Company: BL
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050628
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Company: BLACKLINE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
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 our business and provide our software solutions, and interruptions, outages, or performance problems with these technologies may adversely affect our business and operating results. 

•Our increased focus on the development and use of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies (“AI/ML”) in our platform and our business, as well as our potential failure to effectively implement, use, and market these technologies, may result in reputational harm or liability, or could otherwise adversely affect our business.

•Interruptions or performance problems associated with our software solutions, platform and technology may adversely affect our business and operating results.

•If our software contains serious errors or defects, we may lose revenue and market acceptance and may incur costs to defend or settle product liability claims.

•The market in which we participate is intensely competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our business and operating results could be harmed.

•Our quarterly results may fluctuate, and if we fail to meet the expectations of analysts or investors, our stock price and the value of your investment could decline substantially.

•We have a history of losses and we may not be able to generate sufficient revenue to achieve or sustain profitability.

•The market price of our common stock may be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

If we are unable to attract new customers and expand sales to existing customers, our growth could be slower than we expect and our business may be harmed.

Our growth depends in part upon increasing our customer base. Our ability to increase our revenues will depend, in large part, upon the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts, both domestically and internationally. We may have difficulty attracting potential customers that rely on inexpensive tools such as Excel, or that have already invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate internally-developed or other software solutions into their businesses, as such organizations may be reluctant or unwilling to invest in a new product. If we fail to attract new customers or maintain and expand those customer relationships, our revenues will grow more slowly than expected and our business will be harmed. 

As we move to a platform model, our growth depends upon our ability to sell additional products and increase usage from our existing customers. It is important for the growth of our business that our existing customers make additional significant purchases of our products to our platform. Although our customers, users, and revenue have grown rapidly in the past, in recent periods our slower growth rates have reflected the increased size and scale of our business and heightened competition and market maturity within our core Financial