Item 1A. Risk Factors
Investing in our Series A common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before making a decision to invest in our Series A common stock. If any of these risks actually occur, our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects could be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our Series A common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment. Certain statements contained in the risk factors described below are forward-looking statements. See the section titled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” for more information.
Risk Factors Summary
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that you should consider before investing in our company. These risks are described more fully immediately following this summary. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Our revenue is dependent upon maintaining our relationship with Amazon and other marketplaces and our failure to do so, or any restrictions on our ability to offer brand partners’ products on Amazon and other marketplaces, could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
• Our technology relies in part on the use of comprehensive marketplace data, and if we lose the ability to use such data, or if such data contains inaccuracies, our business could be adversely affected.
• Operational and performance issues with our technology, whether real or perceived, including a failure to respond to technological changes or to upgrade our technology systems, may adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
• If we are unable to continue to introduce new features or solutions successfully and to make enhancements to existing solutions including to participate effectively in evolving AI-enabled shopping experiences that bypass third-party marketplaces, our ability to grow and operate our business could be adversely affected.
• We may be unable to source additional, or strengthen our existing relationships with, brand partners, and the loss of any significant brand partners would negatively impact our business.
• Our future success depends on the continuing efforts of our co-founders and senior management team.
• We depend on highly-skilled personnel to grow and operate our business, and if we are unable to hire, retain and motivate our personnel, we may not be able to grow effectively.
• We are highly dependent on the services of David Wright, our Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, and Melanie Alder, our Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder, who are married to each other. The separation or divorce of our co-founders in the future could adversely affect our business.
• If we do not adequately fund our research and development efforts, we may not be able to compete effectively and our business and operating results may be harmed.
• If we are unable to accurately forecast consumer demand, manage our inventory and plan for future expenses, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
• We have experienced rapid growth in recent periods and our recent growth rates may not be indicative of our future growth.
• If we fail to manage our growth effectively, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
• We are subject to extensive laws and regulations and we may incur material liabilities or costs related to complying with existing or future laws and regulations, and our failure to comply may result in enforcements, penalties, recalls and other adverse actions.
• Political, economic and financial instability and changes in international trade policies or tariffs, particularly between the United States and China, could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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• We are a “controlled company” under the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”), and intend to avail ourselves of certain reduced corporate governance requirements.
• The dual series structure of our common stock and the existing ownership of capital stock by our co-founders and their affiliates have the effect of concentrating voting control with our co-founders and their affiliates for the foreseeable future, which will limit your ability to influence corporate matters.
• Other factors discussed below.
Risks Related to Our Business
Our revenue is dependent upon maintaining our relationship with Amazon and other marketplaces and our failure to do so, or any restrictions on our ability to offer brand partners’ products on Amazon and other marketplaces, could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We depend almost entirely on our relationship with Amazon and other marketplaces for generating revenue and growth. For the year ended December 31, 2025, we derived 93% of our revenue from consumer product sales on Amazon. In the last three fiscal years, the United States accounted for a substantial majority of our total revenue. Any adverse change in our relationship with Amazon, including restrictions on the ability to offer products, termination of the relationship or disruption of Amazon’s business or operations because of litigation, regulatory or other proceedings, could adversely affect our continued growth, financial condition and results of operations.
We also depend on our ability to offer products on other marketplaces, such as Walmart, Target, Tmall, JD, eBay, TikTok Shop, Mercado Libre, Zolando, Kohl’s, Kroger, Macy’s and others. Marketplaces on which we sell our brand partners’ products may materially affect our sales and operating results if we don’t timely and adequately resolve account-related issues, including if such marketplaces: terminate or suspend our accounts; block or delay our shipments; block us or our brand partners from listing products; implement strategic shifts that impair our ability to sell products on their marketplace, such as imposing restrictions on our ability to sell in instances where the marketplace has a 1P relationship with the brand; change their policies, including with respect to remittances and payment terms and timing; introduce or enforce restrictions on website scraping; change one or more APIs such that they are no longer compatible with our technology, and increase their fees, which in turn could raise product prices for customers, making the marketplace a less attractive distribution channel for our brand partners and/or less profitable for us.
Our relationships with marketplaces are subject to their online terms of use, which are typically “click-through” agreements that we are not able to negotiate with the marketplaces. Generally, our relationships with marketplaces are terminable at will by either party. In addition, these marketplaces have significant discretion to change their policies, procedures and terms. Any such changes, or other limitations or restrictions on our ability to sell on a marketplace could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. In the past, we have experienced account suspensions, changes in payment terms and increases in marketplace fulfillment fees. We cannot guarantee that similar or other issues will not arise in the future, nor that we will be able to timely and adequately resolve them. The terms of use that govern our relationships with marketplaces generally mandate that we resolve claims through final and binding arbitration. The rules and policies governing these arbitration proceedings may offer significantly limited rights compared to litigation in federal or state courts. Arbitration may not provide us with all the relief we could obtain outside of arbitration.
Our technology relies in part on the use of comprehensive marketplace data, and if we lose the ability to use such data, or if such data contains inaccuracies, our business could be adversely affected.
Our technology incorporates statistical models built using a variety of data sets. Our technology relies on a diverse range of data sources, including data collected from our customers, brand partners and, in some cases, website scraping, other data collected from marketplaces and other third parties and self-generated data, including novel data generated through machine learning. This data covers a wide variety of signals across millions of products, keywords, brands, consumer behavioral inputs and more, including search, advertising, fulfillment, content conversion rates, ratings and reviews, social media influencers, likes, shares, clicks and comments. Such data may have restrictions on how it may be used, including, for example, restrictions on the collection, use or other processing of data from certain jurisdictions. If we are unable to access and use data collected from our customers, marketplaces, the internet or other third-party data used in our technology, or if our access to such data is limited, for example, due to new or changing, or novel interpretations of, laws, rules or regulations or policies of third parties, including marketplaces, our ability to accurately make forecasts and evaluate consumer behavior could be compromised.
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The use of data obtained through scraping exposes us to several risks, including legal and regulatory challenges, such as potential violations of intellectual property rights, terms of service and data privacy laws. There is also an ethical and reputational risk if stakeholders perceive the use of scraped data as exploitative or unfair. Scraped data may be flawed or of inconsistent or poor quality, leading to inaccuracies in outputs. Additionally, we face the risk of operational disruption if we are forced to stop using scraped data due to legal issues or third-party actions, as well as the potential for litigation and liability from data providers or individuals whose data was scraped. Lastly, changes in third-party access restrictions or platform policies, including introduction or enforcement of stricter website scraping policies by marketplaces, could limit our ability to source data, hindering the development and effectiveness of our technology. There is no assurance that such measures will fully eliminate potential adverse impacts on our business.
In addition, if third-party data used to train and improve our technology is inaccurate, or access to such third-party data is limited, prohibited or becomes unavailable to us, our ability to continue to improve our technology would be adversely affected. Although we believe that there are commercially reasonable alternatives available to the third-party data we currently license, this may not always be the case, or it may be difficult or costly to migrate to other third-party data. Our use of additional or alternative third-party data would require us to enter into license agreements with third parties. Emerging laws or regulations restricting use and sharing of third-party data may also reduce the value of such data for our business. In addition, integration of the third-party data used in our technology with new third-party data may require significant work and require substantial investment of our time and resources. Any of the foregoing could negatively impact our business, impair our ability to grow our customers and brand partners, subject us to financial liabilities and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Operational and performance issues with our technology, whether real or perceived, including a failure to respond to technological changes or to upgrade our technology systems, may adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
We depend upon the sustained and uninterrupted performance of our technology to, among other things, manage our inventory supply, purchase products from brand partners, optimize shipments to marketplaces, collect, process and interpret data, bid on advertising and monitor and optimize listings on marketplaces. If our technology cannot scale to meet demand, if there are errors in our execution of any of these functions on our technology or if we experience outages, then our business may be harmed. We may also face material delays in introducing new products to marketplaces or restocking existing products. If competitors introduce new products or services using new technologies or if new industry standards and practices emerge, our existing proprietary technology and systems may become less effective or obsolete.
Our technology is complex and multifaceted, and operational and performance issues could arise both from the technology itself and from outside factors. Errors, failures, vulnerabilities or bugs have been found in the past, and may be found in the future. Our technology also relies on third-party technology and systems to perform properly, and our technology is often used in connection with computing environments utilizing different operating systems, system management software, equipment and networking configurations, which may cause errors in, or failures of, our technology or such other computing environments. Operational and performance issues with our technology could include the failure of our user interface, outages, errors during upgrades or patches, unanticipated volume overwhelming our databases, server failure or catastrophic events affecting one or more server locations. While we have built redundancies in our systems, full redundancies do not exist. Some failures will shut our technology down completely, others only partially.
Operational and performance issues with our technology could also result in negative publicity, damage to our brand and reputation, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our technology, increased costs or loss of revenue, loss of the ability to access our technology, loss of competitive position or claims by brand partners for losses sustained by them. Alleviating problems resulting from such issues could require significant expenditures of capital and other resources and could cause interruptions, delays or the cessation of our business, any of which may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
If we are unable to continue to introduce new features or solutions successfully and to make enhancements to existing solutions including to participate effectively in evolving AI-enabled shopping experiences that bypass third-party marketplaces, our ability to grow and operate our business could be adversely affected.
Our ability to attract new brand partners and increase revenue depends in large part on our ability to enhance and improve our existing solutions and to introduce new features or solutions. To grow our business and be competitive, we must develop solutions, features and functionality that reflect the constantly evolving nature of technology including AI-driven commerce ecosystems and the needs of potential brand partners and our existing brand partners. The success of these and other enhancements or developments depend on several factors, including their timely introduction and completion, sufficient demand and cost effectiveness. Shifts in consumer behavior toward AI‑enabled shopping assistants, agents, and
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embedded checkout that route discovery and purchase outside third‑party marketplaces could reduce demand for our marketplace acceleration solutions and require us to develop new integrations, features and offerings to participate in such ecosystems. Adapting may require significant investments and re‑architecture, and we may not achieve acceptable returns or execute quickly enough to maintain competitiveness. For example, the development of AI and machine learning technologies and products (collectively, “AI Technologies”) including AI shopping assistants, agents and embedded checkout experiences that bypass marketplaces or intermediate the path from discovery to purchase—could replace or diminish the value of our specialized expertise and technological tools, harming our business and making our solutions less durable. It is difficult to accurately predict the adoption of new features or solutions, and related shifts in consumer behavior, and the pace and direction of these shifts may occur more quickly than we anticipate, as well as our recent rapid growth and limited experience in operating our business at its current scale, scope and complexity. Such uncertainty limits our ability to predict our future results of operations and subjects us to a number of challenges, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. If we cannot navigate such uncertainties or are unable to successfully develop new features or solutions or to enhance our existing solutions or otherwise overcome technological challenges and competing technologies to gain market acceptance, including within AI‑driven commerce ecosystems, then our business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
We may be unable to source additional, or strengthen our existing relationships with, brand partners, and the loss of any significant brand partners would negatively impact our business.
We purchase significant amounts of products from our brand partners and there can be no assurance that our current brand partners will maintain or increase these amounts or otherwise be able to accommodate our anticipated growth or continue to supply current quantities at current prices. An inability of our existing brand partners to provide products in a timely or cost-effective manner, including as a result of low inventories or supply chain challenges, could affect our revenue and materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. A variety of factors outside our control, including, failure by brand partners to effectively promote products or manage regulatory changes, negative publicity or damage to our brand partners’ reputation, product recalls, deterioration in product quality, changes in consumer preferences or trends, supply chain disruptions experienced by brand partners, availability of better or more affordable alternatives or technological advancements and innovation, could negatively affect our ability to strengthen our existing relationships with brand partners. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the health and wellness category accounted for 69% of our inventory purchases. For the year ended December 31, 2025, two brand partners in the health and wellness category accounted for 17% and 17% of our inventory purchases and contributed significantly to our growth in recent periods. The loss of these or any of our other significant brand partners or any change in pricing structure or volume with brand partners, including with respect to the health and wellness category, would have a negative impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In order to attract quality brand partners, we must: ensure a more seamless, consistent and low-friction collaboration model of acquiring inventory from brand partners; maintain our unique and scaled data assets; provide differentiated insights into producing traffic, conversion, price and availability insights, including by investing in and improving our AI Technologies, that we use to make data-driven decisions; provide technology that delivers brand partners a superior return on advertising spend; continue to enhance operations and fulfillment capabilities that leverage Pattern’s scale to minimize logistics and shipping costs associated with inbounding products to marketplaces; attract and retain a team of industry experts across marketing, fulfillment, customer service, brand protection and marketplace management; maintain our scale to provide comprehensive solutions across marketing, fulfillment, customer service and marketplace management on a global basis; identify and convert existing demand into sales; maintain consistent and cohesive brand positioning and customer experience across all ecommerce channels; convert one-time customers to repeat customers; continue to expand internationally, and provide high-quality customer service.
We continually seek to expand our base of brand partners and to identify new products. If we are unable to identify or enter into agreements with new brand partners or to replace the loss of any of our existing brand partners, we may experience a competitive disadvantage, our business may be disrupted and our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected. Although we have long-term agreements with certain significant brand partners that do not permit termination for convenience, a substantial portion of our brand partner agreements provide termination for convenience upon 60 days’ notice.
We rely on our brand partners’ contractual obligations to us, including with respect to reimbursing us for any advertising costs incurred in selling such brand partners’ products, performing their obligations with respect to promotions and buybacks, enforcing exclusivity provisions in our contracts, enforcing policies against unauthorized sellers and indemnifying us in connection with product recalls and liabilities. The insolvency of brand partners, including through bankruptcy, has in the past, and may in the future, impact our ability to collect amounts owed to us. We cannot control
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whether another seller of our brand partners’ products sells at a lower price than us or if brand partners fail to maintain a pricing or brand equity strategy across all distribution channels. If customers choose to purchase the product in another distribution channel, this could lead to lost sales revenue for us. Further, brand partners could also reduce their advertising spend at their discretion. In addition, disputes with respect to intellectual property of our brand partners could restrict our ability to list or sell the affected products on marketplaces. Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Our future success depends on the continuing efforts of our co-founders and senior management team.
