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$19.02 -1.41 (-6.90%) At close · Aug 14
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Earnings call · FY2024 Q1

Backblaze, Inc. Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

Backblaze, Inc. Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

Concluded May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024 57 turns
Period
FY2024 Q1
Runtime
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Executive readout · one minute

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Cloud 2.0 and open cloud strategy 20 Product innovation 17 Upmarket and sales expansion 12 Financial performance and profitability 11 AI opportunity 6 Compliance and security certifications 6

Management tone

Confident

Net tone +65 · low hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “We had a record start across our key financial metrics. This quarter, revenue grew at 28%, 8 percentage points better than last year.”
  • “cash usage this quarter was only $600,000, a dramatic improvement from the $13 million of cash used in the same period last year”
  • “The product launched in private preview just 3 weeks ago, and we already have over 100 organizations that have requested to join the early release.”
  • “we're seeing a growing number of partners and customers utilizing the value of B2 cloud storage for AI workflows. Since the beginning of 2023, the number of AI companies using B2 for data storage has doubled”

Forward guidance

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Revenue $29.97M +28.1% YoY
Diluted EPS -$0.27
Gross margin 52.8% +5.9 pp YoY
Net income -$11.05M

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Metric Guided
Revenue
second quarter
$30.7M – $31.1M
Adjusted EBITDA margin
second quarter
6% – 8%
Revenue
full year 2024
$126M – $128M
Adjusted EBITDA margin
full year 2024
8% – 10%
Cash
year-end 2024
at least $20M

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Revenue · regions

United States$21.93M +31.2% YoY
Non Us$5.01M +19.1% YoY
United Kingdom$1.63M +30.2% YoY
Canada$1.40M +14.8% YoY
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