Company: YEXT
Filing Date: 2025-12-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-055819
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Company: Yext, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 4
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. If we are unable to adequately recruit for and retain our sales force, we will not be able to reach our market potential and execute our business plan. In addition, we may change our strategy from time to time in how we go to market. As a result, we may change the size of our sales force to reflect strategic realignment in how we go to market, which recently has resulted in a net decrease in sales personnel in the near term before potentially growing headcount again.

Identifying and recruiting qualified sales personnel and training them on our products requires significant time, expense and attention. Our financial results will suffer if our efforts to recruit for, train and retain our sales force do not generate a corresponding increase in revenue. We have hired a significant number of sales personnel in recent years. If new sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time or if we are unable to retain and develop talented sales personnel, we may not be able to realize the expected benefits of this investment or increase our revenue.

We have significant international operations, which exposes us to risk.

In 2014, we opened our first office outside the United States, and we have expanded our operations abroad, including as a result of acquisitions. Our international expansion has created and will create significant challenges for our management, administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and will subject us to regulatory, economic and political risks in addition to those we already face in the United States. Because of our limited experience with international operations and developing and managing sales in international markets, our international expansion efforts may not be successful.

Some of the specific risks we will face in conducting business internationally that could adversely affect our business include:

•the difficulty of recruiting and managing international operations and the increased operations, travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with numerous international locations;

•our ability to effectively price our multi-tiered subscriptions in competitive international markets;

•our ability to identify and manage sales partners;

•new and different sources of competition in each country or region;

•potentially greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;

•the need to adapt and localize our products for specific countries, including differences in the location attributes and formats used in each country and differences in languages, for example in the case of our search product, which relies on natural language processing; 

•the need to develop integrations with new third-party applications used by international customers; 

•the need to offer customer support in various languages;

•fluctuations in currency exchange