Our future success depends on the continuing efforts of our senior management team, including our co-founders, David Wright, our Chief Executive Officer, and Melanie Alder, our Chief Strategy Officer. We rely on the leadership, knowledge and experience that our senior management team provides. They foster our corporate culture, which has been instrumental in our ability to attract and retain new talent. The market for such positions is intensely competitive, which could increase our costs to attract and retain talented individuals. As a result, we may incur significant costs to attract and retain executive officers and other senior management personnel, including significant expenditures related to salaries and benefits and compensation expenses related to equity awards.
Employee turnover, including changes in our management team, could disrupt our business. The loss of one or more of our executive officers or other key employees, especially our co-founders, including due to a leave of absence for medical reasons or otherwise, or the failure by our senior management team to effectively work together or with our employees and lead our company, or our inability to attract and retain highly skilled employees could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results. We do not maintain key man life insurance with respect to any executive officer, including our co-founders.
We depend on highly-skilled personnel to grow and operate our business, and if we are unable to hire, retain and motivate our personnel, we may not be able to grow effectively.
Our future success will depend, in part, upon our continued ability to identify and hire skilled personnel with the skills and technical knowledge that we require, including software design and programming, marketing, sales, brand management, data science, AI, operations, international commerce and other key personnel and our business plans and growth may depend on hiring a significant number of additional employees. Such efforts will require significant time, expense and attention as there is intense competition for such individuals, and new hires require significant training and time before they achieve full productivity, particularly with new products and brand partners and in new territories. We may lose new employees to our competitors or other companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training them. In addition to hiring new employees, we must continue to focus on developing, motivating and retaining our best employees across the globe, most of whom are at-will employees. If we fail to identify, recruit and integrate strategic personnel hires, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected. Further, inflationary pressure may result in employee attrition to the extent our compensation does not keep up with inflation. Additionally, the failure to continue hiring new personnel or the loss of any significant number of our existing key personnel could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. We may need to invest significant amounts of cash and equity to attract and retain new employees, and we may never realize returns on these investments. If we hire employees from competitors or other companies, their former employers may attempt to assert that these employees or we have breached various legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources. In addition, prospective and existing employees often consider the value of the equity awards they receive in connection with their employment. We have a number of current employees whose equity in our company substantially vested upon the completion of our initial public offering (“IPO”), but whose equity had been restricted from trading through the completion of a lock-up period which is expected to end at the opening of trading on March 9, 2026. As a result, it may be difficult for us to continue to retain and motivate these employees, and the value of their holdings could affect their decisions about whether or not they continue to work for us. If the perceived value of our equity awards declines or experiences significant volatility (including as valuations of companies comparable to us decline due to overall market trends, inflation and related market effects or otherwise) such that prospective and existing employees believe there is limited upside to the value of our equity awards, it may adversely affect our ability to recruit and retain key employees or result in us granting additional equity awards, which would result in additional stock-based compensation expense and further dilution to our stockholders. Our ability to attract, retain and motivate employees may be adversely affected by declines in the market price of our Series A common stock. Additionally, we have less experience with recruiting in geographies outside the United States and may face additional challenges in attracting and retaining international employees. If we are not able to effectively add and retain employees, our ability to achieve our strategic objectives will be adversely impacted, and our business and future growth prospects will be harmed.
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We are highly dependent on the services of David Wright, our Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, and Melanie Alder, our Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder, who are married to each other. The separation or divorce of our co-founders in the future could adversely affect our business.
We are highly dependent on the services of David Wright, our Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, and Melanie Alder, our Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder, who are married to each other. If Mr. Wright or Ms. Alder were to discontinue their service to us due to death, disability or any other reason, or if they were to become separated or divorced or could otherwise not amicably work with each other, we would be significantly disadvantaged. In addition, their work performance may not be satisfactory if they become preoccupied with personal matters. Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder, through their beneficial ownership of all of our Series B common stock, together with the Series A common stock held by their affiliated co-founder trusts, control approximately 86.4% of the total combined voting power of our capital stock. Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder entered into a co-founder voting agreement in connection with our IPO pursuant to which each of them granted each other a voting proxy with respect to their individual and affiliated entities’ (other than the co-founder trusts) shares of our common stock, representing approximately 73.7% of the voting power of our common stock, and agree to vote their shares (a) in favor of the election or re-election of each of the co-founders that have been duly nominated for election or re-election as members of our board of directors at each annual or special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected, (b) against the removal of each co-founder at any annual meeting or special meeting of stockholders at which any co-founder is to be removed from our board of directors and (c) at the written direction of the applicable co-founder proxy holder (as defined below) at any annual or special meeting of stockholders with respect to any other matters properly brought before such meeting for which their shares are entitled to vote. The applicable “co-founder proxy holder” shall be either Mr. Wright or Ms. Alder in alternative annual periods during which any applicable annual or special meeting is held. However, if Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder become separated or divorced, a court may refuse to enforce or terminate the co-founder voting agreement, and Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder could elect to terminate the co-founder voting agreement voluntarily at any time. As a result, if neither one of them individually controls more than 50% of the voting power of our capital stock we could lose our “controlled company” status. Further, their interests may diverge as a result of divorce or separation. In these cases, our business could be materially harmed.
If we do not adequately fund our research and development efforts, we may not be able to compete effectively and our business and operating results may be harmed.
To remain competitive, we must continue to enhance the features of our technology. Maintaining adequate research and development personnel and resources to meet the demands of the market is essential. If we are unable to develop our technology due to certain constraints, such as high employee turnover, lack of management ability or a lack of other research and development resources, we may miss market opportunities. Further, many of our competitors expend a considerable amount of funds on their research and development programs, and those that do not may be acquired by larger companies that would allocate greater resources to our competitors’ research and development programs. Our failure to maintain adequate research and development resources or to compete effectively with the research and development programs of our competitors could materially adversely affect our business.
Our future success will depend on our ability to improve the function, performance and reliability of our technology. The development of new and upgraded solutions involves a significant amount of time for our research and development team, as it can take our developers months to update, code and test new and upgraded software and integrate them into our technology. The introduction of new and upgraded design features and software also involves a significant amount of marketing spending. We must also manage our existing technology, as we continually test, grow and use our technology to support the distribution of our brand partners’ products. Our revenues and competitive position could be materially and adversely affected if we fail to improve our design features or our technology.
If we are unable to accurately forecast consumer demand, manage our inventory and plan for future expenses, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
We base our current and future inventory needs and expense levels on our operating forecasts and estimates of future consumer demand. To ensure adequate inventory supply, we must be able to forecast inventory needs and expenses and place orders sufficiently in advance with our brand partners based on our estimates of future consumer demand for the products we sell. Failure to accurately forecast demand may result in inefficient inventory supply or increased costs. This risk may be exacerbated by the fact that we may not carry a sufficient amount of inventory and may not be able to satisfy short-term demand increases. Accordingly, if we fail to accurately forecast customer demand, we may experience excess inventory levels, a shortage of products available for sale and loss of profits. Inventory levels in excess of customer demand may result in inventory write-downs or write-offs or the sale of excess inventory at suboptimal prices, which would cause our operating results to suffer. Conversely, if we underestimate customer demand, including as a result of unanticipated growth, our brand partners may not be able to deliver products to meet our requirements, and we may be
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subject to higher costs in order to secure the necessary production capacity or we may incur increased shipping costs. An inability to meet customer demand and delays in the delivery of our brand partners’ products to our customers could result in reputational harm for our brand partners, damage our customer relationships and brand partner relationships, harm our cash flows and prospects for growth and have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
While we devote significant attention to forecasting efforts, the volume, timing and value of the orders we receive are inherently uncertain. In addition, we cannot be sure growth rates, trends and other key performance metrics are meaningful predictors of future growth. Our business, as well as our ability to forecast demand, is also affected by general global economic and business conditions and the degree of consumer confidence in future economic conditions, and we anticipate that our ability to forecast demand due to these types of factors will be increasingly affected by conditions in international markets.
We have experienced rapid growth in recent periods and our recent growth rates may not be indicative of our future growth.
We are not always able to accurately forecast our growth rate. We base our expense levels and investment plans on revenue estimates. A significant portion of our expenses and investments are fixed, and we are not always able to adjust our spending quickly enough if our revenue is less than expected. Our revenue growth may not be sustainable, and our growth rates may decrease. Our revenue and profitable growth depends on the continued growth of demand for our brand partners’ products and our solutions, and our business is affected by, among other things, general economic, business and geopolitical conditions worldwide. A softening of demand, whether caused by a weakening of the United States or global economies, may result in decreased revenue or growth.
Our sales and operating results will also fluctuate for many other reasons, including due to factors described elsewhere in this section and the following: our ability to collect, process and interpret comprehensive ecommerce and consumer data; our ability to attract and retain a global team of industry experts across marketing, fulfillment, customer service, data science, software development, marketplace compliance and marketplace management; our ability to maintain the security, reliability and integrity of our technology; timing, effectiveness and costs of expansion and upgrades to our software; the extent to which use of our technology is affected by spyware, viruses, phishing and other spam emails, denial of service attacks, data theft, computer intrusions, outages and similar events; our ability to invest in technology and infrastructure, fulfillment and shipping capabilities and other expense categories; our ability to retain and expand our network of brand partners; our ability to attract and retain mid-market brand partners; our ability to successfully expand our brand partners into new geographies; our ability to attract new brand partners in new and existing geographies, segments and verticals; our brand partners’ discretionary advertising spend allocated to the products we sell; our ability to accelerate products effectively, including by maintaining or increasing our margins, so that we are able to attract and retain brand partners without compromising profitability; our ability to enhance our software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) solutions; changes in consumer trends and preferences; the success of our geographic, solutions, product and category expansions; our ability to offer products on favorable terms and manage order fulfillment and our inventory; variations in the level of returns for the products we sell; variations in the mix of products and services we sell; a decline in category sales volume or prices of specific products or categories, including with respect to health and wellness; our ability to retain and increase sales to existing customers, including with respect to health and wellness products, attract new customers and satisfy customer demands and preferences; our ability to maintain service levels and consistent quality; changes in usage or adoption rates of the internet, ecommerce, electronic devices and web services, including outside the United States; our ability to successfully compete against our current and future competition, including the introduction of competitive ecommerce acceleration, marketplace stores, products, point software solutions, services, price decreases or improvements; shifts in consumer trends away from ecommerce to brick-and-mortar; outcomes of ongoing antitrust investigations and actions initiated against marketplaces; adoption or expansion of trade restrictions, the occurrence of a trade war or other restrictive governmental action related to tariffs or trade agreements or policies, or events that otherwise impact the movement of goods, including with respect to United States and China; our ability to comply with existing and new applicable laws and regulations, including changing tax rates and tariffs; changes in regulations or marketplace policies that restrict the sale of specific categories, including health and wellness; outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, which may include significant monetary damages or injunctive relief and could have a material adverse impact on our operating results; our ability to adjust fixed costs in a timely manner to address any unexpected revenue shortfalls, including those arising from weakened global economic conditions and negative consumer confidence regarding future economic conditions; our ability to collect amounts owed to us when they become due; new and existing technologies or industry trends which restrict online advertising, affect our ability to customize advertising or otherwise optimize our technology; our ability to maintain our unique culture of innovation, brand partner obsession and long-term thinking, which has been critical to our growth and success; our ability to secure financing, and the terms of any such financing, for our current operations and future growth;
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factors affecting our reputation or brand image (including any actual or perceived inability to achieve our goals or commitments, whether related to brand partners, customers, employees or other topics), and public perceptions regarding social or ethical issues related to our development and use of AI Technologies; availability of and increases in the prices of transportation (including fuel), resources such as land, water and energy, commodities like paper, packing supplies, hardware products and technology infrastructure products, including as a result of inflationary pressures; and constrained labor markets, which increase our payroll costs.
If we fail to manage our growth effectively, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.
To manage our growth effectively, we must continue to implement our operational plans and strategies, improve and expand our infrastructure of people and information systems and expand, train and manage our employee base. We have rapidly increased employee headcount since our inception to support the growth in our business. To support our continued growth, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate a large number of new employees. We face significant competition for personnel, including in the Cincinnati, Ohio and Las Vegas, Nevada areas for warehouse labor. We face challenges to find and attract talent in the Lehi, Utah area, where our headquarters are located. In addition, we rely on our talent center in Pune, India to provide scalable technical support. We could face a significant increase in competition and costs to hire technical personnel in India. Failure to manage our hiring needs effectively or successfully integrate our new hires may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
To support our growth, we expect to make significant sales and marketing expenditures to increase our revenue, increase awareness of our brand partners and introduce additional brand partners’ products. We expect to incur significant research and development expenses to increase the functionality of our technology. A significant portion of our investments in our sales and marketing and research and development activities will precede the benefits from such investments, and we cannot be sure that we will receive an adequate return on our investments. In the future, we may shift significant resources to SaaS solutions. Brand partners might choose to subscribe to these SaaS solutions instead of using our ecommerce acceleration solution. However, we cannot guarantee that SaaS solutions will generate sufficient revenue and profitability to offset any loss of opportunities from our ecommerce acceleration solution. Consequently, this shift could adversely affect our revenue and growth. You should not consider our revenue growth and levels of profitability in recent periods as indicative of future performance. In future periods, our revenue or profitability could decline or grow more slowly than we expect.
Additionally, the growth of our business places significant demands on our management and other employees. We are required to manage relationships with a growing number of brand partners, customers and other third parties. Our information technology systems and our internal controls and procedures may not be adequate to support future growth of our customer or brand partner base. If we are unable to manage the growth of our organization effectively, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.
