Company: NET
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477333-25-000082
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Company: Cloudflare, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 by the United States and other countries and the resulting additional costs and uncertainties may cause the costs of our products to increase. Additionally, future tariffs could cause the costs of the equipment we use to operate our global network to increase, corporate spending to become delayed or curtailed, increase rates of inflation, reduce economic growth rates, create an economic downturn or recession, or result in other similar or unexpected adverse effects on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.

We are closely monitoring macroeconomic developments and global events, such as the tariffs described above and conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and the potential worsening or expansion of those conflicts and other areas of geopolitical tension around the world, and other geopolitical events such as elections and other governmental changes, and, in each case, how they may adversely impact our and our customers’ businesses. Weak economic conditions or uncertainty regarding the stability of financial markets related to stock market volatility, inflation, recession, threats of tariffs and other impediments to cross-border trade, trade agreements or governmental fiscal, monetary and tax policies, among others, also could adversely impact our and our customers’ business, financial condition and operating results. In addition, general tightening in the credit market, lower levels of liquidity, increases in rates of default and bankruptcy, and significant volatility in equity and fixed-income markets could all negatively impact our customers’ purchasing decisions. Potentially as a result of these various macroeconomic impacts on our customers, we periodically have experienced lengthening of the average sales cycle for certain types of customers and sales (including sales to new customers and expansion sales to existing customers), slowdowns in our pipeline of potential new customers and in the rate of converting sales pipeline opportunities into new sales, increases in average days sales outstanding, higher levels of churn in our paying customer base (which is when any of our paying customers cease to be a paying customer for any reason, including any pay-as-you-go customer converting to a free subscription plan), and lengthening of the timing of payment from some of our customers, all of which may have contributed to a slowdown in our revenue growth from prior periods 

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(including with respect to new customers). We believe macroeconomic uncertainty could persist during 2025. As a result, we expect that some or all of the negative trends described in this paragraph may emerge or recur during future quarters.

To the extent challenging macroeconomic conditions persist, we may experience additional adverse effects on our business, financial condition, or results of operations in future periods. These effects could include, among others, reduction or increased delays in