Annual
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2023
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MongoDB, Inc.
1633 Broadway, 38th Floor
New York, New York 10019
Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders
To Be Held on June 27, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
To the Stockholders of MongoDB, Inc.:
On behalf of our board of directors, it is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders
of MongoDB, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
The meeting will be held virtually, via live webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MDB2023, originating
from New York, New York, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. We believe hosting a virtual meeting
enables expanded access for our stockholders, improved communication and cost savings, which in turn lead to increased
stockholder attendance and participation from locations around the world. Stockholders attending the virtual meeting will be
afforded the same rights and opportunities to participate as they would at an in-person meeting. We encourage you to attend
online and participate. The record date for the meeting is April 28, 2023. Only stockholders of record at the close of business
on that date may vote at the meeting or any adjournment thereof.
Your vote is very important. Whether or not you plan to attend the meeting, we urge you to vote by proxy to
ensure your vote is counted.
The meeting will be held for the following purposes:
1. To elect three Class III directors, Archana Agrawal, Hope Cochran and Dwight Merriman, each to serve
until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2026;
2. To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers;
3. To ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting
firm for our fiscal year ending January 31, 2024; and
4. To conduct any other business properly brought before the meeting or any adjournments or postponements
thereof.
These items of business are more fully described in the proxy materials accompanying this notice.
On behalf of the board of directors and the management team, thank you for your investment and interest in
MongoDB.
May 17, 2023
By Order of the Board of Directors
Andrew Stephens
General Counsel and Secretary
You are cordially invited to attend the virtual annual meeting. Whether or not you expect to attend the meeting, you are urged to vote and submit
your proxy by following the procedures described in the proxy card. Even if you have voted by proxy, you may still vote during the meeting.
Please note, however, that if your shares are held of record by a broker, bank or other similar organization and you wish to vote during the
meeting, you must follow the instructions from such organization.
Table of Contents
Questions and Answers
Board of Directors and Corporate Governance
Proposal 1 – Election of Directors
Information Regarding Director Nominees and Current Directors
Director Compensation
Proposal 2 – Approval, on a Non-binding Advisory Basis. of the Compensation of Our Named Executive Officers
Executive Officers
Executive Compensation
• Compensation Discussion and Analysis
• Executive Compensation Tables
• Compensation Committee Report
CEO Pay Ratio
Pay Versus Performance
Equity Compensation Plan Information
Proposal 3 – Ratification of Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Audit Committee Report
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
Other Matters
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MongoDB, Inc.
1633 Broadway, 38th Floor
New York, New York 10019
Proxy Statement
For the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
To Be Held on June 27, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Our board of directors is soliciting your proxy to vote at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders of MongoDB,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, to be held virtually, via live webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MDB2023,
originating from New York, New York, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and any adjournment or
postponement thereof. We believe that hosting a virtual meeting enables participation by more of our stockholders, while
lowering the cost of conducting the meeting. Stockholders attending the virtual meeting will be afforded the same rights and
opportunities to participate as they would at an in-person meeting.
For the meeting, we have elected to furnish our proxy materials, including this proxy statement and our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 (the “Annual Report”), to our stockholders primarily via the
internet. On or about May 17, 2023, we intend to mail to our stockholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials
(the “Notice”) that contains notice of the meeting and instructions on how to access our proxy materials on the internet, how
to vote at the meeting and how to request printed copies of the proxy materials. Stockholders may request to receive all future
materials in printed form by mail or electronically by e-mail by following the instructions contained in the Notice. A
stockholder’s election to receive proxy materials by mail or email will remain in effect until revoked. We encourage
stockholders to take advantage of the availability of proxy materials on the internet to help reduce the environmental impact
and cost of our annual meeting.
Only stockholders of record at the close of business on April 28, 2023, will be entitled to vote at the meeting. On
this record date, there were 70,531,307 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote (the “common stock”). Each
holder of common stock will have the right to one vote per share of common stock. A list of stockholders entitled to vote at
the meeting will be available for examination during normal business hours by any stockholder for any purpose germane to
the meeting for ten days before the meeting at our address above. For instructions on how to attend the virtual annual
meeting, please see page 2 of this proxy statement.
In this proxy statement, we refer to MongoDB, Inc. as “MongoDB,” “we” or “us” and the board of directors of
MongoDB as “our board of directors.” The Annual Report, which contains consolidated financial statements as of and for the
fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, accompanies this proxy statement. You also may obtain a copy of the Annual Report
without charge by writing to our Secretary at 499 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Attention: Secretary.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
About these Proxy Materials and Voting
Why did I receive a notice regarding the availability of proxy materials on the internet?
Pursuant to rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), we have elected to provide access
to our proxy materials over the internet. Accordingly, we have sent you the Notice because our board of directors is soliciting
your proxy to vote at the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders, including at any adjournments or postponements thereof. All
stockholders will have the ability to access the proxy materials on the website referred to in the Notice or to request a printed
set of the proxy materials. Instructions on how to access the proxy materials over the internet or to request a printed copy may
be found in the Notice. We intend to mail the Notice on or about May 17, 2023 to all stockholders of record entitled to vote at
the annual meeting.
How do I attend, participate in and ask questions during the virtual annual meeting online?
We will be hosting the meeting via live webcast only. Any stockholder can attend the virtual annual meeting live
online at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MDB2023. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on June 27,
2023. Stockholders attending the virtual meeting will be afforded the same rights and opportunities to participate as they
would at an in-person meeting.
In order to participate in the meeting, you will need the control number, which is included in the Notice or on your
proxy card if you are a stockholder of record of shares of common stock, or included with your voting instruction card and
voting instructions received from your broker, bank or other similar organization if you hold your shares of common stock in
“street name.” Instructions on how to attend and participate online are available at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/
MDB2023. We recommend that you log in a few minutes before 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on June 27, 2023 to ensure you are
logged in when the meeting starts. The webcast will open 15 minutes before the start of the meeting.
Only stockholders of record as of the record date for the annual meeting and their proxy holders may submit
questions or comments. You will be able to submit your question or comment during the meeting by logging in to
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MDB2023 using your control number and typing your question in the designated box in
the annual meeting portal.
To help ensure that we have a productive and efficient meeting, and in fairness to all stockholders in attendance, you
will also find posted our rules of conduct for the meeting when you login prior to its start. These rules of conduct will include
the following guidelines:
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Only stockholders of record as of the record date for the meeting and their proxy holders may submit questions
or comments.
Questions and comments may be submitted electronically through the annual meeting portal during the meeting.
Questions must be directed to Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
Include your name and affiliation, if any, when submitting a question or comment.
Limit your remarks to one brief question or comment that is relevant to the meeting and/or our business.
Questions may be grouped by topic by our management.
Questions may also be ruled as out of order if they are, among other things, irrelevant to our business, related to
pending or threatened litigation, disorderly, repetitious of statements already made, or in furtherance of the
speaker’s own personal, political or business interests.
Be respectful of your fellow stockholders and meeting participants.
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What if I have technical difficulties or trouble accessing the virtual meeting?
We will have technicians ready to assist you with any technical difficulties you may have accessing the virtual
meeting. If you encounter any difficulties accessing the virtual meeting during the check-in or meeting time, please call the
technical support number that will be posted at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/MDB2023 or at www.proxyvote.com.
Technical support will be available starting at 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time on June 27, 2023.
Who can vote at the meeting?
Only stockholders of record at the close of business on the record date, April 28, 2023, will be entitled to vote at the
meeting. On this record date, there were 70,531,307 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote.
Stockholder of Record: Shares Registered in Your Name
If, on April 28, 2023, your shares were registered directly in your name with our transfer agent, American Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, then you are a stockholder of record. As a stockholder of record, you may vote online
during the meeting or vote by proxy. Whether or not you plan to attend the meeting, we urge you to vote by proxy to ensure
your vote is counted.
Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of a Broker or Bank
If, on April 28, 2023, your shares were held, not in your name, but rather in an account at a brokerage firm, bank,
dealer or other similar organization, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name” and the Notice is being
forwarded to you by that organization. The organization holding your account is considered to be the stockholder of record
for purposes of voting at the meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker or other similar
organization regarding how to vote the shares in your account. You are also invited to attend the virtual annual meeting.
Since you are not the stockholder of record, you may vote your shares online during the meeting only by following the
instructions from your broker, bank or other similar organization.
What am I voting on?
There are three matters scheduled for a vote:
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Proposal 1: Election of three Class III directors, each to serve until our annual meeting of stockholders in 2026;
Proposal 2: Approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers;
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Proposal 3: Ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public
accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2024.
What if another matter is properly brought before the meeting?
Our board of directors knows of no other matters that will be presented for consideration at the meeting. If any other
matters are properly brought before the meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the accompanying proxy to vote
on those matters in accordance with their best judgment.
How do I vote?
Stockholder of Record: Shares Registered in Your Name
If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote (a) online during the meeting, or (b) in advance of the meeting by
proxy through the internet, over the telephone, or by using a proxy card that you may request. Whether or not you plan to
attend the meeting, we urge you to vote in advance of the meeting by proxy to ensure your vote is counted. Even if you have
submitted a proxy before the meeting, you may still attend online and vote during the meeting. In such case, your previously
submitted proxy will be disregarded.
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To vote online before the meeting, go to www.proxyvote.com. You will be asked to provide the company
number and control number from the Notice or the printed proxy card. Your internet vote must be received by
11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on June 26, 2023 to be counted.
To vote by telephone before the meeting, call 1-800-690-6903. You will be asked to provide the company
number and control number from the Notice or the printed proxy card. Your telephone vote must be received by
11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on June 26, 2023 to be counted.
To vote by mail before the meeting, simply complete, sign and date the proxy card that you may request and
return it promptly in the envelope provided. If you return your signed proxy card to us before the annual
meeting, we will vote your shares as you direct.
Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of Broker or Bank
If you are a beneficial owner of shares registered in the name of your broker, bank or other similar organization, you
should receive a Notice containing voting instructions from that organization rather than from us. Simply follow the voting
instructions in the Notice to ensure that your vote is counted. To vote online during the meeting, you must follow the
instructions from your broker, bank or other similar organization.
Internet voting is provided to allow you to vote your shares online, with procedures designed to ensure the
authenticity and correctness of your voting instructions. Please be aware that you must bear any costs associated with
your internet access.
Can I change my vote after submitting my proxy?
Yes. If you are a record holder of shares, you may revoke, subject to the voting deadlines above, your proxy using
one of the following ways:
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You may submit another properly completed proxy card with a later date.
You may grant a subsequent proxy by telephone or through the internet.
You may send a timely written notice that you are revoking your proxy to our Secretary at 499 Hamilton Ave,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, Attention: Secretary.
You may attend and vote online during the meeting. Simply attending the meeting will not, by itself, revoke
your proxy.
If your shares are held by your broker, bank or other similar organization, you should follow the instructions
provided by such party.
What happens if I do not vote?
Stockholder of Record: Shares Registered in Your Name
If you are a stockholder of record and do not vote online during the meeting, or in advance of the meeting through
the internet, by telephone or by completing your proxy card, your shares will not be voted.
Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of Broker or Bank
If you are a beneficial owner and do not instruct your broker, bank or other similar organization how to vote your
shares, the question of whether your broker or nominee will still be able to vote your shares depends on whether, pursuant to
stock exchange rules, the particular proposal is deemed to be a “routine” matter. Brokers and nominees can use their
discretion to vote “uninstructed” shares with respect to matters that are considered to be “routine,” but not with respect to
“non-routine” matters. “Non-routine” matters are matters that may substantially affect the rights or privileges of stockholders,
such as mergers, stockholder proposals, elections of directors (even if not contested), executive compensation and certain
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corporate governance proposals, even if management-supported. Accordingly, your broker or nominee may not vote your
shares on Proposal 1 or 2 without your instructions. Your broker or nominee may only vote your shares on Proposal 3
(Ratification of Auditors) in the absence of your instruction.
Please instruct your bank, broker or other similar organization to ensure that your vote will be counted.
What are “broker non-votes”?
As discussed above, when a beneficial owner of shares held in “street name” does not give instructions to the broker
or nominee holding the shares as to how to vote on matters deemed under stock exchange rules to be “non-routine,” the
broker or nominee cannot vote the shares. These unvoted shares are counted as “broker non-votes.”
What if I return a proxy card or otherwise vote but do not make specific choices?
If you return a signed and dated proxy card or otherwise vote but do not make specific choices, your shares will be
voted in accordance with the recommendations of our board of directors as follows:
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FOR the election of each of the nominees for Class III director;
FOR the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers, as
disclosed in this proxy statement; and
FOR the ratification of the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public
accounting firm for our fiscal year ending January 31, 2024.
If any other matter is properly presented at the meeting, your proxyholder (one of the individuals named on your
proxy card) will vote your shares using his best judgment.
How many votes do I have?
Each holder of common stock will have the right to one vote per share of common stock. Cumulative voting is not
permitted with respect to the election of directors.
How many votes are needed to approve each proposal?
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Proposal 1 - Election of Directors: Each director is elected by a plurality of the votes cast. The three nominees
for Class III directors that receive the highest number of FOR votes will be elected.
Proposal 2 - Advisory Vote on the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers: This proposal,
commonly referred to as the “say-on-pay” vote, must receive FOR votes from the holders of a majority in
voting power of the shares present at the meeting (by virtual attendance) or represented by proxy and entitled to
vote on the proposal. Since this proposal is an advisory vote, the result will not be binding on our board of
directors. However, our board of directors values our stockholders’ opinions, and our board of directors and the
compensation committee will take into account the outcome of the advisory vote when considering future
executive compensation decisions.
Proposal 3 - Ratification of Auditors: The ratification of the selection of our independent registered public
accounting firm must receive FOR votes from the holders of a majority in voting power of the shares present at
the meeting (by virtual attendance) or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the proposal.
How are broker non-votes and abstentions treated?
If your shares of voting common stock are held by a broker on your behalf, and you do not instruct the broker as to
how to vote these shares on Proposal 3, the broker may exercise its discretion to vote FOR or AGAINST that proposal in the
absence of your instruction. With respect to Proposals 1 and 2, the broker may not exercise discretion to vote on those
proposals. Such event would constitute a “broker non-vote,” and these shares will not be counted as having been voted on the
applicable proposal. However, broker non-votes will be considered present and entitled to vote at the meeting and will be
counted in determining whether or not a quorum is present. Please instruct your broker so your vote can be counted.
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If stockholders abstain from voting, the applicable shares of voting common stock will be considered present and
entitled to vote at the meeting and will be counted in determining whether or not a quorum is present. With respect to
Proposal 1, abstentions will have no effect in determining whether a nominee for director has received sufficient votes. With
respect to Proposals 2 and 3, abstentions are considered in determining the number of votes required to obtain the necessary
majority vote for the proposal and will have the same effect as voting AGAINST the proposal.
Who counts the votes?
We have engaged Broadridge Financial Solutions (“Broadridge”) as our independent agent to tabulate stockholder
votes. If you are a stockholder of record, and you choose to vote over the internet (either prior to or during the meeting) or by
telephone, Broadridge will access and tabulate your vote electronically, and if you choose to sign and mail your proxy card,
your executed proxy card is returned directly to Broadridge for tabulation. As noted above, if you hold your shares through a
broker, your broker (or its agent for tabulating votes of shares held in street name, as applicable) returns one proxy card to
Broadridge on behalf of all its clients.
Who is paying for this proxy solicitation?
We will pay for the cost of soliciting proxies. In addition to these proxy materials, our directors and employees may
also solicit proxies in person, by telephone or by other means of communication. Directors and employees will not be paid
additional compensation for soliciting proxies. We may reimburse brokers, banks and other organizations for the cost of
forwarding proxy materials to beneficial owners. We engaged Alliance Advisors to assist us with our shareholder
engagement process, and we may pay them an estimated fee of $28,000, plus reasonable out-of-pocket expenses if they assist
us in soliciting proxies. We may also reimburse brokerage firms, banks and other agents for the cost of forwarding proxy
materials to beneficial owners.
What does it mean if I receive more than one Notice?
If you receive more than one Notice, your shares may be registered in more than one name or in different accounts.
Please follow the instructions on the Notices to ensure that all your shares are voted.
When are stockholder proposals and director nominations due for next year’s annual meeting?
To be considered for inclusion in next year’s proxy materials, your proposal or nomination must (i) satisfy
conditions set forth in SEC regulations under Rule 14a-8 regarding the inclusion of stockholder proposals in company-
sponsored proxy materials and (ii) be submitted in writing by January 18, 2024, to our Secretary at 499 Hamilton Ave, Palo
Alto, CA 94301, Attention: Secretary; provided that, if the date of next year’s meeting is earlier than May 28, 2024, or later
than July 27, 2024, the deadline will be a reasonable time before we begin to print and send our proxy materials for next
year’s meeting. If you wish to nominate a director or submit a proposal that you do not desire to be included in next year’s
proxy materials, in accordance with our bylaws, you must do so between February 28, 2024 and March 29, 2024; provided
that if the date of that annual meeting of stockholders is earlier than May 28, 2024 or later than July 27, 2024, you must give
the required notice not earlier than the 120th day prior to the meeting date and not later than the 90th day prior to the meeting
date or, if later, the 10th day following the day on which public disclosure of that meeting date is first made.
In addition, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than MongoDB's
nominees must comply with the additional requirements of Rule 14a-19(b). We reserve the right to reject, rule out of order, or
take other appropriate action with respect to any nomination or proposal that does not comply with these and other applicable
requirements. We advise you to review our amended and restated bylaws, which contain additional requirements about
advance notice of stockholder proposals and director nominations.
What is the quorum requirement?
A quorum of stockholders is necessary to hold a valid meeting. A quorum will be present if stockholders holding a
majority of the aggregate voting power of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the meeting are present
at the meeting (by virtual attendance) or represented by proxy.
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Instructions to “withhold” authority to vote in the election of directors, abstentions and broker non-votes will be
counted as present for determining whether the quorum requirement has been met. If there is no quorum, the holders of a
majority of the aggregate voting power of shares present at the meeting (by virtual attendance) or represented by proxy may
adjourn the meeting to another date.
How can I find out the results of the voting at the annual meeting?
We expect that preliminary voting results will be announced during the meeting. In addition, final voting results will
be published in a current report on Form 8-K that we expect to file within four business days after the meeting.
What does it mean if multiple members of my household are stockholders but we only received one Notice or full set
of proxy materials in the mail?
The SEC has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries, such as brokers, to satisfy the delivery
requirements for notices and proxy materials with respect to two or more stockholders sharing the same address by delivering
a single Notice or set of proxy materials addressed to those stockholders. In accordance with a prior notice sent to certain
brokers, banks, dealers or other agents, we are sending only one Notice or full set of proxy materials to those addresses with
multiple stockholders, unless we received contrary instructions from any stockholder at that address. This practice, known as
“householding,” allows us to satisfy the requirements for delivering Notices or proxy materials with respect to two or more
stockholders sharing the same address by delivering a single copy of these documents. Householding helps to reduce our
printing and postage costs, reduces the amount of mail you receive and helps to preserve the environment. If you currently
receive multiple copies of the Notice or proxy materials at your address and would like to request “householding” of your
communications, please contact your broker. Once you have elected “householding” of your communications,
“householding” will continue until you are notified otherwise or until you revoke your consent.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Our business affairs are managed under the direction of our board of directors. Our board of directors is responsible
for advancing the interests of the stockholders by providing advice and oversight of the strategic and operational direction of
MongoDB, overseeing the governance of MongoDB and reviewing our business initiatives and budget matters. To do this
effectively, we have established clear and specific Corporate Governance Guidelines for our board of directors that, along
with committee charters and our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, provide the framework for the governance of
MongoDB.
Corporate Governance Highlights
We believe that good corporate governance promotes the long-term interests of our stockholders, strengthens Board
and management accountability and leads to better business performance. To achieve these benefits, we maintain the
following strong corporate governance practices:
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100% independent board committee members;
seven out of nine current directors are independent under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and
the listing requirements and rules of the Nasdaq;
separate Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer;
board risk oversight;
stock ownership guidelines for our executive officers and non-employee directors;
clawback policy;
annual board and committee evaluations;
code of business conduct and ethics for Directors, Officers and Employees;
insider trading policy containing hedging and pledging prohibitions;
annual say-on-pay vote;
no tax gross ups and limited executive perquisites; and
during our fiscal year 2023, our board of directors attended greater than 75% of meetings of the board of
directors and committees of which he or she was a member.
Director Independence
Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (the “Nasdaq”). Under the listing requirements and rules
of the Nasdaq, independent directors must comprise a majority of our board of directors.
Our board of directors has undertaken a review of its composition, the composition of its committees and the
independence of each director. Our board of directors has determined that Mses. Agrawal and Cochran, and Messrs. Botha,
D’Souza, Hazard, Killalea and McMahon do not have any relationships that would interfere with the exercise of independent
judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director and that each of these directors is “independent” as that term is
defined under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing requirements and rules of the Nasdaq.
Our board has also determined that Mr. Ittycheria is not independent due to his position as an executive officer of
MongoDB and Mr. Merriman is not independent due to his prior employment relationship with our company.
Accordingly, a majority of our directors are independent, as required under applicable Nasdaq rules. In making this
determination, our board of directors considered the applicable Nasdaq rules and the current and prior relationships that each
non-employee director has with our company and all other facts and circumstances our board of directors deemed relevant in
determining their independence, including their beneficial ownership of our common stock.
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Board Leadership
According to our Corporate Governance Guidelines, it is expected that the roles of Chairperson and Chief Executive
Officer are separate and will not be occupied by the same person. Mr. Killalea currently serves as Chairperson of our board of
directors. The Chairperson of our board of directors has the following responsibilities:
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work with the President and Chief Executive Officer to develop and approve an appropriate meeting schedule
for our board of directors;
work with the President and Chief Executive Officer to develop and approve meeting agendas for our board of
directors;
provide the President and Chief Executive Officer feedback on the quality, quantity and timeliness of the
information provided to our board of directors;
develop the agenda and moderate executive sessions of the independent members of our board of directors;
preside over meetings of our board of directors when the President and Chief Executive Officer is not present or
when our board of directors’ or President and Chief Executive Officer’s performance is discussed;
act as principal liaison between the independent members of our board of directors and the President and Chief
Executive Officer;
convene meetings of the independent directors as appropriate;
be available for consultation and direct communication with stockholders as deemed appropriate; and
perform other duties as our board of directors may determine from time to time.
Our board of directors believes that the current board leadership structure, coupled with a strong emphasis on board
independence, provides effective independent oversight of management while allowing the board of directors and
management to benefit from the extensive executive leadership and operational experience of Mr. Ittycheria. Non-employee
directors and management sometimes have different perspectives and roles in strategy development. Our non-employee
directors bring experience, oversight and expertise from outside of our company, while Mr. Ittycheria brings company-
specific experience and expertise.
To further promote strong board leadership and corporate governance, we conduct annual self-evaluations of our
board of directors and committees, which are overseen by our nominating and corporate governance committee. Our
nominating and corporate governance committee also oversees a self-assessment of each individual director whose term of
office ends in any given year prior to nominating such director for re-election.
Risk Oversight
Board of Directors Risk Oversight
Our board of directors applies an enterprise-wide approach to risk management. This approach is designed to
support organizational objectives, such as short- and long-term strategic objectives and enhancement of stockholder value. A
fundamental part of risk management is not only understanding the most significant risks a company faces and what steps
management is taking to manage those risks, but also understanding what level of risk is appropriate for a given company.
The involvement of our full board of directors in reviewing our business is an integral aspect of its assessment of
management’s tolerance for risk and also its determination of what constitutes an appropriate level of risk.
In connection with its reviews of the operations of our business, our board of directors addresses the primary risks
associated with our business including, for example, strategic planning, liquidity risk, organizational risk and operational risk.
In addition, our board of directors provides oversight of and monitors management’s response to emerging risks and their
potential impact on our business. For example, in fiscal years 2021 and 2022, our board received regular updates from the
management team on the COVID-19 pandemic and was involved in strategic decisions related to its potential impact on our
business and risk mitigation strategies. In fiscal year 2023, the board again received regular updates from the management
team on our return to office plan, which encompassed a hybrid approach to in-office attendance based on the different needs
of teams across the Company.
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Committee Risk Oversight
Our board of directors does not have a standing risk management committee, but rather administers this oversight
function directly through our board of directors as a whole, as well as through various standing committees of our board of
directors that address risks inherent in their respective areas of oversight. Our board of directors regularly reviews
information regarding our operational, financial, legal, data security and strategic risks. Additionally, senior risk management
personnel attend quarterly meetings of our board of directors, provide presentations on operations including significant risks,
and are available to address any questions or concerns raised by our board of directors.
In particular, our audit committee has the responsibility to consider and discuss our major financial and security risk
exposures and the steps our management has taken to monitor and mitigate these exposures, including guidelines and policies
to govern the process by which risk assessment and management is undertaken. Our audit committee also monitors
compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Our audit committee further oversees initiatives related to cybersecurity,
including prevention of attacks and monitoring of our systems, as well as our Enterprise Risk Management program. In
addition, among other matters, management provides our audit committee periodic reports on our compliance programs and
investment policy and practices.
Our compensation committee assesses and monitors whether any of our compensation policies and programs has the
potential to encourage excessive risk-taking. The compensation committee also oversees risks relating to the recruiting and
retention of our executive officers and our broader compensation philosophy.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee monitors the effectiveness of our Corporate Governance
Guidelines, including whether they are successful in preventing illegal or improper liability-creating conduct. The nominating
and corporate governance committee also assists the board of directors in monitoring our governance and board of directors'
succession risks.
At periodic meetings of our board of directors and its committees, management reports to and seeks guidance from
our board and its committees with respect to the most significant risks that could affect our business, such as competition
risks, legal risks, information security and privacy risks, and financial, tax and audit related risks.
Cybersecurity Risk Oversight
The board of directors and audit committee appreciate the rapidly evolving nature of threats presented by
cybersecurity incidents and are committed to the prevention, timely detection and mitigation of the effects of such incidents
on MongoDB. As part of its cybersecurity risk oversight role, the audit committee receives regular updates on cybersecurity
threats to our business and mitigation processes. In addition, on a quarterly basis, certain members of our board of directors
meet with our Chief Information and Security Officer and other senior executives to perform more in-depth reviews of
relevant cybersecurity matters and report back to the audit committee regarding the matters reviewed.
Enterprise Risk Management Program Oversight
The scope of our Enterprise Risk Management ("ERM") program includes the assessment and management of a
broad range of our compliance, strategic, operational and financial risks. Throughout the year, members of a cross-functional
team within the company conduct risk data collection, surveys, and interviews of company experts, leaders, and specialists.
Together with the internal audit team, identified risks are then analyzed, categorized by topic (compliance, strategic,
operational, reputational or financial) and timeframe (existing or emerging) and reported to management. For certain key
risks, management action plans, whether current or planned, to mitigate identified risks are evaluated and updated as
necessary. Quarterly, management presents and discusses the key risks identified in the ERM process with the audit
committee, soliciting input from our directors on the steps taken to mitigate risks and plans for additional mitigation in the
quarter ahead.
Board Meeting Attendance
Our board of directors meets periodically during the year to review significant developments affecting us and to act
on matters requiring the approval of our board of directors. Our board of directors met 5 times during our last fiscal year, and
each of our current directors attended at least 75% of the aggregate number of meetings of the board of directors and of the
committees on which he or she served, held during the portion of the last fiscal year for which he or she was a director or
committee member. We encourage our directors and nominees for director to attend our annual meeting of stockholders.
Eight of our directors attended our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders.
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Board Committees
Our board of directors has established an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and
corporate governance committee. Our board of directors may establish other committees to facilitate the management of our
business. Copies of the charters of each committee are available in the “Corporate Governance” section of our investor
relations website at investors.mongodb.com.
Committee Membership as of May 17, 2023
Audit
Compensation
Nominating and Corporate
Governance
Name
Archana Agrawal
Roelof Botha
Hope Cochran
Francisco D’Souza
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
Dev Ittycheria
Tom Killalea
John McMahon
Dwight Merriman
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Number of FY2023 Meetings
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Chairperson
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Audit Committee
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Our audit committee consists of Ms. Cochran and Messrs. Botha and Hazard. The chair of our audit committee is
Ms. Cochran. Our board of directors has determined that Ms. Cochran and Messrs. Botha and Hazard are independent under
Nasdaq listing standards and Rule 10A-3(b)(1) of the Exchange Act. Our board of directors has determined that each of Ms.
Cochran and Messrs. Botha and Hazard is an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of SEC regulations. Our
board of directors has also determined that each member of our audit committee can read and understand fundamental
financial statements in accordance with applicable requirements. In arriving at these determinations, the board of directors
has examined each audit committee member’s scope of experience and the nature of their employment in the corporate
finance sector. The audit committee meets at least quarterly and with greater frequency as necessary. The audit committee
may also act by unanimous written consent in lieu of a formal meeting from time to time. The agenda for each meeting is
usually developed by the chairperson of the audit committee, in consultation with management.
The primary purpose of the audit committee is to discharge the responsibilities of our board of directors with respect
to our accounting, financial and other reporting and internal control practices and to oversee our independent registered
accounting firm. Specific responsibilities of our audit committee include:
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helping our board of directors oversee our corporate accounting and financial reporting processes, systems of
internal control and financial statement audits;
• managing the selection, engagement terms, fees, qualifications, independence and performance of a qualified
firm to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit our financial statements;
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overseeing the organization and performance of our internal audit function;
discussing the scope and results of the audit with the independent registered public accounting firm, and
reviewing, with management and the independent accountants, our interim and year-end operating results;
developing procedures for employees to submit concerns anonymously about questionable accounting or audit
matters;
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reviewing our policies on risk assessment and risk management;
reviewing related party transactions;
overseeing and reviewing relevant elements of our enterprise risk management program;
reviewing and discussing with management the adequacy and effectiveness of our information and technology
security policies and internal controls regarding information and technology security, cybersecurity and privacy
related areas;
coordinating with other committees of the board of directors to oversee environmental, social and governance
("ESG") matters, including required reports or disclosures related to ESG matters;
obtaining and reviewing a report by the independent registered public accounting firm, at least annually, that
describes its internal quality-control procedures, any material issues with such procedures, and any steps taken
to deal with such issues when required by applicable law; and
approving (or, as permitted, pre-approving) all audit and all permissible non-audit services, other than de
minimis non-audit services, to be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm.
Compensation Committee
Our compensation committee consists of Ms. Agrawal and Messrs. D’Souza, Killalea and McMahon. The chair of
our compensation committee is Mr. D’Souza. Our board of directors has determined that Ms. Agrawal and Messrs. D’Souza,
Killalea and McMahon are independent under Nasdaq listing standards, are “non-employee directors” as defined in Rule
16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act and are “outside directors” as that term is defined in Section 162(m).
The primary purpose of the compensation committee is to discharge the responsibilities of our board of directors to
oversee our compensation policies, plans and programs and to review and determine the compensation to be paid to our
executive officers, directors and other senior management, as appropriate. Specific responsibilities of the compensation
committee include:
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reviewing and approving corporate performance goals and objectives for our Chief Executive Officer and other
executive officers, taking into account the policies of the compensation committee;
reviewing our practices and policies of employee compensation as they relate to risk management and risk-
taking incentives, to determine if such compensation policies and practices are reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on us;
reviewing and discussing with management our compensation disclosures in the section titled “Compensation
Discussion and Analysis” of this proxy statement;
reviewing and approving or recommending that our board of directors approve, the compensatory arrangements
of our executive officers and other senior management;
reviewing and recommending to our board of directors the compensation of our directors;
reviewing the implementation and effectiveness of our human capital strategies, initiatives and programs
relating to our culture, talent, recruitment, retention, employee engagement, and employee diversity, equity and
inclusion efforts;
coordinating with other committees of the board of directors to oversee ESG matters, including required reports
or disclosures related to ESG matters;
adopting, amending, terminating and administering incentive compensation and stock and equity incentive plans
and other benefit programs; and
reviewing and establishing general policies relating to compensation and benefits of our employees and
reviewing our overall compensation philosophy.
Under its charter, the compensation committee may form, and delegate authority to, subcommittees as appropriate.
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Compensation Committee Processes and Procedures
The compensation committee meets at least quarterly and with greater frequency as necessary. The compensation
committee may also act by unanimous written consent in lieu of a formal meeting from time to time. The agenda for each
meeting is usually developed by the chairperson of the compensation committee, in consultation with management. The
compensation committee may also meet in executive session on an ad hoc basis. From time to time, various members of
management and other employees as well as outside advisors or consultants may be invited by the compensation committee
to make presentations, to provide financial or other background information or advice, or to otherwise participate in
compensation committee meetings. Our President and Chief Executive Officer may not participate in, or be present during,
any deliberations or determinations of the compensation committee regarding his compensation.
The charter of the compensation committee grants the compensation committee full access to all books, records,
facilities and personnel of MongoDB. In addition, under the charter, the compensation committee has the authority to obtain,
at the expense of MongoDB, advice and assistance from compensation consultants and internal and external legal, accounting
or other advisors and other external resources that the compensation committee considers necessary or appropriate in the
performance of its duties. The compensation committee has direct responsibility for the oversight of the work of any
consultants or advisers engaged for the purpose of advising the compensation committee. In particular, the compensation
committee has the sole authority to retain, in its sole discretion, compensation consultants to assist in its evaluation of
executive and director compensation, including the authority to approve the consultant’s reasonable fees and other retention
terms. Under the charter, the compensation committee may select, or receive advice from, a compensation consultant, legal
counsel or other adviser to the compensation committee, other than in-house legal counsel and certain other types of advisers,
only after taking into consideration certain factors prescribed by the SEC and the Nasdaq, that bear upon the adviser’s
independence; however, there is no requirement that any adviser be independent.
Historically, the compensation committee has determined most bonus awards and established performance metrics at
one or more meetings held during the first quarter of the year and has made adjustments to annual equity and non-equity
compensation periodically, as events warrant. The compensation committee also considers matters related to individual
compensation, such as compensation for new executive hires, as well as high-level strategic issues, such as the efficacy of
MongoDB’s compensation strategy, potential modifications to that strategy and new trends, plans or approaches to
compensation, periodically throughout the year.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
None of Ms. Agrawal or Messrs. D’Souza, Killalea or McMahon, the members of the compensation committee, is
currently one of our officers or employees or has at any time been one of our officers or employees or has had any
relationship requiring disclosure under Item 404 of Regulations S-K. None of our executive officers currently serve, or have
served during the last year, as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or
more executive officers serving as a member of our board of directors or compensation committee.
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Our nominating and corporate governance committee consists of Messrs. D’Souza, Hazard and Killalea. The chair
of our nominating and corporate governance committee is Mr. Hazard. Each member of the nominating and corporate
governance committee is independent, is a non-employee director and is free from any relationship that would interfere with
the exercise of his independent judgment, as determined by the board of directors in accordance with the applicable Nasdaq
listing standards. The nominating and corporate governance committee meets at least quarterly and with greater frequency as
necessary. The nominating and corporate governance committee may also act by unanimous written consent in lieu of a
formal meeting from time to time. The agenda for each meeting is usually developed by the chairperson of the nominating
and corporate governance committee, in consultation with management.
Specific responsibilities of our nominating and corporate governance committee include:
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identifying and evaluating candidates, including the nomination of incumbent directors for reelection and
nominees recommended by stockholders, to serve on our board of directors;
reviewing the performance of our board of directors, including committees of the board of directors;
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considering and making recommendations to our board of directors regarding the composition of our board of
directors and its committees;
coordinating with other committees of the board of directors to oversee ESG matters, including required reports
or disclosures related to ESG matters;
instituting plans or programs for the continuing education of directors and orientation of new directors; and
developing and making recommendations to our board of directors regarding corporate governance guidelines
and matters.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee believes that candidates for director should have certain
minimum qualifications, including the highest personal integrity and ethics and the ability to read and understand basic
financial statements. Our nominating and corporate governance committee also intends to consider such factors as possessing
relevant expertise upon which to be able to offer advice and guidance to management, having sufficient time to devote to the
affairs of the company, demonstrating excellence in his or her field, having the ability to exercise sound business judgment
and having the commitment to rigorously represent the long-term interests of MongoDB’s stockholders. These minimum
qualifications may be modified from time to time. The committee typically considers potential conflicts of interest, director
independence, diversity, age, skills and such other factors as it deems appropriate, given the current needs of our board of
directors and the company, to maintain a balance of knowledge, experience and capability.