We currently rely on a small number of third-party service providers to host or support a significant portion of our business, and any loss of or interruptions or delays in services from these third parties could impair the delivery of our solutions and harm our business.
We currently host and support our operations using third-party service providers, including Amazon Web Services. We also rely on a small number of third-party service providers including SaaS platforms to operate critical functions of our business, including payment processing, collection of comprehensive ecommerce and consumer data, data storage services, cloud-based data warehousing and content creation. We do not have control over the operations of the facilities of the hosting providers that we use, and these third-party operations may experience break-ins, computer viruses, denial-of-service or other cyber-attacks, sabotage, acts of vandalism and other misconduct. These facilities may also be vulnerable to damage or interruption from power loss, telecommunications failures, fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and similar events. We have experienced, and expect that in the future we will experience, interruptions, delays and outages in service and availability from time to time due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, website hosting disruptions and capacity constraints. Any such limitation on the capacity of our third-party service providers could impede our ability to onboard new brand partners or expand the products offered to consumers, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within a period of time acceptable to our customers. A prolonged service disruption affecting our technology for any of the foregoing reasons would negatively impact our ability to perform critical business functions and could damage our reputation with consumers and brand partners, expose us to liability, cause us to lose brand partners, increase our expenses, negatively impact our ability to manage sales of our brand partners’ products and access or save data stored to the cloud, which could otherwise harm our business. We may also incur significant costs for using
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alternative equipment or taking other actions in preparation for, or in reaction to, events that damage the third-party service providers we use.
Any changes in our hosting providers’ service levels may adversely affect our ability to meet the expectations of brand partners and customers. Our systems do not provide complete redundancy of data storage or processing, and as a result, the occurrence of any such event, a decision by our third-party service providers to close their data centers without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems may result in our inability to serve data reliably or require us to migrate our data to either a new on-premise data center or public cloud computing service. This could be time-consuming and costly and may result in the loss of data, any of which could significantly interrupt the provision of our solutions and harm our reputation and brand. We may not be able to easily switch to another public cloud or data center provider in the event of any disruptions or interference to the services we use, and even if we do, other public cloud and data center providers are subject to the same risks. In addition, if we are unable to scale our data storage and computational capacity sufficiently or on commercially reasonable terms, our ability to innovate and introduce new products may be delayed or compromised, which would have an adverse effect on our growth and business.
In addition, we rely on third parties engaged by our brand partners to prevent unauthorized sellers from distributing their products. If these third parties fail to prevent unauthorized selling or are no longer able to provide these services or fail to sufficiently provide these services, it could adversely affect our business.
We have a history of losses, and we may be unable to sustain profitability or generate profitable growth in the future.
Although we generated net income in prior periods, including net income of $16 million and $68 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, we have experienced net losses in prior periods, including a net loss of $3 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. We may not maintain profitability in the future. We will need to sustain or increase revenue while managing our costs to sustain or increase profitability.
Our efforts to maintain and increase our profitability may not succeed due to factors such as increased costs due to inaccurate sales forecasting, inaccurate inventory forecasting and impairment charges for write-downs of goodwill, intangible assets, investments and other long-lived assets. As we continue to innovate and expand our solutions, we may initially harm our profitability. In addition, as a public company, we have incurred, and will continue to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. Further, our revenue growth may slow or our revenue may decline for a number of reasons, including those described in these “Risk Factors.”
If we fail to properly develop, invest in and manage AI Technologies used in our solutions, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
We have incorporated, and expect in the future we will continue to incorporate, AI Technologies into our solutions. We power our solutions with AI Technologies that help us and our brand partners achieve data insights faster. For example, we leverage machine learning algorithms in certain features to aid brand partners in analyzing their product data.
We expect that increased investment will be required in the future to continuously improve our use of AI Technologies. As with many technological innovations, there are significant risks involved in developing, maintaining and deploying AI Technologies and there can be no assurance that the usage of, or our investments in, such AI Technologies will always be beneficial to our solutions or business, including our efficiency or profitability.
We use AI Technologies licensed from third parties to power our technology and our ability to continue to use such technologies at the scale we need may be dependent on access to specific third-party technology. We cannot control the availability or pricing of such third-party AI Technologies, especially in a highly competitive environment, and we may be unable to negotiate favorable economic terms with the applicable providers. If any such third-party AI Technologies become incompatible with our solutions or unavailable for use, or if the providers of such models unfavorably change the terms on which their AI Technologies are offered or terminate their relationship with us, our solutions may become less appealing to our customers and our business could be harmed.
The use of new and evolving technologies, including AI Technologies, in our business may result in spending material resources and presents risks and challenges that can impact our business including by posing security and other risks to our confidential and/or proprietary information, including personal information, and as a result we may be exposed to reputational harm and liability.
We may continue to use and integrate AI Technologies into our business processes, and this innovation presents risks and challenges that could affect its adoption, and therefore our business. Development, use and deployment of these technologies could pose cybersecurity, data privacy, IT, intellectual property, regulatory, legal, operational, competitive,
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reputational and other risks and challenges that could affect our business. Specifically, risks related to bias, AI hallucinations, discrimination, harmful content, misinformation, fraud, scams, targeted attacks such as model poisoning or data poisoning, surveillance, data leakage, loss of consensus reality, inequality, environmental harms and other harms may flow from our development, use or deployment of AI Technologies. Uncertainty around new and emerging AI applications such as generative AI content creation may require additional investment in the development of proprietary data sets, machine learning models and systems to test for accuracy, bias and other variables, which are often complex, development of new approaches and processes to provide attribution or remuneration to content creators and building systems that enable creatives to have greater control over the use of their work in the development of AI Technologies, which may be costly and could impact our profit margin if we are unable to monetize such assets. In addition, AI Technologies, including generative AI, may create content that appears correct but is factually inaccurate or flawed or contains copyrighted or other protected material, and if our brand partners or others use this flawed content to their detriment, we may be exposed to brand or reputational harm, competitive harm or legal liability. Developing, testing and deploying AI Technologies may also increase our costs due to the nature of the compute power costs involved in such systems.
If we enable or offer solutions that draw controversy due to perceived or actual negative societal impact, we may experience brand or reputational harm, competitive harm or legal liability. Additionally, we expect to see increasing government and supranational regulation related to AI use and ethics, which may also significantly increase the burden and cost of research, development and compliance in this area. For example, the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) — the world’s first comprehensive AI law — entered into force in August 2024 and, with some exceptions, will begin to apply as of August 2, 2026. This legislation imposes significant obligations on providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems, and encourages providers and deployers of AI systems to account for European Union (“EU”) ethical principles in their development and use of these systems. If we develop or use AI systems that are governed by the AI Act, it may necessitate ensuring higher standards of data quality, transparency and human oversight, as well as adhering to specific and potentially burdensome and costly ethical, accountability and administrative requirements.
In the U.S., the AI regulatory environment is complex and uncertain. Over the past year, states have advanced, and in some cases passed, a variety of laws focusing on AI governance and regulation, including on deployment of AI in healthcare settings. At the federal level, the Trump Administration has endorsed a federal moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws, including through a December 11, 2025, executive order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” So far, these efforts have not been successful at curtailing state action on AI regulation, contributing to a complicated legislative patchwork, which may be litigated in state and federal courts. In addition, various federal regulators have issued guidance and focused enforcement efforts on the use of AI, including in connection with targeted advertising and regulated sectors that may impact the services we provide to our brand partners or customers. We or our customers when using our services may need to meet various standards of data quality, transparency, monitoring and human oversight, which could introduce cost and compliance risk that could adversely affect our or our customers’ or brand partners’ use of our AI-related services.
The rapid evolution of AI will require the application of significant resources to design, develop, test and maintain our solutions to help ensure that AI is implemented in accordance with applicable law and regulation and in a socially responsible manner and to minimize any real or perceived unintended harmful impacts. The use of certain AI technologies can also give rise to intellectual property risks, including by disclosing or otherwise compromising our confidential or proprietary intellectual property, or by undermining our ability to assert or defend ownership rights in intellectual property created with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools.
Our vendors may in turn incorporate AI tools into their offerings, and the providers of these AI tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or industry standards, including with respect to privacy and data security. Further, bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of AI, to engage in illegal activities involving the theft and misuse of confidential, sensitive, proprietary and business and personal information (collectively, “confidential information”) and intellectual property. The integration of AI systems, by us or by our vendors, may increase cybersecurity risk. Any of these effects could damage our reputation, result in the loss of valuable property and information, cause us to breach applicable laws and regulations and adversely impact our business.
Significant changes in marketplace return or refund policies, our ability to recover return or refund reimbursements, brand contractual arrangements or delays in processing returns or refunds could harm our business.
Typically, marketplaces reimburse us for any loss or damage to products while those products are in marketplace control. We are responsible for the risk associated with customer product returns or refunds. However, most of our brand partners are contractually obligated to reimburse us for any products that customers damage or return, but we are responsible for billing for such reimbursements. Any change in marketplace policies, our ability to bill or recover reimbursement costs or our brand partners’ agreements with us regarding these reimbursements could adversely impact our
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profits. We and our brand partners would be adversely affected by an uptick in customer returns. Additionally, we are dependent on the marketplaces to track and process these reimbursements. Any deficiencies in the marketplaces’ ability to process these reimbursements could impact our profits. If product returns or refunds are significant or higher than anticipated and forecasted, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
We are subject to product liability claims when people or property are harmed by the products we sell.
Some of the products we sell expose us to product liability claims relating to personal injury, illness, death or environmental or property damage, including, but not limited to, those that may arise from off-label use, malfunctions, design flaws or manufacturing defects related to our brand partners’ products or the use of our brand partners’ products with incompatible components or systems. In addition, as we continue to expand our product mix, we may enter or create new markets which may expose us to additional product liability risks. Regardless of the merits or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in decreased demand for our current or future products, injury to our reputation, costs to defend the related litigation, a diversion of management’s time and our resources, substantial monetary awards to customers, regulatory investigations, product recalls, withdrawals or labeling, marketing or promotional restrictions, loss of revenue and the inability to sell our current or any future products.
While our agreements with brand partners stipulate that they list us as an additional insured on their insurance policies and indemnify us against all product liability claims, we also maintain our own insurance policies to cover such claims. Additionally, certain marketplaces reimburse our customers for certain product liability claims up to certain limits pursuant to their policies. Failure by third parties to fulfill their contractual obligations regarding insurance coverage and indemnification could lead to legal actions or claims against us, potentially resulting in financial losses. Additionally, we may incur expenses, or be subject to liability, related to the transportation, storage or disposal of our brand partners’ products including under any federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations. Although we maintain liability insurance, we cannot be certain that our coverage will be adequate for liabilities actually incurred or that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms, or at all.
In addition, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), does not pre-approve products or the labeling of certain products we sell, so it has not approved, nor has it reviewed or approved any claims our brand partners make related to our brand partners’ products. If the FDA or any other governmental authority were to take issue with any of the ingredients used in our brand partners’ products, the claims brand partners make about their products or other aspects of our brand partners’ product labeling, such as components of their facts panel, or require that they change or cease making certain claims or otherwise alter marketing strategy, we may be unable to sell our inventory and we could experience a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
The illegal distribution and sale by third parties of counterfeit versions of our brand partners’ products or the unauthorized diversion by third parties of our brand partners’ products could have an adverse effect on our revenue and a negative impact on our reputation and business.
Third parties have in the past and may in the future illegally distribute and sell counterfeit versions of our brand partners’ products. These counterfeit products may be inferior in terms of quality and other characteristics compared to our original products and the counterfeit products could pose safety risks that our original products would not otherwise present to consumers. Consumers could confuse counterfeit products with brand partners’ original products. All of these events, separate or combined, could damage or diminish the image, reputation or value of us and our brand partners and cause customers to refrain from purchasing the products we sell in the future, which could adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business depends on our ability to successfully drive digital traffic to our product listings on marketplaces. We may not be able to maintain and enhance our product listings if we receive unfavorable customer complaints, negative publicity or otherwise fail to live up to customer expectations, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and growth prospects.
Maintaining and enhancing our product listings is critical in expanding and growing our business. However, consumers perceive our performance not only based on our listing but also based on third parties outside of our control, including brand partners, third-party delivery agents and marketplaces.
Customer complaints or negative publicity about the products we sell, delivery times, data handling and security practices, customer support or marketing strategies, even if not accurate, especially on blogs, social media websites and marketplaces, could rapidly and severely diminish customers’ view of our product listings and result in harm to our brand partners and our brand. Third parties have in the past and may in the future disseminate false, deceiving and harmful
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rhetoric about our business. Customers may also make safety-related claims regarding products sold through marketplaces, which may result in the temporary or permanent removal of product listings from marketplaces. We have from time to time experienced such removals, and such removals may materially impact our financial results depending on the product listing that is removed and length of time that it is removed.
Our inability to accurately predict customer demand or effectively optimize and manage our logistics and customer service operations could lead to either excess or insufficient capacity, increased costs and potential impairment charges, all of which could materially harm our business. As we expand our logistics and customer service capabilities or introduce new products with varying requirements, the complexity of our operations increases, making them more challenging to manage. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to maintain operational efficiency as we scale.
If we fail to offer high-quality customer support or are unable to achieve or maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, demand for our brand partners’ products could suffer.
We believe that our future revenue growth depends, in part, on our ability to provide customers with quality service that meets or exceeds our customers’ evolving needs and expectations, and is conducive to our ability to continue to sell our brand partners’ products to customers. The importance of high-quality customer support will increase as we expand our business. We are not always able to provide our customers with this level of service, and our customers occasionally encounter challenges in our customer support, including as a result of human error, outages, errors or bugs in our technology or third-party software. Our ability to provide effective and timely support is largely dependent on our ability to attract and retain skilled employees who can support our customers and are sufficiently knowledgeable about the products and our solutions. As we continue to grow our business and improve our solutions, we will face challenges related to providing quality support at an increased scale. If we do not help our customers quickly resolve issues and provide effective ongoing support or are unable to achieve or maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, we could experience more complaints from customers, brand partners ending their relationship with us, lower than expected repeat purchases, disputes and additional costs or negative publicity, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We rely on third-party transportation vendors, last mile carriers and marketplaces to ship and deliver our customers’ orders.
