns because we're still in a challenging macro environment? James Foster I heard a couple of things there, Yi, and good morning as well |
| And there's changes that's happening out of the macro |
| Customers have grown tired of the complexity and cost of managing multiple external cybersecurity point products for digital risk protection, threat intelligence, takedowns and even external attack service management, a dynamic that has intensified in the current economic environment |
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