Company: TRUE
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001327318-25-000016
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Company: TrueCar, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 business, product or technology in question, including claims from terminated employees, consumers, former stockholders or other third parties.

Our failure to address these risks or other problems encountered in connection with our past or future transactions could cause us to fail to realize the anticipated benefits of those transactions, cause us to incur unanticipated liabilities and harm our business generally. Future transactions could also result in dilutive issuances of our equity securities; the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or amortization expenses; or the write-off of goodwill, any of which could harm our financial condition, and the anticipated benefits of any transaction may not materialize.

For example, the total consideration of $135 million payable in connection with the divestiture of ALG in 2020, included up to a maximum of $22.5 million in contingent consideration, comprising one payment of up to $7.5 million payable based on ALG’s achievement of certain revenue metrics in 2020 and another payment of up to $15 million payable based on its achievement of certain other revenue metrics in 2022. The first tranche of $7.5 million in contingent consideration was paid in the first quarter of 2021, but on April 17, 2023, ALG provided us with notice that it failed to achieve the 2022 revenue metrics required for us to be entitled to any of the $15 million contingent consideration. Although we disputed the basis of this notice pursuant to the dispute resolution process provided for in the ALG purchase agreement, we were ultimately awarded less than 1% of the $15 million contingent consideration. If we enter into future transactions in which any amount of consideration is payable contingent upon factors beyond our control, we will be unable to guarantee that such payments will be received.

Further, we acquired our Digital Motors subsidiary in the second quarter of 2022 in part to integrate certain features of its existing automotive retail and financial technology platform into our current and future product offerings, including our TrueCar+ offering. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2022 we employed certain elements of Digital Motors’ credit application routing product to replace services that to that point had been supplied by a third-party vendor. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to successfully realize value commensurate with our investment through integrating technology developed by Digital Motors into our own platforms or that the benefits of any such integration will make our offerings more attractive to dealers and consumers. We also cannot guarantee that any benefits that result from our acquisition of Digital Motors or any other acquisition will