We rely on third parties, such as our transportation vendors, last mile carriers and marketplace fulfillment networks, to deliver products to our customers. Shortages of transportation vessels, transportation disruptions or other adverse conditions in the transportation industry due to shortages of pilots and truck drivers, strikes, slowdowns, piracy, terrorism, disruptions in rail service, closures of shipping routes, unavailability of ports and port service for other reasons, increases in fuel prices, adverse weather conditions, human-caused disasters or accidents, local and federal regulations, taxes, license and registration fees, insurance premiums, geopolitical events and security issues, labor or trade disputes or other adverse changes related to such third-party services could increase our costs and disrupt our operations and our ability to deliver products to our customers on the timing they expect or at all. Further, we rely on the business continuity plans of these third parties to maintain operations during such events, but we have limited control over their plans. As a result, we may be unable to prevent delays, cost increases or disruptions caused by reduced availability, capacity constraints or heightened safety measures. We may also experience shipping delays or disruptions due to other carrier-related issues relating to their own internal operational capabilities. The failure of our shipping partners to provide quality customer service when delivering products to us or our customers could negatively impact our business and operating results.
Our success will also depend, in part, on our ability to build and maintain relationships with these vendors and marketplaces on commercially reasonable terms. For example, we rely on marketplaces for fulfillment and delivery of many of our brand partners’ products to customers. Our agreements with brand partners generally require our brand partners to cover increases in marketplace fulfillment fees, which marketplaces have previously changed, and can in the future change, in their discretion. If marketplace fulfillment fees materially increase and our brand partners fail to meet their obligation to cover these costs, our margins would be negatively impacted. If we are unable to build and maintain such relationships on commercially reasonable terms, we may need to procure alternatives, which may be time consuming, costly or result in disruptions in our business or increased costs to our brand partners. Even if we are able to build and maintain such relationships, if these third parties are unable to deliver their services on a timely basis, customers and marketplaces could become dissatisfied, which would adversely affect our revenue, reputation and business.
For international operations, in certain countries we rely on third-party logistics and cross-docking partners to collect, sort and prepare for cross-border shipping of brand partners’ products. We may generally employ a single provider of cross-docking services in our outbound markets to the extent the number of alternative providers and minimum volume requirements imposed by such providers are relatively low. Our ability to ship products in a timely manner is dependent on
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our ability to secure third-party logistics and cross-docking services and in the event that we cannot secure them in specific geographies or are unable to secure them at competitive prices or with adequate service reliability and availability, our operations may be adversely affected. Moreover, if a third-party logistics or cross-docking service provider fails to provide the service, our operations will be adversely affected until such time that we are able to shift to an alternative provider.
Any of the foregoing operational disruptions to our transportation vendors, our inability to negotiate competitive rates with such vendors or our inability to switch to alternative vendors could adversely affect our business.
The variability in our business places increased strain on our operations.
Demand for the products we sell can fluctuate significantly for many reasons, including as a result of seasonality, holiday season and other peak events, promotions, product launches, advertising spend or unforeseeable events, such as in response to global economic conditions including recessionary fears or rising inflation, natural or human-caused disasters, extreme weather or geopolitical events. Our failure to stock or restock products in sufficient amounts such that we fail to meet customer demand could significantly affect our revenue and our future growth. When we overstock products, we may be required to take significant inventory markdowns or write-offs and incur commitment costs, which could materially reduce profitability. In addition, we may be unable to adequately staff our logistics network and customer service centers during these peak periods and may be unable to meet the seasonal demand. Risks described elsewhere relating to logistics network optimization and inventory are magnified during periods of high demand.
We rely on our brand partners to fund the advertising of the products we sell. As a result of fluctuations in marketing budgets in the beginning of the fiscal year or from quarter to quarter, some brand partners may not be able to allocate proper funds to advertising spend which could result in lower sales of the product.
We may not be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors.
We face competition in various aspects of our business and we expect such competition to grow in the future. Ecommerce is highly competitive and brands have a number of options to execute their ecommerce strategy. Brands could grow their ecommerce business themselves, marketplaces could directly offer brands’ products and existing tools and service providers could focus on implementing an ecommerce acceleration model. Other third-party sellers may secure better terms from our brand partners, adopt more aggressive pricing, undercut retail prices in an effort to increase their market share and devote more resources to technology, infrastructure, fulfillment, advertising and marketing. In addition, other third-party sellers may leverage their distribution networks, or brands could engage in direct sales on marketplaces, allowing them to implement more aggressive pricing strategies and offer more attractive sales terms. This could cause us to lose sales opportunities or force us to sell our inventory at lower prices. The internet facilitates competitive entry and comparison shopping, which enhances the ability of new, smaller or lesser-known businesses to compete against us. As a result, our potential competitors may be able to develop products and services that may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies or regulations. Our business model may not be successful, we may fail to gain or may lose business and we may be required to increase our spending or lower prices to remain competitive. If we cannot compete successfully against current and future competitors, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be negatively impacted.
Competition continues to intensify, including with the development of new business models and the entry of new and well-funded competitors and as our competitors enter into business combinations or alliances and established companies in other market segments expand to become competitive with our business. Further, shifts in consumer trends away from ecommerce to brick-and-mortar could adversely affect our revenue and growth. In addition, new and enhanced technologies, including applications of AI and machine learning, may in the future influence brand partners to choose to develop their own solutions and no longer rely on us for distribution of their products.
We rely primarily on third-party insurance policies to insure our operations-related risks. If our insurance coverage is insufficient for the needs of our business or our insurance providers are unable to meet their obligations, we may not be able to mitigate the risks facing our business, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We procure third-party insurance policies to cover various operations-related risks, including products liability, cargo liability, workers’ compensation, cybersecurity and data breaches, directors’ and officers’ liability and general professional liability. For certain types of business risk, we may not be able to, or may choose not to, acquire insurance. In addition, we may not obtain enough insurance to adequately mitigate such operations-related risks, and we may have to pay high premiums, co-insurance, self-insured retentions or deductibles for the coverage we do obtain. We rely on a limited number of insurance providers, and should such providers discontinue or increase the cost of coverage, we cannot guarantee that
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we would be able to secure replacement coverage on reasonable terms or at all. If our insurance carriers change the terms of our policies in a manner not favorable to us, our insurance costs could increase. Further, if the insurance coverage we maintain is not adequate to cover losses that occur, or if we are required to purchase additional insurance for other aspects of our business, we could be liable for significant additional costs. Additionally, if any of our insurance providers becomes insolvent, it would be unable to pay any operations-related claims that we make.
If the amount of one or more operations-related claims were to exceed our applicable aggregate coverage limits, we would bear the excess, in addition to amounts already incurred in connection with deductibles, self-insured retentions, co-insurance, high premiums or otherwise paid by our insurance policy. Insurance providers have raised premiums and deductibles for many businesses and may do so in the future. As a result, our insurance costs and claims expense could increase, or we may decide to raise our deductibles or self-insured retentions when our policies are renewed or replaced. Our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected if the cost per claim, premiums, the severity of claims or the number of claims significantly exceeds our historical experience and coverage limits, we experience a claim in excess of our coverage limits, our insurance providers fail to pay on our insurance claims, we experience a claim for which coverage is not provided or the severity or number of claims under our deductibles or self-insured retentions differs from historical averages.
We are subject to local laws, rules and regulations relating to insurance coverage which could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with existing or future local laws, rules and regulations relating to insurance coverage could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others. Additionally, anticipated or future local laws, rules and regulations relating to insurance coverage could require additional fees and costs. Compliance with these rules and any related lawsuits, proceedings or actions may subject us to significant penalties and negative publicity, require us to increase our insurance coverage, require us to amend our insurance policy disclosure, increase our costs and disrupt our business.
Our business suffers when we are unsuccessful in making, integrating and maintaining acquisitions and investments.
We have acquired and invested in a number of companies and we may in the future acquire or invest in or enter into joint ventures with additional companies. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, any of which could harm our business and negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations, including:
• intense competition for suitable acquisition targets, which could increase prices and adversely affect our ability to consummate deals on favorable or acceptable terms;
• failure or material delay in closing a transaction;
• transaction-related lawsuits or claims;
• difficulties in integrating the technologies, operations, existing contracts and personnel of an acquired company;
• difficulties in retaining key employees or business partners of an acquired company;
• difficulties in retaining vendors, brand partners and customers, as applicable, of an acquired company;
• challenges with integrating the brand identity of an acquired company with our own;
• disruptions to our ongoing business, diversion of resources, increases to our expenses and distraction of our management;
• diversion of financial and management resources from existing operations or alternative acquisition opportunities;
• negative impacts to our financial results as a result of incurring charges or assuming substantial debt or other liabilities, adverse tax consequence or unanticipated accounting treatment, exposure to claims and disputes by stockholders and third parties;
• failure to realize the anticipated benefits or synergies of a transaction;
• failure to identify the problems, liabilities or other shortcomings or challenges of an acquired company or technology, including issues related to intellectual property, regulatory compliance practices, litigation, revenue recognition or other accounting practices or employee or user issues;
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• risks that regulatory bodies may enact new laws or promulgate new regulations that are adverse to an acquired company or business;
• risks that regulatory bodies do not approve our acquisitions or business combinations or delay such approvals;
• theft of our trade secrets or confidential information that we share with potential acquisition candidates;
• risk that an acquired company or investment in new services cannibalizes a portion of our existing business; and
• adverse market reaction to an acquisition.
If we fail to address the foregoing risks or other problems encountered in connection with past or future acquisitions of businesses, new technologies, services and other assets and strategic investments, or if we fail to successfully integrate such acquisitions or investments, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
Our results of operations may be adversely affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
Our operations and customer base are currently concentrated in the United States. Therefore, we currently have limited foreign currency diversification and exposure. However, our foreign currency diversification and exposure may increase as international sales of our brand partners’ products increase over time. As a result, our revenue and profits generated by any non-U.S. operations may fluctuate from period to period as a result of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. In addition, we may become subject to exchange control regulations that restrict or prohibit the conversion of our other revenue currencies into U.S. dollars. Any of these factors could decrease the value of revenue and profits we derive from our non-U.S. operations and adversely affect our business.
We may also seek to reduce our exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates through the use of hedging arrangements. To the extent that we hedge our foreign currency exchange rate exposure, we forgo the benefits we would otherwise experience if foreign currency exchange rates changed in our favor. There can be no assurances that our hedging or other strategic techniques will mitigate the risks associated with such fluctuations, and our currency exchange rate risk management activities could expose us to substantial losses if such rates change materially from what we expect.
Our ability to raise capital in the future may be limited, and our failure to raise capital when needed could prevent us from growing.
In the future, we could be required to raise capital through public or private financing or other arrangements. Such financing may not be available on acceptable terms or at all, and our failure to raise capital when needed could harm our business. We may sell Series A common stock, convertible securities and other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices and in a manner as we may determine from time to time. If we sell any such securities in subsequent transactions, investors in our Series A common stock may be materially diluted. New investors in such subsequent transactions could gain rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of holders of our Series A common stock. Debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants and could reduce our operational flexibility or profitability. If we cannot raise funds on acceptable terms, we may be forced to raise funds on undesirable terms, our business may contract or we may be unable to grow our business or respond to competitive pressures, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Restrictions in our revolving credit facility could adversely affect our operating flexibility.
Our revolving credit facility provides for non-amortizing revolving loans in the aggregate principal amount of up to $150 million , and with an additional option to increase the aggregate principal amount up to $250 million under certain conditions subject to lender approval. The revolving line of credit bears interest at a variable base rate plus an applicable margin ranging from 0.50% to 2.00% and matures in September 2030 . Our revolving credit facility limits our ability to, among other things:
• incur additional debt;
• make certain investments and acquisitions;
• incur certain liens or permit them to exist;
• enter into certain types of transactions with affiliates;
• merge or consolidate with another company; and
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• transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of assets.
We are required to maintain compliance as of the end of each calendar quarter with the following financial covenants: (i) a consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio on a trailing 12-month basis of no less than 1.25 to 1.00; and (ii) a consolidated net leverage ratio on a trailing 12-month basis not greater than 4.00 to 1.00. The provisions of our revolving credit facility may affect our ability to obtain future financing and to pursue attractive business opportunities and our flexibility in planning for, and reacting to, changes in business conditions. As a result, restrictions in our revolving credit facility could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, a failure to comply with the provisions of our revolving credit facility could result in a default or an event of default that could enable our lenders to declare the outstanding principal of that debt, together with accrued and unpaid interest, to be immediately due and payable. If the payment of outstanding amounts under our revolving credit facility is accelerated, our assets may be insufficient to repay such amounts in full, and holders of our Series A common stock could experience a partial or total loss of their investment. As of December 31, 2025 , we had no outstanding borrowings under our revolving credit facility and were in compliance with the financial covenants thereunder. See the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.”
Our international operations subject us to additional costs and risks that can adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
Brand partners utilize our platform to power their ecommerce acceleration across more than 100 countries and we have offices across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. International operations and further expansion subjects us to many challenges associated with supporting a rapidly growing business across a multitude of cultures, customs, monetary, legal and regulatory systems and commercial infrastructures. In certain international markets we have relatively limited operating history, and our ability to manage our business and conduct our operations internationally requires considerable attention and resources.