In considering potential director nominations, the committee takes into account the current composition of our board
of directors, the operating requirements of the company and the long-term interests of stockholders. In the case of incumbent
directors whose terms of office are set to expire, our nominating and corporate governance committee will review directors’
prior service to MongoDB, including the number of meetings attended, level of participation, quality of performance and any
relationships and transactions that might impair the directors’ independence. In the case of new director candidates, our
nominating and corporate governance committee also evaluates whether the nominee is independent for Nasdaq purposes,
based upon applicable Nasdaq listing standards, applicable SEC rules and regulations and the advice of counsel, if necessary.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee conducts any appropriate and necessary inquiries into the backgrounds
and qualifications of possible candidates after considering the function and needs of our board of directors. Our nominating
and corporate governance committee meets to discuss and consider the candidates’ qualifications and then selects a nominee
for recommendation to our board of directors.
The nominating and corporate governance committee may use any methods it deems appropriate for identifying
candidates for board membership, including recommendations from current board members, outside search firms and
stockholders. Where outside search firms are utilized, they assist the committee in both identifying and evaluating potential
nominees.
Our nominating and corporate governance committee will consider stockholder recommendations of director
candidates, so long as they comply with applicable laws and our amended and restated bylaws, which procedures are
summarized below, and will review the qualifications of any such candidate in accordance with the criteria described in the
preceding paragraphs. Stockholders who wish to recommend individuals for consideration by our nominating and corporate
governance committee to become nominees for election to our board of directors should do so by delivering a written
recommendation to our Secretary at 499 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301 at least 120 days prior to the anniversary date
of the mailing of our proxy statement for the last annual meeting of stockholders.
Each submission must include, among other things, the name, age, business address and residence address of the
proposed candidate, the principal occupation or employment of the proposed candidate, details of the proposed candidate’s
ownership of MongoDB’s common stock, a description of the proposed candidate’s business experience for at least the last
five years, and a description of the proposed candidate’s qualifications as a director. Any such submission must be
accompanied by the written consent of the proposed candidate to be named as a nominee and to serve as a director if elected.
If, rather than submitting a candidate to the nominating and corporate governance committee for consideration, you
wish to formally nominate a director at next year’s meeting pursuant to proxy materials that you will prepare and file with the
SEC, please see the deadline described in “When are stockholder proposals and director nominations due for next year’s
annual meeting?” above. You should refer to our amended and restated bylaws for a complete description of the required
procedures for nominating a candidate to our board of directors.
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Board Diversity Matrix
The table below summarizes certain self-identified characteristics of our board of directors as of May 17, 2023, in
accordance with Nasdaq listing rules 5605(f) and 5606. Each term used in the table has the meaning given to it in the rule and
related instructions.
Total Number of Directors
Board Diversity Matrix (as of May 17, 2023)
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Female
Male
Non-Binary
Did Not Disclose Gender
Part I: Gender Identity
Directors
Part II: Demographic Background
African American or Black
Alaskan Native or Native American
Asian
Hispanic or Latinx
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
White
Two or More Races or Ethnicities
LGBTQ+
Did Not Disclose Demographic Background
Board Skills Matrix
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Our board of directors is comprised of a diverse group of highly qualified leaders in their respective fields. All of
our directors have senior leadership experience at large public and private companies and have significant and diverse
management experience. We believe the skills, qualities, attributes, experience and diversity of our directors provide us with
a range of perspectives to effectively represent the best interests of our stockholders. The chart below summarizes our
directors’ strengths.
Name
Technology
Archana Agrawal
Roelof Botha
Hope Cochran
Francisco D'Souza
Charles M. Hazard
Dev Ittycheria
Tom Killalea
John McMahon
Dwight Merriman
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Board Skills Matrix (as of May 17, 2023)
Cybersecurity,
Information
Security or
Privacy
Global Sales,
Markets or
Operations
Senior
Leadership
Public
Company
Boards
Risk
Management
Finance or
Accounting
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Transactions With Related Persons
The following is a summary of transactions, since the beginning of our last fiscal year, to which we have been a
participant, in which the amount involved exceeded or will exceed $120,000 and in which any of our directors, executive
officers or holders of more than five percent (5%) of our common stock, or any member of the immediate family of the
foregoing persons, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
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Employment Arrangements and Equity Grants
We have entered into offer letters or employment agreements with our executive officers. For more information
regarding these arrangements, see the section titled “Employment, Severance and Change in Control Agreements.”
We have granted equity awards to our executive officers and members of our board of directors. For a description of
these equity awards, see the sections titled “Executive Compensation” and “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance -
Director Compensation”.
Indemnification Agreements
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions limiting the liability of directors, and our
amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify each of our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted
under Delaware law. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws also provide our board of directors
with discretion to indemnify our employees and other agents when determined appropriate by the board of directors. In
addition, we have entered into an indemnification agreement with each of our directors and executive officers, which requires
us to indemnify them.
Related Person Transaction Policy
We have adopted a policy that our executive officers, directors, holders of more than five percent (5%) of our
common stock, any member of the immediate family and any entity affiliated with any of the foregoing persons, will not be
permitted to enter into a related-person transaction with us without the consent of our audit committee, or other independent
members of our board of directors in the event it is inappropriate for our audit committee to review such transaction due to a
conflict of interest. Any request for us to enter into a transaction, arrangement, relationship or series of similar transactions,
arrangements or relationships, in which the aggregate amount involved exceeds or is expected to exceed $120,000 and any
related person had, has or will have a direct or indirect material interest must be presented to our audit committee for review,
consideration and approval or ratification. In approving or rejecting any such proposal, our audit committee will consider the
relevant facts and circumstances available and deemed relevant to our audit committee, including, but not limited to, (a) the
risks, costs and benefits to MongoDB, (b) the impact on a director’s independence in the event the related person is a director,
an immediate family member of a director or an entity with which a director is affiliated, (c) the terms of the transaction, (d)
the availability of other sources for comparable services or products and (e) the terms available to or from, as the case may
be, unrelated third parties or to or from employees generally. There were no related person transactions in fiscal year 2023.
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and Corporate Governance Guidelines
We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees.
We plan to disclose any future amendments to certain provisions of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, or waivers of
such provisions applicable to any principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or
controller, or persons performing similar functions, and our directors, on our website. Our board of directors has also adopted
Corporate Governance Guidelines that establish the corporate governance policies pursuant to which our board of directors
conducts its oversight of the business of MongoDB in accordance with its fiduciary responsibilities. Our Code of Business
Conduct and Ethics, applicable amendments thereto and waivers thereof, and our Corporate Governance Guidelines are
available in the “Corporate Governance” section of our investor relations website at investors.mongodb.com.
Communications with our Board of Directors
Stockholders or interested parties who wish to communicate with our board of directors or with an individual
director may do so by mail to our board of directors or the individual director, care of our Secretary at 499 Hamilton Ave,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, Attention: Secretary. The communication should indicate that it contains a stockholder or interested
party communication. All such communications, if appropriate, will be forwarded to the director or directors to whom the
communications are addressed. For example, we will generally not forward a communication that is primarily commercial in
nature, is improper or irrelevant, or is a request for general information about MongoDB.
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ESG Highlights
Oversight
Our board of directors oversees our enterprise-wide approach to ESG and risk management, designed to support the
achievement of organizational objectives, including strategic objectives, improving long-term organizational performance,
and enhancing stockholder value.
To strengthen our oversight of ESG issues, and to carry out the implementation and day-to-day management of our
ESG program, we recently established a cross-functional ESG Steering Group. The ESG Steering Group, a management-level
group led by senior executives from across MongoDB and chaired by our General Counsel, will convene quarterly to shape
our efforts and monitor progress on key ESG issues.
Sustainability Framework
We believe that corporate governance and responsibility help advance the long-term interests of our company and
stockholders. As a part of its primary duty to oversee corporate strategy, our board of directors also oversees how
environmental and social issues may impact the long-term interests of stockholders and stakeholders. We champion the idea
that corporate responsibility is part of every employee’s job, as we believe that achieving operational excellence is
intrinsically tied to how responsibly we run our business.
Our ESG strategy and reporting are informed by analysis of:
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our current stockholder base, as well as prospective investors, to identify key sustainability issues emphasized by our
stockholders;
internal feedback from employees to help determine which sustainability topics have the greatest impact on our
business;
feedback from customers, suppliers and partners to identify market or industry trends;
our research to identify sustainability policies, principles and practices of our peer companies and the best disclosure
practices related to each; and
key factors evaluated by the most influential rating agencies issuing ESG scores.
Human Capital Management
We believe that our employees and the culture we have established are critically important to our success. To
continue to compete and succeed in our highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, it is crucial that we attract, retain
and motivate qualified employees. To support these objectives, we strive to maintain our company culture, offer competitive
compensation and benefits, support the health and well-being of our employees, foster an inclusive, diverse and engaged
workforce and develop talent.
As of January 31, 2023, we had a total of 4,619 employees, including 2,211 employees located outside the United
States. We are subject to laws and regulations relating to our relationship with our employees. Generally, these laws and
regulations are specific to the location of our business and we engage with legally recognized employee representative bodies
in these locations as required. In accordance with the requirements of France, we have established a Social and Economic
Committee composed of employer and elected staff representatives. We have not experienced any work stoppages and we
consider our relations with our employees to be good.
Our Culture
We believe our culture is critical to our success and has delivered tangible financial and operational benefits for our
customers, our employees and our stockholders. Our company values are:
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Think Big, Go Far. We are big dreamers with a passion for creativity. We eagerly pursue new opportunities
and markets through innovation and disruption. We have a pioneering spirit—always ready to forge new paths
and take smart risks.
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• Make It Matter. We are relentless in our pursuit of meaningful impact. We think strategically and are clear on
what we are and are not trying to do. We accomplish an amazing amount of important work and we are
obsessed with delivering on our commitments.
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Embrace the Power of Differences. We commit to creating a culture of belonging, where people of different
origins, backgrounds and experiences feel valued and heard. This is cultivated by learning from and respecting
each other’s similarities and differences. We approach conversations with positive intent and believe that others
value the perspective we bring to the table. We recognize that a diverse workforce is the best way to broaden
our perspectives, foster innovation and enable a sustainable competitive advantage.
Build Together. We achieve amazing things by connecting and leveraging the diversity of perspectives, skills,
experiences and backgrounds of our entire organization. We place the interests of the company over any
individual or team. We discuss things thoroughly, but prioritize commitment over consensus.
Be Intellectually Honest. We embrace reality. We apply high-quality thinking and rigor and operate with
transparency. We have courage in our convictions but work hard to ensure biases or personal beliefs do not get
in the way of finding the best solution.
• Own What You Do. We take ownership and are accountable for everything that we do. We empower and we
are empowered to make things happen and balance independence with interdependence. We demand excellence
from ourselves. We each play our own part in making MongoDB a great place to work.
Compensation and Benefits
We provide competitive compensation and benefits for our employees globally. We continue to evolve our
compensation programs to maintain competitive alignment with market practices while ensuring all pay decisions are driven
by performance. Our compensation package may include base salary, commission or semi-annual bonuses and long-term
equity awards. Where the market indicates, equity compensation continues to be an important tool to attract and retain talent.
Employees in equity-eligible roles receive a new hire award at the time of hire and an annual performance-related refresh
thereafter. To foster a strong sense of ownership and align our employees’ interests with our long-term success, we offer all
full-time employees the opportunity to participate in an employee stock purchase plan.
In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a wide array of benefits designed to be aligned
with local reward practices and competitive with those offered by companies that we compete with for talent. In the United
States, these include health (medical, dental and vision) insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits and additional resources
to support employees' overall well-being. We also have a global parental leave program pursuant to which we provide 20
weeks of paid parental leave for new parents. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific
benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
Our three-year average annual burn rate from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2023 has been 2.97%, compared to
our three-year average annual burn rate of 3.3% from fiscal year 2020 through fiscal year 2022, and well below the evergreen
share replenishment factor of 5.0% of common shares outstanding. We determine our “burn rate” by dividing equity awards
granted during the fiscal year by the number of shares outstanding.
Pay Equity
We are committed to pay equity, regardless of gender, ethnicity or other personal characteristics. To deliver on that
commitment, we benchmark and set pay ranges based on market data and consider factors such as an employee’s role and
experience, job location and performance. In addition, to reduce the risk of bias and help ensure consistent pay practices, we
use a third-party tool to conduct annual pay parity checks.
Health, Safety and Well-Being
We believe the health, safety and well-being of our employees is vital to our success. We want employees to be
fulfilled personally as well as professionally and, accordingly, we provide benefits that promote health and support strong
performance. Our benefits are structured for a holistic experience and are chosen according to our four pillars of well-being:
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Physical well-being. We offer our employees access to highly comprehensive and competitive medical coverage in
local markets, often covering the employee and dependent premiums. Our plans often include dental, optical,
maternity, hospitalization and outpatient care, among other coverages. To promote healthy lifestyles, we also offer
employees access to highly subsidized or discounted monthly gym and exercise class memberships.
Financial well-being. We believe that financial security is an enabler of creativity and productivity, which is why we
offer retirement saving options for our employees, as well as benefits such as life insurance, disability insurance,
critical illness and accident coverage.
Emotional well-being. Our employees and their families have 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Program
(“EAP”). Our EAP offers confidential guidance on matters such as family support, mental health and legal
assistance. Through local partners, employees have access to free counseling and coaching sessions. Globally we
also have a team of mental Health First Aiders (current employee volunteers), who are trained to be a point of
contact for any of our employees experiencing emotional distress. In addition, all employees receive a
complimentary subscription to a meditation app, which provides hundreds of themed meditation sessions on
everything from sleep to focus to reducing stress.
Family well-being. We provide global fertility benefits to our employees and their partners, including fertility care,
adoption and surrogacy assistance and unlimited access to 1:1 guidance with certified practitioners. In the United
States and some of our bigger geographies, we also offer backup childcare support. We feel strongly that parents
should be able to share the responsibilities of caregiving and our parental leave policy gives all new parents at least
20 weeks of paid leave.
We prioritized employee safety during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring all employees were properly enabled to
work remotely and by providing clarity on office closures and evolving guidelines. In addition, in response to the COVID-19
pandemic, we introduced emergency caregiving leaves and promoted new and existing resources related to mental health. We
also implemented additional measures to support our employees, such as additional company-wide days off and wellness
checks throughout the pandemic.
As conditions improved, we began to re-open our offices in the United States and certain other locations globally for
employees to voluntarily return. In April 2022, we moved forward with a hybrid return-to-office approach. We implemented
four working models, which help ensure that we are meeting business needs while also offering employees flexibility. As it
relates to the in-office employee experience, we aim to provide opportunities for collaboration and social interaction, as well
as training opportunities in managing a hybrid team for our people managers. We have several hub offices and a network of
satellite offices in locations around the world and continue to introduce new workplace initiatives to enhance the employee
experience.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building a diverse workforce and a culture that reflects our value of embracing the power of
differences to drive better business outcomes.
We have expanded our efforts to recruit a more diverse workforce by embedding the capability to recruit diverse
talent within our entire recruiting organization and investing in diversity sourcing teams, diverse recruitment marketing
campaigns and external partnerships.
We are investing in the development of diverse high potential talent within MongoDB, and we have launched
inclusive leadership training for all Vice-Presidents across the company.
We also have a growing number of Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”), including BEAM (Black Employees At
MongoDB), Config.MDB (neurodivergent and people with disabilities), Green Team (sustainable, social, and environmental
responsibility), MDBWomen (employees identifying as women), MongoDB_ API (Asian American and Pacific Islander
community), Queer Collective (members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies), Queeries (a safe environment for those
identifying as LGBTQIA+), QueLatine (honoring the diversity of Latine heritage), Sell Like a Girl (those identifying as
women in sales), UGT (underrepresented genders in tech), and Veterans (employees who are veterans of the armed forces).
These groups focus on providing community support, professional development and business impact. Our ERGs play an
important role in our overall company culture by helping us raise awareness of issues unique to their members’ experiences.
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As signatories to the Corporate Parity Pledge, we have committed to interview at least one qualified female
candidate for every open role at the vice president level and above, as well as for every additional directorship on our Board
of Directors. Additionally, we have partnered with Advancing Women in Tech to create a mentorship program focused on
accelerating the growth of women and non-binary directors.
Employee Engagement
We conduct anonymous engagement surveys regularly to help us understand the employee experience, identify areas
of strength and development opportunities among teams, measure the effectiveness of our people and culture initiatives and
understand employee’s sentiments on management. These surveys are managed by a third-party vendor to encourage candor.
The results are reviewed by senior management, who analyze areas of progress or deterioration and work with their teams to
determine actionable steps based on survey results. The results also drive organization-wide focus areas and commitments
focused on leadership, culture and inclusion.
Talent & Leadership Development
Once we attract top talent, promoting their professional growth and development is an essential tool for retention
and ensuring our continued success as we navigate the challenges of scaling in a competitive business environment. In
addition to our ongoing delivery of professional and technical skill growth, we focus on two key levers for developing our
talent. First, we are committed to developing talent using our performance and growth framework, which equips managers,
and through them also equip employees, to meet and exceed high performance expectations, and make MongoDB a true
inflection point in their careers. Second, we are focused on leadership development at all levels at MongoDB, which includes
new manager onboarding, as well as leadership development for first-line managers and second-line leaders. Teams are also
encouraged to seek customized leadership development programming for their leaders, to drive a precision focus on business
needs.
We also believe that employee growth is essential for retaining talent, and we offer a number of resources and
programs to support that commitment. We facilitate semi-annual employee self-reflection sessions where employees discuss
their development with managers. We are increasing our focus on leadership development by establishing clear leadership
principles and investing in building manager capability to lead through change and stress and to build culture within teams.
We also provide and promote educational opportunities in three distinct forms:
•
•
•
Formal training that includes self-guided content as well as organized training sessions. In fiscal year 2023, we
focused on creating scalable solutions, such as one-pagers and videos, and nearly tripled our reach from fiscal year
2022. These materials were leveraged in monthly "Learnathons," which are company-wide workshops covering a
variety of topics.
Social learning that involves internalizing and reflecting on one’s learnings as well as sharing and comparing
experiences with peers.
On-the-job learning, which occurs through practicing new skills, solving problems, and working through challenges,
all with the support and feedback from one’s manager. We support on-the-job learning through a “Performance and
Growth” feedback program, a bi-annual opportunity for structured feedback and goal-setting conversations between
an employee and a manager. All full-time employees participate in the program, and we had our highest completion
rate ever at the end of fiscal year 2023, with over 95% of employees completing a self-evaluation.
Environmental Initiatives
We believe it is our duty to play a role in conserving natural resources and practicing good environmental
stewardship. As a software company, our impact on the environment and climate change may be smaller than that of a
manufacturing business. We believe, however, that environmentally responsible operating practices will serve to benefit
stockholders, partners, customers and employees alike. We strive to incorporate sustainability into our business wherever
possible, from product development to office selection. We continue to look for and adopt new ways in which we can
positively address sustainability challenges.
Leading our efforts is the MongoDB “Green Team,” which consists of over 360 employees committed to driving
sustainable and environmentally responsible behaviors within our company and relentlessly pursuing the goal of reducing our
impact on the environment. The Green Team works to educate employees on sustainable lifestyle practices and evaluates
actions we can take as a company, locally and globally.
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PROPOSAL 1 – ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Our board of directors is divided into three classes. At each annual meeting of stockholders, the successors to
directors whose terms then expire will be elected to serve from the time of the election until the third annual meeting
following the election. Any directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be distributed among the
three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of the directors. The division of our board of
directors into three classes with staggered three-year terms may delay or prevent a change of our management or a change in
control of MongoDB.
Our board of directors currently consists of nine members divided into the three classes as follows:
•
•
•
Class III directors: Archana Agrawal, Hope Cochran and Dwight Merriman, whose terms will expire at the
upcoming annual meeting of stockholders;
Class I directors: Roelof Botha, Dev Ittycheria and John McMahon, whose terms will expire at the annual
meeting of stockholders to be held in 2024; and
Class II directors: Francisco D’Souza, Charles M. Hazard, Jr. and Tom Killalea, whose terms will expire at the
annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2025.
Our board of directors has nominated Mses. Agrawal and Cochran and Mr. Merriman, each of whom is currently a
director of MongoDB, for re-election to serve as Class III directors. Ms. Cochran was elected to our board of directors by our
stockholders prior to our initial public offering. Ms. Agrawal was appointed to our board of directors effective August 2019,
pursuant to the recommendations of our nominating and corporate governance committee, after she was identified as a
director candidate based on external search performed by an outside firm. Mr. Merriman was appointed to our board of
directors effective April 2020, pursuant to the recommendations of our nominating and corporate governance committee,
after he was identified as a director candidate based on recommendations from the board of directors and executive officers.
Each of Mses. Agrawal and Cochran and Mr. Merriman, has agreed to stand for reelection at the meeting. Our
management has no reason to believe that any nominee will be unable to serve. If elected at the meeting, each of these
nominees would serve until the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026 and until his or her successor has been duly
elected, or if sooner, until the director’s death, resignation or removal.
Vote Required
Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes of the holders of shares of common stock present at the meeting (by
virtual attendance) or represented by proxy and entitled to vote generally on the election of directors. Accordingly, the three
nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative votes will be elected. Shares represented by executed proxies will be
voted, if authority to do so is not withheld, for the election of the three nominees named above. If any nominee becomes
unavailable for election as a result of an unexpected occurrence, the board of directors may designate a substitute nominee. If
the board designates a substitute nominee, shares that would have been voted for that nominee will instead be voted for the
election of the substitute nominee designated by the board.
Nominees
Our nominating and corporate governance committee seeks to assemble a board of directors that, as a whole,
possesses the appropriate balance of professional and industry knowledge, financial expertise and high-level management
experience necessary to oversee and direct our business. To that end, the committee has identified and evaluated nominees in
the broader context of our board’s overall composition, with the goal of recruiting members who complement and strengthen
the skills of other members and who also exhibit integrity, collegiality, sound business judgment and other qualities deemed
critical to effective functioning of the board of directors. In addition, the committee and the full board of directors feel that
candidates representing varied age, gender, cultural and ethnic backgrounds add to the overall diversity and viewpoints of the
board of directors and that the current board of directors embodies the breadth of backgrounds and experience necessary for a
balanced and effective board.
Our board of directors recommends a vote FOR each Class III director nominee named above.
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INFORMATION REGARDING DIRECTOR NOMINEES AND
CURRENT DIRECTORS
The following table sets forth, for the current nominees and our other directors who will continue in office after the
meeting, their ages and position/office held with us as of the date of this proxy statement:
Position/Office Held With MongoDB
Director
Director
Co-Founder and Director
Age
45
51
54
Name
Class III directors whose terms expire at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Archana Agrawal(3)
Hope Cochran(1)(2)
Dwight Merriman
Class I directors, nominees for election at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Roelof Botha(1)
49
Dev Ittycheria
56
John McMahon(3)
67
Class II directors whose terms expire at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Francisco D'Souza(3)(4)(5)
54
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.(1)(5)(6)
55
Tom Killalea(3)(5)
55
Director
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Director
Director
Director
Chairperson of the Board
(1)
Audit Committee Member
(2)
Audit Committee Chairperson
(3)
Compensation Committee Member
(4)
Compensation Committee Chairperson
(5)
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Member
(6)
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chairperson
Set forth below is biographical information for the nominees and each person whose term of office as a director will
continue after the meeting. This includes information regarding each director’s experience, qualifications, attributes or skills
that led our board of directors to recommend them for board service.
Nominees for Election at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Archana Agrawal has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2019. Ms. Agrawal is currently
the Chief Marketing Officer of Formagrid, Inc. d/b/a Airtable, a cloud collaboration company, and has served in this capacity
since March 2020. She served on the board of Zendesk, Inc., a public software development company from July 2020 to
November 2022. Previously, Ms. Agrawal was at Atlassian, a software business, from December 2013 to March 2020, in
various roles, including Head of Enterprise and Cloud Marketing. Prior to that, Ms. Agrawal was at Ladders, Inc. from 2007
until 2013, where she led corporate-wide analytics. She began her career at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Ms. Agrawal
has a combined nineteen years of experience in the software industry. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
and received her M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We believe that Ms.
Agrawal is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on her leadership experience and understanding of the software
industry.
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Hope Cochran has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2016. Ms. Cochran is currently a
Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, where she has served as a venture partner since January 2017. From
September 2013 to June 2016, Ms. Cochran served as the Chief Financial Officer of the public gaming company King Digital
Entertainment plc, which was acquired by Activision Blizzard, Inc. in February 2016. Prior to King Digital, she served as the
Chief Financial Officer of Clearwire Corporation, a telecommunications operator, from February 2011 until its acquisition by
Sprint, Inc. in July 2013. Previously, she has held several roles in the software industry, including at PeopleSoft, Inc., Evant
Inc. and SkillsVillage Inc., a contract resources software company that she founded. Ms. Cochran has served on the Board of
Directors of Hasbro, Inc., a public toy and entertainment company, since June 2016, and is chairperson of Hasbro’s audit
committee, a member of its finance committee and cyber committee. She has also served on the Board of Directors of New
Relic, Inc., a public software analytics company, since May 2018, and is the lead independent director and a member of the
audit committee. Ms. Cochran received her B.A. in Economics and Music from Stanford University. We believe that Ms.
Cochran is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on her financial and operating background in the technology
sector and her experience serving on the board of directors of public companies.
Dwight Merriman, one of our co-founders, has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2020. Prior
to joining our board, he was previously employed as an advisor to MongoDB. In 1995, he co-founded DoubleClick and
served as its Chief Technology Officer for ten years. He is also a co-founder of Business Insider and Gilt Groupe. Mr.
Merriman received his B.S. in Systems Analysis and Computer Science from Miami University. We believe that Mr.
Merriman is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his intimate knowledge of our business and his deep
experience in our industry.
Directors Continuing in Office Until the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Roelof Botha has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2013. Since January 2003, Mr.
Botha has served in various positions at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, including as a Partner and a Managing
Member of Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC since 2007. From March 2000 to January 2003, Mr. Botha served in various
positions at PayPal, Inc., a public online payments company, including as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Botha has served on
the board of directors of 23andMe, a public personal genetics company, since 2017 and is a member of its audit committee;
on the board of directors of Natera, Inc., a public genetic testing company, since 2007, and is a member of its nominating and
governance committee; on the board of directors of Block, Inc., a public provider of payments, financial and marketing
services, since 2011, and is a member of its audit and risk committee and of its compensation committee; on the board of
directors of Unity Software, Inc., a public video game software development company, since 2009, and is a member of its
audit committee. He also currently serves on the board of directors of a number of privately-held companies. Mr. Botha
previously served on the board of directors of Eventbrite, a public global platform for live experiences from 2009 to June
2022, on the board of directors of Bird Global, Inc., a public electric vehicle ride-sharing company from 2018 to December
2022 and on the board of directors of Xoom Corporation, a payment processing company, from May 2005 until its
acquisition by PayPal, Inc. in November 2015. Mr. Botha received his B.S. in Actuarial Science, Economics and Statistics
from the University of Cape Town and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. We believe that Mr.
Botha is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his knowledge of the technology industry and his experience
serving on the boards of directors of public companies.
Dev Ittycheria has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors
since September 2014. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ittycheria served as a Managing Director at OpenView Venture Partners, a
venture capital firm, from October 2013 to September 2014. From February 2012 to June 2013, Mr. Ittycheria served as
Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. From April 2008 to February 2010, Mr. Ittycheria served as
President-Enterprise Management at BMC Software, Inc., a computer software company, which he joined in connection with
its acquisition of BladeLogic, Inc., a computer software company that Mr. Ittycheria co-founded and for which he served as
Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ittycheria currently serves as lead independent director of the board of directors of Datadog,
Inc., a public software company. Mr. Ittycheria also currently serves on the board of directors of DataRobot, a private
software company. Mr. Ittycheria previously served on the boards of directors of Bazaarvoice, Inc., a public software
company (January 2010 to August 2014); Athenahealth, Inc., a public cloud-based services company (June 2010 to February
2019); AppDynamics, Inc., a private software company (March 2011 until its acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. in March
2017); and Altimeter Growth Corporation, a blank-check company formed by an affiliate of technology focused investment
firm Altimeter Capital Management, LP (October 2020 to December 2021). Mr. Ittycheria received his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Rutgers University. We believe that Mr. Ittycheria is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of
his experience building and leading high growth businesses, his prior and current service on the boards of multiple public
companies and his expertise and insight into corporate matters as our President and Chief Executive Officer.
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John McMahon has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2016. Mr. McMahon has also
served on the board of Snowflake Computing, Inc., a public software company, since September 2013. From April 2008 to
September 2011, Mr. McMahon served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services at BMC Software, Inc. He
joined BMC Software, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of BladeLogic, Inc., where he served as Chief Operating
Officer. Prior to BladeLogic, Inc., Mr. McMahon served as CEO of High Roads from June 2002 to July 2005. Prior to High
Roads, Mr. McMahon was VP of Worldwide Sales at Ariba from April 2000 to January 2002, and as VP-Worldwide Sales
from October 1998 to April 2000 at GeoTel Communications, LLC through its acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. Prior to
GeoTel, Mr. McMahon served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Parametric Technology Corporation from
1989 to 1998. Currently, Mr. McMahon serves on the board of directors of several enterprise software private companies,
including Sigma Computing, Lacework and Observe. In the past, Mr. McMahon has served on the board of directors of
Cybereason, Sprinklr Inc. and Sumo Logic, Inc. and as an executive consultant for AppDynamics, Inc., Drift, Glassdoor, Inc.
and HubSpot, Inc. Mr. McMahon received his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
We believe that Mr. McMahon is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his deep software sales experience.
Directors Continuing in Office Until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Francisco D’Souza has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2019. Mr. D'Souza is
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Recognize Partners, a position he has held since November 2019. He co-founded
Cognizant Technology Solutions (“Cognizant”) in 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from January 2007 to
March 2019, where he oversaw a period of sustained growth and transformation that included: 10x increase in revenue from
$1.4 billion in 2006 to $16.1 billion in 2018, a 7x increase in headcount from 39,000 in 2006 to 282,000 in 2018 and
Cognizant's inclusion in the Fortune 200. Mr. D'Souza also served on the board of directors of General Electric Company
from February 2013 to May 2023 and on the board of directors of Cognizant from January 2007 to March 2020 and as its
Vice Chairman from June 2018 to March 2020. Mr. D'Souza serves on the tech-focused international advisory board of
Banco Santander. He holds a B.B.A from the University of Macau and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. We
believe that Mr. D'Souza is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his various executive leadership roles and
technology industry expertise.
Charles M. Hazard, Jr. has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2009. Mr. Hazard is a co-
founder and has served as a General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, since May 2002. He
currently represents Flybridge Capital Partners on the boards of directors of a number of privately-held companies. Prior to
co-founding Flybridge, Mr. Hazard served as a General Partner at Greylock Partners. Prior to that, he was with Company
Assistance Limited, an investment and consulting firm, and Bain and Company, an international management-consulting
firm. Mr. Hazard received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and his M.B.A. from
Harvard Business School. We believe that Mr. Hazard is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his significant
knowledge of and history with our company, his knowledge of the industry in which we operate and his extensive investment
and board of directors' experience.
Tom Killalea has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2015 and as the chairperson of the
board of directors since July 2019. He has been an advisor to technology-driven companies since November 2014. Formerly
at Amazon for 16 years, Mr. Killalea was Amazon's first Chief Information Security Officer, led the infrastructure and
distributed systems team, and led the Kindle Content Ecosystem. Mr. Killalea currently serves on the board of directors of
Akamai Technologies, Inc., a public technology company that provides cloud services for delivering content and business
applications over the internet, Capital One Financial Corp., a public bank holding company, and Satellogic, Inc., a public
earth observation company. Previously, he was a Director of Carbon Black, Inc. (CBLK), from April 2017 until its
acquisition by VMware, Inc. in October 2019, and Xoom Corporation (XOOM), from March 2015 until its acquisition by
PayPal, Inc. in November 2015. He serves on the editorial board of ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery). He
holds a B.Ed. in Education from the National University of Ireland, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity College in
Dublin. We believe that Mr. Killalea is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his deep expertise in product
development, digital innovation, customer experience, and security.
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DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
We believe that a combination of cash and equity compensation is appropriate to attract and retain the individuals
we desire to serve on our board of directors and that this approach is comparable to the policies of our peers. We feel that it is
appropriate to provide cash compensation to our non-employee directors to compensate them for their time and effort and to
provide equity compensation to our non-employee directors to align their long-term interests with those of MongoDB and our
stockholders. We review our director compensation program annually with input from our independent compensation
consultant.
Cash Compensation
Pursuant to our non-employee director compensation program, our non-employee directors receive annual cash
retainers for their service on our board of directors and its committees. These cash retainers may be paid in cash or in fully
vested shares of our common stock at the election of the director.
Currently, our non-employee directors are eligible to receive the following cash fees for service on our board of
directors and its committees, as follows:
Compensation Element
Annual Retainer
Non-Executive Chairperson Retainer
Committee Chair Retainer
Audit
Compensation
Nominating and Corporate Governance
Non-Chair Committee Retainer
Audit
Compensation
Nominating and Corporate Governance
Annual Cash Retainer ($)(1)
30,000
20,000
25,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
7,500
4,000
(1)
If the relevant director elects to be paid in fully vested shares of our common stock, the number of shares granted to each such director will be based on
the volume-weighted average trading price (“VWAP”) of our common stock on the Nasdaq for the 30 trading days immediately prior to the grant date.
The above fees became effective at our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders following consultation with Frederic
W. Cook & Co., Inc., our independent compensation consultant (“FW Cook”). Please see the section below titled “Changes
in Director Compensation.”
We also reimburse our non-employee directors for any reasonable expenses incurred in connection with attending
our board of directors and committee meetings.
Equity Compensation
Pursuant to our non-employee director compensation program, our non-employee directors are eligible to receive
restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards for their service on our board of directors as follows:
•
Initial Equity Grant. Each newly elected non-employee director is eligible to receive an RSU award (the
“Initial Grant”). Currently, newly elected non-employee directors are eligible to receive a number of shares
equal in value to $410,000. This value was increased from $390,000, effective at our 2022 annual meeting of
stockholders, following our board of directors’ approval and pursuant to the recommendation of our
compensation committee and in consultation with FW Cook. The number of shares underlying the RSU award
granted to each director is based on the VWAP of our common stock on the Nasdaq for the 30 trading days
immediately prior to the grant date. The shares underlying the Initial Grant vest in a series of three equal annual
installments on each anniversary of the grant date, subject to the director’s continued service through each
vesting date. MongoDB may, in its discretion, settle an Initial Grant in cash.
•
Annual Equity Grant. On the date of our annual meeting of stockholders, each incumbent, non-employee
director is eligible to receive an RSU award (the “Annual Grant”). Currently, incumbent non-employee directors
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are eligible to receive a number of shares equal in value to $205,000. This value was increased from $195,000,
effective at our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, following our board of directors’ approval and pursuant to
the recommendation of our compensation committee and in consultation with FW Cook. The number of shares
underlying the RSU award granted to each director on such date is based on the VWAP of our common stock
on the Nasdaq for the 30 trading days immediately prior to the grant date. The shares underlying each Annual
Grant vest on the earlier of (a) the first anniversary of the grant date and (b) our next annual meeting of
stockholders, subject to the director’s continued service through such date. Newly elected directors will not be
granted an Annual Grant during their first year of service. MongoDB may, in its discretion, settle an Annual
Grant in cash.
In the event of the termination of a director’s service on our board of directors in connection with a change in
control (as defined in our 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”)), any unvested shares underlying the Initial Grant
and/or the Annual Grant, as applicable, will fully vest and become exercisable as of the effective date of such termination.
