Company: FSLY
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001517413-25-000063
Chunk: 31

Company: Fastly, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 31
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 support modern application development processes and utilize new and proprietary technologies to offer services and features previously not available in the marketplace;

•ability to identify new markets, applications, and technologies;

•ability to attract and retain customers;

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•brand, reputation, and trustworthiness;

•credibility with developers;

•quality of customer support;

•ability to recruit software engineers and sales and marketing personnel;

•ability to protect intellectual property; and

•ability to identify opportunities for acquisitions and strategic relationships and successfully execute on them.

We believe we generally compete favorably with our competitors on the basis of these factors. Our edge cloud platform integrates many of the point products offered by our competitors which is a key differentiator. However, many of our competitors have substantially greater financial and technical resources in addition to larger sales and marketing budgets, broader market distribution, and more mature intellectual property portfolios.

Our Culture and Human Capital Resources

Our Values

Technology has the potential to make a radically positive impact on the world, and we aspire to improve human lives through our work. We were founded on strong ethical principles, and have intentionally grown values-first, scaling our workforce, services, customer portfolio, and investment partners purposefully. We are only as good as the company we keep, and this guides our hiring practices as well as the ethics we are committed to upholding as we scale. We believe that as a result of our values, we have been able to identify, attract, engage and retain great people. We want to serve the very best of the Internet. We choose to work with customers that we believe have integrity, are trustworthy, and do not promote violence or hate. Our eight core values define who we are and how we choose to grow, hire, train, work, communicate, make decisions, support each other, and serve our customers.

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Our Hiring Strategy

We are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce and leadership team that reflects our values and the unique needs of our global customer base. We strive to be a company full of talented, highly effective, kind, honest, passionate, and high-integrity people. We are dependent on our highly qualified employees and executives, and it is crucial that we continue to attract, engage and retain valuable employees. We believe in investing in our people and motivating talented individuals with a strong career path and competitive compensation program. Our U.S. support engineers are often hired from code schools, and many code school graduates transition from support into other organizations within the company, championing the customer voice and infusing our teams with a strong,