In addition to risks described elsewhere in this section, our international sales and operations are subject to a number of risks, including:
• local and political conditions;
• restrictive governmental actions (such as trade protection measures, including export duties, economic sanctions, quotas, custom duties, tariffs, penalties, sanctions and restrictions around the import and export of certain products, technologies and components). For example, imposition of higher tariffs on goods imported to the United States, including from Mexico, Canada and China, could affect our growth;
• Nationalization and restrictions on foreign ownership, including in China and Germany, could make expansion into those markets more difficult;
• laws and regulations regarding privacy, data use, data protection, data security, data localization, network security, consumer protection, pricing, discounting, product labeling, environmental safety, payments, advertising, labor and competition;
• business licensing or certification requirements, such as for imports, exports, web services and electronic devices;
• restrictions on sales or distribution of certain products or services and uncertainty regarding liability for products, services and content, including uncertainty as a result of less internet-friendly legal systems, local laws, lack of legal precedent and varying rules, regulations and practices regarding the physical and digital distribution of media products and enforcement of intellectual property rights;
• potential complications in enforcing contracts and collections;
• shorter payable and longer receivable cycles and the resultant negative impact on cash flow;
• limitations on the repatriation and investment of funds and foreign currency exchange restrictions;
• difficulties in invoicing and collecting in foreign currencies and associated foreign currency exposure;
• limited fulfillment and technology infrastructure;
• lower levels of use of the internet;
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• lower levels of consumer spending and fewer opportunities for growth compared to the United States;
• increased management, travel, infrastructure and legal compliance costs associated with having multiple international operations;
• difficulty in staffing, developing and managing foreign operations as a result of distance, language and cultural differences;
• different employee/employer relationships and the existence of works councils and labor unions;
• varied labor and employment laws, including those relating to termination of employees. For example, stricter laws for foreign employers in India could make it difficult for us to provide scalable technical support;
• compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and other applicable U.S. and foreign laws prohibiting corrupt payments to government officials and other third parties;
• laws and policies of the United States and other jurisdictions affecting trade, foreign investment, loans and taxes for cross-border transactions;
• increased costs of funding loss-making international subsidiaries;
• increased administrative costs and risks associated with compliance with local laws and regulations, including relating to privacy and data security in China and the EU;
• increased financial accounting and reporting burdens and complexities;
• concerns regarding negative, unstable or changing economic conditions in the countries and regions where we operate;
• administrative difficulties, costs and expenses related to various local languages, cultures and political nuances; and
• terrorism, wars and geopolitical instability, including the Ukraine war, the continued uncertainty surrounding the conclusion of the Israel-Hamas war and the broader conflict in the Middle East.
Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory and Compliance
We are subject to extensive laws and regulations and we may incur material liabilities or costs related to complying with existing or future laws and regulations, and our failure to comply may result in enforcements, penalties, recalls and other adverse actions.
We are subject to a broad range of federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations including those intended to protect public and worker health and safety, natural resources and the environment. Our operations are subject to regulation by various agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the FDA, the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, including the Antitrust Division, the European Commission, and other federal, state, local and foreign authorities regarding the processing, packaging, storage, distribution, advertising, labeling and export of our brand partners’ products, including food safety standards and pricing and competition. In addition, we and our brand partners are subject to additional regulatory requirements, including environmental, health and safety laws and regulations administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state, local and foreign environmental, health and safety legislative and regulatory authorities and the National Labor Relations Board, covering such areas as discharges and emissions to air and water, the use, management, disposal and remediation of, and human exposure to, hazardous materials and wastes and public and worker health and safety. These laws and regulations also govern our relationships with employees, including minimum wage requirements, overtime, terms and conditions of employment, working conditions and citizenship requirements. Violations of or liability under any of these laws and regulations may result in administrative, civil or criminal fines, penalties or sanctions against us, revocation or modification of applicable permits, licenses or authorizations, environmental, health and safety investigations or remedial activities, voluntary or involuntary product recalls, warning or untitled letters or cease and desist orders against operations that are not in compliance, among other things. Such laws and regulations generally have become more stringent over time and may become more so in the future. Authorities may enact new laws or promulgate new regulations that are adverse to our business, or they may view matters or interpret laws and regulations differently than they have in the past or in a manner adverse to our business. We may incur (directly or indirectly) material costs to comply with current or future laws and regulations or in any required product recalls. Liabilities or costs of compliance with any such laws and regulations
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could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, changes in these laws and regulations could impose significant limitations and require changes to our business, which may increase our compliance expenses, make our business more costly and less efficient to conduct and compromise our growth strategy. As our business matures and we expand geographically and into different product categories, we may become subject to new laws and regulations in new jurisdictions. It is difficult to predict how existing and future laws will be applied to our business as it exists today and may exist in the future.
Political, economic and financial instability and changes in international trade and investment policies, tariffs or economic sanctions, particularly with respect to the United States and China, could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Political and economic instability, the financial instability of brand partners, brand partners’ ability to meet our standards, labor problems experienced by brand partners, the availability of raw materials, merchandise quality issues, currency exchange rates, transport availability and cost, transport security, inflation and other factors relating to our brand partners are beyond our control and may affect our ability to efficiently obtain products from our brand partners, or to obtain those products at all. For example, in the past our in-stock rates were negatively affected due to increased shipping lead times and delays in importing goods into the United States due to disruptions in global shipping routes and labor strikes affecting ports.
A decrease in the level of imports to and exports from China could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Rising trade and political tensions could reduce levels of trades, investments, technological exchanges and other economic activities between China and other countries, which would have an adverse effect on global economic conditions, the stability of global financial markets and international trade policies. It could also adversely affect the financial and economic conditions in the jurisdictions in which we operate, as well as our global expansion, our financial condition and results of operations.
There is significant uncertainty as to the potential actions of the U.S. government with respect to international trade policy and the impact of tariffs, particularly with respect to trade between the United States and China. Changes to historical U.S. trade policy have increased tariffs on imports, in some cases significantly, and have altered historical U.S. trade arrangements. For example, in April 2025, the U.S. government imposed broad new tariffs, including a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports, plus additional country-specific tariffs. The European Union and certain countries, including China and Canada, have threatened or imposed retaliatory measures. The related geopolitical uncertainty between the United States and its trading partners, may cause decreased demand for the products we sell or increase the cost to us of our brand partners’ products, which could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. For example, consumers may respond to the imposition of tariffs or threat of tariffs on the products we sell by purchasing alternative products at a lower price. The resulting environment of retaliatory trade or other practices or additional trade restrictions or barriers, if implemented on a broader range of our brand partners’ products, could harm our ability to sell brand partner products at prices consumers are willing to pay, which could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. It remains unclear what additional, new or different actions, if any, will be taken by the United States, China or other governments with respect to international trade agreements, the imposition of tariffs, the erection of barriers to trade, tax policy related to international commerce or other trade matters. The imposition of tariffs and trade restrictions as a result of international trade disputes or changes in trade policies could materially impact our sales and profitability. Ongoing international trade disputes and changes in trade policies could also impact economic activity and lead to a general contraction of consumer demand. Future actions or escalations by either the United States or its trading partners that affect trade relations could also negatively affect our business and/or that of our brand partners, and we cannot provide any assurances as to whether such actions will occur or the form that they may take.
We also are unable to predict whether any of the countries in which our brand partners’ products are currently manufactured or may be manufactured in the future will be subject to trade restrictions imposed by the United States or foreign governments or the likelihood, type or effect of any such restrictions. Any event causing a disruption or delay of imports from suppliers with international manufacturing operations, including the imposition of additional import restrictions, restrictions on the transfer of funds or increased tariffs or quotas could increase the cost or reduce the supply of merchandise available to our customers and adversely affect our financial performance as well as our reputation and brand. Furthermore, some or all of our brand partners’ foreign operations may be adversely affected by political and financial instability, resulting in the disruption of trade from exporting countries, restrictions on the transfer of funds or other trade disruptions.
Additionally, we are subject to economic sanctions laws and regulations, including those administered by the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Treasury. Economic sanctions could result in restrictions on shipment of our brand partners’ products or otherwise on doing business with our brand partners or other persons, which could have a material
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adverse effect on our business. Recent U.S. laws restricting investment in Chinese companies or on personal data transfers to certain persons or entities, including Chinese companies, could adversely affect our business. Moreover, a determination by a government that we have failed to comply with trade sanctions, investment, anti-bribery, or other laws or regulations can result in penalties which may include fines, penalties, or seizure of products, or loss of reputation, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business.
We are subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and similar laws, and non-compliance with such laws can subject us to criminal or civil liability and harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are subject to the FCPA, U.S. domestic bribery laws and other anti-money laundering laws in the countries in which we conduct activities. Anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws have been enforced aggressively in recent years and are interpreted broadly to generally prohibit companies, their employees and their third-party intermediaries from authorizing, offering or providing, directly or indirectly, improper payments or benefits to recipients in the public or private sector. As we increase our international sales and business, we may engage with business partners and third-party intermediaries to market our solutions and to obtain necessary permits, licenses and other regulatory approvals. In addition, we or our third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities. We can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, partners and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize such activities. We cannot assure you that all of our employees and agents will not take actions in violation of anti-corruption laws, for which we may be ultimately held responsible, or that we will be able to timely detect such actions. As we increase our international sales and business, our risks under these laws may increase.
Detecting, investigating and resolving actual or alleged violations of anti-corruption laws can require a significant diversion of time, resources and attention from our senior management team. In addition, noncompliance with anti-corruption, anti-bribery or anti-money laundering laws could subject us to whistleblower complaints, investigations, sanctions, settlements, prosecution, enforcement actions, fines, damages, other civil or criminal penalties or injunctions, suspension or debarment from contracting with certain persons, reputation harm, adverse media coverage and other collateral consequences. If any subpoenas or investigations are launched, or governmental or other sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any possible civil or criminal proceeding, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a materially significant diversion of management’s attention and resources and significant defense costs and other professional fees.
Government regulation of the internet, mobile devices and ecommerce is evolving, and unfavorable changes could substantially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are subject to general business regulations and laws as well as federal and state regulations and laws specifically governing the internet, mobile devices and ecommerce that are constantly evolving. Existing and future laws and regulations, or changes thereto, may impede the growth of the Internet, mobile devices, ecommerce or other online services, increase the cost of providing online services, require us to change our business practices or raise compliance costs or other costs of doing business. These evolving regulations and laws may cover taxation, tariffs, user privacy, data protection, pricing and commissions, content, copyrights, distribution, social media marketing, advertising practices, mobile, electronic contracts and other communications, consumer protection and the characteristics and quality of our brand partners’ products. It is not clear how existing laws governing issues such as property ownership, sales, use and other taxes and personal privacy apply to the internet and ecommerce. In addition, in the future, it is possible that foreign government entities in jurisdictions in which we seek to expand our business may seek to or may even attempt to block access to marketplaces on which we sell or our website. Negative developments regarding trademark law and other property rights may result in our brand partners’ inability to maintain adequate enforcement of rights against unauthorized sellers. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with any of these laws or regulations could result in damage to our reputation and brand, a loss in business and proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We and our business partners and service providers may be subject to a variety of privacy and data security laws, regulations and contractual obligations, which may require us to incur substantial compliance costs, and any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with them could expose us to significant fines and other penalties and otherwise harm our business, financial condition and operations.
In connection with running our business, we receive, store, use and otherwise process information that relates to individuals and/or constitutes “personal data,” “personal information,” “personally identifiable information,” or similar terms under applicable data privacy and security laws (collectively, “personal information”). The legislative and regulatory framework for the collection, use, safeguarding, sharing, transfer and other processing of personal information worldwide
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is rapidly evolving and is likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. Globally, several jurisdictions, including those in which we operate or collect personal information, have established their own data privacy and security frameworks with which we must comply. For example, in the United States, numerous federal and state laws and regulations, including state data breach notification laws, marketing/advertising laws, and federal and state consumer protection and data privacy and security laws (e.g., Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and similar laws in other states), that govern the collection, use, disclosure and protection of personal information, apply to our operations and the operations of our business partners and service providers.
The CCPA, which went into effect on January 1, 2020, established a comprehensive privacy framework for covered businesses by creating an expanded definition of personal information, and, amongst other requirements, establishing robust data privacy rights for California residents, imposing significant transparency obligations on covered businesses and requiring CCPA-compliant contracts between covered businesses and their service providers. It also provides for civil penalties for violations, and allows for a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation. In addition to the CCPA, similar privacy and data security laws have been enacted or proposed in numerous other states as well as in the U.S. Congress. These laws impose similar, additional and, in some cases, more restrictive requirements than the CCPA created. Such legislation adds additional complexity, variation in requirements, restrictions and potential legal risk, requires additional investment of resources in compliance programs, impacts strategies and could result in increased compliance costs and/or changes in business practices and policies. Certain states have also passed laws regulating specific aspects of privacy. For example, the State of Washington passed a law regulating health information, including inferences about consumer health derived from non-sensitive information, and other states have passed stringent privacy laws addressing a wide range of topics, including data brokers, data about kids and teens, automated decision making, targeted advertising and the collection and use of biometric information. The existence of data privacy and security laws in different states in the country makes our compliance obligations more complex and costly and may increase the likelihood that we may be subject to enforcement actions or otherwise incur liability for noncompliance. These various data privacy and security laws may impact our business activities, including relationships with business partners and ultimately the marketing and distribution of our brand partners’ products. State laws are changing rapidly, and there is discussion in the U.S. Congress of a new comprehensive federal data privacy law to which we may likely become subject, if enacted.
Moreover, laws, regulations and standards covering marketing, advertising and other activities conducted by telephone, email, mobile devices and the internet may be or become applicable to our business, such as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act and similar state consumer protection and communication privacy laws, such as California’s Invasion of Privacy Act. There is also growing and significant litigation under such laws, which could impact us if our business is perceived to be out of compliance.