The following table provides information regarding the total compensation of our non-employee directors for the
fiscal year ended January 31, 2023. Mr. Ittycheria serves as our Chief Executive Officer in addition to serving as a director
and does not receive any additional compensation for his service as a director, and, accordingly, he is not included in the
table.
Director Compensation
Name
Archana Agrawal
Roelof Botha
Hope Cochran
Francisco D’Souza
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
Tom Killalea
John McMahon
Dwight Merriman
Fees Earned or Paid in Cash
($)(1)
37,500
40,000
55,000
49,000
50,000
61,500
37,500
30,000
Stock Awards
($)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
219,061(2)
Total
($)
256,561
259,061
274,061
268,061
269,061
280,561
256,561
249,061
(1)
The amounts in this column reflect the annual cash fees to which each non-employee director is entitled under our non-employee director
compensation program for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023. Our board of directors has determined that each of our non-employee directors has
the option to have such cash fees be paid in the form of cash or in fully vested shares of our common stock. For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023,
several directors elected to be paid in shares - the number of shares of common stock granted to such director is based on the VWAP of our common
stock on the Nasdaq for the 30 trading days immediately prior to the grant date. The fees earned during the first half of the fiscal year were paid in cash
or, at the election of the non-employee director, shares of common stock on June 28, 2022. Each of Ms. Cochran and Messrs. Botha, D'Souza, Hazard,
Killalea and McMahon elected to be paid in shares of common stock for fees earned during the first half of the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023. The
grant date fair value was calculated in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (“ASC 718”) based on the closing stock
price at the grant date. The fees earned during the second half of the fiscal year will be paid in cash or shares of common stock, at the non-employee
director’s election, on June 27, 2023, the date of our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders. If a director elects to be paid in shares, the number of shares
of common stock granted to such director will be based on the VWAP of our common stock on the Nasdaq for the 30 trading days immediately prior to
the grant date.
(2)
Represents the aggregate grant date fair value of RSUs granted on June 28, 2022, to each non-employee director eligible to receive an Annual Grant
under the terms of our non-employee director compensation program and the 2016 Plan. The grant date fair value was computed in accordance with
ASC 718 based on the closing stock price at the grant date.
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The following table sets forth (a) the aggregate number of RSUs held by each non-employee director as of January
31, 2023 and (b) the aggregate number of options held by each non-employee director as of January 31, 2023.
Name
Archana Agrawal
Roelof Botha
Hope Cochran
Francisco D'Souza
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
Tom Killalea
John McMahon
Dwight Merriman
Total RSUs Held
787
787
787
787
787
787
787
1,393
Total Options Held
—
—
44,062
—
—
50,000
8,000
28,190
Changes in Director Compensation
Our compensation committee and board of directors believe it is important to review director compensation from
time to time to help ensure that the compensation levels of our directors are aligned with those of our peer companies, so that
we may attract and retain the best possible candidates to serve on our board of directors.
In March 2022, the compensation committee engaged FW Cook to assist in conducting a pay study analyzing the
competitiveness of the company’s pay levels for non-employee directors. The pay study revealed that, on a “per-director”
basis, MongoDB’s cash and equity compensation for directors falls below peer group median level, based on a review of
publicly available peer group data. Please see the section titled “Use of Competitive Market Data” in our Compensation
Discussion and Analysis for further information relating to the peer group companies used in the analysis.
Based on the findings of the pay study, and pursuant to the recommendation of the compensation committee, the
board of directors approved increases in the award values of the Initial Grants and the Annual Grants for non-employee
directors, from $390,000 to $410,000 and from $195,000 to $205,000, respectively. These compensation changes were
effective as of our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. No changes were recommended to director compensation for the
June 2023 - June 2024 board of directors term.
Stock Ownership Guidelines
In 2019, to further align the interests of our directors with those of our stockholders, the board of directors adopted
stock ownership guidelines for our non-employee directors. The guidelines require our existing directors and newly elected
directors to acquire and hold shares of our common stock equal to at least five times the value of his or her cash board annual
retainer within five years of the date the guidelines were adopted or five years of first joining the board of directors,
respectively. All of our non-employee directors currently satisfy the ownership requirements.
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PROPOSAL 2 – APPROVAL, ON A NON-BINDING ADVISORY BASIS, OF
THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
In accordance with the requirements of Section 14A of the Exchange Act, we are providing our stockholders the
opportunity to vote to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers (as
disclosed under “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Executive Compensation
Tables”).
You are encouraged to review the section titled “Executive Compensation” and, in particular, the section titled
“Executive Compensation - Compensation Discussion and Analysis” in this proxy statement, which provide a comprehensive
review of our executive compensation program and its elements, objectives and rationale.
The vote on this resolution is not intended to address any specific element of compensation, rather the vote relates to
the compensation of our named executive officers in its totality, as described in this proxy statement in accordance with the
compensation disclosure rules of the SEC.
In accordance with Section 14A of the Exchange Act rules, stockholders are asked to approve the following non-
binding resolution:
“RESOLVED, that the Company’s stockholders hereby approve, on a non-binding advisory basis,
the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s
proxy statement for the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders, pursuant to the compensation
disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Compensation
Discussion and Analysis, the compensation tables and the accompanying narrative.”
Vote Required
The approval of this advisory non-binding proposal requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of
the shares of our common stock present at the meeting (by virtual attendance) or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon.
Since this proposal is an advisory vote, the result will not be binding on our board of directors or our compensation
committee. However, our board of directors values our stockholders’ opinions, and our board of directors and the
compensation committee will take into account the outcome of the advisory vote when considering future executive
compensation decisions.
Our board of directors recommends a vote FOR the approval of the non-binding resolution on named
executive officer compensation.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The following is information for our executive officers, as of the date of this proxy statement:
Name
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Age
56
53
50
57
Position/Office Held With MongoDB
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Biographical information for Dev Ittycheria is included above with the director biographies under the caption
“Information Regarding Director Nominees and Current Directors.”
Michael Gordon has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2015 and as our Chief Operating Officer since
November 2018. Prior to joining us, Mr. Gordon worked at Yodle, Inc., a local online marketing company, where he served
as the Chief Financial Officer from May 2009 and as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from March
2014 until July 2015. Prior to joining Yodle, Mr. Gordon was a Managing Director in the Media and Telecom investment
banking group at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated, a financial services company, where he worked from
1996 to 2009. Mr. Gordon serves on the board of directors of UiPath, a public enterprise automation software company. Mr.
Gordon received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Cedric Pech has served as our Chief Revenue Officer since February 2019. Before being appointed as Chief
Revenue Officer, Mr. Pech led our Europe, Middle East and Africa sales divisions beginning in July 2017. Prior to joining us,
Mr. Pech worked at Fuze, an enterprise global cloud communications and collaboration software platform, where he served
as the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales from May 2015 until May 2017, and as General Manager, Europe, the
Middle East and Africa, from April 2014 until May 2015. Mr. Pech completed his Classe Préparatoire at Lycée Bois Fleury
Grenoble and received his M.B.A. from Montpellier Business School.
Mark Porter has served as our Chief Technology Officer since July 2020. Prior to joining us, Mr. Porter was Chief
Technology Officer of Core Technology and Transport at Grab, Southeast Asia's super app that provides everyday services
such as ride-hailing, food, package, grocery delivery, mobile payments and financial services to millions of people, from
October 2018 to July 2020. Prior to joining Grab, Mr. Porter was a General Manager at Amazon Web Services, from May
2013 to October 2018, where he led the Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, the
AWS Database Migration Service, and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Porter held various roles
including Chief Technology Officer of a division of NewsCorp and Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation, as
well as working at NASA/JPL and being an early member of the Oracle Database Kernel group. He has been professionally
coding since he was 16 years old and founded and ran his own electronics services integration company. Mr. Porter
previously served on our board of directors from February 2020 to July 2020 and as of December 2022 serves on the Board
of Directors for GitLab, a DevOps platform. He also previously served on the board of directors of Splyt, a global mobility
company, from May 2019 through June 2020, and as a board advisor to MariaDB, a database company, from March 2018
until January 2020. He holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech.
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The following compensation discussion and analysis describes the material elements of our executive compensation
program for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023. It also provides an overview of our compensation philosophy and
objectives, our process for setting executive compensation and how the compensation committee arrived at the specific
compensation decisions for our named executive officers for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, including the key factors
considered.
Our named executive officers for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 were:
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Dev Ittycheria, President and Chief Executive Officer;
• Michael Gordon, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer;
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Cedric Pech, Chief Revenue Officer; and
• Mark Porter, Chief Technology Officer.
Because we had only four executive officers during fiscal year 2023, all are considered named executive officers
under SEC rules.
Business Highlights
Business Overview
MongoDB is the developer data platform company whose mission is to empower developers to create, transform,
and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Our developer data platform is an integrated set of
database and related services that allow development teams to address the growing variety of modern application
requirements, all in a unified and consistent user experience.
Our customers can implement our developer data platform as a managed service offering, or they can choose a self-
managed option. MongoDB Atlas is our managed multi-cloud database-as-a-service offering that includes an integrated set of
database and related services. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is our proprietary self-managed commercial offering for
enterprise customers that can run in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment.
Fiscal Year 2023 Performance Summary
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Revenue. Total revenue was $1,284.0 million for fiscal year 2023, an increase of 47% year-over-year.
Subscription revenue was $1,235.1 million, an increase of 47% year-over-year, and services revenue was $48.9
million, an increase of 54% year-over-year.
Gross Profit. Gross profit was $934.7 million for fiscal year 2023, representing a 73% gross margin compared
to 70% the prior year.
Loss from Operations. Loss from operations was $346.7 million for fiscal year 2023, compared to a loss of
$289.4 million in the prior year.
Net Loss. Net Loss was $345.4 million, or $5.03 per share, based on 68.6 million weighted-average shares
outstanding, for fiscal year 2023. This compares to a Net Loss of $306.9 million, or $4.75 per share, based on
64.6 million weighted-average shares outstanding, in the prior year.
• MongoDB Atlas Revenue. Revenue from MongoDB Atlas, our cloud-hosted database-as-a-service offering,
represented 63% of our total revenue for fiscal year 2023, compared to 56% in the prior year.
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Customers. As of January 31, 2023, we had over 40,800 customers across a wide range of industries and in over
100 countries, compared to over 33,000 customers as of the end of the prior year.
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Executive Summary
The table below describes certain aspects of our executive compensation program that the compensation committee
considers to be effective at driving performance and supporting long-term growth for our stockholders while mitigating risk,
and other executive compensation practices in which we do not engage because they are inconsistent with the compensation
committee’s philosophy and stockholder interests.
What We Do and What We Don't Do
We align executive
compensation with the
interests of our stockholders
ü Strong Alignment between Bonus Payout and Performance. Our annual
performance-based bonus award opportunities for all of our named executive officers
are dependent upon our achievement of annual corporate objectives selected for their
ability to drive operational and financial performance. These performance goals are
comprised entirely of corporate performance objectives and do not include a
qualitative component.
Our executive compensation
programs are designed to
mitigate undue risk-taking
by our executives and to
foster long-term growth for
our stockholders
We adhere to executive
compensation best practices
ü Significant Long-term Equity Component. Equity awards are an integral part of our
executive compensation program, and represent the most significant “at-risk” portion
of compensation for named executive officers. Multi-year vesting periods for awards
strongly align our executive officers’ interests with those of our stockholders by
providing a continuing financial incentive to maximize long-term value for our
stockholders and by encouraging our executive officers to remain in our long-term
employ. In addition, in fiscal year 2023, we introduced performance stock units
(“PSUs”) as a key component of our long-term executive compensation program,
with vesting dependent on the achievement of annual corporate objectives selected to
drive operational and financial performance, as well as long-term stockholder value.
For fiscal year 2023, 96.7% of our Chief Executive Officer’s total reported
compensation and an average of 92.5% of the total reported executive compensation
for our other named executive officers was in the form of long-term equity incentive
awards, as reported in the “Summary Compensation Table.”
ü Clawback Policy. Our clawback policy provides for the recoupment of incentive-
based compensation for our executive officers in circumstances where restatement of
financial results is required and it is determined that the executive officer's actions
contributed to the noncompliance.
ü Stock Ownership Guidelines. Each of our executive officers is subject to stock
ownership requirements described in the “Stock Ownership Guidelines” section
below.
ü Cap Payouts. Our payments to named executive officers are capped under our
performance-based annual bonus program. However, the portion of the Chief
Revenue Officer’s bonus tied to Net New ARR (as defined in the section titled
is
"Executive Compensation—Annual Performance-Based Bonus Program")
calculated based on a percentage of the Company’s contract bookings and is not
subject to a maximum payout. These commission payments are intended to provide
incentive for our Chief Revenue Officer to continue to grow our business and
generate revenues, and the rates of payment are set to provide challenging but
achievable goals to motivate him.
ü No Tax Gross-Ups. We do not provide our executive officers with tax gross-ups.
ü Limited Executive Perquisites. We generally do not provide executive fringe
benefits or perquisites such as car allowances to our executives, other than certain
services related to cybersecurity, which we consider to be in our best interest.
ü Engage an Independent Compensation Consultant. Our compensation committee
has retained an independent third-party compensation consultant for guidance in
making compensation decisions. The compensation consultant advises our
compensation committee on market trends and practices, including identifying a peer
group of companies and their compensation practices, so that our compensation
committee can regularly assess our individual and total compensation programs
against these peer companies, the general marketplace and other industry data points.
ü Anti-Hedging and Anti-Pledging. We prohibit hedging and pledging of MongoDB
securities by our employees, directors and consultants.
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Say-on-Pay Vote and Stockholder Engagement
At last year’s annual meeting of stockholders, approximately 81% of votes cast approved the “say-on-pay” proposal
regarding the compensation awarded to named executive officers. We take the views of our stockholders seriously and view
this result as an indication that the principles of our executive compensation program are supported by our stockholders.
In fiscal year 2023, we reached out to stockholders owning approximately 60.8% of our outstanding stock based on
stock ownership level as of June 30, 2022, and had conversations with stockholders owning an aggregate of approximately
37.2% of our outstanding stock. Through this outreach, we solicited feedback on our executive compensation program,
corporate governance and environmental and social impact issues. We appreciate and value the engagement of our
stockholders. Feedback received from stockholders is shared with the Board and relevant committees and taken into account
when considering proposed changes to corporate governance, compensation and other practices and disclosures. As a result
of the feedback we’ve received and to better align the long-term interests of the Company and our executive officers with
those of our stockholders, we adopted performance-based equity awards for the annual long-term incentive grant program
effective with the fiscal year 2023 annual award cycle. Accordingly, a meaningful portion of our executive officer
compensation are now in the form of performance stock unit awards, with earn out tied to achievement of revenue and cash
flow goals and vesting subject to service requirements. Additionally, based on feedback from stockholders in fiscal year
2023, we added a new board of directors skills matrix to this proxy statement to highlight the diverse skill sets and
experiences of our directors.
Going forward, we will continue to maintain an active dialogue with our stockholders and evaluate feedback on
issues of importance to them. Consistent with our stockholders' recommendation at our 2019 annual meeting that we solicit a
say-on-pay vote on an annual basis, we will again hold a say-on-pay vote at our upcoming annual meeting. We believe an
annual “say-on-pay” vote will best reinforce our desire to communicate with our stockholders and allow them to regularly
express a view on our compensation policies and practices. A “say-on-frequency” vote is required every six years, and as
such, our next say-on-frequency vote will be in 2025.
Executive Compensation Philosophy
Our executive compensation program is guided by our overarching philosophy of paying for demonstrable
performance and aligning the compensation of our executive officers with the long-term interests of our stockholders.
Consistent with this philosophy, we have designed our executive compensation program to achieve the following primary
objectives:
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attract, motivate, incentivize and retain a highly skilled team of executives who contribute to our long-term
success;
provide compensation packages to our executive officers that are competitive and reward the achievement of
our financial, operational and strategic objectives; and
effectively align our executive officers’ interests with the interests of our stockholders by focusing on long-term
equity incentives that correlate with the growth of sustainable long-term value for our stockholders.
Our executive compensation program has been designed to attract, retain and motivate talented executives.
Accordingly, when setting individual executive compensation levels, the compensation committee generally aims to position
target total direct compensation at levels that are competitive with other public and private companies in our industry and
regions with whom we compete for talent. Further, our compensation committee tends to weight the target total direct
compensation opportunities of our executive officers more heavily towards equity compensation. Target pay positioning may
vary by individual depending on the experience level and performance of the executive and other factors, such as the demand
for executives with certain skills and experience and the costs associated with recruiting qualified executives from other
established companies.
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Process for Setting Executive Compensation
Role of the Compensation Committee. Compensation decisions for our named executive officers are determined by
the compensation committee, with input from our independent compensation consultant and, as appropriate, management
(including our Chief Executive Officer, except in regard to his compensation). The compensation committee reviews the
compensation of our named executive officers on an annual basis to ensure the executives are appropriately compensated and
motivated, and makes adjustments as necessary.
Pursuant to its charter, the compensation committee is primarily responsible for establishing, approving and
adjusting compensation arrangements for our named executive officers and for reviewing and approving performance goals
and objectives relevant to these compensation arrangements, and considering factors related to the performance of
MongoDB. For additional information about the compensation committee, see the section titled “Board of Directors and
Corporate Governance – Board Committees – Compensation Committee.”
Generally, the compensation committee’s process for determining executive compensation comprises two related
elements: the determination of compensation levels and the establishment of performance objectives for the current year. For
executives other than the Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee solicits and considers evaluations and
recommendations submitted to the committee by the Chief Executive Officer. In the case of the Chief Executive Officer, the
compensation committee (together with the board of directors) determines any adjustments to his compensation as well as
awards to be granted, taking into account the Board's evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer’s performance. For all
executives and directors, as part of its deliberations, the compensation committee may review and consider, as appropriate,
materials such as financial reports and projections, operational data, executive and director stock ownership information,
company stock performance data, analyses of historical executive compensation levels and current company-wide
compensation levels and recommendations of the compensation committee’s compensation consultant, including analyses of
executive and director compensation paid at other companies identified by the consultant.
The compensation committee has the authority to obtain, at the expense of MongoDB, advice and assistance from its
own advisors as it considers necessary or appropriate in the performance of its duties. For the fiscal year ended January 31,
2023, the compensation committee retained FW Cook to review and assess our executive compensation practices relative to
market compensation practices and to provide market compensation data. For additional information on this engagement, see
the section below titled “Role of the Compensation Consultant.”
Role of the Compensation Consultant. For fiscal year 2023, the scope of FW Cook’s engagement for the
compensation committee included:
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reviewing the materials prepared for the compensation committee by management relative to fiscal year 2023
compensation for the named executive officers;
advising the compensation committee on executive compensation trends;
reviewing our market equity compensation practices, including the proportion of our total shares outstanding
used for annual employee long-term incentive compensation awards (our “burn rate”) and the potential voting
power dilution to our stockholders (our “overhang”);
presenting market data and analysis to assist the compensation committee in setting target compensation for
named executive officers;
researching, developing and reviewing the compensation peer group used for fiscal year 2023 executive
compensation benchmarking;
advising on our non-employee director compensation program; and
supporting other ad hoc matters throughout the year.
FW Cook reviewed and provided input on the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section of this proxy
statement. In retaining FW Cook, the compensation committee considered the six factors set forth in Rule 10C-1(b)(4)(i)
through (vi) of the Exchange Act. After review of information provided by each of the members of the compensation
committee as well as information provided by FW Cook, the compensation committee determined that there were no conflicts
of interest raised by their work with the compensation committee.
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Role of Chief Executive Officer. In discharging its responsibilities, the compensation committee works with
members of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer. Our management assists the compensation committee
by providing information on corporate and individual performance, market compensation data and management's perspective
on compensation matters. The compensation committee solicits and reviews our Chief Executive Officer's recommendations
and proposals with respect to adjustments to annual cash compensation, long-term incentive compensation opportunities,
program structures and other compensation-related matters for our executive officers (other than with respect to his own
compensation).
The compensation committee reviews and discusses these recommendations and proposals with our Chief Executive
Officer and considers them as one factor in determining the compensation for our executive officers. Our Chief Executive
Officer recuses himself from all deliberations and recommendations regarding his own compensation.
The compensation committee has also delegated limited authority to the Chief Executive Officer to make equity
grants to certain employees who are not executive officers.
Use of Competitive Market Data. For purposes of comparing our executive compensation against the competitive
market, the compensation committee reviews and considers the compensation levels and practices of a group of peer
companies. This compensation peer group consists of technology companies and is determined based on several factors,
including industry classification and company size based on metrics such as revenue, market capitalization and headcount
along with other qualitative factors.
In the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, the compensation committee, in consultation with FW Cook, reviewed the
companies in our peer group to determine if adjustments were necessary based on strategic and company size alignment. As a
result of this review, the compensation committee approved the following 15-company peer group for purposes of fiscal year
2023 compensation decisions:
Alteryx
Avalara
Crowdstrike
Coupa Software
Datadog
Dynatrace
Elastic N.V.
Five9
HubSpot
New Relic
Nutanix
Okta
RingCentral
Trade Desk
Zendesk
Crowdstrike, Datadog and Dynatrace were added to the peer group based primarily on their market capitalization
alignment with MongoDB and the comparable nature of their businesses. Twilio was removed from the peer group because it
was the largest in terms of both market capitalization and value while Cloudera was removed due to its low market
capitalization relative to MongoDB. As previewed in our proxy for fiscal year 2022, we removed LogMeIn from the peer
group for purposes of fiscal year 2023 compensation decisions once its compensation data became outdated following closure
of its acquisition in August 2020 by affiliates of Francisco Partners and Evergreen Cost Capital. At the time of the
compensation committee's approval of this peer group, MongoDB was at the 31st percentile in terms of revenue and at the
61st percentile in terms of market capitalization relative to the companies in this peer group.
The compensation committee referred to compensation data from this peer group in the first quarter of fiscal year
2023 to assist with the determination of compensation for our directors and executive officers. In addition, the compensation
committee used survey data from a 2021 technology industry executive compensation survey to evaluate the competitive
market when formulating its recommendation for the total direct compensation packages for our executive officers, including
base salary, target bonus, and long-term incentive compensation opportunities. This survey provides compensation market
intelligence and is widely used within the technology industry.
The compensation committee reviews the compensation peer group at least annually to make adjustments to its
composition if warranted, taking into account changes in both our business and the businesses of the companies in the peer
group. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, the compensation committee made further adjustments to the peer group for
purposes of fiscal year 2024 compensation determinations by removing Nutanix and Alteryx due to their smaller market
capitalization relative to MongoDB and adding DocuSign and Unity Software given their larger market capitalization and
high-growth, which placed them within MongoDB's peer network. At the time of the compensation committee's approval of
this peer group, MongoDB was at the 35th percentile in terms of revenue and at the 85th percentile in terms of market
capitalization relative to the companies in this peer group.
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Executive Compensation Program Components for FY2023
Named executive officer compensation awarded in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 consisted of the following
components.
Compensation Element
Base Salary
• Fixed
• Paid in cash
Annual Performance-Based
Bonus
• Variable
• Paid in cash or in equity
pursuant to our Senior
Leadership Equity Bonus
Program
Long-Term Equity Incentives
• Variable
• Paid in stock
How Payout is Determined Performance Measures
Compensation committee
determines salary; considers
competitive market
information, retention,
performance, criticality of
role and potential impact
N/A
Net New ARR(1), Non-
GAAP Operating Income,
and Revenue
For PSUs: ARR Growth and
Operating Cash Flow
Compensation committee
determines executive bonus;
considers performance
against pre-established
goals, with discretion to
reduce executive bonus
payout amounts
• For RSUs: Compensation
committee determines
amounts and terms of RSU
grants for executive
officers
• For PSUs: Compensation
committee determines
amounts and considers
performance against pre-
established goals, with
discretion to reduce
executive bonus payout
amounts
Purpose
• Provides compensation at
a level consistent with
competitive practices
• Reflects role,
responsibilities, skills,
experience and
performance
• Motivates and rewards
executives for
achievement of annual
goals
• Aligns management and
stockholder interests by
linking pay to performance
• Serves a retention function
• Aligns management and
stockholder interests by
facilitating management
ownership, linking pay to
performance (for PSUs)
and tying value of award
at vesting to stock price at
vesting
(1) See definition of Net New ARR in the section titled "Executive Compensation—Annual Performance-Based Bonus Program".
(2) See definition of ARR Growth in the section titled "Executive Compensation—Long-Term Equity Incentives—Performance Stock Units".
(3) See definition of Operating Cash Flow in the section titled "Executive Compensation—Long-Term Equity Incentives—Performance Stock Units".
Base Salary
Base salary represents the fixed portion of the compensation of our named executive officers, and is an important
element of compensation intended to attract and retain highly talented individuals. The compensation committee’s decisions
on base salary levels for the named executive officers are primarily based on its review of competitive market information for
comparable positions, the executive’s performance of his or her duties, the criticality of the executive’s role to the execution
of corporate strategy and the executive’s potential to impact future business results. For our named executive officers other
than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee also considers the Chief Executive Officer’s recommended
salary adjustments based on position relative to the competitive market information. Base salaries are reviewed by our
compensation committee annually and are adjusted from time-to-time as deemed appropriate.
In fiscal year 2023, there were no adjustments to base salaries for any of our named executive officers. Set forth
below are the base salaries for each of the named executive officers for fiscal year 2023.
Named Executive Officer
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Base Salary ($)
400,000
325,000
272,196(1)
325,000
(1) Mr. Pech’s base salary is paid in Swiss Francs (CHF) and, for the purposes of the table, is converted into U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate as of
January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S. dollar.
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The actual base salary amounts paid to our named executive officers for fiscal year 2023 are set forth in the
“Summary Compensation Table” below.
Annual Performance-Based Bonus Program
Our annual performance-based bonus program for named executive officers provides incentive compensation that is
specifically designed to motivate our named executive officers to achieve pre-established company-wide priorities set by the
board of directors and to reward them for results and achievements in a given year. The annual target bonus opportunities for
our named executive officers are determined by the compensation committee in the first quarter of each fiscal year and
expressed as a percentage of their annual base salary, with the potential bonus opportunity generally commensurate with each
executive’s role and responsibilities. The bonus program has historically been paid out in cash; however, in an effort to
further align their interests with that of our stockholders, beginning in fiscal year 2021 and continued for fiscal years 2022
and 2023, our named executive officers and other senior executives had the opportunity to exchange their bonus cash
compensation opportunity for an equity-based opportunity, pursuant to our Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program, as
more fully described below.
Target Award Opportunities. The target annual performance-based bonus award opportunities of our named
executive officers were determined by the compensation committee in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 and expressed as a
percentage of their annual base salary, as follows:
Named Executive Officer
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
FY2022 Target Bonus
Opportunity (%)
70
65
140
65
FY2023 Target Bonus
Opportunity (%)
70
65
140
65
FY2023 Target Bonus
Opportunity ($)
280,000
211,250
381,074(1)
211,250
(1)
Mr. Pech’s bonus is paid in Swiss Francs (CHF) and, for the purposes of the table, is converted into U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate as of
January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S. dollar.
In fiscal year 2023, there were no adjustments to target bonus opportunities for any of our named executive officers.
Executive Bonus Goal Setting. The compensation committee approved the performance metrics and their relative
weighting for fiscal year 2023 performance-based bonus awards in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. The targets against
which performance is measured are generated through our annual budget and strategic planning process, which was reviewed
with our board of directors and finalized in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. For fiscal year 2023, the compensation
committee again determined that the performance goals for our named executive officers would be comprised entirely of
corporate performance goals. The compensation committee believes that these goals represent rigorous objectives for our
named executive officers and align with stockholder interests. The named executive officers’ fiscal year 2023 performance-
based bonus awards are tied to the achievement of these goals, as set forth below.
Company Performance Goal(1)
Net New ARR(4)
Non-GAAP Operating Income(5)
Revenue
Weighting
Named Executive
Officers Other than
Chief Revenue Officer(2) Chief Revenue Officer(3)
40%
20%
40%
65%
15%
20%
(1)
The performance target (100% attainment) for each company performance goal is 100% of our fiscal year 2023 operating plan.
(2)
Our named executive officers, other than our Chief Revenue Officer, will only earn a bonus if the executive’s attainment in the aggregate is at least
83.3% of the performance target. For purposes of calculating the bonus payout amount, when the executive’s attainment exceeds the performance
target, accelerators are triggered in order to reward the higher-than-expected performance, while decelerators are applied if the actual results are lower
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than the performance target. The payout range for the performance-based bonus awards (after applying the decelerator/accelerator factor) is 50-150%
of the executive’s target bonus opportunity. Actual payouts for fiscal year 2023 are included in this section under the heading "FY2023 Bonus Payouts"
and in the Stock Awards column of the “Summary Compensation Table” below.
(3)
Our Chief Revenue Officer will only earn the portion of his bonus that is tied to Revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance if his
combined attainment for the two goals is at least 83.3% of the performance target for these goals. For purposes of calculating the bonus payout amount
that is tied to Revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance, when the executive’s attainment exceeds the performance target, accelerators
are triggered in order to reward the higher-than-expected performance, while decelerators are applied if the actual results are lower than the
performance target. The payout range for the portion of his bonus that is tied to Revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance (after
applying the decelerator/accelerator factor) is 50-150% of the portion of his cash bonus opportunity attributed to Revenue and Non-GAAP Operating
Income. The portion of the Chief Revenue Officer's bonus tied to Net New ARR (as defined below) is calculated based on a percentage of the
Company's contract bookings and is not subject to a maximum payout. These commission payments are intended to provide incentive for our Chief
Revenue Officer to continue to grow our business and generate revenues, and the rates of payment are set to provide challenging but achievable goals
to motivate him. Our Chief Revenue Officer's actual payout for fiscal year 2023 is included in this section under the heading "FY2023 Bonus Payouts"
and in the Non-Equity Incentive Compensation column of the “Summary Compensation Table” below.
(4)
Net New ARR is defined as the net change of annualized recurring revenue ("ARR") over a given time period. ARR includes the revenue we expect to
receive from our customers over the following 12 months based on contractual commitments and, in the case of customers to whom MongoDB Atlas
was sold, through our direct sales force and channel partners, by annualizing the prior 90 days of their actual consumption of MongoDB Atlas,
assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions or usage. ARR excludes professional services.
(5)
Non-GAAP income from operations ("Non-GAAP Operating Income") is defined as GAAP operating income adjusted for stock-based compensation
expense and amortization of intangible assets and post-combination compensation expense associated with prior acquisitions.
FY2023 Bonus Payouts. For our named executive officers other than the Chief Revenue Officer, the compensation
committee generally considers and approves actual performance-based bonus award payments for the first half of the fiscal
year at their first meeting following July 31 of that fiscal year, and considers and approves actual performance-based bonus
award payments for the second half of the fiscal year in the first quarter of the following fiscal year. When performance for
the first half of the fiscal year is tracking at a level that is higher than 100% achievement, the compensation committee will
typically approve the mid-year payouts based on 100% achievement, with any additional amounts earned to be paid when
performance for the entire year is determined. Conversely, in the event the amounts determined and paid for the first half of
the fiscal year are subsequently determined to be higher than the amounts earned based on full year performance, such excess
amounts may be deducted from the year-end payouts at the committee’s discretion. For our Chief Revenue Officer, amounts
are determined and paid on a quarterly basis. When revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance for the first
three quarters of the fiscal year is tracking at a level that is higher than 100% achievement, the portion of his payment that is
tied to revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance will be paid based on 100% achievement, with any additional
amounts earned to be paid with the fourth quarter payment, when performance for the entire year is determined.
In August 2022, the compensation committee reviewed proposed payouts for the first half of fiscal year 2023 for our
named executive officers other than our Chief Revenue Officer and determined that it was prudent to delay payout until the
end of fiscal year 2023 when performance for the entire year could be determined. In February 2023, achievement of the
corporate performance goals for fiscal year 2023 for these named executive officers was determined to be 207% of target due
to accelerators, in the aggregate resulting in a 150% payout. The compensation committee reviewed and approved the bonus
payments to these executives for fiscal year 2023, as set forth in the table below.
For our Chief Revenue Officer, the bonus was paid quarterly based on the performance metrics described above and
in accordance with the terms of his fiscal year 2023 sales variable compensation plan set at the beginning of the fiscal year.
For the portion of his payment that is tied to revenue and Non-GAAP Operating Income performance, the first three quarterly
payments were paid based on 104% achievement, and additional amounts earned were paid with the fourth quarter payment.
The actual bonus amount set forth below represents the aggregate amount of the quarterly payments earned pursuant to the
plan. Achievement under the plan was determined to be 96% of his target in the aggregate.
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Named Executive Officer
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
FY2023 Target
Bonus Opportunity
($)
280,000
211,250
381,074(2)
211,250
FY2023 Bonus –
Corporate
Performance
Achievement
(%)
207
207
96
207
Actual Annual
Bonus Earned
($)
420,000(1)
316,875(1)
366,530(2)
316,875(1)
Actual Annual
Bonus
(as a % of Target
Bonus)
150
150
96(3)
150
(1)
Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter were paid in restricted stock units in lieu of cash, pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program
described below.
(2)
Mr. Pech’s cash bonus is set and paid in Swiss Francs (CHF) and, for the purposes of the table, is converted into U.S. dollars based on the exchange
rate as of January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S. dollar. Includes an additional $1,903.66 USD that resulted from a currency conversion issue.
(3)
Actual bonus earned, which represents the aggregate amount of quarterly payments earned by Mr. Pech over the year, differs from the actual bonus as a
percentage of target amount due to rounding.
Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program. In order to encourage our executives to increase their equity holdings
and further align their interests with that of our stockholders, beginning in fiscal year 2021 and continuing for fiscal years
2022 and 2023, the compensation committee approved a Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program. Under this program,
certain senior executives, including our executive officers, could elect, at the beginning of the fiscal year, to have their target
performance-based bonus award structured as a stock-settled award (the “bonus stock award”) in the form described below,
rather than being paid in cash. Under the terms of the program, senior executives who elect to participate receive their target
annual incentive award as a bonus stock award will receive a restricted stock unit award that vests in two installments
following the determinations of the award achieved for the first half and second half of the fiscal year. The target grant date
value of the bonus stock awards received by participants in the program is equal to 100% of the target cash bonus exchanged,
without premium, calculated based on the closing price of our common stock on a date shortly prior to the grant date. The
bonus stock awards for fiscal year 2023 were granted on April 2, 2022.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer,
elected to participate in the program with respect to their 2023 bonus awards.
Below are the details of the bonus stock awards issued to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer &
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer pursuant to the program.
Named Executive Officer
FY2023 Target Bonus
Opportunity ($)
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Mark Porter
280,000
211,250
211,250
Target Number of Shares
Granted Under FY2023
Bonus Stock Awards in
Lieu of Cash Bonus(1)
939
709
709
Number of Shares Earned
under Bonus Stock Awards
in Lieu of Cash Payout(2)
1,409
1,063
1,063
(1)
The target number of stock units to be awarded was determined by dividing the executive’s target bonus opportunity by $298.26, the closing stock
price as of March 15, 2022.
(2)
Consistent with the cash bonus program, the executive may vest in up to 150% of the target number of shares underlying the bonus stock award,
including the effect of the accelerators. For Mr. Ittycheria, 1,409 shares underlying the bonus stock award vested for fiscal year 2023. For Messrs.
Gordon and Porter, 1,063 shares underlying the bonus stock award vested for fiscal year 2023.
The performance-based bonus award payments made to our named executive officers for fiscal year 2023 are set
forth in the “Summary Compensation Table” below.
Long-Term Equity Incentives
Long-term incentive compensation in the form of equity awards is an important tool for us to attract industry leaders
of the highest caliber and to retain them for the long term. We provide long-term incentive compensation to ensure that a
significant portion of named executive officer compensation is tied to our long-term results and increases in stockholder
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value. The majority of our named executive officers’ target total direct compensation opportunity in fiscal year 2023 was
provided in the form of long-term equity awards.