In addition, brand partners utilize our platform to power their ecommerce acceleration across more than 100 countries and we must also address privacy and data protection requirements from other jurisdictions outside of the United States. Outside the United States, an increasing number of laws, regulations and industry standards apply to data privacy and security, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) and the United Kingdom’s GDPR (“UK GDPR” and together with the EU GDPR, “GDPR”), which impose strict requirements for processing personal data. Violators of these laws face significant penalties. For example, under the GDPR, companies may face temporary or definitive bans on data processing and other corrective actions; fines of up to 20 million Euros under EU GDPR/17.5 million pounds sterling under the UK GDPR or, in each case, 4% of annual global revenue, whichever is greater; or private litigation related to processing of personal data brought by classes of data subjects or consumer protection organizations authorized at law to represent their interests.
In conducting our business, we may transfer personal information from the EU, the UK and other jurisdictions to the United States or other countries. The GDPR and other laws impose requirements on the transfer of personal information to other countries. In particular, the GDPR has significantly restricted the transfer of personal information to the United States and other countries whose privacy laws it believes are inadequate. Other jurisdictions have adopted or may adopt similarly stringent data localization and cross-border data transfer laws. Although there are currently various mechanisms that may be used to transfer personal information to the United States under the GDPR, such as the EU GDPR’s standard contractual clauses, the UK GDPR’s International Data Transfer Agreement/Addendum and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Framework”) and the UK extension thereto (which allows for transfers to relevant U.S.-based organizations who self-certify compliance and participate in the Framework), these mechanisms are subject to legal challenges, and there is no assurance that we can satisfy or rely on these measures to lawfully transfer personal information to the United States and other third countries.
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If there is no lawful manner for us to transfer personal information from various jurisdictions, including the EU and UK, to the United States, or if the requirements for a legally-compliant transfer are too onerous, we could face significant adverse consequences, including increased exposure to regulatory actions, substantial fines and injunctions against processing or transferring personal information, as well as other adverse consequences. In particular we may be unable to import personal data to the United States and other third countries in which we operate, which could significantly and negatively impact our business operations. Additionally, companies that transfer personal information out of the EU and UK to other jurisdictions, particularly to the United States, may be subject to increased scrutiny from regulators, individual litigants and activist groups.
Regulators and legislators in the U.S. are also increasingly scrutinizing and restricting certain personal data transfers and transactions involving foreign countries. For example, the Department of Justice’s January 8, 2025, rule on “Preventing Access to U.S. Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern or Covered Persons,” prohibits data brokerage transactions involving certain sensitive personal data categories, including health data, genetic data, and biospecimens, to countries of concern, including China. The regulations also restrict certain investment agreements, employment agreements and vendor agreements involving such data and countries of concern, absent specified cybersecurity controls. Actual or alleged violations of these regulations may be punishable by criminal and/or civil sanctions and may result in exclusion from participation in federal and state programs. Beyond the United States and Europe, we face challenges of privacy and data protection laws in numerous jurisdictions in which we operate, including China which has a stringent privacy, cyber and data protection regulation. Most notably, the Personal Information Protection Law of China (“PIPL”) was adopted on August 20, 2021, and went into effect on November 1, 2021. Similar to the GDPR, the PIPL calls for extraterritorial application, data minimization, data localization and purpose limitation requirements, and obligations to provide certain notices and rights to citizens of China. The PIPL allows for fines of up to 50 million renminbi or 5% of a covered company’s revenue in the prior year. In addition, the PIPL has certain requirements that must be met before data can be transferred across border.
In addition to legislative and regulatory frameworks we are subject to governing the processing of personal information, we are also contractually subject to data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, we publish privacy policies, marketing materials and other statements regarding data privacy and security. If we fail to abide by our contractual obligations or these policies, materials or statements are found to be deficient, lacking in transparency, deceptive, unfair or misrepresentative of our practices, we may be subject to investigation, enforcement actions by regulators or other adverse consequences.
Legislative and regulatory, contractual and other obligations related to data privacy and security (and data privacy expectations from our business partners and constituencies) are quickly changing, becoming increasingly stringent and creating uncertainty. Additionally, these obligations may be subject to differing applications and interpretations, which may be inconsistent or conflict among jurisdictions. Preparing for and complying with these obligations requires us to devote significant resources. These obligations may necessitate changes to our information technologies, systems and data processing practices and to those of any third parties that process personal data on our behalf.
We may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) in our efforts to comply with our data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties with whom we work may fail to comply with such obligations, which could negatively impact our business operations and compliance posture. For example, any failure by one of our third-party service providers to comply with applicable law, regulations or contractual obligations could result in adverse effects, including proceedings against us by governmental entities or others.
If we or the third parties with whom we work fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with applicable data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including but not limited to: government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections and similar); litigation (including class-action claims) and mass arbitration demands; additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans on processing personal data; orders to destroy or not use personal data; and even criminal penalties for company officials. In particular, plaintiffs have become increasingly more active in bringing privacy-related claims against companies, including class-action claims and mass arbitration demands. Some of these claims allow for the recovery of statutory damages on a per violation basis, and, if viable, carry the potential for monumental statutory damages, depending on the volume of data and the number of violations. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business or financial condition, including but not limited to, loss of brand partners or customers, interruptions or stoppages in our business operations, inability to process personal data or to operate in certain jurisdictions, limited ability to develop or commercialize our solutions, expenditure of time and resources to defend any claim or inquiry, adverse publicity or revision or restructuring of our operations.
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If we or our third-party providers fail to protect confidential information and/or experience data security incidents, breaches or compromises, there may be damage to our brand and reputation, financial penalties and legal liability, which would materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We rely on computer systems, hardware, software, technology infrastructure and online sites and networks for both internal and external operations that are critical to our business. We own and manage some of these technology systems, but also rely on third parties for a range of systems and related products and services. We also collect, process, store and transmit large amounts of data, including confidential information.
We face numerous and evolving cybersecurity risks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our technology systems and confidential information. Threat actors, including nation-states and nation-state-supported actors now engage, and are expected to continue to engage, in cyber-attacks through diverse attack vectors such as social engineering/phishing, malware (including ransomware), attacks enhanced or facilitated by AI, business email compromises, malfeasance by insiders, human or technological error, and as a result of malicious code embedded in open-source software or misconfigurations, bugs or other vulnerabilities in commercial software that is integrated into our (or our suppliers’ or service providers’) software or solutions. Due to the current geopolitical environment, we and our brand partners are at heightened risk of these attacks, including cyber-attacks that could materially disrupt our systems and operations, supply chain and ability to produce, sell and distribute our brand partners’ products. In particular, severe ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, loss of confidential data and income, reputational harm and diversion of funds.
We rely upon email and other electronic means of communication to connect with customers. Our brand partners or customers may be targeted by parties using fraudulent spoofing and phishing emails to misappropriate passwords, payment information or other personal information or to introduce viruses through Trojan horse programs or otherwise through our brand partners’ or customers’ computers, smartphones, tablets or other devices. Spoofing and phishing may damage our brand and increase our costs, and we have experienced incidents related to phishing, though these incidents have not been material to date. Any failure to mitigate the effectiveness of such malicious activity in the future could damage our brand or increase our costs.
We use third-party technology and systems for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, encryption and authentication technology, employee email and other communication, content delivery to customers, back-office support and other functions. Our ability to monitor these third parties’ information security practices is limited, and these third parties may themselves inappropriately access such confidential information or may not have adequate security measures and could experience a security incident that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the systems they operate for us or the confidential information they process on our behalf, which could harm our reputation or adversely affect our business. While we may be entitled to damages if our third-party service providers fail to satisfy their privacy or security-related obligations to us, we cannot be certain that our applicable contracts with these third parties will adequately limit our data security-related liability to them or be sufficient to allow us to obtain indemnification or recovery from them for privacy or data security-related liability that they cause us to incur.
Remote work has become more common and has increased risks to our information technology systems and confidential information as more of our employees utilize network connections, computers and devices outside our premises or network, including working at home, while in transit and in public locations. For example, technologies in our employees’ and service providers’ homes may not be as robust as in our offices and could cause the networks, information systems, applications and other tools available to employees and service providers to be more limited or less reliable than in our offices. Further, the security systems in place at our employees’ and service providers’ homes, or other remote work locations, may be less secure than those used in our offices. There is no guarantee that we will not encounter risks associated with employees and service providers accessing company data and systems remotely. Additionally, future or past business transactions (such as acquisitions or integrations) have exposed and may in the future expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, as our systems could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems and technologies. Furthermore, we may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such acquired or integrated entities, and it may be difficult to integrate companies into our information technology environment and security program.
We and certain of our third-party providers have in the past, and may in the future experience cyberattacks and other incidents, and we expect such attacks and incidents to continue in varying degrees. While to date no incidents have had a material impact on our operations or financial results, we cannot guarantee that material incidents will not occur in the future. Cyberattacks are expected to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and magnitude as threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in using techniques and tools, including AI, that circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic evidence. As a result, we may be unable to detect, investigate, remediate or recover from future
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attacks or incidents or avoid a material adverse impact to our technology systems, data or business. There can also be no assurance that our cybersecurity risk management program and processes, including our policies, controls or procedures, will be fully implemented, complied with or effective.
Any adverse impact to the availability, integrity or confidentiality of our technology systems or confidential information can result in legal claims or proceedings (such as class actions), regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, fines and penalties, negative reputational impacts that cause us to lose existing or future customers, and/or significant incident response, system restoration or remediation and future compliance costs. Any or all of the foregoing could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Further, although we maintain cyber liability insurance, this insurance may not provide adequate coverage against potential liabilities related to any experienced cybersecurity incident or breach. Finally, we cannot guarantee that any costs and liabilities incurred in relation to an attack or incident will be covered by our existing insurance policies or that applicable insurance will be available to us in the future on economically reasonable terms or at all.
To the extent we, or our service providers on our behalf, accept debit and credit cards for payment, we are subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, issued by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard contains compliance guidelines with regard to our security surrounding the physical and electronic storage, processing and transmission of cardholder data. If we or our service providers are unable to comply with the security standards established by banks and the payment card industry, we may be subject to fines, restrictions and expulsion from card acceptance programs, which could materially and adversely affect our business.
Failure to adequately maintain and protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights could harm our brand, devalue our proprietary content and adversely affect our ability to compete effectively.
Our success depends to a significant degree on our ability to secure, maintain, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights in our proprietary technology, know-how and our brand. To protect our rights to our intellectual property, we rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret laws, domain name registrations, confidentiality agreements and other contractual arrangements with our brand partners, employees, affiliates, strategic partners, marketplaces and others. However, the protective steps we have taken and plan to take may be inadequate to deter infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violations of our intellectual property rights. We make business decisions about when and where to seek patent protection for a particular technology and when to rely upon copyright or trade secret protection, and the approach we select may ultimately prove to be inadequate. Even in cases where we seek patent protection, there is no assurance that our applications for patents will be granted, and even if they are, that the resulting patents will be of sufficient scope to provide meaningful protection. Further, even if we obtain adequate intellectual property protection, we may be unable to detect the unauthorized use of, or take appropriate steps to enforce, our patents and other intellectual property rights. In addition, we believe that the protection of our trademark rights is an important factor in product recognition, protecting our brand and maintaining goodwill and if we do not adequately protect our rights in our trademarks from infringement, any goodwill that we have developed in those trademarks could be lost or impaired, which could harm our brand and our business. Further, effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available to us or in every jurisdiction in which we offer or intend to offer our brand partners’ products and our technology. Failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could harm our brand, devalue our proprietary content and adversely affect our ability to compete effectively. Third parties may challenge the validity, enforceability, registration, ownership or scope of our intellectual property rights and defending against any such claims could result in the expenditure of significant financial and managerial resources, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Further, a number of aspects of intellectual property protection in the field of AI and machine learning are currently under development, and there is uncertainty and ongoing litigation in different jurisdictions as to the degree and extent of protection warranted for AI and machine learning systems and relevant system input and outputs. The law is also uncertain across jurisdictions regarding the copyright ownership of content that is produced in whole or in part by generative AI tools. If we fail to obtain protection for the intellectual property rights concerning our AI Technologies, or later have our intellectual property rights invalidated or otherwise diminished, our competitors may be able to take advantage of our research and development efforts to develop competing products which could adversely affect our business, reputation and financial condition. Given the long history of development of AI Technologies, other parties may have (or in the future may obtain) patents or other proprietary rights that would prevent, limit or interfere with our ability to make, use or sell our own AI Technologies.
We may use generative AI Technologies, including tools provided by third parties, to develop or assist in the development of our own software. While use of such tools makes our development process more efficient, AI Technologies have sometimes generated content that is “substantially similar” to proprietary or open source code on which the AI tool
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was trained. If the AI Technologies we use generate code that is too similar to other proprietary code, or to software processes that are protected by patent, we could be subject to intellectual property infringement claims. We may also not be able to anticipate and detect security vulnerabilities in such AI generated software. If our tools generate code that is too similar to open source code, we risk losing protection of our own proprietary code that is commingled with such code. Finally, to the extent we use third-party AI Technologies to develop software, the terms of use of these tools may state that the third-party provider retains rights in the generated code.
If we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, our competitors may gain access to our intellectual property and proprietary technology and develop and commercialize substantially identical solutions or technologies. In addition, defending our intellectual property rights might entail significant expense. Any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property rights that we have or may obtain may be challenged or circumvented by others or invalidated or held unenforceable through administrative process, including re-examination, inter partes review, interference and derivation proceedings and equivalent proceedings in foreign jurisdictions (e.g., opposition proceedings) or litigation. Despite our pending U.S. patent applications, there can be no assurance that our patent applications will result in issued patents, or even if issued, that such patents would be of sufficient scope to provide meaningful protection. Even if we continue to seek patent protection in the future, we may be unable to obtain or maintain patent protection for our technology. In addition, any patents we have or may obtain, or that are licensed to us now or in the future, may not provide us with competitive advantages or may be successfully challenged by third parties. Further, the laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States, and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. Moreover, policing unauthorized use of our technologies, trade secrets and intellectual property may be difficult, expensive and time-consuming. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized third parties to copy our solutions and technology capabilities and use information that we regard as proprietary to create solutions that compete with ours. The value of our trademarks could be diminished if others assert rights in or ownership of our trademarks, or if they use and assert rights in trademarks that are similar to our trademarks. In some cases, litigation or other actions may be necessary to protect or enforce our trademarks and other intellectual property rights. We may be unable to successfully resolve these types of conflicts to our satisfaction.