In fiscal year 2023, consistent with past practices, the compensation committee approved long-term incentive awards
to our named executive officers consisting of RSUs. In addition, in response to investor feedback and market trends, for the
first time in fiscal year 2023, the compensation committee introduced PSUs as a key component of our long-term executive
compensation program. The compensation committee determined that PSUs provide a direct link between executive
compensation and specific long-term performance goals that are aligned with our business objectives and stockholder
interests. In fiscal year 2023, the target value of long-term equity incentive compensation under our annual long-term
incentive program was weighted 50% in the form of PSUs and 50% in the form of RSUs. The PSUs will be earned contingent
upon achievement of ARR performance targets and will vest subject to service requirements.
Restricted Stock Units
The compensation committee grants some or all of our executive officers a grant of time-vesting RSUs each year as
part of our annual review of our executive compensation program. The compensation committee, in consultation with the
Chief Executive Officer (except in regard to his equity awards), determines the size and material terms of equity awards
granted to our named executive officers, taking into account the role and responsibility of the named executive officer, our
philosophy of more heavily weighting equity compensation over cash compensation, individual performance, competitive
factors including competition for technology executives, peer group data, the size and value of unvested and outstanding
equity compensation already held by each executive officer, the total annual target cash compensation opportunity for each
named executive officer and retention objectives. The Compensation Committee independently determines the long-term
incentive awards for the CEO.
Each RSU is the economic equivalent of one share of MongoDB’s common stock and is settled in shares of
MongoDB’s common stock. Since the value of the RSU awards increases with any increase in the value of the underlying
shares, they serve as an incentive that aligns the interests of our executive officers with the long-term interests of our
stockholders. In addition, because they are subject to a multi-year vesting requirement, RSU awards serve our retention
objectives since our executive officers generally must remain continuously employed by us through the applicable vesting
dates to fully earn these awards. Unlike stock options, RSUs have real economic value when they vest even if the market
price of our common stock declines or stays flat, thus delivering more predictable and durable value to our executive officers.
Additionally, because of their “full value” nature, RSU awards deliver the desired grant date fair value using a lesser number
of shares than an equivalent stock option, thereby enabling us to reduce the dilutive impact of our long-term incentive award
mix and to use our equity compensation resources more efficiently.
The table below sets forth the RSU awards granted to our named executive officers during fiscal year 2023, as
approved by the compensation committee. All executives received annual long-term incentive RSU grants on March 11,
2022.
Named Executive Officer
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Time-Based
RSUs
(number of shares)
19,544(2)
9,554(2)
10,919(2)
6,824(2)
Aggregate
Grant Date
Fair Value
($)(1)
6,185,481
3,023,745
3,455,754
2,159,728
(1)
The grant date fair value was computed in accordance with ASC 718 based on the closing stock price at the grant date, as reported
on the Nasdaq.
(2)
RSUs were granted on March 11, 2022. The number of RSUs was determined based on the number of shares based on a target
dollar value, calculated using the 30-day VWAP of our stock during the period ending on, or a few days prior to, the grant date.
The RSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter for fiscal year 2023 are subject to time-based
vesting over four years, with 1/16th of shares granted vesting each quarter following April 1, 2022, contingent on their
continued employment with us through each vesting date.
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Performance Stock Units
In response to investor feedback and market trends, for the first time in fiscal year 2023, the compensation
committee introduced PSUs as a key component of our long-term executive compensation program.
Each PSU is the economic equivalent of one share of MongoDB’s common stock and is settled in shares of
MongoDB’s common stock. Subject to MongoDB’s satisfaction of certain performance metrics (as described below), PSUs
vest in equal annual installments over three (3) years measured from April 1, 2022, subject to the recipient’s continued
service with MongoDB through each applicable vesting date, except that the first vesting date is the later of April 1, 2023 and
the date of certification by the compensation committee of the applicable performance metrics. The PSUs granted in fiscal
2023 were eligible to be earned between 0% and 200% ("Performance Target Ranges") based on the percentage growth
of MongoDB’s ARR (“ARR Growth”) from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. However, if cash generated by
our regular operating activities ("Operating Cash Flow") failed to meet certain predetermined limits, then no PSUs would
have vested with respect to fiscal year 2023. Our compensation committee considered a variety of factors, including our
continued growth, our dynamic, highly competitive industry and the difficulty of predicting future performance in such an
environment, and concluded that ARR Growth was most directly linked to our long-term growth plan and, as a result,
its performance drives stockholder value and aligns the interests of our management with those of our stockholders.
The table below sets forth the PSU awards (reflected at target of 100%) granted to our named executive officers
during fiscal year 2023, as approved by the compensation committee. All executives received the annual long-term incentive
PSU grants on March 11, 2022.
Named Executive Officer
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Target Performance-Based
PSUs
(number of shares)
19,544(2)
9,554(2)
10,919(2)
6,824(2)
Aggregate
Grant Date
Fair Value at Target(1)
6,185,481
3,023,745
3,455,754
2,159,728
(1)
(2)
The grant date fair value was computed in accordance with ASC 718 based on the closing stock price at the grant date, as reported
on the Nasdaq.
PSUs were granted on March 11, 2022. The number of PSUs was determined based on the number of shares based on a target
dollar value, calculated using the 30-day VWAP of our stock during the period ending on, or a few days prior to, the grant date.
In February 2023, achievement of the corporate performance goals for fiscal year 2023 for our named executive
officers was determined to be 98.5% of target in the aggregate. The compensation committee accordingly reviewed and
approved PSU achievement at 98.5% of target for fiscal year 2023.
Equity Grant Practices. We have the following practices regarding equity compensation grants:
• We do not strategically time long-term incentive awards in coordination with the release of material non-public
information and have never had a practice of doing so.
• We have never timed and do not plan to time the release of material non-public information for the purpose of
affecting the value of executive compensation.
•
•
For equity grants to be granted to our non-employee directors at our 2022 annual meeting and to our executive
officers and other employees for fiscal year 2023, we determined the number of shares based on a target dollar
value, calculated using the 30-day VWAP of our stock during the period ending on, or a few days prior to, the
grant date. We believe that using the VWAP mitigates the effect of any variations in stock price that may occur
in the final minutes of trading if the closing price were used.
The accounting for equity awards granted by us is compliant with accounting principles generally accepted in
the United States and is disclosed in our annual and quarterly financial reports filed with the SEC.
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Health and Welfare Plans; Retirement Plans
Our named executive officers are eligible to receive the same employee benefits that are generally available to all
full-time employees in their respective jurisdictions, subject to the satisfaction of certain eligibility requirements.
For our US-based named executive officers (Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter), these benefits include our
health, dental and vision plans and life and disability insurance plans, on the same basis as any other salaried U.S. employees.
In addition, we maintain a tax-qualified 401(k) retirement plan that provides eligible U.S. employees with an opportunity to
save for retirement on a tax-advantaged basis. Plan participants are able to defer eligible compensation subject to the
applicable annual limits set forth in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In fiscal year 2023, we did
not provide an employer match on employee contributions.
For our Switzerland-based named executive officer, Cedric Pech, these benefits include our health, dental and vision
plans and life and disability insurance plans, on the same basis as any other salaried Switzerland employees. In addition, we
maintain a pension plan that provides benefits to Mr. Pech and other Switzerland-based employees, including old-age
retirement pension or capital payment, death lump sum and pension to surviving partner, orphans’ pension and disability
pension. Contributions to the pension are paid in part by us and in part by the employee, with contribution amounts dependent
on an employee's salary and age.
Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits
Currently, we do not view perquisites or other personal benefits as a significant component of our executive
compensation program. Accordingly, we do not provide significant perquisites or other personal benefits to our executive
officers, including our named executive officers, except as generally made available to our employees, or in situations where
we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual in the performance of his or her duties. For each of our named executive
officers, we have engaged CyberWa, Inc., a cyber-protective service company, to analyze (on a monthly basis) the IT
equipment used by all of our named executive officers to ensure the data privacy and cybersecurity of our named executive
officers. We believe that, due to the nature of our business, such services are essential to the protection of our data, and have
required all named executive officers to remain compliant with cybersecurity protocols.
Employment, Severance and Change in Control Agreements
Offer Letters and Employment Agreements
We have offer letters or employment agreements with each of our named executive officers. The offer letters and
employment agreements generally provide for at-will employment and set forth the executive officer’s initial base salary,
initial target bonus, initial equity grant amount, eligibility for employee benefits and severance benefits upon a qualifying
termination of employment. Each of our named executive officers has also executed our standard form of invention
assignment, confidentiality and arbitration agreement. The key terms of employment with our named executive officers are
described below.
Dev Ittycheria
We entered into an amended and restated offer letter with Dev Ittycheria, our President and Chief Executive Officer,
dated September 29, 2017, as further amended and restated in December 2021 which sets forth the terms and conditions of
his employment with us. Mr. Ittycheria’s annual base salary for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 was $400,000. Mr.
Ittycheria is also eligible to receive an annual target bonus of $280,000 pursuant to our bonus plan. Mr. Ittycheria’s
employment is at will and may be terminated at any time, with or without cause.
The amended and restated offer letter agreement with Mr. Ittycheria provides that, if we terminate Mr. Ittycheria for
any reason other than for “cause” or due to Mr. Ittycheria's death or disability, or if Mr. Ittycheria resigns his position with us
for “good reason” (as such terms are defined in his offer letter), Mr. Ittycheria would be entitled to receive payment of his
then-current base salary for a period of 12 months following his termination date in accordance with our regular payroll
practices, and company-paid health insurance coverage for a period of 12 months following his termination date. In addition,
if such termination or resignation occurs either in connection with, or within three months prior to or 12 months after, a
change in control, Mr. Ittycheria would also be entitled to receive (i) payment of his target cash bonus for a period of 12
months following his termination date, in addition to payment of any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the fiscal year
preceding the fiscal year in which the termination date occurs (except if he previously elected to receive a bonus stock award
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in lieu of cash for such period), (ii) 100% acceleration of vesting of all then-outstanding time-based unvested equity awards
held by Mr. Ittycheria and acceleration of vesting of then-outstanding performance-based unvested equity awards held by Mr.
Ittycheria based on the greater of target performance or actual performance. Payment of any of the above-described severance
benefits is conditioned on the delivery and non-revocation of a general release of claims in our favor within 50 days after Mr.
Ittycheria’s termination.
Michael Gordon
We entered into an amended and restated offer letter with Michael Gordon, our Chief Operating Officer and Chief
Financial Officer, dated September 29, 2017, as further amended and restated in January 2022 which sets forth the terms and
conditions of his employment with us. Mr. Gordon’s annual base salary for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 was
$325,000. Mr. Gordon is also eligible to receive an annual target bonus of $211,250 pursuant to our bonus plan. Mr.
Gordon’s employment is at will and may be terminated at any time, with or without cause.
The amended and restated offer letter agreement with Mr. Gordon provides that if we terminate Mr. Gordon for any
reason other than for “cause” or due to Mr. Gordon's death or disability, or Mr. Gordon resigns his position with us for “good
reason” (as such terms are defined in his offer letter), Mr. Gordon would be entitled to receive payment of his then-current
base salary for a period of six months following his termination date in accordance with our regular payroll practices, and
company-paid health insurance coverage for a period of six months following his termination date. In addition, in the event
such termination or resignation occurs either in connection with, or within three months prior to or 12 months after, a change
in control, Mr. Gordon would also be entitled to receive (i) payment of his target cash bonus for a period of six months
following his termination date, in addition to payment of any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the fiscal year preceding the
fiscal year in which the termination date occurs (except if he previously elected to receive a bonus stock award in lieu of cash
for such period), (ii) 100% acceleration of vesting of all then-outstanding time-based unvested equity awards held by Mr.
Gordon and acceleration of vesting of then-outstanding performance-based unvested equity awards held by Mr. Gordon based
on the greater of target performance or actual performance. Payment of any of the above-described severance benefits is
conditioned on the delivery and non-revocation of a general release of claims in our favor within 50 days after Mr. Gordon’s
termination.
Mark Porter
We entered into an offer letter with Mark Porter, our Chief Technology Officer, dated June 27, 2020, as amended
and restated in December 2021 and as further amended and restated in December 2022, which sets forth the terms and
conditions of his employment with us. Mr. Porter’s annual base salary for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 was
$325,000. Mr. Porter is also eligible to receive an annual target bonus of $211,250 pursuant to our bonus plan. Mr. Porter’s
employment is at will and may be terminated at any time, with or without cause.
The offer letter agreement with Mr. Porter provides that if we terminate Mr. Porter for any reason other than for
“cause” or due to Mr. Porter's death or disability, or Mr. Porter resigns his position with us for “good reason” (as such terms
are defined in his offer letter), Mr. Porter would be entitled to receive payment of his then-current base salary for a period of
six months following his termination date in accordance with our regular payroll practices, and company-paid health
insurance coverage for a period of six months following his termination date. In addition, in the event such termination or
resignation occurs either in connection with, or within three months prior to or 12 months after, a change in control, Mr.
Porter would also be entitled to receive (i) payment of his target bonus for a period of six months following his termination
date, in addition to payment of any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the
termination date occurs (except if he previously elected to receive a bonus stock award in lieu of cash for such period), (ii)
100% acceleration of vesting of all then-outstanding time-based unvested equity awards held by Mr. Porter and acceleration
of vesting of then-outstanding performance-based unvested equity awards held by Mr. Porter based on the greater of target
performance or actual performance. Payment of any of the above-described severance benefits is conditioned on the delivery
and non-revocation of a general release of claims in our favor within 50 days after Mr. Porter’s termination.
Cedric Pech
We entered into a Swiss-law governed employment agreement with Cedric Pech, our Chief Revenue Officer, with
an effective date of February 11, 2019, as further amended and restated in January 2022, which set forth the terms and
conditions of his employment with us. Mr. Pech’s annual base salary for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 was CHF
252,033 ($272,196). Mr. Pech is also eligible to receive annual target sales compensation of CHF 352,846 ($381,074)
pursuant to our variable compensation plan. The initial terms and conditions of Mr. Pech’s employment are set forth in his
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written employment agreement. Mr. Pech’s base salary and target sales compensation are set and paid in CHF and converted
into U.S. dollars for purposes of these disclosures based on the exchange rate as of January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S.
dollar, as reflected above.
The employment agreement with Mr. Pech provides that, if we terminate Mr. Pech for any reason other than for
“cause” or due to Mr. Pech's death or disability, or if Mr. Pech resigns his position with us for “good reason” (as such terms
are defined in his employment agreement), Mr. Pech would be entitled to receive payment of his then-current base salary for
a period of six months following his termination date in accordance with our regular payroll practices, and an amount equal
to six months of his then-current health insurance premium for a period of six months. In addition, if such termination or
resignation occurs either in connection with, or within three months prior to or 12 months after, a change in control, Mr. Pech
would also be entitled to receive (i) payment of his target cash bonus for a period of six months following his termination
date, in addition to payment of any earned but unpaid annual bonus for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the
termination date occurs (except if he previously elected to receive a bonus stock award in lieu of cash for such period), (ii)
100% acceleration of vesting of all then-outstanding time-based unvested equity awards held by Mr. Pech and acceleration of
vesting of then-outstanding performance-based unvested equity awards held by Mr. Pech based on the greater of target
performance or actual performance. Payment of any of the above-described severance benefits is conditioned on the delivery
and non-revocation of a general release of claims in our favor within 50 days after Mr. Pech’s termination.
Tax and Accounting Implications
Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation
Under ASC 718, we are required to estimate and record an expense for each award of equity compensation over the
vesting period of the award. We record share-based compensation expense on an ongoing basis according to ASC 718.
Deductibility of Executive Compensation
Under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, compensation paid to each of our “covered employees” that
exceeds $1 million per taxable year is generally non-deductible. Although the compensation committee will continue to
consider tax implications as one factor in determining executive compensation, the compensation committee also looks at
other factors in making its decisions and retains the flexibility to provide compensation for our named executive officers in a
manner consistent with the goals of our executive compensation program and the best interests of our stockholders, which
may include providing for compensation that is not deductible due to the deduction limit under Section 162(m).
Additional Compensation Policies and Practices
Executive Officer Recoupment (“Clawback”) Policy
Our board of directors adopted a policy that provides for the recoupment of an executive officer’s incentive-based
compensation in the event that we restate our financial results due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting
requirement, and such executive officer’s fraud, dishonesty, gross recklessness or gross negligence contributed to the need for
such restatement, and the compensation earned by such executive officer was based on achieving financial results in excess
of what could have been earned by such executive officer based on the restated financial results, in all cases as determined by
our board of directors. The policy applies to incentive-based compensation granted or received after the effective date of the
policy.
The SEC has adopted final rules requiring the stock exchanges to adopt listing standards implementing the clawback
requirement of Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act, and we intend to review our policy once Nasdaq has finalized its listing
standards.
Policy Prohibiting Hedging and Pledging of Our Equity Securities
Our insider trading policy prohibits all of our employees, directors and consultants from pledging or engaging in
hedging or similar transactions in our stock, such as prepaid variable forwards, equity swaps, collars, puts, calls and short
sales.
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Stock Ownership Guidelines
In 2019, the board of directors adopted stock ownership guidelines for our executive officers. The guidelines require
that, within five years of the date the guidelines were adopted or five years of first becoming one of our executive officers,
each executive officer own at least a number of shares of common stock equal to a multiple of the executive’s base salary, as
follows:
•
•
Chief Executive Officer: must hold shares of MongoDB common stock with a value equal to five times his base
salary; and
all other executive officers: must hold shares of MongoDB common stock with a value equal to three times their
base salary.
The following shares of our common stock count towards compliance with the guidelines:
•
•
•
•
•
•
shares owned by the executive officer;
shares owned jointly by the executive officer and spouse;
shares held in a trust established by the executive officer for the benefit of the executive officer and/or family
members;
shares equal to the number of vested deferred stock units credited to the executive officer under any
arrangement maintained by us;
shares credited to the executive officer’s 401(k) plan account; and
vested shares of time-based restricted stock/restricted stock units to the extent they have not yet settled.
Unvested and unearned performance-vesting shares/units, unvested restricted shares/units and unexercised stock
options (whether vested or unvested) do not count towards director or executive officers’ compliance with the guidelines.
As of January 31, 2023, all of our executive officers were in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines.
Compensation Risk Assessment
As part of its oversight of our executive compensation program, the compensation committee reviews and considers
any potential risk implications created by its compensation awards. The compensation committee believes that the executive
compensation program is designed with the appropriate balance of risk and reward in relation to our overall business strategy
and that the balance of compensation elements does not encourage excessive risk taking. The compensation committee will
continue to consider compensation risk implications, as appropriate, in designing any new executive compensation
components. In connection with its continual risk assessment, the compensation committee notes the following attributes of
the executive compensation program:
•
•
the balance between fixed and variable compensation, short and long-term compensation, and cash and
equity payouts; and
regular review of the executive compensation program by an independent compensation consultant.
The compensation committee also has oversight over our responsibility to review all our compensation policies and
procedures, including the incentives that they create, to determine whether they present a significant risk. In consultation with
management and FW Cook, in May 2022, the compensation committee assessed our compensation plans, policies and
practices for named executive officers and other employees and concluded that they do not create risks that are reasonably
likely to have a material adverse effect on MongoDB. This risk assessment included, among other things, a review of our
cash and equity incentive-based compensation plans to ensure that they are aligned with our performance goals and overall
target total direct compensation to ensure an appropriate balance between fixed and variable pay components. The
compensation committee conducts this assessment annually.
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Executive Compensation Tables
Summary Compensation Table
The following table provides information regarding the compensation of our named executive officers for our fiscal
year ended January 31, 2023 in accordance with SEC rules.
Name and
Principal Position
Dev Ittycheria
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Michael Gordon
Chief Operating
Officer and Chief
Financial Officer
Cedric Pech
Chief Revenue
Officer(5)
Mark Porter
Chief Technology
Officer
Fiscal
Year
2023
2022
2021
2023
2022
2021
2023
2022
2021
2023
2022
2021
Non-Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compensation
($)(2)
—
—
—
—
—
—
366,530(6)
837,186
534,787
—
—
159,931
All Other
Compensation
($)
31,500(4)
31,500
31,500
31,500(4)
31,500
31,500
134,373(7)
135,845
115,831
31,500(4)
31,500
17,375
Stock
Awards
($)(1)
12,797,690(3)
10,135,257
8,096,935
6,369,696(3)
4,906,810
3,911,374
6,911,509
5,616,825
3,398,386
4,641,661(3)
3,558,757
8,745,267
Total
($)
13,229,190
10,566,757
8,528,435
6,726,196
5,263,310
4,267,874
7,684,608
6,859,532
4,331,281
4,998,161
3,915,257
9,111,178
Salary
($)
400,000
400,000
400,000
325,000
325,000
325,000
272,196
269,676
282,277
325,000
325,000
188,605
(1)
The amounts in this column represent the grant date fair value of equity awards granted during the year. These amounts do not necessarily correspond
to the actual value recognized or that may be recognized by the named executive officers. Equity awards granted during each year include: (a) awards
of time-based RSUs, (b) awards of PSUs pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program and (c) awards of PSUs under our long-term
incentive program, each granted under the 2016 Plan. RSU and PSU awards are valued based on the closing price of our common stock on the grant
date in accordance with ASC 718. The assumptions used in calculating the grant date fair value of the RSUs and PSUs reported in this column are set
forth in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the applicable fiscal year. In the case of
PSUs, the grant date fair value was determined based on the applicable performance conditions being achieved at the target payout level, which we
determined to be the probable outcome as of the grant date.
(2)
For executives other than Mr. Pech, represents annual performance-based cash bonus awards. The amounts reported represent performance-based cash
bonus awards earned by the named executive officer based on the achievement of certain company goals and the individual's target bonus amount.
Bonus awards are paid semi-annually, based on the achievement of the company objectives set at the beginning of the fiscal year. For fiscal year 2023,
Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter did not receive a performance-based cash bonus award, as they elected to be paid in equity in lieu of cash. Please
see the section titled “Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program” in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis for additional details. For Mr. Pech, the
amount reported represents compensation earned by Mr. Pech based on the achievement of certain company objectives and sales targets under our sales
variable compensation plan, which were set at the beginning of the fiscal year. Bonus compensation for Mr. Pech was paid quarterly. Please see the
section titled “Annual Performance-Based Bonus Program” in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis for additional details.
(3)
Includes (i) in the case of Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter, an award of PSUs granted pursuant to the executive's election to receive a bonus stock
award under the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program in lieu of fiscal year 2023 non-equity incentive compensation and (ii) in the case of each of
our named executive officers, an award of RSUs and PSUs granted pursuant to our long-term incentive program. For Mr. Ittycheria, includes 939 PSUs
with a grant date fair value of $426,729 granted pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program and, pursuant to our long-term incentive
program, 19,544 RSUs with a grant date fair value of $6,185,481 and 19,544 PSUs with a grant date fair value of $6,185,481. For Mr. Gordon,
includes 709 PSUs with a grant date fair value of $322,205 granted pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program and, pursuant to our long-
term incentive program, 9,554 RSUs with a grant date fair value of $3,023,745 and 9,554 PSUs with a grant date fair value of $3,023,745. For Mr.
Pech, includes 10,919 RSUs with a grant date fair value of $3,455,754 and 10,919 PSUs with a grant date fair value of $3,455,754 granted pursuant to
our long-term incentive program. For Mr. Porter, includes 709 PSUs with a grant date fair value of $322,205 granted pursuant to the Senior Leadership
Equity Bonus Program and, pursuant to our long-term incentive program, 6,824 RSUs with a grant date fair value of $2,159,728 and 6,824 PSUs with a
grant date fair value of $2,159,728. Each of the foregoing grant date fair values was determined based on the applicable performance conditions being
achieved at the target payout level, which we determined to be the probable outcome as of the grant date. Assuming that maximum performance is
achieved under the Senior Leadership Equity Program, the value of the PSUs made to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter at the date of grant would
have been $640,320, $483,080 and $483,080, respectively. Assuming that maximum performance is achieved under the long-term incentive program,
the value of the PSUs made to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter at the date of grant for fiscal year 2023 would have been $12,370,961,
$6,047,491, $6,911,509 and $4,319,456, respectively. Please see the sections titled “Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program” and "Long-Term
Equity Incentives" in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis and the “Grants of Plan-Based Awards” table for additional details.
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(4)
Represents expenses incurred by us related to a cybersecurity assessment and related services (“Cybersecurity Services”) at the executive’s personal
residence.
(5)
Mr. Pech’s cash compensation was paid in CHF and, for the purposes of the table, converted into U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate as of January
31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to U.S. dollar for fiscal year 2023 (except for Cybersecurity Services which were paid in U.S. dollars). Values for fiscal year
2022 were calculated based on the exchange rate of January 31, 2022 of 1.07 CHF to U.S. dollar for fiscal year 2022 (except for the Cybersecurity
Services which were paid in U.S. dollars). Values for fiscal year 2021 were calculated based on the exchange rate of January 31, 2021 of 1.12 CHF to
U.S. dollar (except for the Cybersecurity Services which were paid in U.S. dollars).
(6)
(7)
Includes an additional $1,903.66 USD that resulted from a currency conversion issue.
Represents (a) a monthly housing and health coverage allowance of $39,191, (b) a health allowance of $5,702, (c) $31,500 of expenses incurred by us
for Cybersecurity Services at the executive’s personal residence, (d) employer contributions to a Swiss pension (defined contribution) plan of $55,989
and (e) life insurance (or similar risk insurance) premiums paid by us of $1,991.
Grants of Plan-Based Awards
The following table presents information regarding each plan-based award granted to our named executive officers
during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
Name
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Grant
Date(1)
3/11/2022
3/11/2022
4/02/2022
3/11/2022
3/11/2022
4/02/2022
—
3/11/2022
3/11/2022
3/11/2022
3/11/2022
4/02/2022
Award
Type
RSU
PSU
PSU
RSU
PSU
PSU
Annual Cash
RSU
PSU
RSU
PSU
PSU
Estimated Future Payouts
Under
Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Awards(2)
Estimated Future Payouts
Under
Equity Incentive Plan Awards(3)
Target
($)
—
—
—
—
—
—
381,074(5)
—
—
—
—
—
Threshold
(#)
—
16,612
470
—
8,121
355
—
—
9,281
—
5,800
355
Target (#)
—
19,544
939
—
9,554
709
—
—
10,919
—
6,824
709
Maximum
(#)
—
39,088
1,409
—
19,108
1,063
—
—
21,838
—
13,648
1,063
All Other
Stock Awards:
Number of
Shares of
Stock or Units
(#)
19,544
—
—
9,554
—
—
10,919
—
6,824
—
—
Grant Date
Fair Value of
Stock
Awards(4)
($)
6,185,481
6,185,481
426,729
3,023,745
3,023,745
322,205
—
3,455,754
3,455,754
2,159,728
2,159,728
322,205
(1)
The time-based RSUs and PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter on March 11, 2022 under the 2016 Plan were pursuant to our
long-term equity incentive program. The PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter on April 2, 2022 under the 2016 Plan were pursuant to
the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program (see “Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End” below).
(2)
For Mr. Pech, our Chief Revenue Officer, the amount represents his target bonus amount under our sales variable compensation plan. Compensation
for Mr. Pech was paid quarterly, based on the achievement of corporate goals and sales targets set at the beginning of the fiscal year. There is no
threshold or maximum value for his bonus potential. Actual payout is reported in the “Summary Compensation Table” in the “Non-Equity Incentive
Plan Compensation” column.
(3)
Amounts represent the threshold, target and maximum number of shares that could be earned pursuant to (i) PSUs granted under the long-term
incentive program granted on March 11, 2022 and (ii) the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program in lieu of fiscal year 2023 non-equity incentive
compensation on April 2, 2022.
(4)
Time-based RSU awards and performance-based PSU awards are valued based on the grant date fair value. The assumptions used in calculating the
grant date fair value of the RSUs and PSUs reported in this column are set forth in Note 11 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the applicable fiscal year. In the case of PSUs, the grant date fair value was determined based on the applicable
performance conditions being achieved at the target payout level, which we determined to be the probable outcome as of the grant date. Assuming that
maximum performance is achieved under the Senior Leadership Equity Program, the value of the PSUs made to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter
at the date of grant would have been $640,320, $483,080 and $483,080, respectively. Assuming that maximum performance is achieved under the
long-term incentive program, the value of the PSUs made to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter at the date of grant for fiscal year 2023 would
have been $12,370,961, $6,047,491, $6,911,509 and $4,319,456, respectively. The stock price at the grant dates was based on the closing price per
share of our common stock on the grant dates, as reported on the Nasdaq as follows: March 11, 2022 ($316.49) and April 1, 2022 ($454.45). RSUs for
Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter will vest in quarterly installments over four years. One-third of the PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria,
Gordon, Pech and Porter under our long-term incentive program vested on April 1, 2023 following the determination by our compensation committee
regarding the underlying performance conditions, and the remaining two-thirds will vest ratably on each of April 1, 2024 and April 1, 2025. PSUs for
Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter granted under our Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program vested on April 1, 2023, following the
determinations of the award achieved for the full fiscal year 2023.
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(5)
Mr. Pech’s cash bonus target is set and paid in CHF and, for the purposes of the table, converted into U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate as of
January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S. dollar.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
The following table presents information regarding outstanding equity awards held by our named executive officers
as of January 31, 2023. All awards were granted under our 2008 Stock Plan (the “2008 Plan”) or the 2016 Plan.
Option Awards
Stock Awards
Name
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
6,386
656,650
—
—
—
—
—
—
18,859
200,000
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Grant
Award
Date(1)
Type
ISO
9/12/2014
4/13/2016
NQ
3/18/2019 RSU
2/27/2020 RSU
2/26/2021 RSU
3/11/2022 RSU
PSU
3/11/2022
PSU
4/2/2022
NQ
7/15/2015
4/13/2016
NQ
3/18/2019 RSU
2/27/2020 RSU
2/26/2021 RSU
3/11/2022 RSU
PSU
3/11/2022
PSU
4/2/2022
2/5/2019
RSU
2/27/2020 RSU
2/26/2021 RSU
3/11/2022 RSU
3/11/2022
PSU
6/29/2020 RSU
2/26/2021 RSU
3/11/2022 RSU
PSU
3/11/2022
PSU
4/2/2022
Option
Exercise
Price
($)(1)
6.50
6.50
—
—
—
—
—
—
6.50
6.50
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Option
Expiration
Date
9/12/2024
4/13/2026
—
—
—
—
—
—
7/15/2025
4/13/2026
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Market or
Payout
Value of
Unearned
Shares,
Unites or
Other
Rights
That Have
Not Vested
($)(3)(4)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Equity
Incentive
Plan
Awards:
Number of
Unearned
Shares,
Units or
Rights
That Have
Not Vested
(#)(4)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Number
of Shares
or Units
of Stock
That
Have
Not
Vested
(#)(2)(4)
—
—
3,863
16,285
14,408
15,880
19,251(5)
1,409(6)
—
—
2,077
7,715
6,877
7,763
9,411(5)
1,063(6)
1,434
7,072
8,187
8,872
10,755(5)
8,610
7,423
5,545
6,722(5)
1,063(6)
Market
Value of
Shares or
Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested
($)(3)(4)
—
—
827,493
3,488,410
3,086,338
3,401,655
4,123,722
301,822
—
—
444,914
1,652,630
1,473,122
1,662,912
2,015,864
227,705
307,177
1,514,893
1,753,737
1,900,471
2,303,875
1,844,348
1,590,081
1,187,794
1,439,843
227,705
(1)
On April 13, 2016, we amended the exercise prices of all of our outstanding option awards previously granted at an exercise price greater than $6.50 to
$6.50.
(2)
The RSUs granted to Mr. Pech on February 5, 2019 and to Messrs. Ittycheria and Gordon on March 18, 2019 vest in equal quarterly installments over
four years measured from April 1, 2019. RSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Pech on February 27, 2020 vest quarterly, measured from
April 1, 2020. RSUs granted to Mr. Porter on June 29, 2020 vest quarterly, measured from July 1, 2020 as follows: 40% of the RSUs will vest in the
first year, 30% of the RSUs will vest in the second year, 15% of the RSUs will vest in the third year, and 15% of the RSUs will vest in the fourth year.
RSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Pech on February 26, 2021 vest quarterly, measured from April 1, 2021. RSUs granted to Mr. Porter
on February 26, 2021 vest quarterly, measured from April 1, 2021 as follows: 20% of the RSUs will vest in the second year, 40% of the RSUs will vest
in the third year, and 40% of the RSUs will vest in the fourth year. The RSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter on March 11,
2022 vest in quarterly installments over four years measured from April 1, 2022.
(3)
Market value is calculated based on the closing price of our common stock on January 31, 2023 ($214.21), as reported on the Nasdaq.
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(4)
All unvested shares of common stock underlying these awards will accelerate and vest in full if the executive officer is terminated without “cause” or
resigns for “good reason” (as such terms are defined in the executive officer’s offer letter or employment agreement) in connection with, or within
three months prior to or 12 months following, a change of control of MongoDB, including performance-based awards that will accelerate and vest
based on the greater of the award recipient’s target performance rate or actual performance as of the award recipient’s date of termination.
(5)
The PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter pursuant to our long-term incentive program vest in equal, annual installments over
three years measured from April 1, 2022 and subject to Company performance. Amounts reported represent 98.5% achievement of corporate
performance goals for fiscal year 2023.
(6) PSUs were granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon and Porter pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program in lieu of fiscal year 2023 non-
equity incentive compensation and vested in one installment on April 1, 2023, following the determinations of the bonus award achieved for the first
half and second half of the fiscal year - amounts reported represent maximum achievement (150%) of performance goals for the second half of the
fiscal year based on actual fiscal year 2023 corporate performance achievement exceeding the target level.
Option Exercises and Stock Vested
The following table presents information concerning the exercise of all stock options and vesting of all stock awards
for the named executive officers during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
Option Awards
Stock Awards
Number of Shares
Acquired on Exercise
(#)
433,692
—
—
—
Value Realized on
Exercise ($)(1)
110,817,102
—
—
—
Number of Shares
Acquired on Vesting
(#)
53,423
27,488
18,329
11,861
Value Realized on
Vesting ($)(2)
16,978,840
8,827,324
5,014,640
3,444,288
Name
Dev Ittycheria
Michael Gordon
Cedric Pech
Mark Porter
(1)
The value realized on exercise is calculated as the difference between the market value of our common stock underlying the options on the date of
exercise and the applicable exercise price of those options. The value does not reflect actual proceeds received.
(2)
The value realized on vesting is calculated by multiplying the number of shares of common stock by the market value of our common stock on the
applicable vesting date and does not reflect actual proceeds received.
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Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control
The table below provides information with respect to potential payments and benefits to which our named executive
officers would be entitled under the arrangements set forth in their respective offer letters or employment agreement, as
described above under the section titled, “Employment, Severance and Change in Control Agreements,” assuming their
employment was terminated as of January 31, 2023, including in connection with a change in control as of January 31, 2023.
There are no potential payments or benefits in the case of termination for cause, voluntary termination, disability or death.
Termination
Name
Dev Ittycheria
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason in
Connection with a Change in
Control(4)(5)
Michael Gordon Termination Without Cause or
Cedric Pech(3)
Mark Porter
Resignation for Good Reason
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason in
Connection with a Change in
Control(4)(5)
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason in
Connection with a Change in
Control(4)(5)
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason
Termination Without Cause or
Resignation for Good Reason in
Connection with a Change in
Control(4)(5)
Base
Salary
($)
Bonus(1)
($)
Cash-
Eligible
Bonus(2)
($)
Accelerated
Vesting of
Equity
Awards(3)
($)
Continuation
of Insurance
Coverage
($)
Total
($)
400,000
—
—
—
35,756
435,756
400,000
420,000
—
15,191,559
35,756
16,047,315
162,500
—
—
—
162,500
316,875
—
7,432,016
—
—
162,500
7,911,391
136,098
—
—
—
2,908
139,006
136,098
381,074
190,537
7,815,238
2,908
8,525,855
162,500
—
—
—
17,915
180,415
162,500
316,875
—
6,235,867
17,915
6,733,157
(1)
Represents an amount equivalent to the NEO’s annual bonus for the fiscal year in which the termination of employment occurs, prorated to the date of
such termination of employment and determined at the greater of target performance and actual performance. In the case of Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon
and Porter, this amount represents 150% of his target annual bonus amount or fiscal year 2023, which was his actual annual bonus for fiscal year 2023.