We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and enter into confidentiality agreements with other third parties, including suppliers and other partners. However, we cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements with each party that has or may have had access to our proprietary information, know-how and trade secrets. Moreover, no assurance can be given that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to our proprietary information or the distribution, use, misuse, misappropriation, reverse engineering or disclosure of our proprietary information, know-how and trade secrets. Further, these agreements may not prevent our competitors from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our solutions and technology capabilities. These agreements may be breached, and we may not have adequate remedies for any such breach.
In order to protect and defend our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor for infringement and to enforce our intellectual property rights. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming and distracting to management and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. Further, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights, and if such defenses, counterclaims or countersuits are successful, we could lose valuable intellectual property rights. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, could delay further sales or the implementation of our solutions and technology capabilities, impair the functionality of our solutions and technology capabilities, delay introductions of new solutions, result in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies into our solutions or injure our reputation.
We may not be able to successfully halt the operations of copycat websites or the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights in Pattern, or elements or functionality embodied therein, including, but not limited to, our digital catalog. However, we may not be able to detect all such activities in a timely manner and, even if we do, we cannot guarantee that our efforts to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights will be successful. Regardless of whether we can successfully enforce our rights against these websites or third parties, any measures that we may take could require us to expend significant financial or other resources.
We may be subject to intellectual property claims, which are extremely costly to defend, could require us to pay significant damages and could limit our ability to use certain technologies in the future.
Third parties have from time to time claimed, and may claim in the future, that we have infringed their intellectual property rights. These claims, whether meritorious or not, could be time-consuming, result in considerable litigation costs,
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result in injunctions against us or the payment of damages by us, require significant amounts of management time or result in the diversion of significant operational resources and expensive changes to our business model, require us to indemnify our brand partners or third-party service providers, materially disrupt the conduct of our business and have a material and adverse effect on us and our brand partners and result in the payment of substantial damages or injunctions against us or require us to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements, if available. Additionally, there can be no assurance that favorable outcomes will be obtained. Any payments we are required to make and any injunctions we are required to comply with as a result of such infringement actions could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. We may need to obtain licenses from, or enter into royalty arrangements with, third parties who allege that we have infringed their rights, but such licenses or arrangements may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. In addition, we may be unable to obtain or utilize on terms that are favorable to us, or at all, licenses or other rights with respect to intellectual property we do not own. These risks have been amplified by the increase in third parties whose sole or primary business is to assert such claims. As a result, these claims could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may be unable to continue to use the domain names that we use in our business or prevent third parties from acquiring and using domain names that infringe on, are similar to, or otherwise decrease the value of our brand, trademarks or service marks.
We have registered domain names that we use in, or are related to, our business, most importantly www.pattern.com. If we lose the ability to use a domain name, whether due to trademark claims, failure to renew the applicable registration or any other cause, we may be forced to market our solutions under a new domain name, which could cause us substantial harm or cause us to incur significant expense in order to purchase rights to the domain name in question. We may not be able to obtain preferred domain names outside the United States due to a variety of reasons. In addition, our competitors and others could attempt to capitalize on our brand recognition by using domain names similar to ours. We may be unable to prevent third parties from acquiring and using domain names that infringe on, are similar to, or otherwise decrease the value of our brand or our trademarks, trade names or service marks. Protecting, maintaining and enforcing our rights in our domain names may require litigation, which could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources, which could in turn adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our technology makes use of open source software components, and a failure to comply with the terms of the underlying open source software licenses could negatively affect our ability to use our technology and subject us to possible litigation.
Our technology incorporates and is dependent, to a significant extent, upon the use of open source software, and we intend to continue our use of open source software in the future. Such open source software is generally licensed by its authors or other third parties under open source licenses and is typically freely accessible, usable and modifiable. Pursuant to such open source licenses, we may be subject to certain conditions, including requirements, depending on how the licensed software is used or modified, that we offer our proprietary software that incorporates the open source software for little or no cost, that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon incorporating or using the open source software and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of the particular open source license. This could enable our competitors to create similar solutions with lower development effort and time and ultimately could result in a loss of our competitive advantage. Further, if an author or other third-party that uses or distributes such open source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could be required to incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations and could be subject to significant damages, enjoined from the use of our technology that contained or are dependent upon the open source software and required to comply with the foregoing conditions, which could disrupt the use of our technology and ultimately the sale of our brand partners’ products. Litigation could be costly for us to defend, negatively affect our operating results and financial condition or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our technology. The terms of many open source licenses to which we are subject have not been interpreted by U.S. or foreign courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to provide or distribute our technology. As there is little or no legal precedent governing the interpretation of many of the terms of certain of these licenses, the potential impact of these terms on our business is uncertain and may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our technologies. Any requirement that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon incorporating or using open source software or that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of open source licenses, could be harmful to our business, financial condition or results of operations and could help our competitors develop platforms that are similar to or better than ours. In addition, to the extent that we have failed to comply with our obligations under particular licenses for open source software, we may lose the right to continue to use and exploit such open source software in connection with our operations, which could disrupt and adversely affect our business.
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In addition to risks related to license requirements, usage and distribution of open source software can lead to greater risks than the use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide support, warranties, indemnification, controls on the origin or development of the software, remedies against the licensors or other contractual provisions regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. Many of the risks associated with usage of open source software cannot be eliminated and could adversely affect our business.
Although we believe that we have complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open source software, it is possible that we may not be aware of all instances where open source software has been incorporated into our software or used in connection with our solutions or our corresponding obligations under open source licenses. Additionally, even though we have implemented certain tools and policies to monitor the use, compliance and incorporation of open source software into our solutions, we cannot be certain that we have not incorporated open source software in the solutions we offer in a manner that is inconsistent with such tools and policies. To the extent that we are required to disclose the source code of certain of our software developments to third parties, including our competitors, in order to comply with applicable open source license terms, such disclosure could harm our intellectual property position, competitive advantage, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, to the extent that we have failed to comply with our obligations under particular licenses for open source software, we may lose the right to continue to use and exploit such open source software in connection with our operations and solutions, which could disrupt and adversely affect our business.
As a result of being a public company, we are obligated to develop and maintain proper and effective internal controls over financial reporting, and any failure to maintain the adequacy of these internal controls may adversely affect investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our Series A common stock.
We are not currently required to comply with the SEC rules that implement Section 404 (“Section 404”) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) and are therefore not required to make a formal assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for that purpose. As a public company, we are required to provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting commencing with our second annual report on Form 10-K. This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. In addition, our independent registered public accounting firm will be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting commencing with our second annual report on Form 10-K. We are required to disclose changes in internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting on a quarterly basis.
We have commenced the costly and challenging process of compiling the system and processing documentation necessary to perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404, and we may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion. Our compliance with Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management efforts. In addition, as our business continues to grow in size and complexity, we are improving our processes and infrastructure to help ensure we can prepare financial reporting and disclosures within the timeline required for a public company. We may need to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company experience and technical accounting knowledge to compile the system and process documentation necessary to perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404. In addition, prior to completing our internal control assessment under Section 404, we may become aware of and disclose material weaknesses that will require timely remediation. Due to our significant growth, we face challenges in timely and appropriately designing controls in response to evolving risks of material misstatement. During the evaluation and testing process of our internal controls, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective.
We cannot assure you that there will not be material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to maintain internal control over financial reporting could severely inhibit our ability to accurately report our financial condition or operating results. If we are unable to conclude that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm determines we have a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our Series A common stock could decline and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Failure to remedy any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting or to implement or maintain these and other effective control systems required of public companies, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets.
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Operating as a public company requires us to incur substantial costs and requires substantial management time and attention.
As a public company, we have incurred, and will continue to incur, substantial legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), the applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the rules, the regulations of the SEC and Nasdaq and other applicable securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies in the United States. Compliance with these requirements has increased, and will continue to increase, our legal and financial compliance costs and will continue to make some activities more time-consuming.
Our management and other personnel devote substantial time to the reporting and other requirements of being a public company. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we will continue to incur as a public company or the specific timing of such costs.
Changes in tax law may adversely affect us.
The rules dealing with U.S. federal, state and local income taxation are constantly under review by persons involved in the legislative process and by the IRS and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Changes to tax laws (which changes may have retroactive application) could adversely affect us or holders of our Series A common stock. In recent years, many such changes have been made and changes are likely to continue to occur in the future. It cannot be predicted whether, when, in what form or with what effective dates tax laws, regulations and rulings may be enacted, promulgated or issued, which could result in an increase in our or our stockholders’ tax liability or require changes in the manner in which we operate in order to minimize or mitigate any adverse effects of changes in tax law. Prospective investors should consult their tax advisors regarding the potential consequences of changes in tax law on our business and on the ownership and disposition of our Series A common stock.
Our business may be subject to sales and other taxes.
The application of indirect taxes, such as sales and use tax, value-added tax, provincial taxes, goods and services tax, business tax and gross receipt tax, to businesses like ours and marketplaces is a complex and evolving issue. Significant judgment is required to evaluate applicable tax obligations and as a result amounts recorded are estimates and could change. In many cases, the ultimate tax determination is uncertain because it is not clear how existing statutes apply to our business or to marketplaces’ businesses. One or more states, the federal government or other countries may seek to impose additional reporting, record-keeping or indirect tax collection obligations on businesses like ours that facilitate ecommerce. New taxes could also require us or marketplaces to incur substantial costs to capture data and collect and remit taxes. If such obligations were imposed, the additional costs associated with tax collection, remittance and audit requirements could make selling in marketplaces less attractive and more costly for us, which could adversely affect our business.
Our ability to use tax attributes to offset future taxable income for tax purposes is subject to limitation and risk that could limit our ability to utilize such attributes.
Under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code”), if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50 percentage point change (by value) in its equity ownership by certain stockholders over a rolling three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) and other pre-change tax attributes (such as research and development tax credits) to offset its post-change income or taxes may be limited. We may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of subsequent shifts in our stock ownership (some of which shifts in stock ownership may be outside our control). As a result, our ability to use any pre-change tax attributes (including any NOLs and tax credits) to offset future taxable income, if any, could be subject to limitations. Similar provisions of state tax law may also apply. Further, there is a risk that due to changes to the Code, regulatory changes or other unforeseen reasons, our existing tax attributes could expire or otherwise become unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities. As a result, we may currently or in the future be unable to use a material portion of our tax attributes. Furthermore, any state or local level credits or incentives (or carryforwards thereof) anticipated by us may become unavailable due to a change in eligibility, a change in circumstances, a change of law or otherwise, and will not be available to reduce future tax liabilities.
Litigation could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
Lawsuits and other administrative or legal proceedings that may arise in the course of our operations can involve substantial costs, including the costs associated with investigation, litigation and possible settlement, judgment, penalty or fine. In addition, lawsuits and other legal proceedings may be time consuming and may require a commitment of
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management and personnel resources that will be diverted from our normal business operations. Although we generally maintain insurance to mitigate certain costs, there can be no assurance that costs associated with lawsuits or other legal proceedings will not exceed the limits of insurance policies. Moreover, we may be unable to continue to maintain our existing insurance at a reasonable cost, if at all, or to secure additional coverage, which may result in costs associated with lawsuits and other legal proceedings being uninsured. Our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected if a judgment, penalty or fine is not fully covered by insurance.
Additionally, as a result of disclosure obligations required of a public company, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which may result in an increased risk of threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties.
Risks Related to Our Corporate Structure
We are a “controlled company” under the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq, and intend to avail ourselves of certain reduced corporate governance requirements.
As a result of our dual series common stock structure and the co-founder voting agreement between the co-founders, our co-founders collectively hold a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. Therefore, we are considered a “controlled company” as that term is set forth in the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq. Under these listing standards, a company in which over 50% of the voting power for the election of directors is held by an individual, a group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq, including:
• the requirement that a majority of its board of directors consist of independent directors;
• the requirement that its nominating or corporate governance committee be composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities, or if no such committee exists, that its director nominees be selected or recommended by independent directors constituting a majority of the board’s independent directors in a vote in which only independent directors participate, and an annual performance evaluation of the committee; and
• the requirement that its compensation committee be composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities and an annual performance evaluation of the committee.
We intend to continue to utilize certain of these exemptions. For example, our nominating and corporate governance committee does not consist entirely of independent directors. Accordingly, you will not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
The dual series structure of our common stock and the existing ownership of capital stock by our co-founders and their affiliates have the effect of concentrating voting control with our co-founders and their affiliates for the foreseeable future, which will limit your ability to influence corporate matters.