In the case of Mr. Pech, this amount represents his target annual bonus amount for fiscal year 2023.
(2)
Represents an amount equivalent to the NEO’s “cash eligible” annual target bonus, which is equal to six months of Mr. Pech’s target annual bonus
amount and paid in equal installments on the Company’s normal payroll schedule over the twelve (12) month period immediately following the date of
such termination of employment.
(3)
The value of accelerated vesting of unvested RSUs and PSUs is based upon the closing price of our common stock on January 31, 2023 ($214.21), as
reported on the Nasdaq, multiplied by the number of units. PSU awards will accelerate and vest based on the greater of the target number of units or
the number of PSUs earned based on actual performance during the truncated performance period. In the case of PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria,
Gordon and Porter pursuant to the Senior Leadership Equity Bonus Program, the amounts in the column above are based on payout at 150% of target,
which reflected the actual level earned for such PSUs for fiscal year 2023. In the case of PSUs granted to Messrs. Ittycheria, Gordon, Pech and Porter
under our long-term incentive program, the amounts in the column above are based on payout at target, since the actual level earned for such PSUs was
less than target.
(4)
Represents change in control (as defined in MongoDB Inc.'s Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan) severance benefits based on a double-
trigger arrangement, which assumes the executive officer is terminated without “cause” or resigns for “good reason” (as such terms are defined in the
executive officer’s employment agreement, in the case of Mr. Pech, or offer letter in the case of the other executive officers) in connection with, or
within three months prior to or 12 months following, a change of control of MongoDB.
(5)
Following a change in control, any payments received by our named executive officers may be reduced to the extent the amount received by the
applicable named executive officer would result in a loss of tax deduction under Section 280G of the Code. Pursuant to their employment agreements,
each of the named executive officers are entitled to the greater of the full amount of such severance and the largest possible payout without imposition
of an excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code. None of our NEOs are entitled to a gross up of any excise taxes that could become owed under
Section 4999 of the Code.
(6)
Mr. Pech’s potential non-equity payments and benefits are set in CHF and, for the purposes of the table, converted into U.S. dollars based on the
exchange rate as of January 31, 2023 of 1.08 CHF to the U.S. dollar.
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COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT
The compensation committee has reviewed and discussed the section titled “Compensation and Discussion
Analysis” with management. Based on such review and discussion, the compensation committee has recommended to the
board of directors that the section titled “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” be included in this proxy statement and
incorporated into MongoDB’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
Respectfully submitted by the members of the compensation committee of the board of directors:
The Compensation Committee
Francisco D'Souza (Chair)
Archana Agrawal
Tom Killalea
John McMahon
The material in this report is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with, the SEC and is not to be
incorporated by reference in any filing of MongoDB under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, other than our Annual
Report on Form 10-K, where it shall be deemed to be “furnished,” whether made before or after the date hereof and
irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing.
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CEO Pay Ratio
Pursuant to Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K and Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, presented below is the ratio
of annual total compensation of our Chief Executive Officer to the annual total compensation of our median employee
(excluding our Chief Executive Officer).
The ratio presented below is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with Item 402(u). The SEC’s
rules for identifying the median compensated employee and calculating the pay ratio based on that employee’s annual total
compensation allow companies to adopt a variety of methodologies, to apply certain exclusions, and to make reasonable
estimates and assumptions that reflect their employee populations and compensation practices. As a result, the pay ratio
reported by other companies may not be comparable to the pay ratio reported below, as other companies have different
employee populations and compensation practices and may utilize different methodologies, exclusions, estimates and
assumptions in calculating their own pay ratios.
We identified our median compensated employee from all full-time and part-time workers who were included as
employees on our payroll records as of a determination date of December 1, 2022, based on base salary, bonuses,
commissions, allowances and equity awards earned during fiscal year 2023. Conforming adjustments were made for
employees who were hired during that period and did not receive pay for the full period, and international employees’ pay
was converted to U.S. dollar equivalents using exchange rates as of the determination date.
The fiscal year 2023 annual total compensation as determined under Item 402 of Regulation S-K for our Chief
Executive Officer was $13,229,190, as reported in the Summary Compensation Table of this proxy statement. The fiscal year
2023 annual total compensation as determined under Item 402 of Regulation S-K for our median employee was $231,880.
The ratio of our Chief Executive Officer’s annual total compensation to our median employee’s annual total compensation
for fiscal year 2023 is 57 to 1.
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Pay Versus Performance
The following table sets forth the compensation for our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and the average
compensation for our other Named Executive Officers (“Other NEOs”) for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, January
31, 2022 and January 31, 2021 (each, a “Covered Year”), in each case as reported in the Summary Compensation Table
(“SCT”) and with certain adjustments to reflect the “compensation actually paid” to such individuals, as calculated in
accordance with rules adopted by the SEC in August 2022. “Compensation actually paid” ("CAP") does not reflect amounts
actually realized by our CEO and Other NEOs and may be higher or lower than the amounts, if any, that are ultimately
realized by such individuals. The Compensation Committee did not consider “compensation actually paid”, as defined by the
SEC, when making its executive compensation decisions for the Covered Years. Please see the Compensation Discussion and
Analysis section in this proxy statement for a discussion of the Compensation Committee’s philosophy, objectives, and
practices when making executive compensation decisions.
The table below also provides information for each Covered Year on our cumulative Total Shareholder Return
(“TSR”) and the cumulative TSR of our peer group, the Nasdaq Computer Index (with each such TSR determined for the
period commencing on January 31, 2020), our Net Loss and our Revenue. We selected Revenue as our “most important
financial performance measure” used to link “compensation actually paid” to our CEO and Other NEOs to our performance
for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
Value of Initial Fixed $100
Investment Based on:
SCT Total
for CEO
($)
13,229,190
10,566,757
8,528,435
Compensation
Actually Paid
to CEO
($)(1)(2)
(1,158,813)
17,742,233
75,870,778
Fiscal Year
2023
2022
2021
SCT
Average
Total for
Other
NEOs
($)(3)
6,426,612
5,346,033
5,498,881
Average
Compensation
Actually Paid
to Other
NEOs
($)(2)(4)
(140,152)
7,074,336
8,929,732
Company
Total
Shareholder
Return
($)
131
247
225
Peer Group
Total
Shareholder
Return
($)(5)
142
183
146
Net (Loss)
Income
(thousands)
($)(6)
(345,398)
(306,866)
(266,944)
Revenue
(thousands)
($)(7)
1,284,040
873,782
590,380
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(1) The following table shows, for each Covered Year, the adjustments made to the total compensation shown for our CEO,
Dev Ittycheria, on the SCT to arrive at “compensation actually paid” as reflected on the table above:
Adjustments to Determine CEO
Compensation Actually Paid
SCT total amount
Subtract Amounts Reported under
“Option Awards” and “Stock Awards”
Columns in SCT for the Covered Year
Add Year-end Fair Value of Options
Awards and Stock Awards Granted
during Covered Year that Remain
Unvested as of Year-end
Add Fair Value on Vesting of Option
Awards and Stock Awards Granted
during Covered Year that Vested
during Covered Year
Add change (positive or negative) in
Fair Value from Prior Year-end to
Covered Year-end of Option Awards
and Stock Awards Granted Prior to
Covered Year that were Outstanding
and Unvested as of Covered Year-end
Add change (positive or negative) in
Fair Value from Prior Year-end to
Vesting Date of Option Awards and
Stock Awards Granted Prior to
Covered Year that Vested during
Covered Year
Subtract Fair Value of forfeited Stock
Awards during Covered Year
TOTAL ADJUSTMENTS:
TOTAL COMPENSATION
ACTUALLY PAID:
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2023
13,229,190
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2022
10,566,757
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2021
8,528,435
12,797,690
10,135,257
8,096,935
7,806,455
8,787,241
16,347,481
889,080
2,388,178
2,924,375
(6,596,740)
2,449,600
36,282,788
(3,689,107)
—
(14,388,003)
3,752,557
66,843 (8)
7,175,476
(1,158,813)
17,742,233
19,884,634
—
67,342,343
75,870,778
(2) For purposes of the adjustments to determine “compensation actually paid”, we computed the fair value of stock option
awards and other stock awards in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 as of the end of the relevant fiscal year, other
than the fair values of equity awards that vested in the Covered Year, which are valued as of the applicable vesting date.
The valuation assumptions used in the calculation of such amounts are set forth in Note 11— Equity Incentive Plans and
Employee Stock Purchase Plan in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023.
(3) The Other NEOs for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2022 were Michael Gordon, Cedric Pech
and Mark Porter. The Other NEOs for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2021 were Michael Gordon, Cedric Pech, Mark
Porter and Eliot Horowitz.
(4) The following table shows, for each Covered Year, the adjustments made to the average of the total compensation shown
for the Other NEOs on the SCT to arrive at “compensation actually paid” as reflected on the table above:
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Adjustments to Determine Average of
Other NEOs' Compensation Actually
Paid
SCT total amount
Subtract Amounts Reported under “Option
Awards” and “Stock Awards” Columns in
SCT for the Covered Year
Add Year-end Fair Value of Options
Awards and Stock Awards Granted during
Covered Year that Remain Unvested as of
Year-end
Add Fair Value on Vesting of Option
Awards and Stock Awards Granted during
Covered Year that Vested during Covered
Year
Add change (positive or negative) in Fair
Value from Prior Year-end to Covered
Year-end of Option Awards and Stock
Awards Granted Prior to Covered Year that
were Outstanding and Unvested as of
Covered Year-end
Add change (positive or negative) in Fair
Value from Prior Year-end to Vesting Date
of Option Awards and Stock Awards
Granted Prior to Covered Year that Vested
during Covered Year
Subtract Fair Value of forfeited Stock
Awards during Covered Year
TOTAL ADJUSTMENTS:
TOTAL COMPENSATION
ACTUALLY PAID:
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2023
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2022
Fiscal year ended
January 31, 2021
6,426,612
5,346,033
5,498,881
5,974,289
4,694,131
5,043,575
3,642,784
4,295,795
6,512,713
416,788
872,769
1,337,571
(3,143,169)
829,978
6,746,122
(1,508,880)
—
(6,566,765)
440,771
3,983,122
16,880 (8)
1,728,303
10,105,101 (9)
3,430,851
(140,152)
7,074,336
8,929,732
(5) Total Shareholder Return shown in this table utilizes our cumulative total return to shareholders of our common stock
relative to the Nasdaq Computer Index, which is the index included in the stock performance graph required by Item
201(e) of Regulation S-K in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023. The
comparison assumes $100 was invested in our common stock and in the Nasdaq Computer Index for the period
commencing on January 31, 2020 and ending on January 31 of each Covered Year. All dollar values assume
reinvestment of the gross dividends paid by companies included in the Nasdaq Computer Index. The stock price
performance shown in the graph represents past performance and should not be considered an indication of future stock
price performance.
(6) Reflects “Net Loss” for each Covered Year as set forth in our Consolidated Statements of Operations included in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for each of the Covered Years. For the avoidance of doubt, “Net Loss” is a GAAP
measure.
(7) Reflects “Revenue” for each Covered Year as set forth in our Consolidated Statements of Operations included in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for each of the Covered Years. For the avoidance of doubt, “Revenue” is a GAAP
measure.
(8) Reflects performance-based stock awards that were forfeited as a result of attainment of company performance targets at
a level that resulted in less than full vesting.
(9) Reflects (i) the forfeiture of equity awards by Mr. Porter upon his resignation as a director on our board and in
connection with his appointment as our Chief Technology Officer, effective July 2020, and (ii) the forfeiture of equity
awards by Mr. Horowitz upon his resignation from his position as our Chief Technology Officer, effective July 2020.
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Discussion of Compensation Actually Paid
The graph below illustrates the TSR on a fixed $100 investment made as of January 31, 2020 in shares of our
common stock and in the Nasdaq Computer Index. The stock price performance shown in the graph represents past
performance and should not be considered an indication of future stock price performance.
The following chart sets forth the relationship between (i) the CAP of our CEO and the average CAP of our Other
NEOs against (ii) MongoDB’s cumulative TSR for each Covered Year.
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Fiscal YearComparison of the MongoDB, Inc. TSR and Peer Group TSR (in $)$225$247$131$146$183$142MongoDB TSRNasdaq Computer Index TSR202120222023$—$50$100$150$200$250Fiscal YearCAP of CEO and Average CAP of Other NEOs (in millions) Compared to TSR (in $)$75.9$17.7$(1.2)$8.9$7.1$(0.1)$225$247$131CEO CAPAverage of Other NEOs CAPMongoDB TSR202120222023$0$25$50$75$0$50$100$150$200$250
The following chart sets forth the relationship between (i) the CAP of our CEO and the average CAP of our Other
NEOs (as shown in the left axis) against (ii) Revenue and (iii) Net Loss on the right axis, for each Covered Year.
CAP is influenced by numerous factors, including but not limited to, the timing of new grant issuances and award
vesting, share price volatility during the fiscal year, our mix of performance metrics and other factors. Because our executive
compensation program incentivizes and rewards executives primarily through long-term incentives in the form of PSU and
RSU equity awards, CAP is most significantly impacted by changes in our stock price over the vesting period of the equity
awards.
For a review of our financial performance measures, our process for setting executive compensation and how our
executive compensation design reinforces our compensation philosophy, refer to “Executive Compensation—Compensation
Discussion and Analysis.”
Most Important Performance Measures for Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2023
The following table sets forth an unranked list of the performance measures which we view as the “most important”
measures for linking “compensation actually paid” to our CEO and Other NEOs for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 to
Company performance:
Performance Measure
ARR Growth (%)
Net New ARR ($)
Non-GAAP Operating Income
Operating Cash Flow ($)
Revenue ($)
What it Measures
Percentage growth in ARR over a given time period
The net change in ARR over a given time period
Earnings we generate adjusted for non-cash or irregular expenses
Cash generated by our regular operating activities
Revenue we generate through our subscriptions and services offerings
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Fiscal YearCAP of CEO and Average CAP of Other NEOs (in millions) Compared to Net Loss and Revenue (in millions)$75.9$17.7$(1.2)$8.9$7.1$(0.1)$(266.9)$(306.8)$(345.4)$590.4$873.7$1,284.0CEO CAPAverage of Other NEOs CAPNet LossRevenue202120222023$-50$-25$0$25$50$75$100$(500)$0$500$1,000$1,500 EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
The following table summarizes our equity compensation plan information as of January 31, 2023. Information is
included for equity compensation plans approved by our stockholders. We do not have any equity compensation plans not
approved by our stockholders.
(a) Number of
Securities to be Issued
Upon Exercise of
Outstanding Options,
Warrants and Rights(1)
5,343,457
—
(b) Weighted Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options,
Warrants and Rights(2)
$7.60
—
(c) Number of
Securities Remaining
Available for Future
Issuance Under Equity
Compensation Plans
(Excluding Securities
Reflected in Column
(a))(3)
15,027,287
—
Plan Category
Equity plans approved by stockholders
Equity plans not approved by stockholders
(1)
Includes the 2008 Plan and the 2016 Plan, but does not include future rights to purchase shares under our 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(“ESPP”), which depend on a number of factors described in our ESPP and will not be determined until the end of the applicable purchase period.
(2)
The weighted average exercise price is calculated based solely on outstanding stock options and does not take into account stock underlying restricted
stock units, which have no exercise price.
(3)
Includes the 2016 Plan and ESPP. Stock options or other stock awards granted under the 2008 Plan that are forfeited, terminated, expired or
repurchased become available for issuance under the 2016 Plan. The 2016 Plan provides that the total number of shares reserved of common stock
reserved for issuance thereunder will be automatically increased, on February 1st of each calendar year, in an amount equal to 5% of the total number
of shares of our capital stock outstanding on December 31 of the prior calendar year, or a lesser number of shares determined by our board of directors
or a committee thereof. Our ESPP provides that the number of shares of our common stock reserved for issuance thereunder will automatically increase
on February 1st of each calendar year by the lesser of (a) 1% of the total number of shares of our capital stock outstanding on the last day of the
calendar month before the date of the automatic increase and (b) 995,000 shares; provided that the board of directors or a committee thereof may
determine that such increase will be less than the amount set forth above. Accordingly, on February 1, 2023, the number of shares of our common stock
available for issuance under our 2016 Plan and our ESPP increased by 3,496,138 shares and 699,066 shares, respectively, pursuant to these provisions.
These increases are not reflected in the table above.
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PROPOSAL 3 – RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF
INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Our board of directors has selected PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting
firm for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2023 and has further directed that management submit this selection for ratification
by the stockholders at the meeting. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has served as our independent registered public accounting
firm since 2013. Representatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP are expected to be present during the meeting, where they
will be available to respond to appropriate questions and, if they desire, to make a statement.
Our board of directors is submitting this selection as a matter of good corporate governance and because we value
our stockholders’ views on our independent registered public accounting firm. Neither our amended and restated bylaws nor
other governing documents or law require stockholder ratification of the selection of our independent registered public
accounting firm. If the stockholders fail to ratify this selection, our board of directors will reconsider whether or not to retain
that firm. Even if the selection is ratified, our board of directors may direct the appointment of different independent auditors
at any time during the year if they determine that such a change would be in the best interests of MongoDB and its
stockholders.
Vote Required
An affirmative vote from holders of a majority in voting power of the shares present at the meeting (by virtual
attendance) or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the proposal will be required to ratify the selection of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The following table provides the aggregate fees for services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the fiscal
years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022.
Audit fees(1)
Audit-related fees(2)
Tax fees
All other fees(3)
Total fees
$
$
Fiscal Years Ended January 31,
2022
2023
2,861,800
$
2,737,000
—
—
4,438
2,866,238
$
—
—
4,230
2,741,230
(1)
Audit fees consist of fees billed for professional services provided in connection with the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements, the
review of our quarterly condensed consolidated financial statements, and audit services that are normally provided by independent registered public
accounting firm in connection with regulatory filings.
(2)
Audit-related fees related to additional work performed during our FY23 audit.
(3)
All other fees billed for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022 were related to fees for access to online accounting and tax research software.
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Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
Consistent with the requirements of the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding
auditor independence, the audit committee has responsibility for appointing, setting compensation and overseeing the work of
our independent registered public accounting firm. In recognition of this responsibility, the audit committee has adopted a
policy and procedures for the pre-approval of audit and non-audit services rendered by our independent registered public
accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The policy generally permits pre-approval of specified services in the defined
categories of audit services, audit-related services, tax services and non-audit services. Pre-approval may also be given as part
of the audit committee’s approval of the scope of the engagement of the independent auditor or on an individual, explicit,
case-by-case basis before the independent auditor is engaged to provide each service. The pre-approval of services may be
delegated to one or more of the audit committee’s members, but the decision must be reported to the full audit committee at
its next scheduled meeting.
The authority to grant specific pre-approval between meetings, as necessary, has been delegated to the chairperson
of the audit committee. The chairperson must update the audit committee at the next regularly scheduled meeting of any
services that were granted specific pre-approval.
All of the services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for our fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, described
in the Principal Accountant Fees and Services table above, were pre-approved by the audit committee or our board of
directors. Our audit committee has determined
than audit services by
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
the rendering of services other
that
Our board of directors recommends a vote FOR the ratification of the selection of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year
ending January 31, 2024.
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AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT
The audit committee has reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended
January 31, 2023 with the management of MongoDB. The audit committee has discussed with MongoDB’s independent
registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the matters required to be discussed by the applicable
requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Commission. The audit committee has also
received the written disclosures and the letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP required by applicable requirements of the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent accountants’ communications with the audit
committee concerning independence, and has discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP the accounting firm’s
independence. Based on the foregoing, the audit committee has recommended to our board of directors that the audited
financial statements be included in MongoDB’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, for
filing with the SEC.
The Audit Committee
Hope Cochran (Chair)
Roelof Botha
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
The material in this report is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed “filed” with the SEC and is not to be
incorporated by reference in any filing of MongoDB under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, whether made before or
after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language in any such filing.
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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
AND MANAGEMENT
The following tables set forth, as of April 28, 2023, certain information with respect to the beneficial ownership of
our common stock: (a) by each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of the outstanding
shares of our common stock, (b) by each of our directors and director nominees, (c) by each of our named executive officers
and (d) by all of our current executive officers, directors and director nominees as a group.
The percentage of shares beneficially owned shown in the table is based on 70,531,307 shares of our common stock
outstanding as of April 28, 2023. In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and
the percentage ownership of such person, we deemed to be outstanding any shares of our common stock subject to options
held by such person that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023 and any shares of common
stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days after April 28, 2023. However, we did not deem such shares of our
common stock outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes any shares over
which a person exercises sole or shared voting or investment power. Unless otherwise indicated, the persons or entities
identified in this table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares shown beneficially owned by them,
subject to applicable community property laws. The information contained in the following table is not necessarily indicative
of beneficial ownership for any other purpose, and the inclusion of any shares in the table does not constitute an admission of
beneficial ownership of those shares. This table is based upon information supplied by officers, directors and principal
stockholders and Schedules 13D and 13G and Forms 4 filed with the SEC.
Except as otherwise noted below, the address for persons listed in the table is c/o MongoDB, Inc., 1633 Broadway,
38th Floor, New York, New York 10019.
Certain Beneficial Owners
Name of Beneficial Owner - 5% or Greater Stockholders:
T. Rowe Price(1)
The Vanguard Group(2)
BlackRock, Inc.(3)
FMR, LLC(4)
Number of Shares
7,594,174
6,293,959
4,631,892
4,573,333
Ownership %
10.8
8.9
6.6
6.5
Shares Beneficially Owned
Common Stock
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Named Executive Officers, Directors and Director Nominees
Shares Beneficially Owned
Common Stock
Named Executive Officers and Directors
Archana Agrawal(5)
Roelof Botha(6)
Hope Cochran(7)
Francisco D’Souza(8)
Michael Gordon(9)
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.(10)
Dev Ittycheria(11)
Tom Killalea(12)
John McMahon(13)
Dwight Merriman(15)
Cedric Pech(15)
Mark Porter(16)
All executive officers and directors as a group (12 persons)(17)
*
Represents beneficial ownership of less than 1%
Number of Shares
2,080
244,513
50,561
4,483
290,722
67,657
696,321
99,745
51,327
1,860,457
46,677
9,679
3,424,222
Ownership %
*
*
*
*
*
*
1.0
*
*
2.6
*
*
4.8
(1)
Based upon the information provided by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”) in a Schedule 13G/A filed on April 10, 2023, and reporting
ownership as of December 31, 2022. The principal business address of T. Rowe Price is 100 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. T. Rowe Price has
sole voting power over 2,750,591 shares of common stock, shared voting power over zero shares of common stock, sole dispositive power over
7,579,421 shares of common stock and shared dispositive power over zero shares of common stock.
(2)
Based upon the information provided by The Vanguard Group - 23-1945930 (“Vanguard”) in a Schedule 13G/A filed on February 9, 2023, and
reporting ownership as of December 31, 2022. The principal business address of Vanguard is 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355. Vanguard has
sole voting power over zero shares of common stock, shared voting power over 54,220 shares of common stock, sole dispositive power over 6,145,497
shares of common stock and shared dispositive power over 148,462 shares of common stock.
(3) Based upon the information provided by BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”) in a Schedule 13G/A filed on February 1, 2023, and reporting ownership as of
December 31, 2022. The principal business address of BlackRock is 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055. BlackRock has sole voting power
over 4,225,787 shares of common stock, shared voting power over zero shares of common stock, sole dispositive power over 4,631,892 shares of
common stock and shared dispositive power over zero shares of common stock.
(4)
Based upon the information provided by FMR LLC (“FMR”) in a Schedule 13G/A filed on February 9, 2023, and reporting ownership as of December
31, 2022. The principal business address of FMR is 245 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210. FMR has sole voting power over zero shares of common
stock, shared voting power over zero shares of common stock, sole dispositive power over 4,573,333 shares of common stock and shared dispositive
power over zero shares of common stock.
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
Consists of (a) 1,293 shares of common stock owned directly by Ms. Agrawal and (b) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs
within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 154 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. Botha, (b) 243,572 shares of common stock owned by estate planning vehicles for
the benefit of Mr. Botha and (c) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 8,650 shares of common stock owned directly by Ms. Cochran, (b) 41,124 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options
exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023 and (c) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 3,696 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. D’Souza and (b) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs
within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 67,863 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. Gordon, (b) 4,000 shares of common stock held by immediate family members
of Mr. Gordon and (c) 218,859 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 50,875 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. Hazard, (b) 15,995 shares of common stock owned by The Narragansett Bay
Children’s Trust, of which Mr. Hazard is a Trustee and (c) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days of April 28,
2023.
Consists of (a) 148,285 shares of stock owned directly by Mr. Ittycheria and (b) 548,036 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options
exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
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(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
Consists of (a) 28,958 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. Killalea, (b) 50,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of
options exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023, (c) 5,000 shares of common stock owned by the UAISLE Trust U/A DTD 11/15/2021 for the
benefit of his children, (d) 5,000 shares of common stock owned by the BREOGA Trust U/A DTD 11/15/2021 for the benefit of his children, (e) 5,000
shares of common stock owned by the CEANSA Trust U/A DTD 11/15/2021 for the benefit of his children, (f) 5,000 shares of common stock owned
by the AOGALL Trust U/A DTD 11/15/2021 for the benefit of his children and (g) 787 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs
within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 12,520 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. McMahon, (b) 30,020 shares of common stock owned by the John D. McMahon
1995 Trust, (c) 8,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options exercisable within 60 days of April 28, 2023 and (d) 787 shares of
common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
Consists of (a) 1,224,561 shares of common stock owned directly by Mr. Merriman, (b) 540,896 shares of common stock held by The Dwight A.
Merriman 2012 Trust for the benefit of his children, and (c) 95,000 shares of common stock held by the Dwight A. Merriman Charitable Foundation, a
Delaware nonstock nonprofit corporation.
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limited liability company owned by Mr. Pech and his spouse.
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days of April 28, 2023 and (c) 5,509 shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs within 60 days of April 28, 2023.
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We have filed our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023 with the SEC. It is
available free of charge at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov. Stockholders can also access this proxy statement and our
Annual Report on Form 10-K at investors.mongodb.com, or a copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
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CA 94301, Attention: Secretary.
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MongoDB, Inc.
Form 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2023
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Business
Risk Factors
Unresolved Staff Comments
Properties
Legal Proceedings
Mine Safety Disclosures
PART I
PART II
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
Reserved
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Controls and Procedures
Other Information
Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
PART III
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Executive Compensation
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
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General
Unless the context otherwise indicates, references in this report to the terms “MongoDB,” the “Company,” “we,” “our”
and “us” refer to MongoDB, Inc., its divisions and its subsidiaries. All information presented herein is based on our fiscal
calendar. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years, quarters, months or periods refer to the Company’s fiscal
years ended January 31 and the associated quarters, months and periods of those fiscal years.
Trademarks
“MongoDB” and the MongoDB leaf logo and other trademarks or service marks of MongoDB, Inc. appearing in this
Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Form 10-K”) are the property of MongoDB, Inc. This Form 10-K contains additional
trade names, trademarks and service marks of others, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for
convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this Form 10-K may appear without the ® or ™ symbols.
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”), that are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our
management. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted
or quantified. All statements other than present and historical facts and conditions contained in this Form 10-K, including
statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy, plans and our objectives for
future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by
terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,”
“objective,” “ongoing,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” or “would,” or the negative or plural of
these terms or other comparable terminology. Actual events or results may differ from those expressed in these forward-
looking statements and these differences may be material and adverse. Forward-looking statements include, but are not
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our future operating and financial performance, ability to generate positive cash flow and ability to achieve and
sustain profitability;
our ability to successfully anticipate and satisfy customer demands, including through the introduction of new
features, products or services and the provision of professional services;
the effects of increased competition in our market;
our ability to expand our sales and marketing organization and to scale our business, including entering into new
markets and managing our international expansion;
the duration and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our future operating and financial performance, as well as on
our customers and potential customers;
negative economic, business and political conditions, including as a result of the interest rate environment and
inflationary pressures that adversely affect the general economy, the job market, consumer confidence and spending
habits;
the effects of geopolitical instability, including as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of
sanctions on Russia and other actions in response, on economic and market conditions, and heightened cybersecurity
risks;
the future trading prices of our common stock and the impact of securities analysts’ reports and macroeconomic
trends on these prices;
our ability to continue to build and maintain credibility with the developer community;
our ability to attract and retain customers to use our products;
our ability to maintain, protect, enforce and enhance our intellectual property;
the growth and expansion of the market for database products and our ability to penetrate such market;
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our ability to accurately forecast our sales cycle and make changes to our pricing model;
our ability to form new and expand existing strategic partnerships;
the attraction and retention of highly skilled and key personnel;
our ability to enhance our brand;
our ability to effectively manage our growth and future expenses and maintain our corporate culture; and
our ability to comply with modified or new laws and regulations applying to our business.
We have based the forward-looking statements contained in this Form 10-K primarily on our current expectations and
projections about future events and trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition, results of operations,
prospects, business strategy and financial needs. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is
subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors described in the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in
this Form 10-K. These risks are not exhaustive. Other sections of this Form 10-K include additional factors that could
adversely affect our business and financial performance. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing
environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risks and
uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained in this Form 10-K. We cannot assure
you that the results, events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur, and
actual results, events or circumstances could differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In light
of the significant uncertainties in these forward-looking statements, you should not regard these statements as a
representation or warranty by us or any other person that we will achieve our objectives and plans in any specified time frame
or at all.
In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject.
These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this Form 10-K and while we believe such
information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete and our statements
should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available
relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these
statements.
The forward-looking statements made in this Form 10-K relate only to events as of the date on which such statements
are made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements after the date of this Form 10-K or to
conform such statements to actual results or revised expectations, except as required by law.
This Form 10-K contains market data and industry forecasts that were obtained from industry publications. These data
and forecasts involve a number of assumptions and limitations and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such
information. We have not independently verified any third-party information. While we believe the market position, market
opportunity and market size information included in this Form 10-K is generally reliable, such information is inherently
imprecise.
PART I
Item 1. Business
Overview
MongoDB is the developer data platform company whose mission is to empower developers to create, transform, and
disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Our developer data platform is an integrated set of database
and related services that allow development teams to address the growing variety of modern application requirements, all in a
unified and consistent user experience.
The foundation of our platform is the world’s leading, modern general purpose database. Built on our unique
document-based architecture, our database is designed to meet the needs of organizations for performance, scalability,
flexibility and reliability while maintaining the strengths of relational databases. Every software application requires a
database to store, organize and process data. Large organizations can have tens of thousands of applications and associated
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databases. A database directly impacts an application's performance, scalability, flexibility and reliability. As a result,
selecting a database is a highly strategic decision that directly affects developer productivity, application performance and
organizational competitiveness.
The global database market is dominated by legacy relational databases, which were first developed in the 1970s.
Their underlying architecture remains largely unchanged even though the nature of applications, how they are deployed and
their role in business has evolved dramatically. Modern software development is highly iterative and requires flexibility.
Relational databases were not built to support the volume, variety and speed of data being generated today, hindering
application performance and developer productivity. In a relational database environment, developers are often required to
spend significant time fixing and maintaining the linkages between modern applications and the rigid database structures that
are inherent in relational offerings. Further, relational databases were built before cloud computing and were not designed for
“always-on” globally distributed deployments. These factors have left developers and their organizations in need of more
agile and effective database alternatives. A number of non-relational database alternatives have attempted to address the
limitations of relational databases, but they have not achieved widespread developer mindshare and marketplace adoption due
to technical trade-offs in their product architectures and the resulting compromises developers are required to make in
application development.
Our database combines the best of both relational and non-relational databases. We believe our core platform
differentiation is driven by our ability to address the needs of organizations for performance, scalability, flexibility and
reliability while maintaining the strengths of relational databases. Our document-based architecture enables developers to
manage data in a more natural way, making it easy and intuitive for developers to rapidly and cost-effectively build,
modernize, deploy and maintain applications, thereby increasing the pace of innovation within an organization. Customers
can run our database in any environment, depending on their operational requirements: fully managed as a service or self-
managed in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment.
In addition to the database offering, our developer data platform includes additional capabilities that allow developers
to address a broader range of application requirements. Our platform’s integrated capabilities allow organizations to reduce
the need for disparate, single-purpose data technologies, thereby lowering the cost and complexity of their application
infrastructure. These complementary capabilities of our platform include:
• Search. Extends the developer interface for working with the database to search operations, simplifying the
development of rich search experiences in applications. It also eliminates the need to run a separate search engine
alongside the database and maintains the sync between the two systems.
• Time series. Supports the entire end-to-end cycle of applications that leverage time series data, from ingestion,
storage and querying to native data visualization and automated data archival in a single platform, which removes
the need for complex integration, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing cost.
• Data lifecycle. Includes capabilities that help users more effectively manage the lifecycle of their application data.
For example, MongoDB Atlas Online Archive helps users automatically tier aged data out of the database while
keeping the data fully accessible.
• Application-driven analytics. Includes a wide range of capabilities to help development teams build richer
application experiences that rely on automatic, low-latency analytical processing of live data. This includes rich
aggregations and indexing strategies, as well as dedicated analytics nodes for workload isolation.
• Mobile. Enables developers to easily build mobile applications independently or via a fully managed experience that
syncs data stored on devices to a cloud database.
We compete in the database management software market, which is one of the largest in the software industry.
According to IDC, the data management software market is forecast to be $95 billion in 2023 growing to approximately
$138 billion in 2026, representing a 13% compound annual growth rate.
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The MongoDB Advantage
The key differentiating features and capabilities of our developer data platform platform include:
We Built Our Platform for Developers.
MongoDB was built by developers for developers. We architected our platform with robust functionality and made it
easy and intuitive for developers to build, modernize, deploy and maintain applications rapidly and cost-effectively, thereby
increasing developer productivity. Our document-based architecture enables developers to manage and interact with data in a
more natural way than legacy alternatives. As a result, developers can focus on the application and end-user experience, as
they do not have to spend significant time fixing and maintaining the linkages between the application and a rigid relational
database structure. We also develop and maintain drivers in all leading programming languages, allowing developers to
interact with our platform using the programming language of their choice, further increasing developer productivity.
According to the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey, MongoDB continues to be one of the top databases developers
want to work with.
We Built a Platform for Modern Applications.
Our founders were frustrated by the challenges and limitations of working with legacy database offerings. Our
platform was built to address these challenges and limits while maintaining the best aspects of relational databases, allowing
developers both to build new, modern applications that could not be built on relational databases and to more quickly and
easily modernize existing applications. While the percentage varies from quarter to quarter, over the course of the past fiscal
year, approximately one quarter of our new business related to MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, our proprietary commercial
database offering, resulted from applications that were migrated from legacy relational databases.
Core features and benefits of our platform include:
• Versatility. Our developer data platform supports a broad range of workloads and offers our customers a host of
features and services that complement our database offering. This integration provides a unique solution that
precludes the need for single-purpose technologies, and allows our customers to reduce the cost and back-end
complexity of their application infrastructure, as well as increase the speed of innovation.
• Performance. We deliver the extreme throughput and predictable low-latency required by the most demanding
applications and leverage modern server architectures, delivering millions of operations per second.
• Scalability. Our architecture scales horizontally across thousands of servers, supporting petabytes of data and
millions of users in a globally distributed environment. It is easy to add capacity to our platform in a modular,
predictable and cost-efficient manner. Applications can be run anywhere in the world with our global multi-cloud
reach.
• Flexibility and Control. MongoDB's intelligent distributed systems architecture enables users to easily place data
where their applications and users need it. MongoDB can be run within and across geographically distributed data
centers and cloud regions, providing levels of scalability, workload isolation and data locality to meet today's
modern application requirements.
• Reliability. Our platform includes the critical, advanced security features and fault-tolerance that enterprises
demand. It was built to operate in a globally distributed environment for “always-on” applications. Our multi-cloud
and global reach empowers global applications to withstand regional outages while addressing the most demanding
data security and privacy requirements.
We Allow Customers to Run Any Application Anywhere.
As a developer data platform, we support applications across a wide range of use cases. Our software is easily
configurable, allowing customers to adjust settings and parameters to optimize performance for a specific application and use
case. Customers can run our platform in any environment, depending on their operational requirements: fully managed as a
service or self-managed in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment. Customers can deploy our platform in any of
the major public cloud alternatives, providing them with increased flexibility and cost-optimization opportunities by enabling
public cloud vendor optionality. Our customers have a consistent experience regardless of infrastructure, providing
optionality, flexibility and efficiency.
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Customers of MongoDB Atlas, our multi-cloud developer data platform offering, enjoy the benefits of using
MongoDB as a service in the public cloud, further enabling developers to focus on their application performance and end-
user experience, rather than the back-end infrastructure lifecycle management. With MongoDB Atlas, organizations only
have to manage how their applications use the database and are freed from the tasks of infrastructure provisioning,
configuring operating systems, upgrading software and more.
Key Customer Benefits
Our platform delivers the following key business benefits for our customers:
• Maximize Competitive Advantage through Software and Data. Our platform is built to support modern
applications, allowing organizations to harness the full power of software and data to drive competitive advantage.
Developers use our platform to build new, operational and customer-facing applications, including applications that
cannot be built on legacy databases. As a result, our platform can help drive our customers’ ability to compete,
improve end-user satisfaction, increase their revenue and gain market share.
• Increase Developer Productivity. By empowering developers to build and modernize applications quickly and
cost-efficiently, we enable developers’ agility and accelerate their time-to-revenue for new products. Our platform’s
document-based architecture and intuitive drivers make developing new applications and iterating on existing
applications very efficient, increasing developer productivity. MongoDB Atlas allows developers to focus on how
their applications use the database, application performance and end-user experience, rather than the database
infrastructure management including provisioning, operating system configuration, upgrades, monitoring and
backups.
• Deliver High Reliability for Mission-Critical Deployments. Our platform is designed to support mission-critical
applications by being fault-tolerant and always-on, reducing downtime for our customers and minimizing the risk of
lost revenue. Also, given the competitive criticality of applications, we designed our platform to enable better end-
user experiences.
• Reduce Complexity. Our platform’s integrated capabilities allow customers to reduce the need for disparate, single-
purpose solutions, thereby reducing the cost and complexity of the application infrastructure required to support
modern applications.
• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership. The speed and efficiency of application development using our platform,
coupled with decreased developer resources required for application maintenance, can result in a dramatic reduction
in the total cost of ownership for enterprises. In addition, our platform runs on commodity hardware, requires less
oversight and management from operations personnel and can operate in the cloud of choice or other low-cost
environments, leading to reduced application-related overhead costs for our customers and lower total cost of
ownership.
Our Products
Our customers can implement our developer data platform as a managed service offering, or they can choose a self-
managed option. MongoDB Atlas is our managed multi-cloud database-as-a-service (“DBaaS”) offering that includes an
integrated set of database and related services. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is our proprietary self-managed commercial
offering for enterprise customers that can run in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment.
MongoDB Atlas
In June 2016, we introduced MongoDB Atlas, our hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service (“DBaaS”) offering that
includes comprehensive infrastructure and management, which we run and manage in the public cloud. MongoDB Atlas
provides customers with a highly flexible, managed offering that includes automated provisioning and healing,
comprehensive system monitoring, managed backup and restore, default security and other features that reduce operational
complexity and increase application resiliency. MongoDB Atlas allows customers to remove themselves from the complexity
of managing the database and related underlying infrastructure, so they can instead focus on the application and end-user
experience and innovate more quickly to better serve their own customers and capitalize on new business opportunities.
Built for resilience, scale, and security, MongoDB Atlas is available in more than 100 regions worldwide across all
three major cloud providers (Amazon Web Services (‘‘AWS’’), Google Cloud Platform (‘‘GCP’’) and Microsoft Azure),
enabling our customers to leverage the benefits of different cloud platforms for different use cases and helping them avoid
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infrastructure vendor lock-in. The general availability of multi-cloud clusters on MongoDB Atlas allows organizations to
deploy a fully managed, distributed database across multiple cloud providers simultaneously without the added operational
complexity of managing data replication and migration across clouds.
Over the years, we have introduced additional features and functionality, which have increased the capabilities of
MongoDB Atlas and accelerated and expanded its adoption including Atlas Search, Atlas Device Sync, Atlas Data Federation
and Atlas Charts.
More recently, MongoDB Atlas achieved the formal FedRAMP Moderate Authorized designation. MongoDB Atlas
provides the software tools and services necessary for U.S. government organizations to quickly and easily build and deploy
secure, highly-scalable, distributed applications in the AWS cloud. We believe MongoDB is positioned to capitalize on the
popularity of MongoDB across a number of U.S. federal government agencies.
MongoDB Atlas represented 63%, 56% and 46% of our total revenue for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, 2022
and 2021, respectively.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is our proprietary self-managed commercial database offering for enterprise
customers that can run in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is our
subscription package that includes a commercial license to our platform and the following:
• MongoDB Enterprise Database Server. The MongoDB enterprise database server, called Enterprise Server, is our
proprietary commercial database. It stores, organizes and processes data and facilitates access and changes to the
data. Enterprise Server includes advanced security features, auditing functionality and enterprise-standard
authentication and authorization, as well as encrypted and in-memory storage engines to enable a wide range of
workloads.
• Enterprise Management Capabilities. MongoDB Enterprise Advance customers can choose either our Cloud
Manager Premium product (for customers who want to manage our platform via the cloud) or Ops Manager
(generally for those with on-premises deployments), our sophisticated suite of management tools that allows
operations teams to run, manage and configure MongoDB according to their needs.
• Analytics Integrations. We provide integrations to allow data and business analysts to analyze data in applications
running on our platform using their existing business intelligence and analytics tools. Our analytics integrations
ensure that enterprises can efficiently extract significant value from applications built on our platform.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced represented 28%, 34% and 43% of our total revenue for the fiscal years ended
January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Professional Services
We provide professional services to our customers, including consulting and training, with the goal of making
customer deployments of our platform successful, thereby increasing customer retention and driving customer revenue
expansion. Given that we have designed our platform to be easily deployed, our services typically do not involve
implementation and are designed to facilitate a more rapid and successful deployment of MongoDB by our customers.
Professional services are an important part of our customer retention and expansion strategy. Customers who purchase
professional services have typically increased their subscription usage with our platform and have done so more quickly than
customers who have not engaged with our professional services.
Professional services represented 4% of our total revenue for each of the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, 2022
and 2021, respectively.
Free Offerings
To encourage developer usage, familiarity and adoption of our platform, we offer Community Server and a free tier of
MongoDB Atlas as “freemium” offerings. Community Server is a free-to-download version of our database that includes the
core functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB but not all of the features of our commercial platform.
Community Server is available under a license that protects our intellectual property and supports our subscription business
model. Our goal is to convert Community Server users to paying customers of our commercial subscription offerings of
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MongoDB Atlas or MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. Our Community Server has been downloaded over 365 million times
from our website alone since February 2009. Our free tier of MongoDB Atlas provides access to our hosted database solution
with limited processing power and storage, as well as certain operational limitations.
Unlike software companies built around third-party open source projects, we own the intellectual property of our
offerings since we are the creators of the software, enabling our proprietary software subscription business model. Owning
the intellectual property of our offering also allows us to retain control over our future product roadmap, including the
determination of which features are included in our free or paid offerings.
Our Growth Strategy
We are pursuing our large market opportunity with growth strategies that include:
• Acquiring New Customers. We believe there is a substantial opportunity to continue to grow our customer base.
We benefit from word-of-mouth awareness and frictionless experimentation by the developer community through
our Community Server and MongoDB Atlas free tier offerings. As a result, our self-serve and direct sales prospects
are often familiar with our platform and may have already built applications using our technology. While we sell to
organizations of all sizes across a broad range of industries, our key sales focus is on enterprises that invest more
heavily in software application development and deployment. These organizations have a greater need for databases
and, in the largest enterprises, can have tens of thousands of applications and associated databases. We plan to
continue to invest in our direct sales force to grow our larger enterprise subscription base, both domestically and
internationally.
• Expanding Sales Within Our Customer Base. We seek to grow our sales with our customers in several ways. As
an application grows and requires additional capacity, our customers increase their spending on our platform. Our
customers may expand their subscriptions to our platform as they migrate additional existing applications or build
new applications, either within the same department or in other lines of business or geographies. Also, as customers
modernize their information technology (“IT”) infrastructure and move to the cloud, they may migrate applications
from legacy databases. Even within our largest customers, we believe we typically represent a small percentage of
their overall spend on databases, reflecting our small market penetration. Our goal is to increase the number of
customers that standardize on our database platform within their organization, which may include offering
centralized internal support for developers within the organization or the deployment of an internal MongoDB-as-a-
service offering. Our ability to expand within existing customers is demonstrated by our net annualized recurring
revenue (“ARR”) expansion rate, which has consistently been over 120%. See Part II, Item 7, Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of this Form 10-K for a description of
ARR and a discussion of our net ARR expansion rate.
• Extending Product Leadership and Introducing New Products. We intend to continue to invest in our product
offerings with the goal of expanding the functionality and adoption of our platform. The guiding principle of our
product innovation is to help developers solve more of their data challenges by utilizing our platform. During 2021,
we improved the ease of use of our platform, by introducing innovation that facilitates data partitioning and
expanded the breadth of functionality by introducing native time series support across our platform. During 2022,
we continued to build on these improvements and further extended our offering. The new features, capabilities and
improvements such as column store indexes, in-app analytics, Atlas Serverless, Atlas Device Sync, allow developer
teams to accomplish more over a wider range of workloads while preserving a consistent developer experience and
optimizing for modern application architectures. And with Queryable Encryption, we pioneered the industry’s first
encrypted search scheme using breakthrough cryptography engineering. This technology gives developers the ability
to query encrypted sensitive data in a simple and intuitive way with the data remaining encrypted at all times on the
database.
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Fostering the MongoDB Developer Community. We have attracted a large and growing community of highly
engaged developers, who have downloaded our Community Server offering over 365 million times from our website
since February 2009 and over 125 million times in the last 12 months alone. We believe that the engagement of
developers increases our brand awareness. Many of these developers become proponents of MongoDB within their
organizations, which may result in new customers selecting our platform, as well as expansion opportunities within
existing customers. Historically, we have invested in our community through active sponsorship of user groups, our
user conferences, MongoDB University and other community-centered events. As of January 31, 2023, there were
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over 1.8 million MongoDB University registrations. We intend to continue to invest in the MongoDB developer
community.
• Growing and Cultivating Our Partner Ecosystem. We have built a partner ecosystem of independent software
vendors, systems integrators, value added resellers, cloud and technology partners. For example, we have expanded
our business partnerships with all three major cloud providers (AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure) to enhance our
joint marketing initiatives, deliver technology integrations that benefit customers and align with our sales strategy.
In addition, our technology partnerships have provided our customers with tools to help them modernize from
legacy relational databases to MongoDB which, along with our other technology partnerships, provide us with
significant benefits, including lead generation, new customer acquisition, marketplace fulfillment, accelerated
deployment and additional customer support. We expanded our global partner ecosystem with the Alibaba Cloud
partnership to offer an authorized MongoDB-as-a-Service solution to users in China. We subsequently expanded our
reach in China in February 2021 when we launched a global partnership with Tencent Cloud that allows customers
to easily adopt and use MongoDB-as-a-Service across Tencent’s global cloud infrastructure.We have also expanded
our existing partnerships with independent software vendors and global systems integrators including IBM,
Accenture, Infosys, Capgemini, Confluent, HCL, Wipro, Cognizant, Deloitte and Tata Consultancy Services. Our
system integrator partners have also been valuable in working with organizations to migrate and modernize
applications to our platform, including leveraging the cloud with MongoDB Atlas. We intend to continue to expand
and enhance our partner relationships to benefit our global customers, grow our market presence and drive greater
sales efficiency.
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Expanding Internationally. We believe there is a significant opportunity to continue to expand the use of our
platform outside the United States. During the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, revenue
generated outside of the United States was 45%, 46% and 44% of our total revenue. We intend to continue to expand
our sales and drive the adoption of our platform globally.
Human Capital Management
We believe that our employees and the culture we have established are critically important to our success. To continue
to compete and succeed in our highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, it is crucial that we attract, retain and
motivate qualified employees. To support these objectives, we strive to maintain our company culture, offer competitive
compensation and benefits, support the health and well-being of our employees, foster an inclusive, diverse and engaged
workforce and develop talent.
As of January 31, 2023, we had a total of 4,619 employees, including 2,211 employees located outside the United
States. We are subject to laws and regulations relating to our relationship with our employees. Generally, these laws and
regulations are specific to the location of our business and we engage with legally recognized employee representatives in
these locations as required. In accordance with the requirements of France, we have established a Social and Economic
Committee composed of employer and elected staff representatives. We have not experienced any work stoppages and we
consider our relations with our employees to be good.
Compensation and Benefits
We provide competitive compensation and benefits for our employees globally. We continue to evolve our
compensation programs to maintain competitive alignment with market practices while ensuring all pay decisions are driven
by performance. Our compensation package may include base salary, commission or semi-annual bonuses and long-term
equity awards. Where the market indicates, equity compensation continues to be an important tool to attract and retain talent.
Employees in equity-eligible roles receive a new hire award at the time of hire and an annual performance-related refresh
thereafter. To foster a strong sense of ownership and align our employees’ interests with our long-term success, we offer all
full-time employees the opportunity to participate in an employee stock purchase plan.
In addition to cash and equity compensation, we offer employees a wide array of benefits designed to be aligned with
local reward practices and help us successfully compete for talent. In the United States, these include health (medical, dental
and vision) insurance, paid time off, retirement benefits and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being.
While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary by country due to local
regulations and preferences.
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Health, Safety and Well-Being
We believe the health, safety and well-being of our employees are vital to our success. We have introduced guidelines,
which reflect our commitment to both the physical and psychological health and well-being of our employees. As part of this
commitment, we recognize our responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment for all employees, contractors,
customers and visitors.
We prioritized employee safety during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring all employees were properly enabled to
work remotely and by providing clarity on office closures and evolving guidelines. In addition, in response to the COVID-19
pandemic, we introduced emergency caregiving leaves and promoted new and existing resources related to mental health. We
also implemented additional measures to support our employees, such as company-wide days off and wellness checks
throughout the pandemic.
As conditions improved, we began to re-open our offices in the United States and certain other locations globally for
employees to voluntarily return. In April 2022, we moved forward with a hybrid return-to-office approach. We implemented
four working models, which help ensure that we are meeting business needs while also offering employees flexibility. As it
relates to the in-office employee experience, we aim to provide opportunities for collaboration and social interaction, as well
as training opportunities in managing a hybrid team for our people managers. We have several hub offices and a network of
satellite offices in locations around the world and continue to introduce new workplace initiatives to enhance the employee
experience.
As it relates to employee well-being, we offer a range of benefits under our four pillars of well-being:
• Physical well-being. We offer our employees access to highly comprehensive and competitive medical coverage in
local markets, often covering the employee and dependent premiums. Our plans often include dental, optical,
maternity, hospitalization and outpatient care, among other coverages. To promote healthy lifestyles, we also offer
employees access to highly subsidized or discounted monthly gym and exercise class memberships.
• Financial well-being. We believe that financial security is an enabler of creativity and productivity, which is why
we offer retirement saving options for our employees, as well as benefits such as life insurance, disability insurance,
critical illness and accident coverage.
• Emotional well-being. Our employees and their families have 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Program
(“EAP”). Our EAP offers confidential guidance on matters such as family support, mental health and legal
assistance. Through local partners, employees have access to free counseling and coaching sessions. Globally we
also have a team of mental Health First Aiders, who are trained to be a point of contact for any of our employees
experiencing emotional distress. In addition, all employees receive a complimentary subscription to a meditation
app, which provides hundreds of themed meditation sessions on everything from sleep to focus to reducing stress.
• Family well-being. We provide global fertility benefits to our employees and their partners, including fertility care,
adoption and surrogacy assistance and unlimited access to 1:1 guidance with certified practitioners. In the United
States and some of our bigger geographies, we also offer backup childcare support. We feel strongly that parents
should be able to share the responsibilities of caregiving and our parental leave policy gives all new parents at least
20 weeks of paid leave.
Talent & Leadership Development
Once we attract top talent, promoting their professional growth and development is an essential tool for retention and
ensuring our continued success as we navigate the challenges of scaling in a competitive business environment. In addition to
our ongoing delivery of professional and technical skill growth, we focus on two key levers for developing our talent. First,
we are committed to developing talent using our performance and growth framework, which equips managers, and through
them also equip employees, to meet and exceed high performance expectations, and make MongoDB a true inflection point in
their careers. Second, we are focused on leadership development at all levels at MongoDB, which includes new manager
onboarding, as well as leadership development for first-line managers and second-line leaders. Teams are also encouraged to
seek customized leadership development programming for their leaders, to drive a precision focus on business needs.
Our Culture
We believe our culture is critical to our success and has delivered tangible financial and operational benefits for our
customers, our employees and our stockholders. Our company values are:
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• Think Big, Go Far. We are big dreamers with a passion for creativity. We eagerly pursue new opportunities and
markets through innovation and disruption. We have a pioneering spirit - always ready to forge new paths and take
smart risks.
• Build Together. We achieve amazing things by connecting and leveraging the diversity of perspectives, skills,
experiences and backgrounds of our entire organization. We place the success of the company over any individual or
team. We discuss things thoroughly, but prioritize commitment over consensus.
• Embrace the Power of Differences. We commit to creating a culture of belonging, where people of different
origins, backgrounds and experiences feel valued and heard. This is cultivated by learning from and respecting each
other’s similarities and differences. We approach conversations with positive intent and believe that others value the
perspective we bring to the table. We recognize that a diverse workforce is the best way to broaden our perspectives,
foster innovation and enable a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Make It Matter. We are relentless in our pursuit of meaningful impact. We think strategically and are clear on
what we are and are not trying to do. We accomplish an amazing amount of important work and we are obsessed
with delivering on our commitments.
• Be Intellectually Honest. We embrace reality. We apply high-quality thinking and rigor and operate with
transparency. We have courage in our convictions but work hard to ensure biases or personal beliefs do not get in
the way of finding the best solution.
• Own What You Do. We take ownership and are accountable for everything that we do. We empower and we are
empowered to make things happen and balance independence with interdependence. We demand excellence from
ourselves. We each play our own part in making MongoDB a great place to work.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building a diverse workforce and a culture that reflects our value of embracing the power of
differences to drive better business outcomes.
We have expanded our efforts to recruit a more diverse workforce by embedding the capability to recruit diverse talent
within our entire recruiting organization and investing in a diversity sourcing team that supports diverse recruitment
marketing campaigns and external partnerships.
We are investing in the development of diverse high potential talent within MongoDB, and we have launched
Inclusive Leadership Training for all Vice-Presidents across the company.
We also have a growing number of Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”), including BEAM (Black Employees At
MongoDB), Config.MDB (neurodivergent and people with disabilities), Green Team (sustainable, social, and environmental
responsibility), MDBWomen (employees identifying as women), MongoDB_ API (Asian American and Pacific Islander
community), Queer Collective (members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies), Queeries (a safe environment for those
identifying as LGBTQIA+), QueLatine (honoring the diversity of Latine heritage), Sell Like a Girl (those identifying as
women in sales), UGT (underrepresented genders in tech), and Veterans (employees who are veterans of the armed forces).
These groups focus on providing community support, professional development and business impact. Our ERGs play an
important role in our overall company culture by helping us raise awareness of issues unique to their members’ experiences.
As signatories to the Corporate Parity Pledge, we have committed to interview at least one qualified female candidate
for every open role at the vice president level and above, as well as for every additional directorship on our Board of
Directors. Additionally, we have partnered with Advancing Women in Tech to create a mentorship program focused on
accelerating the growth of women and non-binary directors.
We are committed to pay equity, regardless of gender, ethnicity or other personal characteristics. To deliver on that
commitment, we benchmark and set pay ranges based on market data and consider factors such as an employee’s role and
experience, job location and performance. In addition, to reduce the risk of bias and help ensure consistent pay practices, we
use a third-party tool to conduct annual pay parity checks.
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Employee Engagement
We conduct anonymous engagement surveys regularly to help us understand the employee experience, identify areas
of strength and development opportunities among teams, measure the effectiveness of our people and culture initiatives and
understand employees’ sentiments on management. These surveys are managed by a third-party vendor to encourage candor.
The results are reviewed by senior management, who analyze areas of progress or needs for improvement and work with their
teams to determine actionable steps based on survey results. The results also drive organization-wide focus areas and
commitments focused on leadership, culture and inclusion.
Our Customers
As of January 31, 2023, we had over 40,800 customers spanning a wide range of industries in more than 100 countries
around the world. All affiliated entities are counted as a single customer. No single customer represented more than 10% of
our revenue in fiscal year 2023. All affiliated entities are counted as a single customer and our definition of “customer”
excludes users of our free offerings.
Sales and Marketing
Our sales and marketing teams work together closely to drive awareness and adoption of our platform, accelerate
customer acquisition and generate and increase revenue from customers. While we sell to organizations of all sizes across a
broad range of industries, our key sales focus is on enterprises that invest more heavily in software application development
and deployment. These organizations have a greater need for databases and, in the largest enterprises, can have tens of
thousands of applications and associated databases. We plan to continue to invest in our direct sales force to grow our larger
enterprise subscription base, both domestically and internationally.
Our go-to-market model is primarily focused on driving awareness and usage of our platform among software
developers with the goal of converting that usage into paid consumption of our platform. We are a pioneer of developer
evangelism and education and have cultivated a large, highly engaged global developer community. We foster developer
engagement through community events and conferences to demonstrate how developers can create or modernize applications
quickly and intuitively using our platform. We intend to continue to cultivate our relationships with developers through
continued investment in and growth of our MongoDB Advocacy Hub, User Groups and MongoDB University.
To drive developer awareness of, engagement with, and adoption of our platform, we created our Community Server
and MongoDB Atlas free tier offerings. These let developers use, experiment and evaluate our platform frictionlessly, which
we believe has contributed to our platform’s popularity. We believe that developers are often advocates for us because of our
developer-focused approach. As a result, our self-serve and direct sales prospects are often familiar with our platform and
may have already built applications using our technology. In order to assess the most likely commercial prospects, we employ
a process-oriented and data-driven approach to customer acquisition. We utilize advanced marketing technologies and
processes to drive awareness and engagement, educate and convert prospects into customers. We also analyze usage patterns
of our self-serve customers and free-tier users to identify those accounts that might benefit from engagement with our sales
teams. As customers expand their usage of our platform, our relationships with them often evolve to include technology and
business leaders within their organizations and our goal is to get organizations to standardize on our platform. Once our
customers reach a certain spending level with us, we support them with customer success advocates to ensure their
satisfaction and expand their usage of our platform. We also have a partner ecosystem of global system integrators, value-
added resellers and independent software vendors, which we collectively refer to as strategic partners.
Our sales and marketing organization includes sales development, inside sales, field sales, sales engineering and
marketing personnel. As of January 31, 2023, we had 2,249 employees in our sales and marketing organization.
Research and Development
Our research and development efforts are focused on enhancing our existing products and developing new products to
extend our product leadership, increase our market penetration and deepen our relationships with our customers. Our research
and development organization is built around small development teams. Our small development teams foster greater agility,
which enables us to develop new, innovative products and make rapid changes to our infrastructure that increase resiliency
and operational efficiency.
As of January 31, 2023, we had 1,030 employees in our research and development organization. We intend to continue
to invest in our research and development capabilities to extend our platform.
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Competition
The worldwide database software market is rapidly evolving and highly competitive. We believe that the principal
competitive factors in our market are:
• mindshare with software developers and IT executives;
• product capabilities, including flexibility, scalability, performance, security and reliability;
• flexible deployment options, including fully managed as a service or self-managed in the cloud, on-premises or in a
hybrid environment;
• ease of deployment;
• breadth of use cases supported;
• ease of integration with existing IT infrastructure;
• robustness of professional services and customer support;
• price and total cost of ownership;
• adherence to industry standards and certifications;
• size of customer base and level of user adoption;
• strength of sales and marketing efforts; and
• brand awareness and reputation.
We believe that we compete favorably on the basis of the factors listed above.
We primarily compete with established legacy database software providers such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and other
similar companies. We also compete with public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure that offer database
functionality and non-relational database software providers.
Some of our actual and potential competitors, in particular the legacy database providers and large cloud providers,
have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, more established relationships with current or potential
customers and commercial partners, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger brand
recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence. Such competitors may make
their products available at a low cost or no cost basis in order to enhance their overall relationships with current or potential
customers. Our competitors may also be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing
opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements. In addition, some of our larger competitors have
substantially broader offerings and can bundle competing products with hardware or other software offerings, including their
cloud computing and customer relationship management platforms. Other large software and internet companies may also
seek to enter our market. As we introduce new technologies, such as the ones we announced during fiscal year 2022, and as
our existing markets see more market entry, we expect competition to intensify.
Seasonality
We have in the past and expect in the future to experience seasonal fluctuations in our revenue and operating results
from time to time. We may experience variability and reduced comparability of our quarterly revenue and operating results
with respect to the timing and nature of certain of our contracts, particularly multi-year contracts that contain a term license.
We may also experience fluctuations as MongoDB Atlas revenue is recorded on a consumption basis and varies with usage,
including due to seasonal variability. As MongoDB Atlas revenue continues to increase as a percentage of total revenue,
these fluctuations may have a greater impact on our results of operations.We believe that seasonal fluctuations that we have
experienced in the past may continue in the future.
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Intellectual Property
We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws in the United States and other
jurisdictions, as well as license agreements and other contractual protections, to protect our proprietary technology. We also
rely on a number of registered and unregistered trademarks to protect our brand.
As of January 31, 2023, in the United States, we had been issued 68 patents, which expire between 2030 and 2041 and
had 37 patent applications pending, of which eight are provisional applications. In addition, as of January 31, 2023, we had
11 registered trademarks in the United States and three pending trademark application in the United States.
Unlike software companies built around open source projects, we own the intellectual property of our core offerings,
allowing us to retain control over our future product roadmap, including the determination of which features are included in
our free or paid offerings. All versions of Community Server released after October 16, 2018 are offered under the SSPL.
Versions of Community Server released prior to October 16, 2018 are offered under the AGPL. Both the SSPL and the
AGPL permit users to run the database without charge but subject to certain terms and conditions. The SSPL explicitly
requires Community Server users that offer MongoDB as a third-party service to make publicly available the source code for
all the programs used to offer such service. The AGPL requires users to make publicly available the source code for any
modified version of the database that they distribute, run as a service or otherwise make available to end users. By contrast,
we offer our Enterprise Server database under a commercial license that does not have this requirement and this is one of the
reasons some organizations elect to buy a subscription including a commercial license to our platform. In addition, by
offering Community Server under the SSPL and AGPL, we limit the appeal to other parties, including public cloud vendors,
of monetizing our software without licensing it from us, further supporting our software subscription business model.
In addition, we seek to protect our intellectual property rights by implementing a policy that requires our employees
and independent contractors involved in development of intellectual property on our behalf to enter into agreements
acknowledging that all works or other intellectual property generated or conceived by them on our behalf are our property
and assigning to us any rights, including intellectual property rights, that they may claim or otherwise have in those works or
property, to the extent allowable under applicable law.
Corporate Information
MongoDB, Inc. was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in November 2007 under the name 10Gen,
Inc. We changed our name to MongoDB, Inc. on August 27, 2013. In October 2017, we completed our initial public offering
and our Class A common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “MDB.” Our principal
executive offices are located at 1633 Broadway, 38th Floor, New York, New York 10019 and our telephone number is (646)
727-4092.
Available Information
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments
to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy statements and other information are filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). We are subject to the informational requirements of the
Exchange Act and file or furnish reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Such reports and other
information filed by us with the SEC are available free of charge on our website at investors.mongodb.com when such reports
are available on the SEC’s website. The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and
other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. The information contained on the
websites referenced in this Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this filing. Further, our references to website
URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties including those described below.
You should consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described below, in addition to other information contained in
this Form 10-K, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes. The risks and uncertainties described
below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently
believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business. If any of the following
risks or others not specified below materialize, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be
materially and adversely affected. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline.
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Risk Factors Summary
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk because we are subject to numerous risks and
uncertainties that could negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations, as more fully described
below. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Unfavorable conditions in our industry or the global economy or reductions in information technology spending
could limit our ability to grow our business and materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
Our business and results of operations depend substantially on our customers renewing their subscriptions with us
and expanding their usage of software and related services. Any decline in our customer renewals or failure to
convince our customers to broaden their usage of subscription offerings and related services could materially and
adversely harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
• We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business and future operating
results, which would cause our stock price to decline.
• We have a limited operating history, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations.
• We have a history of losses and as our costs increase, we may not be able to generate sufficient revenue to achieve
or sustain profitability.
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Because we derive the majority of our revenue from MongoDB Atlas, failure of MongoDB Atlas to satisfy customer
demands could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and growth prospects and our
future revenue may be more difficult to predict.
• We currently face significant competition and expect that intense competition will continue.
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If we do not effectively expand our sales and marketing organization, we may be unable to add new customers or
increase sales to our existing customers.
Our decision to offer Community Server under the Server Side Public License (“SSPL”) may harm the adoption of
Community Server.
• We could be negatively impacted if the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (the “AGPL”), the SSPL and
other open source licenses under which some of our software is licensed are not enforceable.
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Our licensing model for Community Server could negatively affect our ability to monetize and protect our
intellectual property rights.
• We could incur substantial costs in obtaining, maintaining, protecting, defending or enforcing our intellectual
property rights and any failure to obtain, maintain, protect, defend or enforce our intellectual property rights could
reduce the value of our software and brand.
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If we are not able to introduce new features or services successfully and to make enhancements to our software or
services, our business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
• We have experienced rapid growth in recent periods. If we fail to continue to grow and to manage our growth
effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, increase our revenue, improve our results of operations,
maintain high levels of service, or adequately address competitive challenges.
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If we or our third-party service providers, experience a security breach or other security incident, or unauthorized
access to personal, proprietary, confidential or other sensitive data is otherwise obtained, our software may be
perceived as not being secure, customers may reduce or terminate their use of our software and we may face
litigation, regulatory investigations, significant liability and reputational damage.
If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, especially among developers, our business and results of
operations may be adversely affected.
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Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
Unfavorable conditions in our industry or the global economy or reductions in information technology spending could
limit our ability to grow our business and materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
Our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic conditions and our results of operations may vary
based on the impact of changes in our industry or the global economy on us or our customers. The revenue growth and
potential profitability of our business depend on demand for database software and services generally and for our subscription
offering and related services in particular. Current or future economic uncertainties or downturns could materially and
adversely affect our business and results of operations. Negative conditions in the general economy both in the United States
and abroad, including conditions resulting from changes in gross domestic product growth, labor shortages, supply chain
disruptions, inflationary pressures, rising interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, international trade relations
and/or the imposition of trade tariffs, political turmoil, natural catastrophes, regional or global outbreaks of contagious
diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, warfare and terrorist attacks on the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific region
or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in business investments, including spending on information technology, disrupt the
timing and cadence of key industry and marketing events and otherwise could materially and adversely affect the growth of
our business.
Geopolitical risks, including those arising from trade tension and/or the imposition of trade tariffs, terrorist activity or
acts of civil or international hostility, are increasing. Similarly, the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has
had negative impacts on the global economy, including by contributing to rapidly rising costs of living (driven largely by
higher energy prices) in Europe and created uncertainty in the global capital markets and is expected to have further global
economic consequences, including disruptions of the global supply chain and energy markets. Further, other events outside of
our control, including natural disasters, climate change-related events, pandemics (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) or
health crises may arise from time to time and be accompanied by governmental actions that may increase international
tension. Any such events and responses, including regulatory developments, may cause significant volatility and declines in
the global markets, disproportionate impacts to certain industries or sectors, disruptions to commerce (including to economic
activity, travel and supply chains), loss of life and property damage, and may materially and adversely affect the global
economy or capital markets, as well as our business and results of operations.
Additionally, the global economy, including credit and financial markets, has experienced extreme volatility and
disruptions and may continue to experience such disruptions in the future, including severely diminished liquidity and credit
availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, increases in unemployment rates, increases in
inflation rates, higher interest rates and uncertainty about economic stability. As a result of these factors, our revenues may be
affected by both decreased customer acquisition and lower than anticipated revenue growth from existing customers. For
example, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread unemployment, economic slowdown and extreme volatility.
Similarly, the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has created extreme volatility in the global capital
markets and has caused and could continue to cause disruptions of the global supply chain and energy markets. Any such
volatility and disruptions may have material and adverse consequences on us, the third parties on whom we rely or our
customers. Increased inflation and/or interest rates can adversely affect us by increasing our costs, including labor and
employee benefit costs. Any significant increases in inflation and related increase in interest rates could have a material and
adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Further, to the extent there is a sustained general economic downturn and our database software is perceived by
customers and potential customers as costly, or too difficult to deploy or migrate to, our revenue may be disproportionately
affected by delays or reductions in general information technology spending. This could also result in an extension of our
sales cycle with potential customers, thus increasing the time and cost associated with our sales process. Further, if our
customers experience reductions in their technology spending, even if they choose to use our products, they may not purchase
additional products and services in the future due to budget limitations.
In addition, if financial institutions used by us or our customers face insolvency or illiquidity challenges due to events
affecting the banking system and / or financial markets, our and our customers' ability to access existing cash, cash
equivalents, and investments may be threatened. To the extent that the resulting receivership or insolvency causes customers
to be unable to, or causes delays, in accessing bank deposits, our customers may not be able to pay us on time or at all for the
products and services that we provide them and they may not renew their subscriptions with us. The failure of banks or
financial institutions and the measures taken by governments, businesses and other organizations in response to such events
could adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Also, competitors, many of whom are larger and more established than we are, may respond to market conditions by
lowering prices and attempting to lure away our customers. In addition, the increased pace of consolidation in certain
industries may result in reduced overall spending on our subscription offerings and related services. We cannot predict the
timing, strength or duration of any economic slowdown, instability or recovery, generally or within any particular industry. If
the economic conditions of the general economy or markets in which we operate worsen from present levels, our business,
results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.
We have a limited operating history, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations.
We were incorporated in 2007 and introduced MongoDB Community Server in 2009, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
in 2013 and MongoDB Atlas in 2016. As a result of our limited operating history, our ability to forecast our future results of
operations is limited and subject to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to accurately predict future growth. Our
historical revenue growth has been inconsistent and should not be considered indicative of our future performance. Further, in
future periods, our revenue growth could slow or our revenue could decline for a number of reasons, including slowing
adoption or usage of MongoDB or demand for our subscription offerings and related services, reduced conversion of users of
our free offerings to paying customers, increasing competition, changes to technology or our intellectual property or our
failure, for any reason, to continue to capitalize on growth opportunities. We have also encountered and will encounter risks
and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing industries, such as the risks and
uncertainties described herein. If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties and our future revenue growth are
incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our operating and financial results could differ materially
from our expectations and our business could suffer.
We have a history of losses and as our costs increase, we may not be able to generate sufficient revenue to achieve or
sustain profitability.
We have incurred net losses in each period since our inception, including net losses of $345.4 million, $306.9 million
and $266.9 million for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit
of $1.5 billion as of January 31, 2023. We expect our operating expenses to increase significantly as we increase our sales
and marketing efforts, continue to invest in research and development and expand our operations and infrastructure, both
domestically and internationally. In particular, we have entered into non-cancelable multi-year capacity commitments with
respect to cloud infrastructure services with certain third-party cloud providers, which require us to pay for such capacity
irrespective of actual usage. In addition, we have incurred and expect to continue to incur significant additional legal,
accounting and other expenses related to being a public company. While our revenue has grown in recent years, if our
revenue declines or fails to grow at a rate faster than these increases in our operating expenses, we will not be able to achieve
and maintain profitability in future periods. As a result, we expect to continue to generate losses. We cannot assure you that
we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will be able to sustain profitability.