Our Series B common stock has twenty votes per share, and our Series A common stock, which is the stock we offered in our IPO, has one vote per share. Given the greater number of votes per share attributed to our Series B common stock, as of December 31, 2025, our co-founders, who beneficially own all shares of our Series B common stock, together with the Series A common stock held by their affiliated co-founder trusts, collectively beneficially own shares representing approximately 86.4% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. Consequently, the holders of Series B common stock collectively control a majority of the voting power. Further, as of December 31, 2025, our co-founders and their affiliated co-founder trusts collectively own shares representing approximately 54.7% of the economic interest and 86.4% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and, together with our other executive officers, directors and their affiliates, own shares representing approximately 73.0% of the economic interest and 91.9% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. This concentrated control may limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future. For example, these stockholders are able to control elections of directors, amendments of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated bylaws, increases to the number of shares available for issuance under our equity incentive plans or adoption of new equity incentive plans and approval of any merger or sale of assets for the foreseeable future. This control may materially adversely affect the market price of our Series A common stock. Additionally, the holders of our Series B common stock may cause us to make strategic decisions or pursue acquisitions that could involve risks to you or may not be aligned with your interests. The holders of our Series B common stock are also be entitled to a separate vote in the event we seek to amend our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to increase or decrease the par value of a class of our common stock or in a manner that alters or changes the
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powers, preferences or special rights of the Series B common stock in a manner that affects its holders adversely. Future transfers by holders of Series B common stock will generally result in those shares converting on a 1:1 basis to Series A common stock, which will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Series B common stock who retain their shares in the long-term. In addition, future issuances of our common stock, particularly to our co-founders, would further dilute the voting power of holders of our Series A common stock and could increase the voting power of our co-founders. Future issuances of Series A common stock or Series B common stock to our co-founders could also delay the sunset of the dual series structure of our common stock by increasing the number of shares that they hold, thus preventing or delaying the Triggering Event (as defined in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation) related to the continued ownership of a certain amount of our securities.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Series A Common Stock
We cannot predict the effect our dual series structure may have on the market price of our Series A common stock.
We cannot predict whether our dual series structure will result in a lower or more volatile market price of our Series A common stock, in adverse publicity or other adverse consequences. Certain investors, including large institutional investors, may prefer companies that do not have multiple share classes or may have investment guidelines that preclude them from investing in companies that have multiple share classes. In addition, certain index providers have previously implemented, and may in the future determine to implement, restrictions on including companies with multiple class share in certain of their indices. For example, from July 2017 to April 2023, S&P Dow Jones excluded companies with multiple share classes from the S&P Composite 1500 (composed of the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600). Indices have discretion to reassess and implement such policies with respect to multi-class differing voting right structures. Under any such policies, our dual series structure of our common stock would make us ineligible for inclusion in any of these indices. As a result, the market price of our Series A common stock could be materially adversely affected.
Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current board of directors and limit the trading price of our Series A common stock.
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers and delaying or preventing a change in control of our board of directors or management team. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that:
• provide that, except with regard to directors nominated by Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder, vacancies on our board of directors shall be filled only by a majority of directors then in office, even though less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director;
• provide that our directors can be removed for cause only, once Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder no longer controls 50% of the voting power of our capital stock;
• provide that, once Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder no longer controls 50% of the voting power of our capital stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing in lieu of a meeting of such stockholders;
• specify that, once Mr. Wright and Ms. Alder no longer control 50% of the voting power of our capital stock, special meetings of our stockholders can be called only by our board of directors or the Chairman of our board of directors (prior to such time, special meetings of our stockholders shall be called by our board of directors, the Chairman of our board of directors or our Secretary at the request of our co-founders who collectively hold more than 50% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock);
• provide that our board of directors will be classified into three classes of directors with staggered three-year terms;
• provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to alter or repeal our amended and restated bylaws;
• authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;
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• do not give the holders of our common stock cumulative voting rights with respect to the election of directors, which means that the holders of a majority of the voting power of our outstanding shares of common stock can elect all directors standing for election;
• provide for a dual series common stock structure which will provide our co-founders with significant influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or assets; and
• contain advance notice procedures for stockholders seeking to bring business before our annual meeting of stockholders or to nominate candidates for election as directors at our annual meeting of stockholders.
Moreover, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) may deter, delay or prevent a change in control of our company. Section 203 imposes certain restrictions on mergers, asset sales or other transactions between us and holders of 15% or more of our common stock. See the section titled “Description of Capital Stock” for additional information.
Our amended and restated bylaws designate specific courts as the sole and exclusive forum for certain disputes that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.
Pursuant to our amended and restated bylaws, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for state law claims for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of, or a claim based on, a breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any current or former director, officer or other employee of ours to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws or as to which the DGCL confers jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine (collectively, the “Delaware Forum Provision”). The Delaware Forum Provision does not apply to any causes of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the Exchange Act, or to any claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Our amended and restated bylaws will further provide that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States will be the sole and exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and the respective rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (“Federal Forum Provision”). In addition, our amended and restated bylaws provide that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our common stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the Delaware Forum Provision and the Federal Forum Provision; provided, however, that stockholders cannot and will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
We recognize that the Delaware Forum Provision and the Federal Forum Provision in our amended and restated bylaws may impose additional litigation costs on stockholders in pursuing any such claims. Additionally, the forum selection clauses in our amended and restated bylaws may limit our stockholders’ ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that they find favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees, which may discourage the filing of lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and employees, even though an action, if successful, might benefit our stockholders. In addition, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. While the Delaware Supreme Court and other state courts have upheld the validity of the federal forum selection provisions purporting to require claims under the Securities Act be brought in federal court, there is uncertainty as to whether courts in other states will enforce our Federal Forum Provision. If the Federal Forum Provision is found to be unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such an action. The Federal Forum Provision may also impose additional litigation costs on stockholders who assert that the provision is not enforceable or invalid. The Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal district courts of the United States may also reach different judgments or results than would other courts, including courts where a stockholder considering an action may be located or would otherwise choose to bring the action, and such judgments may be more or less favorable to us than our stockholders.
Our issuance of additional capital stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders and could negatively affect our results of operations.
We expect to issue additional capital stock in the future that will result in dilution to all other stockholders. We expect to grant equity awards to employees, directors, consultants, and advisors under our stock incentive plans. We may also raise capital through equity financings in the future. As part of our business strategy, we may acquire or make investments
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in complementary companies, products, or technologies and issue equity securities to pay for any such acquisition or investment. Any such issuances of additional capital stock may cause stockholders to experience significant dilution of their ownership interests and the per share value of our common stock to decline.
Any additional grants of equity awards under our stock incentive plans will also increase stock-based compensation expense and negatively affect our results of operations. For example, during the year ended December 31, 2025, stock-based compensation expense was $97 million. Prior to our IPO, the Company granted RSUs to employees that vested upon the satisfaction of both service-based and performance-based vesting conditions. In September 2025, we completed our IPO, which satisfied the performance-based vesting condition. Subsequent to our IPO, any unvested RSUs subject to both the service-based and performance-based vesting conditions will vest as the service-based vesting condition is met over the remaining period. As a public company, our RSUs are only subject to service-based vesting, and accordingly we expect to continue to incur stock-based compensation expense as these RSUs vest.
Sales of substantial amounts of our Series A common stock in the public markets, or the perception that sales might occur, could cause the trading price of our Series A common stock to decline.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Series A common stock into the public market, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers, and principal stockholders, or the perception that these sales might occur, could significantly reduce the market price of the shares of our Series A common stock and the market price could decline. While shares held by directors, executive officers, and other affiliates are subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 under the Securities Act and various vesting agreements, we are unable to predict the timing of or the effect that such sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Series A common stock.
In addition, as of December 31, 2025, we had 8 million RSU awards outstanding. Shares of Series B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Series A common stock upon certain transfers and other events. All of the shares of Series A common stock subject to RSU awards and the shares reserved for future issuance under our equity incentive plans have been registered on a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act. Accordingly, these shares can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 for our executive officers and directors and applicable vesting requirements.
Moreover, certain of our stockholders have certain rights to require us to file registration statements in the United States covering their shares or to include their shares in registration statements or prospectuses that we may file for ourselves or on behalf of other stockholders.
Further, we cannot predict the size of future issuances of our Series A common stock or the effect, if any, that future issuances and sales of our Series A common stock will have on the market price of our Series A common stock. Sales of substantial amounts of our shares, or the perception that such sales could occur, may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our Series A common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our securities. We do not have any present intention to pay cash dividends on shares of our Series A common stock, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on shares of our Series A common stock in the foreseeable future. We currently intend to invest our future earnings, if any, to fund our growth. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on our financial condition, operating results, contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant. As a result, stockholders must rely on sales of their Series A common stock after price appreciation as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment.
Our IPO occurred in September 2025. As such, there has only been a public market for our Series A common stock for a short period of time. The trading price of our Series A common stock may continue to be volatile, which could cause the value of your investment to decline.
The market prices of the securities of other newly public companies have historically been highly volatile and markets in general have been highly volatile. The trading price of our Series A common stock is likely to continue to be volatile and could be subject to fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment in our Series A common stock since you might be unable to sell your shares at or above the price you paid for them. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the trading price of our Series A common stock include the following:
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• price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
• volatility in the trading prices and trading volumes of technology stocks;
• changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally or those in our industry in particular;
• number of shares of our Series A common stock made available for trading;
• sales of shares of our Series A common stock by us or our stockholders;
• changes in the pricing of our solutions;
• failure of securities analysts to maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by securities analysts who follow our company or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
• the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in those projections or our failure to meet those projections;
• announcements by us or our competitors of new solutions, services, products or platform features;
• the public’s reaction to our press releases, other public announcements and filings with the SEC;
• rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
• actual or anticipated changes in our results of operations or fluctuations in our results of operations;
• actual or anticipated developments in our business, our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;
• litigation involving us, our industry or both, or investigations by regulators into our operations or those of our competitors;
• actual or perceived privacy or security breaches or other incidents;
• developments or disputes concerning our intellectual property or other proprietary rights;
• announced or completed acquisitions of businesses, services or technologies by us or our competitors;
• new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business in the United States or globally;
• changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations or principles;
• any significant change in our management;
• general economic conditions and slow or negative growth of our markets; and
• other events or factors, including those resulting from war, incidents of terrorism, natural disasters, public health concerns or epidemics, such as pandemics, natural disasters or responses to these events.
In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market price of a particular company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against these companies. This litigation, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources.
Our business and financial performance may differ from any projections that we disclose or any information that may be attributed to us by third parties.
From time to time, we provide guidance via public disclosure regarding our projected business or financial performances. However, any such projections involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties, and our actual results could differ materially from such projections. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those identified in this section, some or all of which are not predictable or within our control.
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Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could adversely impact our performance, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any projections, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. In addition, various news sources, bloggers and other publishers often make statements regarding our historical or projected business or financial performances, and we cannot assure you of the reliability of any such information even if it is attributed directly or indirectly to us.
If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Series A common stock depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business, our market and our competitors. If we fail to maintain sufficient securities analyst coverage of us, the trading price for our Series A common stock would be negatively affected. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our shares or change their opinion of our shares, our share price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price or trading volume to decline.
General Risk Factors
Our corporate culture has contributed to our success, and if we cannot maintain this culture as we grow, we could lose the innovation, creativity and teamwork fostered by our culture, and our business may be harmed.
We believe that an important contributor to our success to date has been our corporate culture, which we believe fosters innovation, teamwork and passion for our brand. Other than our executive officers, as a result of our growth, most of our employees have been with us for fewer than two years. As we continue to grow and develop the infrastructure of a public company, we must effectively integrate, develop and motivate a growing number of new employees, including employees in international markets. As a result, we may find it difficult to maintain important aspects of our corporate culture, which could limit our ability to innovate and operate effectively. Any failure to preserve our culture could also negatively affect our ability to retain and recruit personnel, continue to perform at current levels or execute on our business strategy.
The effects of natural disasters, terrorism, acts of war and public health issues may adversely affect our business.
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and tornadoes could affect warehouse operations and the products we sell. Our operations, including warehouse operations, may also be vulnerable to damage or interruption from power loss, telecommunications failures, fires, vandalism and similar events. If our warehouses were affected by such disasters, we would incur substantial losses. While many of these losses may be recoverable through our insurance policies, our revenues could be affected in the short term as a result. In addition, acts of terrorism, acts of war and military action both in the United States and abroad can have a significant effect on economic conditions and may negatively affect our ability to purchase merchandise from brand partners for sale to our customers. Public health issues, such as flu or other pandemics, whether occurring in the United States or abroad, could disrupt our operations and result in a significant part of our workforce being unable to operate or maintain our infrastructure or perform other tasks necessary to conduct our business. Additionally, public health issues may disrupt, or have an adverse effect on, our brand partners’ operations, our operations, marketplaces’ operations, our customers or consumer demand. Our ability to mitigate the adverse effect of these events depends, in part, upon the effectiveness of our disaster preparedness and response planning as well as business continuity planning. However, we cannot be certain that our plans will be adequate or implemented properly in the event of an actual disaster. We may be required to suspend operations in some or all our locations, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Any significant declines in public safety or uncertainties regarding future economic prospects that affect consumer spending habits could have a material adverse effect on customer purchases of our brand partners’ products.
Climate change may have a long-term impact on our business.
We recognize that there are inherent climate-related risks wherever business is conducted. Any of our primary office locations may be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. For example, our offices globally may experience climate-related events at an increasing frequency, including drought, water scarcity, heat waves, cold waves, wildfires and resultant air quality impacts and power shutoffs associated with wildfire prevention. While this danger currently has a low-assessed risk of disrupting our normal business operations, it has the potential to disrupt employees’ abilities to commute to work or to work from home and stay connected effectively. Furthermore, it is more difficult to mitigate the impact of these events on our employees to the extent they work from home. Climate-related events, including the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and their impact on the critical infrastructure of the United States and other major regions, have the
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potential to disrupt our business, our brand partners and/or marketplaces, and may cause us to experience higher attrition, losses and additional costs to maintain or resume operations. Regulatory developments, changing market dynamics and stakeholder expectations regarding climate change and our response to any of the same, may result in increased costs, divert attention from management, and negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our cash could be adversely affected if the financial institutions in which we hold our cash fail.
We maintain domestic cash deposits in Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insured banks. The domestic bank deposit balances may exceed the FDIC insurance limits. These balances could be impacted if one or more of the financial institutions in which we deposit monies fails or is subject to other adverse conditions in the financial or credit markets.