Because we derive the majority of our revenue from MongoDB Atlas, failure of MongoDB Atlas to satisfy customer
demands could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and growth prospects and our
future revenue may be more difficult to predict.
We derive and expect to continue to derive the majority of our revenue from MongoDB Atlas, our database-as-a-
service offering, which is primarily recognized on a usage-basis. As such, market adoption and usage of MongoDB Atlas is
critical to our continued success. Although MongoDB Atlas has seen rapid adoption since its commercial launch in June
2016, and though we intend to continue to direct a significant portion of our financial and operating resources to develop and
grow MongoDB Atlas, including offering a free tier of MongoDB Atlas to generate developer usage and awareness, we
cannot guarantee that rate of adoption will continue at the same pace or at all. Demand for MongoDB Atlas is affected by a
number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including economic downturns, continued market acceptance by
developers, the availability of our Community Server offering, the continued volume, variety and velocity of data that is
generated, timing of development and release of new offerings by our competitors, technological change and the rate of
growth in our market. If we are unable to continue to meet the demands of our customers and the developer community, our
business operations, financial results and growth prospects will be materially and adversely affected. In addition, because our
customer’s usage of MongoDB Atlas may vary for a number of reasons, our visibility into the timing of revenue recognition
is limited. There is a risk that customers will consume our MongoDB Atlas offering more slowly than we expect, and our
actual results may differ from our forecasts and our future revenue may be less predictable going forward due to, among other
things, fluctuations in the rate of customer renewals and expansions and seasonality of, or fluctuations in, usage of MongoDB
Atlas.
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Our business and results of operations depend substantially on our customers renewing their subscriptions with us and
expanding their usage of software and related services. Any decline in our customer renewals or failure to convince our
customers to broaden their usage of subscription offerings and related services could materially and adversely harm our
business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our subscription offerings are term-based and a majority of our subscription contracts were one year in duration in
fiscal year 2022. In order for us to maintain or improve our results of operations, it is important that our customers renew
their subscriptions with us when the existing subscription term expires and renew on the same or more favorable quantity and
terms. Our customers have no obligation to renew their subscriptions and we may not be able to accurately predict customer
renewal rates. In addition, the growth of our business depends in part on our customers expanding their use of subscription
offerings and related services, including increasing their usage and workloads with us. Historically, some of our customers
have elected not to renew their subscriptions with us or have not expanded their usage of our services over time for a variety
of reasons, including as a result of changes in their strategic IT priorities, budgets, costs and, in some instances, due to
competing solutions. Our retention rate may also decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of other factors, including our
customers’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our software, the increase in the contract value of subscription and support
contracts from new customers, the effectiveness of our customer support services, our pricing, the prices of competing
products or services, mergers and acquisitions affecting our customer base, global economic conditions and the other risk
factors described herein. As a result, we cannot assure you that customers will renew subscriptions or increase their usage of
our software and related services. If our customers do not renew their subscriptions or renew on less favorable terms, or if we
are unable to expand our customers’ usage of our software, our business, results of operations and financial condition could
be materially and adversely affected.
Further, to the extent there is a sustained general economic downturn and our database software is perceived by
customers and potential customers as costly, or too difficult to deploy or migrate to, our revenue may be disproportionately
affected by delays or reductions in general information technology spending. See “—Unfavorable conditions in our industry
or the global economy or reductions in information technology spending could limit our ability to grow our business and
materially and adversely affect our results of operations.”
We currently face significant competition and expect that intense competition will continue.
The database software market, for both relational and non-relational database products, is highly competitive, rapidly
evolving and others may put out competing databases or sell services in connection with existing open source or source
available databases, including ours. The principal competitive factors in our market include: mindshare with software
developers and information technology (“IT”) executives; product capabilities, including flexibility, scalability, performance,
security and reliability; flexible deployment options, including fully managed as a service or self-managed in the cloud, on-
premises or in a hybrid environment and ease of deployment; breadth of use cases supported; ease of integration with existing
IT infrastructure; robustness of professional services and customer support; price and total cost of ownership; adherence to
industry standards and certifications; size of customer base and level of user adoption; strength of sales and marketing efforts;
and brand awareness and reputation. If we fail to compete effectively with respect to any of these competitive factors, we
may fail to attract new customers or lose or fail to renew existing customers, which would cause our business and results of
operations to suffer.
We primarily compete with established legacy database software providers such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and other
similar companies. We also compete with public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), Google Cloud
Platform (“GCP”) and Microsoft Azure that offer database functionality and non-relational database software providers. In
addition, other large software and internet companies may seek to enter our market.
Some of our actual and potential competitors, in particular the legacy relational database providers and large cloud
providers, have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, more established relationships with current or
potential customers and commercial partners, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger
brand recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence. Such competitors may
make their products available at a low cost or no cost basis in order to enhance their overall relationships with current or
potential customers. Our competitors may also be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or
changing opportunities, technologies, standards or customer requirements, or may be able to devote greater resources than we
can to the development, promotion, and sale of their products and services. As we introduce new technologies and product
enhancements, such as the ones we announced during fiscal year 2022, and as our existing markets see more market entry, we
expect competition to intensify in the future. In addition, some of our larger competitors have substantially broader offerings
and can bundle competing products with hardware or other software offerings, including their cloud computing and customer
relationship management platforms. As a result, customers may choose a bundled offering from our competitors, even if
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individual products have more limited functionality compared to our software. These larger competitors are also often in a
better position to withstand any significant reduction in technology spending and will therefore not be as susceptible to
competition or economic downturns. In addition, some competitors may offer products or services that address one or a
limited number of functions at lower prices, with greater depth than our products or in geographies where we do not operate.
Furthermore, our actual and potential competitors may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with
third parties that may further enhance their resources and offerings in the markets we address. In addition, third parties with
greater available resources may acquire current or potential competitors. As a result of such relationships and acquisitions,
our actual or potential competitors might be able to adapt more quickly to new technologies and customer needs, devote
greater resources to the promotion or sale of their products, initiate or withstand substantial price competition, take advantage
of other opportunities more readily or develop and expand their offerings more quickly than we do. For all of these reasons,
we may not be able to compete successfully against our current or future competitors.
If we do not effectively expand our sales and marketing organization, we may be unable to add new customers or increase
sales to our existing customers.
Increasing our customer base and achieving broader market acceptance of our subscription offerings and related
services will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to effectively expand our sales and marketing operations and
activities. We are substantially dependent on our direct sales force and our marketing efforts to obtain new customers. We
plan to continue to expand our sales and marketing organization both domestically and internationally. We believe that there
is significant competition for experienced sales professionals with the sales skills and technical knowledge that we require,
particularly as we continue to target larger enterprises. Our ability to achieve significant revenue growth in the future will
depend, in part, on our success in recruiting, training and retaining a sufficient number of experienced sales professionals,
especially in highly competitive markets. New hires require significant training and time before they achieve full
productivity, particularly in new or developing sales territories. Our recent hires and planned hires may not become as
productive as quickly as we expect, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work arrangements, and we
may be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the future in the markets where we do business,
particularly during the current period of heightened employee attrition in the United States and other countries. Because of
our limited operating history, we cannot predict whether, or to what extent, our sales will increase as we expand our sales and
marketing organization or how long it will take for sales personnel to become productive. Our business and results of
operations could be harmed if the expansion of our sales and marketing organization does not generate a significant increase
in revenue.
Our adoption strategies include offering Community Server and a free tier of MongoDB Atlas and we may not be able to
realize the intended benefits of these strategies.
To encourage developer usage, familiarity and adoption of our platform, we offer Community Server as a “freemium”
offering. Community Server is a free-to-download version of our database that does not include all of the features of our
commercial platform. We also offer a free tier of MongoDB Atlas in order to accelerate adoption, promote usage and drive
brand and product awareness. We do not know if we will be able to convert these users to paying customers of our platform.
Our marketing strategy also depends in part on persuading users who use one of these free versions to convince others within
their organization to purchase and deploy our platform. To the extent that users of Community Server or our free tier of
MongoDB Atlas do not become, or lead others to become, paying customers, we will not realize the intended benefits of
these strategies and our ability to grow our business or achieve profitability may be harmed.
Our decision to offer Community Server under the SSPL, may harm the adoption of Community Server.
On October 16, 2018, we announced that we were changing the license for Community Server from the AGPL to a
new software license, the SSPL. The SSPL builds on the spirit of the AGPL, but includes an explicit condition that any
organization attempting to exploit MongoDB as a service must open source the software that it uses to offer such service.
Since the SSPL is a new license and has not been interpreted by any court, developers and the companies they work for may
be hesitant to adopt Community Server because of uncertainty around the provisions of the SSPL and how it will be
interpreted and enforced. In addition, the SSPL has not been approved by the Open Source Initiative, nor has it been included
in the Free Software Foundation’s list of free software licenses. This may negatively impact the adoption of Community
Server, which in turn could lead to reduced brand and product awareness, ultimately leading to a decline in paying customers
and our ability to grow our business or achieve profitability may be harmed.
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We track certain operational metrics with internal systems and tools and do not independently verify such metrics. Certain
of our operational metrics are subject to inherent challenges in measurement, and any real or perceived inaccuracies in
such metrics may adversely affect our business and reputation.
We track certain operational metrics, including annualized recurring revenue (“ARR”), annualized monthly recurring
revenue (“MRR”), ARR expansion rate, Total Customers, Direct Sales Customers, MongoDB Atlas Customers, Customers
over 100K and Downloads of our platform and non-GAAP metrics such as non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin,
non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income (loss) from operations, non-GAAP net income (loss), non-GAAP net
income (loss) per share and free cash flow. These operational metrics are tracked with internal systems and tools that are not
independently verified by any third party and which may differ from estimates or similar metrics published by third parties
due to differences in sources, methodologies, or the assumptions on which we rely. Our internal systems and tools have a
number of limitations, and our methodologies for tracking these metrics may change over time, which could result in
unexpected changes to our metrics, including the metrics we publicly disclose. If the internal systems and tools we use to
track these metrics undercount or overcount performance or contain algorithmic or other technical errors, the data we report
may not be accurate. While these numbers are based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates of our metrics for the
applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring how our platform is used across large
populations. In addition, limitations or errors with respect to how we measure data or with respect to the data that we measure
may affect our understanding of certain details of our business, which could affect our long-term strategies. If our operating
metrics are not accurate representations of our business, if investors do not perceive our operating metrics to be accurate, or if
we discover material inaccuracies with respect to these figures, we expect that our business, reputation, financial condition,
and results of operations would be adversely affected.
We could be negatively impacted if the AGPL, the SSPL and other open source licenses under which some of our software
is licensed are not enforceable.
The versions of Community Server released prior to October 16, 2018 are licensed under the AGPL. This license states
that any program licensed under it may be copied, modified and distributed provided certain conditions are met. On October
16, 2018, we issued a new software license, the SSPL, for all versions of Community Server released on or after that date.
The SSPL builds on the spirit of the AGPL, but includes an explicit condition that any organization using Community Server
to offer MongoDB as a third-party service must open source the software that it uses to offer such service. It is possible that a
court would hold the SSPL or AGPL to be unenforceable. If a court held either license or certain aspects of this license to be
unenforceable, others may be able to use our software to compete with us in the marketplace in a manner not subject to the
restrictions set forth in the SSPL or AGPL.
Our licensing model for Community Server could negatively affect our ability to monetize and protect our intellectual
property rights.
We make our Community Server offering available under either the SSPL (for versions released on or after October
16, 2018) or the AGPL (for versions released prior to October 16, 2018). Community Server is a free-to-download version of
our database that includes the core functionality developers need to get started with MongoDB but not all of the features of
our commercial platform. Both the SSPL and the AGPL grant licensees broad freedom to view, use, copy, modify and
redistribute the source code of Community Server provided certain conditions are met. Some commercial enterprises consider
SSPL- or AGPL-licensed software to be unsuitable for commercial use because of the “copyleft” requirements of those
licenses. However, some of those same commercial enterprises do not have the same concerns regarding using the software
under the SSPL or AGPL for internal purposes. As a result, these commercial enterprises may never convert to paying
customers of our platform. Anyone can obtain a free copy of Community Server from the Internet and we do not know who
all of our SSPL or AGPL licensees are. Competitors could develop modifications of our software to compete with us in the
marketplace. We do not have visibility into how our software is being used by licensees, so our ability to detect violations of
the SSPL or AGPL is extremely limited.
In addition to Community Server, we contribute other source code to open source projects under open source licenses
and release internal software projects under open source licenses and anticipate doing so in the future. Because the source
code for Community Server and any other software we contribute to open source projects or distribute under open source
licenses is publicly available, our ability to monetize and protect our intellectual property rights with respect to such source
code may be limited or, in some cases, lost entirely.
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Our software incorporates third-party open source software, which could negatively affect our ability to sell our products
and subject us to possible litigation.
Our software includes third-party open source software and we intend to continue to incorporate third-party open
source software in our products in the future. There is a risk that the use of third-party open source software in our software
could impose conditions or restrictions on our ability to monetize our software. Although we monitor the incorporation of
open source software into our products to avoid such restrictions, we cannot be certain that we have not incorporated open
source software in our products or platform in a manner that is inconsistent with our licensing model or that we have not
breached the terms of an applicable open source license agreement, in part because open source license terms are often
ambiguous. Certain open source projects also include other open source software and there is a risk that those dependent open
source libraries may be subject to inconsistent licensing terms. This could create further uncertainties as to the governing
terms for the open source software we incorporate.
In addition, the terms of certain open source licenses to which we are subject have not been interpreted by U.S. or
foreign courts and there is a risk that open source software licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes
unanticipated restrictions or conditions on our use of such software. Additionally, we may from time to time face claims from
third parties claiming ownership of, or demanding release of, the software or derivative works that we developed using such
open source software, which could include proprietary portions of our source code, or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms
of the applicable open source licenses. These claims could result in litigation and could require us to make those proprietary
portions of our source code freely available, purchase a costly license or cease offering the implicated software or services
unless and until we can re-engineer them to avoid infringement. This re-engineering process could require significant
additional research and development resources and we may not be able to complete it successfully.
In addition to risks related to license requirements, the use of third-party open source software can lead to greater risks
than the use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties, indemnities or
other contractual protections with respect to the software (for example, non-infringement or functionality). There is typically
no support available for open source software, and we cannot ensure that the authors of such open source software will
implement or push updates to address security risks or will not abandon further development and maintenance. Our use of
open source software may also present additional security risks because the source code for open source software is publicly
available, which may make it easier for hackers and other third parties to determine how to breach our systems that rely on
open source software. In addition, licensors of open source software included in our offerings may, from time to time, modify
the terms of their license agreements in such a manner that those license terms may become incompatible with our licensing
model and thus could, among other consequences, prevent us from incorporating the software subject to the modified license.
Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage and if not addressed, could have a negative effect on our
business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are not able to introduce new features or services successfully and to make enhancements to our software or
services, our business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
Our ability to attract new customers and increase revenue from existing customers depends in part on our ability to
enhance and improve our software and to introduce new features and services. To grow our business and remain competitive,
we must continue to enhance our software and develop features that reflect the constantly evolving nature of technology and
our customers’ needs. The success of new products, enhancements and developments depends on several factors: our
anticipation of market changes and demands for product features, including timely product introduction and conclusion,
sufficient customer demand, cost effectiveness in our product development efforts and the proliferation of new technologies
that are able to deliver competitive products and services at lower prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more
securely. In addition, because our software is designed to operate with a variety of systems, applications, data and devices, we
will need to continuously modify and enhance our software to keep pace with changes in such systems. We may not be
successful in developing these modifications and enhancements. Furthermore, the addition of features and solutions to our
software will increase our research and development expenses. Any new features that we develop may not be introduced in a
timely or cost-effective manner or may not achieve the market acceptance necessary to generate sufficient revenue to justify
the related expenses. It is difficult to predict customer adoption of new features. Such uncertainty limits our ability to forecast
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 address such uncertainties and successfully develop new features, enhance our software or otherwise
overcome technological challenges and competing technologies, our business and results of operations could be adversely
affected.
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We also offer professional services including consulting and training and must continually adapt to assist our
customers in deploying our software in accordance with their specific IT strategies. If we cannot introduce new services or
enhance our existing services to keep pace with changes in our customers’ deployment strategies, we may not be able to
attract new customers, retain existing customers and expand their use of our software or secure renewal contracts, which are
important for the future of our business.
Our success is highly dependent on our ability to penetrate the existing market for database products, as well as the
growth and expansion of the market for database products.
Our future success will depend in large part on our ability to service existing demand, as well as the continued growth
and expansion of the database market. It is difficult to predict demand for our offerings, the conversion from one to the other
and related services and the size, growth rate and expansion of these markets, the entry of competitive products or the success
of existing competitive products. Our ability to penetrate the existing database market and any expansion of the market
depends on a number of factors, including cost, performance and perceived value associated with our subscription offerings,
as well as our customers’ willingness to adopt an alternative approach to relational and other database products available in
the market. Furthermore, many of our potential customers have made significant investments in relational databases, such as
offerings from Oracle, and may be unwilling to invest in new products. If the market for databases fails to grow at the rate
that we anticipate or decreases in size or we are not successful in penetrating the existing market, our business would be
harmed.
Our future quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and if we fail to meet the expectations of analysts or investors, our
stock price could decline substantially.
Our results of operations, including our revenue, operating expenses and cash flows may vary significantly in the
future as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control, may be difficult to predict and may or may
not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business and period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may
not be meaningful. Some of the factors that may cause our results of operations to fluctuate from quarter to quarter include:
• changes in actual and anticipated growth rates of our revenue, customers and other key operating metrics;
• new product announcements, pricing changes and other actions by competitors;
• the mix of revenue and associated costs attributable to subscriptions for our MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB
Enterprise Advanced offerings (such as our non-cancelable multi-year cloud infrastructure capacity commitments,
which require us to pay for such capacity irrespective of actual usage) and professional services, as such relative mix
may impact our gross margins and operating income;
• the mix of revenue and associated costs attributable to sales where subscriptions are bundled with services versus
sold on a standalone basis and sales by us and our partners;
• our ability to attract new customers;
• our ability to effectively expand our sales and marketing capabilities and teams;
• our ability to retain customers and expand their usage of our software, particularly for our largest customers;
• our inability to enforce the AGPL or SSPL;
• delays in closing sales, including the timing of renewals, which may result in revenue being pushed into the next
quarter, particularly because a large portion of our sales occur toward the end of each quarter;
• the timing of revenue recognition;
• the mix of revenue attributable to larger transactions as opposed to smaller transactions;
• changes in customers’ budgets and in the timing of their budgeting cycles and purchasing decisions;
• changes in customers’ consumption of our platform;
• customers and potential customers opting for alternative products, including developing their own in-house
solutions, or opting to use only the free version of our products;
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• fluctuations in currency exchange rates;
• our ability to control costs, including our operating expenses;
• the timing and success of new products, features and services offered by us and our competitors or any other change
in the competitive dynamics of our industry, including consolidation among competitors, customers or strategic
partners;
• significant security breaches or other security incidents, technical difficulties, or interruptions with respect to the
delivery and use of our software;
• our failure to maintain the level of service uptime and performance required by our customers;
• the collectability of receivables from customers and resellers, which may be hindered or delayed if these customers
or resellers experience financial distress;
• changes in political and economic conditions, in domestic or international markets;
• general economic conditions, both domestically and internationally, including warfare and terrorist attacks on the
United States and other regions in which we or our customers operate, such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as well
as economic conditions specifically affecting industries in which our customers participate, including those
conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic;
• sales tax and other tax determinations by authorities in the jurisdictions in which we conduct business;
• the impact of new accounting pronouncements; and
• fluctuations in stock-based compensation expense.
The occurrence of one or more of the foregoing and other factors may cause our results of operations to vary
significantly and be materially and adversely affected. For example, fluctuations in our quarterly operating results and the
price of our common stock may be particularly pronounced in the current economic environment due to the uncertainty
caused by the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing geopolitical instability resulting from the
conflict between Russia and Ukraine, severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence,
declines in economic growth, increases in unemployment rates, increases in inflation rates, higher interest rates and
uncertainty about economic stability. In response to the concerns over inflation risk, the U.S. Federal Reserve recently raised
interest rates multiple times, and signaled that they will continue to adjust interest rates to stabilize and reduce current levels
of inflation. It is especially difficult to predict the impact of such events on the global economic markets, which have been
and will continue to be highly dependent upon the actions of governments, businesses, and other enterprises in response to
the pandemic and macroeconomic events, and the effectiveness of those actions. Any of these factors or any combination
thereof could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. For instance, as a
result of adverse macroeconomic conditions, we experienced slower than historical growth of our existing Atlas applications
for the year ended January 31, 2023. We also intend to continue to invest to grow our business and to take advantage of our
market opportunity. Accordingly, historical patterns and our results of operations in any one quarter may not be meaningful
and should not be relied upon as indicative of future performance. Additionally, if our quarterly results of operations fall
below the expectations of investors or securities analysts who follow our stock, the price of our common stock could decline
substantially and we could face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
We have experienced rapid growth in recent periods. If we fail to continue to grow and to manage our growth effectively,
we may be unable to execute our business plan, increase our revenue, improve our results of operations, maintain high
levels of service, or adequately address competitive challenges.
We have recently experienced rapid growth in our business, operations and employee headcount. For fiscal years 2023,
2022 and 2021, our total revenue was $1,284.0 million, $873.8 million and $590.4 million, respectively, representing a 47%
and 48% growth rate, respectively. We have also significantly increased the size of our customer base from over 3,200
customers as of January 31, 2017 to over 40,800 customers as of January 31, 2023, and we grew from 713 employees as of
January 31, 2017 to 4,619 employees as of January 31, 2023. We expect to continue to expand our operations and employee
headcount in the near term. Our success will depend in part on our ability to continue to grow and to manage this growth,
domestically and internationally, effectively.
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Our current and anticipated growth is expected to place a significant strain on our management, administrative,
operational and financial infrastructure. We will need to continue to improve our operational, financial and management
processes and controls and our reporting syst ems and procedures to manage the expected growth of our operations and
personnel, which will require significant expenditures and allocation of valuable management and employee resources. If we
fail to implement these infrastructure improvements effectively, our ability to ensure the uninterrupted operation of key
business systems and comply with the rules and regulations that are applicable to public reporting companies will be
impaired. Further, if we do not effectively manage the growth of our business and operations, the quality of our products and
services could suffer, the preservation of our culture, values and entrepreneurial environment may change and we may not be
able to adequately address competitive challenges. This could impair our ability to attract new customers, retain existing
customers and expand their use of our products and services, all of which would adversely affect our brand, overall business,
results of operations and financial condition.
If we or our third-party service providers experience a security breach or other security incident, or unauthorized access to
personal, proprietary, confidential or other sensitive data is otherwise obtained, our software may be perceived as not
being secure, customers may reduce or terminate their use of our software and we may face litigation, regulatory
investigations, significant liability and reputational damage.
Cyberattacks, malicious internet-based activity, and online and offline fraud, and other similar activities threaten the
confidentiality, integrity and availability of our personal, proprietary, confidential and other sensitive data and our
information technology systems, and those of the third parties upon which we rely to help deliver services to our customers.
Such threats are prevalent, increasing in frequency, evolving in nature and becoming increasingly difficult to detect. These
threats come from a variety of sources, including traditional computer “hackers,” threat actors (including organized criminal
threat actors), “hacktivists,” personnel (such as through theft or misuse), sophisticated nation-states, and nation-state-
supported actors. In addition, some actors, such as sophisticated nation-states and nation-state supported actors now engage
and are expected to continue to engage in cyberattacks, including without limitation for geopolitical reasons and in
conjunction with military conflicts and defense activities. During times of war and other major conflicts, we and the third
parties upon whom we rely may be vulnerable to a heightened risk of these attacks, including retaliatory cyberattacks, that
could materially disrupt our systems, operations and supply chain. We and the third parties upon which we rely may be
subject to a variety of evolving threats, including but not limited to social-engineering attacks (including through phishing
attacks), malicious code (such as viruses and worms), malware (including as a result of advanced persistent threat intrusions),
denial-of-service attacks (such as credential stuffing), credential harvesting, personnel misconduct or error, fraud,
ransomware attacks, supply-chain attacks, software bugs, server malfunctions, software or hardware failures, loss of data or
other information technology assets, adware, telecommunications failures, pandemics, earthquakes, fires, floods, and other
similar threats.
Ransomware attacks, including by organized criminal threat actors, nation-states, and nation-state-supported actors,
are becoming increasingly prevalent and severe and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, loss of data and
income, reputational harm, and diversion of funds. Extortion payments may alleviate the negative impact of a ransomware
attack, but we may be unwilling or unable to make such payments due to, for example, applicable laws or regulations
prohibiting such payments. Similarly, supply-chain attacks have increased in frequency and severity, and we cannot
guarantee that third parties and infrastructure in our supply chain or our third-party partners’ supply chains have not been
compromised or that they do not contain exploitable defects or bugs that could result in a breach of or disruption to our
information technology systems (including our products) or the third-party information technology systems that support us
and our services.
The COVID-19 pandemic and our remote workforce pose increased risks to our information technology systems and
data, as more of our employees work from home, utilizing network connections, computers and devices outside our premises
or network, including while at home, in transit and in public locations. Additionally, the United States government has raised
concerns about a potential increase in cyberattacks generally as a result of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine
and the related sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries. Furthermore, future or past business transactions
(such as acquisitions or integrations) could expose us to additional data security risks and vulnerabilities, as our systems
could be negatively affected by vulnerabilities present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems and technologies. Risks
related to data security will increase as we continue to grow the scale and functionality of our business and collect, store,
transmit and otherwise process increasingly large amounts of our and our customers’ information and data, which may
include personal, proprietary, confidential or other sensitive data.
Any of the above identified or similar threats could cause a security breach or other security incident that could result
in unauthorized, unlawful, or accidental acquisition, modification, destruction, loss, alteration, encryption, disclosure,
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transfer, use or other processing of, or access to our information technology systems or personal, proprietary, confidential or
other sensitive information, or those of the third parties upon whom we rely. A security breach or other security incident
could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties upon whom we rely) to provide our platform, products, and services.
We may expend significant resources or modify our business activities to try to protect against, mitigate or remediate
actual or perceived security breaches and other security incidents. Certain data privacy and security obligations may require
us to implement and maintain specific security measures, industry-standard or reasonable security measures to protect our
information technology systems and personal, proprietary, confidential or other sensitive information.
While we have implemented security measures designed to protect against security breaches and other security
incidents, there can be no assurance that these measures will be effective. We have not always been able in the past and may
be unable in the future to detect vulnerabilities in our information technology systems (including our products) because such
threats and techniques change frequently, are often sophisticated in nature, and may not be detected until after a security
breach or other security incident has occurred. For example, industry publications have reported ransomware attacks on
MongoDB instances. We believe these attacks were successful due to the failure by users of our Community Server offering
to properly turn on the recommended security settings when running these instances. Despite our efforts to identify and
remediate vulnerabilities, if any, in our information technology systems (including our products), our efforts may not be
successful. Further, we may experience delays in developing and deploying remedial measures designed to address any such
identified vulnerabilities.
We use third-party service providers and subprocessors to help us deliver services to our customers. These third-party
service providers and subprocessors may collect, store, transmit or otherwise process personal data or other confidential
information of our employees and our customers. Our ability to monitor these third parties’ information security practices is
limited, and these third parties may not have adequate information security measures in place. Due to applicable laws,
regulations, rules, standards, contractual obligations, policies and other obligations, we may be held responsible for security
breaches or other security incidents attributed to our third-party service providers as they relate to the information we share
with them.
Applicable data privacy and security obligations may require us to notify relevant stakeholders of security breaches
and other security incidents. Such disclosures are costly, and the disclosures or the failure to comply with such requirements
could lead to adverse consequences.
If we (or a third party upon whom we rely) experience or are perceived to have experienced a security breach or other
security incident, or fail to make adequate or timely disclosures to the public, regulators, law enforcement agencies or
affected individuals, as applicable, following any such event, we may experience adverse consequences. These consequences
may include: liability under applicable data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards, contractual obligations,
policies and other obligations; obligations to notify regulators and affected individuals; government enforcement actions (for
example, investigations, fines, penalties, audits, and inspections); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight;
restrictions on processing personal and other sensitive information; litigation (including class claims); indemnification and
other contractual obligations; damages; negative publicity; reputational harm; monetary fund diversions; interruptions in our
operations (including availability of data); financial loss; and other similar harms. Security breaches and other security
incidents and attendant consequences may cause customers to stop using our platform, products, and services, deter new
customers from using our platform, products, and services, and negatively impact our ability to grow and operate our
business.
Our contracts may not contain limitations of liability, and even where they do, there can be no assurance that
limitations of liability in our contracts are sufficient to protect us from liabilities, damages, or claims related to our data
privacy and security obligations.
While we maintain general liability insurance coverage and coverage for errors or omissions, we cannot assure you
that such coverage will be adequate or otherwise protect us from liabilities or damages with respect to claims alleging
compromises of personal or other confidential data or otherwise relating to data privacy and security matters. The successful
assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceeds our available insurance coverage, or results in changes to our
insurance policies (including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements), could
have an adverse effect on our business. In addition, we cannot be sure that our existing insurance coverage and coverage for
errors and omissions will continue to be available on acceptable terms or at all, or that our insurers will not deny coverage as
to any future claim.
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Our sales cycle may be long and is unpredictable and our sales efforts require considerable time and expense.
The timing of our sales and related revenue recognition is difficult to predict because of the length and unpredictability
of the sales cycle for our offerings. We are often required to spend significant time and resources to better educate and
familiarize potential customers with the value proposition of paying for our products and services. The length of our sales
cycle, from initial evaluation to payment for our offerings is generally three to nine months, but can vary substantially from
customer to customer or from application to application within a given customer. As the purchase and deployment of our
products can be dependent upon customer initiatives, our sales cycle can extend to more than a year for some customers.
Customers often view a subscription to our products and services as a strategic decision and significant investment and, as a
result, frequently require considerable time to evaluate, test and qualify our product offering prior to entering into or
expanding a subscription. During the sales cycle, we expend significant time and money on sales and marketing and contract
negotiation activities, which may not result in a sale. Additional factors that may influence the length and variability of our
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the effectiveness of our sales force, in particular new sales people as we increase the size of our sales force;
the discretionary nature of purchasing and budget cycles and decisions;
the obstacles placed by a customer’s procurement process;
our ability to convert users of our free offerings to paying customers;
economic conditions and other factors impacting customer budgets;
customer evaluation of competing products during the purchasing process; and
evolving customer demands.
Given these factors, it is difficult to predict whether and when a sale will be completed and when revenue from a sale
will be recognized, particularly the timing of revenue recognition related to the term license portion of our subscription
revenue. In addition, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising inflation and interest rates, and global economic
uncertainty, potential customers may consider reducing or delaying, technology or other discretionary spending, which could
also result in an extension of our sales cycle. This could impact the variability and comparability of our quarterly revenue
results and may have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We may be forced to reduce prices for our subscription offerings and as a result our revenue and results of operations will
be harmed.
As the market for databases evolves, or as new competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours,
we may be unable to attract new customers or convert users of our free offerings to paying customers on terms or based on
pricing models that we have used historically. In the past, we have been able to increase our prices for our subscription
offerings, but we may choose not to introduce or be unsuccessful in implementing future price increases. As a result of these
and other factors, in the future we may be required to reduce our prices or be unable to increase our prices, or it may be
necessary for us to increase our services or product offerings without additional revenue to remain competitive, all of which
could harm our results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to attract new customers in a manner that is cost-effective and assures customer success, we will not be
able to grow our business, which would adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
In order to grow our business, we must continue to attract new customers in a cost-effective manner and enable these
customers to realize the benefits associated with our products and services. We may not be able to attract new customers for a
variety of reasons, including as a result of their use of traditional relational and/or other database products and their internal
timing, budget or other constraints that hinder their ability to migrate to or adopt our products or services.
Even if we do attract new customers, the cost of new customer acquisition, product implementation and ongoing
customer support may prove so high as to prevent us from achieving or sustaining profitability. For example, in fiscal years
2023, 2022 and 2021, total sales and marketing expense represented 54%, 54% and 55% of revenue, respectively. We intend
to continue to hire additional sales personnel, increase our marketing activities to help educate the market about the benefits
of our platform and services, grow our domestic and international operations and build brand awareness. We also intend to
continue to cultivate our relationships with developers through continued investment and growth of our MongoDB World,
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MongoDB Advocacy Hub, User Groups, MongoDB University and our partner ecosystem of global system integrators,
value-added resellers and independent software vendors. If the costs of these sales and marketing efforts increase
dramatically, if we do not experience a substantial increase in leverage from our partner ecosystem, or if our sales and
marketing efforts do not result in substantial increases in revenue, our business, results of operations and financial condition
may be adversely affected. In addition, while we expect to continue to invest in our professional services organization to
accelerate our customers’ ability to adopt our products and ultimately create and expand their use of our products over time,
we cannot assure you that any of these investments will lead to the cost-effective acquisition of additional customers.
If we fail to offer high quality support, our business and reputation could suffer.
Our customers rely on our personnel for support of our software and services included in our subscription packages.
High-quality support is important for the renewal and expansion of our agreements with existing customers. The importance
of high-quality support will increase as we expand our business and pursue new customers. If we do not help our customers
quickly resolve issues and provide effective ongoing support, our ability to sell new software to existing and new customers
could suffer and our reputation and relationships with existing or potential customers could be harmed.
Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our software could adversely affect our business, results of operations,
financial condition and growth prospects.
Our software is complex and therefore, undetected errors, failures or bugs have occurred in the past and may occur in
the future. Our software is used in IT environments with different operating systems, system management software,
applications, devices, databases, servers, storage, middleware, custom and third-party applications and equipment and
networking configurations, which may cause errors or failures in the IT environment into which our software is deployed.
This diversity increases the likelihood of errors or failures in those IT environments. Despite testing by us, real or perceived
errors, failures or bugs may not be found until our customers use our software. Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in
our products could result in negative publicity, security breaches or other security incidents, loss of or delay in market
acceptance of our software, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, harm to our brand, weakening of our
competitive position, or claims by customers for losses sustained by them or failure to meet the stated service level
commitments in our customer agreements. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or
other reasons, to expend significant additional resources in order to help correct the problem. Any real or perceived errors,
failures or bugs in our software could also impair our ability to attract new customers, retain existing customers or expand
their use of our software, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We are subject to stringent and evolving U.S. and foreign laws, regulations, rules, standards, contractual obligations,
policies and other obligations related to data privacy and security. Our actual or perceived failure to comply with such
obligations could lead to regulatory investigations or actions; litigation; fines and penalties; a disruption of our business
operations; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; and other adverse business consequences.
Data privacy has become a significant issue in the United States, Europe and in many other countries and jurisdictions
where we offer our software and services. In the ordinary course of business, we collect, receive, store, generate, use,
transfer, disclose, make accessible, protect, secure, dispose of, transmit, share and otherwise process personal data and other
sensitive information, including proprietary and confidential business data, trade secrets, and intellectual property. We collect
personal information from individuals located both in the United States and abroad and may store or otherwise process such
information outside of the country in which it was collected. Our data processing activities subject us to numerous data
privacy and security obligations, such as various laws, regulations, rules, guidance, industry standards, external and internal
privacy and security policies, contracts, and other obligations that govern the processing of personal data by us and on our
behalf.
In the United States, federal, state, and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws,
including data breach notification laws, personal data privacy laws, and consumer protection laws For example, at the federal
level, Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting
commerce (which extends to data privacy and security practices), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
(“HITECH”), imposes specific requirements relating to the privacy, security, and transmission of individually identifiable
health information. At the state level, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act
(collectively, the “CCPA”) gives California residents the right to, among other things, request disclosure of personal
information collected about them and whether that information has been sold to others, request deletion of personal
information (subject to certain exceptions), opt out of sales of their personal information, and not be discriminated against for
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exercising these rights. The CCPA also authorizes private lawsuits to recover statutory damages for certain data breaches.
The effects of the CCPA are potentially significant and may require us to modify our data collection or processing practices
and policies and increase our compliance costs and potential liability with respect to personal information we collect about
California residents. For example, in August 2022 California’s Attorney General reached a settlement with Sephora, Inc.
(“Sephora”) for failing to satisfy certain obligations under the CCPA, including the disclosure and processing of opt-out
requests, with respect to the for using third-party tracking software on Sephora's website that could, among other things,
create profiles about website visitors that the California Attorney General interpreted as a "sale" of customer information
given the benefits that both the software provider and Sephora received from the relationship. This action may signal a
priority of enforcement and interpretation that such use of analytics products on the internet may introduce new web-based
marketing complexities and compliance challenges under the CCPA.
A number of other U.S. states have also enacted, or are considering enacting, comprehensive data privacy laws that
share similarities with the CCPA, with at least four such laws (in Virginia, Colorado, Utah and Connecticut) having taken
effect, or scheduled to take effect, in 2023. Certain state laws and regulations may be more stringent, broader in scope, or
offer greater individual rights, with respect to personal data than federal or other state laws and regulations, and such laws
and regulations may differ from each other, which may complicate compliance efforts and increase legal risk and compliance
costs for us and the third parties upon whom we rely. There is also discussion in Congress of a new federal data privacy and
security law to which we may become subject if it is enacted. In addition, laws in all 50 U.S. states generally require
businesses to provide notice under certain circumstances to consumers whose personal data has been disclosed as a result of a
data breach. These laws are not consistent, and compliance in the event of a widespread data breach is difficult and may be
costly.
Additionally, in March 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed cybersecurity disclosure
rules for public companies that would require disclosure regarding cybersecurity risk management (including cybersecurity-
related business activities, decision-making processes, and a corporate board’s role in overseeing cybersecurity) and material
cybersecurity incidents in periodic filings. While the notice-and-comment period has closed, we do not have an expected date
of when these rules would go into effect.
Furthermore, on May 12, 2021, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to
implement additional IT security measures, including, among other things, requiring agencies to adopt multifactor
authentication and encryption for data at rest and in transit, to the maximum extent consistent with federal records laws and
other applicable laws. Additionally, the Executive Order called for the development of secure software development practices
or criteria for a consumer software labeling program reflecting a baseline level of secure practices for development of
software sold to the U.S. federal government. Due to the Executive Order, federal agencies may require us to modify our
cybersecurity practices and policies and increase our compliance costs and, if we are unable to meet the requirements of the
Executive Order, it could impede our ability to work with the U.S. government and result in a loss of revenue.
Internationally, virtually every jurisdiction in which we operate has established its own data privacy and security legal
framework with which we or our customers must comply, including, but not limited to, the European Economic Area
(“E.E.A.”), Switzerland, the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), Canada, Brazil and other countries. The collection, use, disclosure,
transfer, or other processing of personal data regarding individuals in the E.E.A. is subject to the General Data Protection
Regulation (the “GDPR”), and other European laws governing the processing of personal data. Data protection authorities in
the E.E.A. have the power to impose administrative fines for violations of the GDPR of up to a maximum of €20 million or
4% of the entity’s total worldwide global turnover for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. Further, the GDPR
provides for private litigation related to the processing of personal data that can be brought by classes of data subjects or
consumer protection organizations authorized at law to represent the data subjects’ interests. Since we act as a data processor
for our MongoDB Atlas customers, we have taken steps to cause our processes to be compliant with applicable portions of
the GDPR, but because of the ambiguities in the GDPR and the evolving interpretation of the GDPR by data protection
authorities, we cannot assure you that such steps are complete or effective.
Following the exit of the U.K. from the European Union (“E.U.”), the GDPR was transposed into UK law (the “U.K.
GDPR”) as supplemented by the U.K. Data Protection Act 2018, which currently imposes the same obligations as the GDPR
in most material respects. Failure to comply with the U.K. GDPR can result in fines up to a maximum of £17.5 million or 4%
of the entity’s total worldwide global turnover for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. However, the U.K.
GDPR will not automatically incorporate changes made to the GDPR going forward (which would need to be specifically
incorporated by the U.K. government). Moreover, the U.K. government has publicly announced plans to reform the U.K.
GDPR in ways that, if formalized, are likely to deviate from the GDPR, all of which creates a risk of divergent parallel
regimes and related uncertainty, along with the potential for increased compliance costs and risks for affected businesses.
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Countries outside Europe are implementing significant limitations on the processing of personal data, similar to those
in the GDPR. For example, Brazil has enacted the General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or
“LGPD”) (Law No. 13,709/2018). In addition, on June 5, 2020, Japan passed amendments to its Act on the Protection of
Personal data, or APPI. Both of these laws broadly regulate the processing of personal data in a manner comparable to the
GDPR, and violators of the LGPD and APPI face substantial penalties.
Some foreign data privacy and security laws, including, without limitation, the GDPR and U.K. GDPR, may restrict
the cross-border transfer of personal data, such as transfers of data to the United States from the E.E.A., or U.K. These laws
may require data exporters and data importers - as a condition of cross-border data transfers - to implement specific
safeguards to protect the transferred personal data. Existing mechanisms that facilitate cross-border personal data transfers
may change or be invalidated. For example, the GDPR generally restricts the transfer of personal data to countries outside of
the E.E.A. that the European Commission does not consider to provide an adequate level of data privacy and security, such as
the United States, unless the parties to the transfer have implemented specific safeguards to protect the transferred personal
data, such as, most commonly, the “Standard Contractual Clauses” (“SCCs”) released by the European Commission. Use of
the SCCs imposes additional compliance burdens, such as conducting transfer impact assessments to determine whether
additional security measures are necessary to protect the at-issue personal data. While the European Commission announced
in March 2022 that an agreement in principle had been reached between E.U. and U.S. authorities regarding a new
transatlantic data privacy framework, no formal agreement has been finalized, and any such agreement, if formalized, is
likely to face challenge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. In addition, the U.K. similarly restricts personal data
transfers outside of the U.K. jurisdiction to countries such as the United States that the U.K. government does not consider to
provide an adequate level of personal data protection, and the U.K. government has adopted its own standard International
Data Transfer Agreement for use under such circumstances, as well as an international data transfer addendum that can be
used with the SCCs for the same purpose. Certain countries outside Europe (including Russia, China and Brazil) have also
passed or are considering laws requiring local data residency or otherwise impeding the transfer of personal data across
borders, any of which could increase the cost and complexity of doing business. If we cannot implement a valid compliance
mechanism for cross-border data transfers, we may face increased exposure to regulatory actions, substantial fines, and
injunctions against processing or transferring personal data from Europe or other foreign jurisdictions. The inability to import
personal data to the United States could significantly and negatively impact our business operations; limit our ability to
collaborate with parties that are subject to such cross-border data transfer or localization laws; or require us to increase our
personal data processing capabilities and infrastructure in foreign jurisdictions at significant expense.
In addition to the GDPR, other European legislative proposals and present laws and regulations apply to cookies and
similar tracking technologies, electronic communications, and marketing. In the E.E.A. and the U.K., regulators are
increasingly focusing on compliance with requirements related to the online behavioral advertising ecosystem. For example,
it is anticipated that the ePrivacy Regulation, which is still being negotiated, and national implementing laws will replace the
current national laws implementing the ePrivacy Directive. Compliance with these laws and regulations may require us to
make significant operational changes, limit the effectiveness of our marketing activities, divert the attention of our technology
personnel, adversely affect our margins, and subject us to liabilities.
In addition to government regulation, we may be contractually subject to industry standards adopted by privacy
advocates and industry groups and may become subject to such obligations in the future. We may also be bound by other
contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, and our efforts to comply with such obligations may not be
successful.
Further, because data privacy and security are critical competitive factors in our industry, we publish privacy policies
and other documentation regarding our collection, use, disclosure and other processing of personal data and other confidential
information. Although we endeavor to comply with our published policies, certifications and documentation, we may at times
fail to do so, may be perceived to have failed to do so, or be alleged to have failed to do so. Moreover, despite our efforts, we
may not be successful in achieving compliance if our employees or vendors fail to comply with our published policies,
certifications and documentation. The publication of our privacy policies and other documentation that provide promises and
assurances about data privacy and security can subject us to potential government or legal action if they are found to be
deceptive, unfair or misrepresentative of our actual practices. Should any of these statements prove to be untrue or be
perceived as untrue, even if because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control, we may face litigation, disputes, claims,
investigations, inquiries or other proceedings by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, federal, state and foreign regulators, our
customers and private litigants, which could adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations and financial
condition.
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Because the interpretation and application of data privacy and security laws, regulations, rules, standards and other
obligations are still uncertain and likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future, it is possible that these laws,
regulations, rules, standards and other actual or alleged obligations, including contractual or self-regulatory obligations, may
be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our data management practices or the features of our software.
If so, in addition to the possibility of fines, lawsuits and other claims, we could be required to fundamentally change our
business activities and practices or modify our software, which we may be unable to do in a commercially reasonable manner
or at all and which could have an adverse effect on our business. Any inability to adequately address data privacy and
security concerns, even if unfounded, or the failure, or perceived failure, to comply with applicable data privacy and security
laws, regulations, rules, standards, contractual obligations, policies and other actual or alleged obligations, could result in
additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and adversely affect our business.
Furthermore, the costs of compliance with and other burdens imposed by, the laws, regulations, rules, standards,
contractual obligations, policies and other obligations related to data privacy and security that are applicable to the businesses
of our customers may limit the use and adoption of, and reduce the overall demand for, our software. Privacy concerns,
whether valid or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our software particularly in certain industries and foreign
countries.
The estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth included in this Form 10-K may prove to be
inaccurate and even if the market in which we compete achieves the forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at
similar rates, if at all.
Market opportunity estimates and growth forecasts included in this Form 10-K are subject to significant uncertainty
and are based on third-party assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate. The market in which we compete
may not meet the size estimates and may not achieve the growth forecast referenced in this Form 10-K. Even if the market in
which we compete meets the size estimates and the growth forecast referenced in this Form 10-K, our business could fail to
grow at similar rates, if at all, for a variety of reasons, which would adversely affect our results of operations.
We could incur substantial costs in obtaining, maintaining, protecting, defending or enforcing our intellectual property
rights and any failure to obtain, maintain, protect, defend or enforce our intellectual property rights could reduce the
value of our software and brand.
Our success and ability to compete depend in part upon our intellectual property rights. As of January 31, 2023, we
had 68 issued patents and 37 pending patent applications in the United States. Patent applications may not result in issued
patents and even if a patent issues, we cannot assure you that such patent will be adequate to protect our business. In addition
to patent protection, we primarily rely on copyright and trademark laws, trade secret protection and confidentiality or other
contractual arrangements with our employees, customers, partners and others to protect our intellectual property rights.
However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property rights may not be adequate and we may be unable to detect the
unauthorized use of our intellectual property rights. In order to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to
spend significant resources to establish, monitor and enforce such rights. Litigation brought to enforce our intellectual
property rights could be costly, time-consuming and distracting to management and could be met with defenses,
counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights. An adverse
determination of any litigation proceedings could put our intellectual property at risk of being invalidated or interpreted
narrowly and could put our related intellectual property at risk of not issuing or being cancelled. The local laws of some
foreign countries do not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States and
effective intellectual property protection and mechanisms may not be available in those jurisdictions. We may need to expend
additional resources to defend our intellectual property in these countries and our inability to do so could impair our business
or adversely affect our international expansion. Even if we are able to secure our intellectual property rights, there can be no
assurances that such rights will provide us with competitive advantages or distinguish our products and services from those of
our competitors or that our competitors will not independently develop similar technology.
In addition, we regularly contribute source code under open source licenses and have made some of our own software
available under open source or source available licenses and we include third-party open source software in our products.
Because the source code for any software we contribute to open source projects or distribute under open source or source
available licenses is publicly available, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights with respect to such source code
may be limited or lost entirely. In addition, from time to time, we may face claims from third parties claiming ownership of,
or demanding release of, the software or derivative works that we have developed using third-party open source software,
which could include our proprietary source code, or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open-source
license.
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We have been and may in the future be, subject to intellectual property rights claims by third parties, which may be costly
to defend, could require us to pay significant damages and could limit our ability to use certain technologies.
Companies in the software and technology industries, including some of our current and potential competitors, own
large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of
infringement, misappropriation or other violations of intellectual property rights. We have in the past and may in the future be
subject to claims that we have misappropriated, misused, infringed or otherwise violated the intellectual property rights of our
competitors, non-practicing entities or other third parties. This risk is exacerbated by the fact that our software incorporates
third-party open source software. For example, Realtime Data (“Realtime”) filed a lawsuit against us in the United States
District Court for the District of Delaware in March 2019 alleging that we are infringing three U.S. patents that it holds: the
908 Patent, the 751 Patent and the 825 Patent. See “Part I, Item 3, Legal Proceedings, of this Form 10-K.”
Any intellectual property claims, with or without merit, could be very time-consuming and expensive and could divert
our management’s attention and other resources. These claims could also subject us to significant liability for damages,
potentially including treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed patents or copyrights. These claims could also
result in our having to stop using technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights, some of which we have
invested considerable effort and time to bring to market. We might be required to seek a license for the intellectual property,
which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all. Even if a license is available, we could be required to pay
significant royalties, which would increase our operating expenses. As a result, we may be required to develop alternative
non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense. If we cannot license or develop technology for
any aspect of our business that may ultimately be determined to infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate the intellectual
property rights of another party, we could be forced to limit or stop sales of subscriptions to our software and may be unable
to compete effectively. Any of these results would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to maintain successful relationships with our partners, our business, results of operations and financial
condition could be harmed.
In addition to our direct sales force and our website, we use strategic partners, such as global system integrators, value-
added resellers and independent software vendors to sell our subscription offerings and related services. Our agreements with
our partners are generally nonexclusive, meaning our partners may offer their customers products and services of several
different companies, including products and services that compete with ours, or may themselves be or become competitors. If
our partners do not effectively market and sell our subscription offerings and related services, choose to use greater efforts to
market and sell their own products and services or those of our competitors, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our
ability to grow our business and sell our subscription offerings and related services may be harmed. Our partners may cease
marketing our subscription offerings or related services with limited or no notice and with little or no penalty. The loss of a
substantial number of our partners, our possible inability to replace them, or the failure to recruit additional partners could
harm our growth objectives and results of operations.
We rely upon third-party cloud providers to host our cloud offering; any disruption of or interference with our use of
third-party cloud providers would adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We outsource substantially all of the infrastructure relating to MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Microsoft Azure and
GCP to host our cloud offering. If the hosting of MongoDB Atlas is disrupted or interfered with for any reason, our business
would be negatively impacted. Customers of MongoDB Atlas need to be able to access our platform at any time, without
interruption or degradation of performance and we provide them with service level commitments with respect to uptime.
Third-party cloud providers run their own platforms that we access and we are, therefore, vulnerable to their service
interruptions. We may experience interruptions, delays and outages in service and availability from time to time as a result of
problems with our third-party cloud providers’ infrastructure. Lack of availability of this infrastructure could be due to a
number of potential causes including technical failures, natural disasters, fraud, cyberattacks, or security breaches or other
security incidents that we cannot predict or prevent. Such interruptions, delays or outages could lead to the triggering of our
service level agreements and the issuance of credits to our cloud offering customers, which may impact our business, results
of operations and financial condition. In addition, if we or any of these third-party cloud providers, experience a security
breach or other security incident, our software is unavailable or our customers are unable to use our software within a
reasonable amount of time or at all, then our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely
affected. 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. It is possible that our customers and potential customers would hold us accountable for
any breach of security affecting a third-party cloud provider’s infrastructure and we may incur significant liability from those
customers and from third parties with respect to any breach affecting these systems. We may not be able to recover a material
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portion of our liabilities to our customers and third parties from a third-party cloud provider. It may also become increasingly
difficult to maintain and improve our performance, especially during peak usage times, as our software becomes more
complex and the usage of our software increases. Any of the above circumstances or events may harm our business, results of
operations and financial condition.
Interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure may adversely affect our
business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our continued growth depends in part on the ability of our existing customers and new customers to access our
software at any time and within an acceptable amount of time. We may experience service disruptions, outages and other
performance problems due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes or failures, human or software errors,
malicious acts, terrorism, security breaches or other security incidents, or capacity constraints. Capacity constraints could be
due to a number of potential causes including technical failures, natural disasters, fraud or cyberattacks. In some instances,
we may not be able to identify and/or remedy the cause or causes of these performance problems within an acceptable period
of time. It may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve our performance as our software offerings and
customer implementations become more complex. If our software is unavailable or if our customers are unable to access
features of our software within a reasonable amount of time or at all, or if other performance problems occur, our business,
results of operations and financial conditions may be adversely affected.
Incorrect or improper implementation or use of our software could result in customer dissatisfaction and harm our
business, results of operations, financial condition and growth prospects.
Our database software and related services are designed to be deployed in a wide variety of technology environments,
including in large-scale, complex technology environments and we believe our future success will depend at least, in part, on
our ability to support such deployments. Implementations of our software may be technically complicated and it may not be
easy to maximize the value of our software without proper implementation and training. For example, industry publications
have reported ransomware attacks on MongoDB instances. We believe these attacks were successful due to the failure by
users of our Community Server offering to properly turn on the recommended security settings when running these instances.
If our customers are unable to implement our software successfully, or in a timely manner, customer perceptions of our
company and our software may be impaired, our reputation and brand may suffer and customers may choose not to renew
their subscriptions or increase their purchases of our related services.
Our customers and partners need regular training in the proper use of and the variety of benefits that can be derived
from our software to maximize its potential. We often work with our customers to achieve successful implementations,
particularly for large, complex deployments. Our failure to train customers on how to efficiently and effectively deploy and
use our software, or our failure to provide effective support or professional services to our customers, whether actual or
perceived, may result in negative publicity or legal actions against us. Also, as we continue to expand our customer base, any
actual or perceived failure by us to properly provide these services will likely result in lost opportunities for follow-on sales
of our related services.
If we fail to meet our service level commitments, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be
adversely affected.
Our agreements with customers typically provide for service level commitments. Our MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
customers typically get service level commitments with certain guaranteed response times and comprehensive 24x365
coverage. Our MongoDB Atlas customers typically get monthly uptime service level commitments, where we are required to
provide a service credit for any extended periods of downtime. The complexity and quality of our customer’s implementation
and the performance and availability of cloud services and cloud infrastructure are outside our control and, therefore, we are
not in full control of whether we can meet these service level commitments. Our business, results of operations and financial
condition could be adversely affected if we fail to meet our service level commitments for any reason. Any extended service
outages could adversely affect our business, reputation and brand.
We rely on the performance of highly skilled personnel, including senior management and our engineering, professional
services, sales and technology professionals; if we are unable to retain or motivate key personnel or hire, retain and
motivate qualified personnel, our business would be harmed.
We believe our success has depended, and continues to depend, on the efforts and talents of our senior management
team, particularly our Chief Executive Officer, and our highly skilled team members, including our sales personnel,
customer-facing technical personnel and software engineers.
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We do not maintain key man insurance on any of our executive officers or key employees. From time to time, there
may be changes in our senior management team resulting from the termination or departure of our executive officers and key
employees. The majority of our senior management and key employees are employed on an at-will basis, which means that
they could terminate their employment with us at any time. The loss of any of our senior management or key employees
could adversely affect our ability to build on the efforts they have undertaken to execute our business plan and to execute
against our market opportunity. We may not be able to find adequate replacements. We cannot ensure that we will be able to
retain the services of any members of our senior management or other key employees.
Further, if members of our management and other key personnel in critical functions across our organization are
unable to perform their duties or have limited availability, we may not be able to execute on our business strategy and/or our
operations may be negatively impacted.
Our ability to successfully pursue our growth strategy and compete effectively also depends on our ability to attract,
motivate and retain our personnel. Competition for well-qualified employees in all aspects of our business, including sales
personnel, customer-facing technical personnel and software engineers, is intense, and it may be even more challenging to
retain qualified personnel as many companies have moved to offer a remote or hybrid work environment, and considering the
current period of heightened employee attrition in the United States and other countries. Our recruiting efforts focus on elite
organizations and our primary recruiting competition are well-known, high-paying technology companies. In response to
competition, rising inflation rates and labor shortages, we may need to adjust employee compensation, which could affect our
operating costs and margins, as well as potentially cause dilution to existing stockholders. We may also lose new employees
to our competitors or other technology companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training
them. If we do not succeed in attracting well-qualified employees or retaining and motivating existing employees, our
business would be adversely affected.
If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, especially among developers, our business and results of
operations may be adversely affected.
We believe that developing and maintaining widespread awareness of our brand, especially with developers, in a cost-
effective manner is critical to achieving widespread acceptance of our software and attracting new customers. Brand
promotion activities may not generate customer awareness or increase revenue and even if they do, any increase in revenue
may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brand. For instance, our continued focus and investment in MongoDB
World, MongoDB University and similar investments in our brand and customer engagement and education may not generate
a sufficient financial return. If we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brand, or continue to incur substantial
expenses, we may fail to attract or retain customers necessary to realize a sufficient return on our brand-building efforts, or to
achieve the widespread brand awareness that is critical for broad customer adoption of our platform.
Our corporate culture has contributed to our success and if we cannot continue to maintain and develop this culture as we
grow and evolve, we may be unable to execute effectively and could lose the innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial
spirit we have worked hard to foster, which could harm our business.
We believe that our culture has been and will continue to be a key contributor to our success. From January 31, 2017
to January 31, 2023, we increased the size of our workforce by 3,906 employees and we expect to continue to hire as we
expand, especially among research and development and sales and marketing personnel. Such substantial headcount growth
may result in a change to our corporate culture.
Our leadership team also plays a key role in our corporate culture. We may recruit and hire other senior executives in
the future. Such management changes subject us to a number of risks, such as risks pertaining to coordination of
responsibilities and tasks, creation of new management systems and processes, differences in management style, any of
which could adversely impact our corporate culture. In addition, we may need to adapt our corporate culture and work
environments to changing circumstances, such as during times of a natural disaster or pandemic, including the COVID-19
pandemic.
If we do not continue to maintain and develop our corporate culture, we may be unable to execute effectively and
foster the innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit we believe we need to support our growth, which could harm our
business.
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We depend and rely upon SaaS technologies from third parties to operate our business and interruptions or performance
problems with these technologies may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We rely on hosted SaaS applications from third parties in order to operate critical functions of our business, including
enterprise resource planning, order management, contract management billing, project management and accounting and other
operational activities. If these services become unavailable due to extended outages, interruptions or because they are no
longer available on commercially reasonable terms, our expenses could increase, our ability to manage finances could be
interrupted and our processes for managing sales of our platform and supporting our customers could be impaired until
equivalent services, if available, are identified, obtained and implemented, all of which could adversely affect our business.
Indemnity provisions in various agreements could expose us to substantial liability for data breaches, intellectual property
infringement and other losses.
Our agreements with customers and other third parties may include indemnification provisions under which we agree
to indemnify them for losses suffered or incurred as a result of claims of intellectual property infringement, damages caused
by us to property or persons, security breaches or other security incidents, or other liabilities relating to or arising from our
software, services or other contractual obligations. Large indemnity payments could harm our business, results of operations
and financial condition. Although we normally contractually limit our liability with respect to such indemnity obligations, we
may still incur substantial liability related to them. Any dispute with a customer with respect to such obligations could have
adverse effects on our relationship with that customer and other existing customers and new customers and harm our business
and results of operations.
Because our long-term growth strategy involves sales to customers outside the United States, our business is susceptible to
risks associated with international operations.
A significant portion of our revenue is derived internationally and we are susceptible to risks related to our
international operations. In the fiscal years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, total revenue generated from customers
outside the United States was 45%, 46% and 44%, respectively, of our total revenue. We currently have international offices
outside of North America in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”), the Asia-Pacific region and South America,
focusing primarily on selling our products and services in those regions. In addition, we expanded our reach in China in
February 2021 when we announced a global partnership with Tencent Cloud that allows customers to easily adopt and use
MongoDB-as-a-Service across Tencent’s global cloud infrastructure. In the future, we may continue to expand our presence
in these regions or expand into other international locations. Our current international operations and future initiatives involve
a variety of risks, including risks associated with:
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greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;
unexpected changes in laws, regulatory requirements, taxes or trade laws;
shelter-in-place, occupancy limitations or similar orders, private travel limitation, or business disruption in
regions affecting our operations, stemming from actual, imminent or perceived outbreak of contagious disease,
including the COVID-19 pandemic;
more stringent regulations relating to data privacy and security and the unauthorized use of, or access to,
commercial and personal data, particularly in EMEA;
differing labor regulations, especially in EMEA, where labor laws are generally more advantageous to
employees as compared to the United States, including deemed hourly wage and overtime regulations in these
locations;
challenges inherent in efficiently managing an increased number of employees over large geographic distances,
including the need to implement appropriate systems, policies, benefits and compliance programs;
difficulties in managing a business in new markets with diverse cultures, languages, customs, legal systems,
alternative dispute systems and regulatory systems;
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increased costs associated with international operations, including travel, real estate, infrastructure and legal
compliance costs;
currency exchange rate fluctuations and the resulting effect on our revenue and expenses and the cost and risk
of entering into hedging transactions if we chose to do so in the future;
the effect of other economic factors, including inflation, pricing and currency devaluation;
limitations on our ability to reinvest earnings from operations in one country to fund the capital needs of our
operations in other countries;
laws and business practices favoring local competitors or general preferences for local vendors;
operating in new, developing or other markets in which there are significant uncertainties regarding the
interpretation, application and enforceability of laws and regulations, including relating to contract and
intellectual property rights;
limited or insufficient intellectual property protection or difficulties enforcing our intellectual property;
political instability, including any escalation in the geopolitical tensions between China and Taiwan, social
unrest, terrorist activities, acts of civil or international hostility, such as the current military conflict and
escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, natural disasters or regional or global outbreaks of contagious
diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic;
exposure to liabilities under anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, U.K. Bribery Act and similar laws and regulations in other jurisdictions; and
adverse tax burdens and foreign exchange controls that could make it difficult to repatriate earnings and cash.
Our limited experience in operating our business internationally increases the risk that any potential future expansion
efforts that we may undertake will not be successful. If we invest substantial time and resources to expand our international
operations and are unable to do so successfully and in a timely manner, our business and results of operations will suffer.
Changes in government trade policies, including the imposition of tariffs and other trade barriers, could limit our ability
to sell our products to certain customers and certain markets, which could adversely affect our business, financial
condition and results of operations.
The United States or foreign governments may take administrative, legislative or regulatory action that could
materially interfere with our ability to sell our offerings in certain countries. For instance, there is currently significant
uncertainty about the future relationship between the United States and China with respect to trade policies, treaties, tariffs
and taxes. If tariffs or other trade barriers are placed on offerings such as ours, this could have a direct or indirect adverse
effect on our business. Even in the absence of tariffs or other trade barriers, the related uncertainty and the market's fears
relating to international trade might result in lower demand for our offerings, which could adversely affect our business,
financial condition and results of operations.
If currency exchange rates fluctuate substantially in the future, our financial results, which are reported in U.S. dollars,
could be adversely affected.
As we continue to expand our international operations, we become more exposed to the effects of fluctuations in
currency exchange rates. Often, contracts executed by our foreign operations are denominated in the currency of that country
or region and a portion of our revenue is therefore subject to foreign currency risks. However, a strengthening of the U.S.
dollar could increase the real cost of our subscription offerings and related services to our customers outside of the United
States, adversely affecting our business, results of operations and financial condition. We incur expenses for employee
compensation and other operating expenses at our non-U.S. locations in the local currency. Fluctuations in the exchange rates
between the U.S. dollar and other currencies could result in the dollar equivalent of such expenses being higher. This could
have a negative impact on our reported results of operations. To date, we have not engaged in any hedging strategies and any
such strategies, such as forward contracts, options and foreign exchange swaps related to transaction exposures that we may
implement in the future to mitigate this risk may not eliminate our exposure to foreign exchange fluctuations. Moreover, the
use of hedging instruments may introduce additional risks if we are unable to structure effective hedges with such
instruments.
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Changes in laws and regulations related to the internet or changes in the internet infrastructure itself may diminish the
demand for our software and could have a negative impact on our business.
The future success of our business and particularly our cloud offerings, such as MongoDB Atlas, depends upon the
continued use of the internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication and business applications. Federal, state or
foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting the
use of the internet as a commercial medium. Changes in these laws or regulations could require us to modify our software in
order to comply with these changes. In addition, government agencies or private organizations may begin to impose taxes,
fees or other charges for accessing the internet or commerce conducted via the internet. These laws or charges could limit the
growth of internet-related commerce or communications generally, resulting in reductions in the demand for internet-based
solutions such as ours.
In addition, the use of the internet as a business tool could be adversely affected due to delays in the development or
adoption of new standards and protocols to handle increased demands of internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease of
use, accessibility and quality of service. The performance of the internet and its acceptance as a business tool have been
adversely affected by a variety of evolving data security threats and the internet has experienced a variety of outages and
other delays as a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure. If the use of the internet is adversely affected by these
issues, demand for our subscription offerings and related services could suffer.
Our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements are subject to the tax laws of various jurisdictions and we could
be obligated to pay additional taxes, which would harm our results of operations.
Based on our current corporate structure, we may be subject to taxation in several jurisdictions around the world with
increasingly complex tax laws, the application of which can be uncertain. The amount of taxes we pay in these jurisdictions
could increase substantially as a result of changes in the applicable tax principles, including increased tax rates, new tax laws
or revised interpretations of existing tax laws and precedents. The authorities in these jurisdictions could review our tax
returns or require us to file tax returns in jurisdictions in which we are not currently filing and could impose additional tax,
interest and penalties. In addition, the authorities could claim that various withholding requirements apply to us or our
subsidiaries, assert that benefits of tax treaties are not available to us or our subsidiaries, or challenge our methodologies for
valuing developed technology or intercompany arrangements, including our transfer pricing. The relevant taxing authorities
may determine that the manner in which we operate our business does not achieve the intended tax consequences. If such a
disagreement was to occur and our position was not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes and interest and
penalties. Any increase in the amount of taxes we pay or that are imposed on us could increase our worldwide effective tax
rate and harm our business and results of operations.
We may acquire or invest in companies, which may divert our management’s attention and result in additional dilution to
our stockholders. We may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or achieve the
expected benefits of such acquisitions.
Our success will depend, in part, on our ability to grow our business in response to changing technologies, customer
demands and competitive pressures. In some circumstances, we may choose to do so through the acquisition of businesses
and technologies rather than through internal development. The identification of suitable acquisition candidates can be
difficult, time-consuming and costly and we may not be able to successfully complete identified acquisitions.
The risks we face in connection with any acquisitions include:
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an acquisition may negatively affect our results of operations because it may require us to incur charges or
assume substantial debt or other liabilities, may cause adverse tax consequences or unfavorable accounting
treatment, may expose us to claims and disputes by stockholders and third parties, including intellectual
property claims and disputes, or may not generate sufficient financial return to offset additional costs and
expenses related to the acquisition;
we may encounter difficulties or unforeseen expenditures in integrating the business, technologies, products,
personnel or operations of any company that we acquire, particularly if key personnel of the acquired company
decide not to work for us;
we may not be able to realize anticipated synergies;
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an acquisition may disrupt our ongoing business, divert resources, increase our expenses and distract our
management;
an acquisition may result in a delay or reduction of customer purchases for both us and the company acquired
due to customer uncertainty about continuity and effectiveness of service from either company and we may
experience increased customer churn with respect to the company acquired;
we may encounter challenges integrating the employees of the acquired company into our company culture;
for international transactions, we may face additional challenges related to the integration of operations across
different cultures and languages and the economic, political and regulatory risks associated with specific
countries;
we may be unable to successfully sell any acquired products or increase adoption or usage of acquired products,
or increase spend by acquired customers;
our use of cash to pay for acquisitions would limit other potential uses for our cash;
if we incur debt to fund any acquisitions, such debt may subject us to material restrictions on our ability to
conduct our business, including financial maintenance covenants; and
if we issue a significant amount of equity securities in connection with future acquisitions, existing stockholders
may be diluted and earnings per share may decrease.
The occurrence of any of these risks could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial
condition.
We are subject to risks associated with our non-marketable securities, including partial or complete loss of invested
capital. Significant changes in the fair value of our private investment portfolio could negatively impact our financial
results.
We have non-marketable equity securities in privately-held companies. The financial success of our investments in any
privately-held company is typically dependent on a liquidity event, such as a public offering, acquisition or other favorable
market event reflecting appreciation to the cost of our initial investment. In addition, valuations of privately-held companies
are inherently complex due to the lack of readily available market data.
We record all fair value adjustments of our non-marketable securities through the consolidated statements of
operations. As a result, we may experience additional volatility to our statements of operations due to the valuation and
timing of observable price changes or impairments of our non-marketable securities. Our ability to mitigate this volatility in
any given period may be impacted by our contractual obligations to hold securities for a set period of time. All of our
investments, especially our non-marketable securities, are subject to a risk of a partial or total loss of investment capital.
Changes in the fair value or partial or total loss of investment capital of these individual companies could be material to our
financial statements and negatively impact our business and financial results.
Failure to comply with anti-bribery, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws could subject us to penalties and
other adverse consequences.
We are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”), the U.S. Travel Act, the
U.K. Bribery Act (the “Bribery Act”) and other anti-corruption, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering laws in various
jurisdictions around the world. The FCPA, Bribery Act and similar applicable laws generally prohibit companies, their
officers, directors, employees and third-party intermediaries, business partners and agents from making improper payments or
providing other improper things of value to government officials or other persons. We and our third-party intermediaries may
have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities
and other third parties where we may be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party business
partners and intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, resellers and agents, even if we do not explicitly
authorize such activities. While we have policies and procedures and internal controls to address compliance with such laws,
we cannot assure you that all of our employees and agents will not take actions in violation of our policies and applicable
law, for which we may be ultimately held responsible. To the extent that we learn that any of our employees, third-party
intermediaries, agents, or business partners do not adhere to our policies, procedures, or internal controls, we are committed
to taking appropriate remedial action. In the event that we believe or have reason to believe that our directors, officers,
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employees, third-party intermediaries, agents, or business partners have or may have violated such laws, we may be required
to investigate or have outside counsel investigate the relevant facts and circumstances. Detecting, investigating and resolving
actual or alleged violations can be extensive and require a significant diversion of time, resources and attention from senior
management. Any violation of the FCPA, Bribery Act, or other applicable anti-bribery, anti-corruption laws and anti-money
laundering laws could result in whistleblower complaints, adverse media coverage, investigations, loss of export privileges,
severe criminal or civil sanctions, fines and penalties or suspension or debarment from U.S. government contracts, all of
which may have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, operating results and prospects and financial condition.
Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States.
Generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), are subject to interpretation by the FASB, the SEC
and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles or
interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results and could affect the reporting of transactions
completed before the announcement of a change. New accounting pronouncements and varying interpretations of accounting
pronouncements have occurred and may occur in the future. Changes to existing rules or the questioning of current practices
may adversely affect our reported financial results or the way we conduct our business. For example, SEC proposals on
climate-related disclosures may require us to update our accounting or operational policies, processes, or systems to reflect
new or amended financial reporting standards. Such changes may adversely affect our business, financial condition and
operating results.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect, our results of operations
could be adversely affected.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our
estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances,
as described in Note 2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
included in Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements, of this Form 10-K. The results of these estimates form the basis for making
judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities and equity and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not
readily apparent from other sources. Significant assumptions and estimates used in preparing our Consolidated Financial
Statements include those related to revenue recognition, allowances for doubtful accounts, the incremental borrowing rate
related to our lease liabilities, stock-based compensation, fair value of the liability component of the convertible debt, fair
value of common stock and redeemable convertible preferred stock warrants prior to the initial public offering, legal
contingencies, fair value of acquired intangible assets and goodwill, useful lives of acquired intangible assets and property
and equipment and accounting for income taxes. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions
change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall
below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to
produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and
the rules and regulations of the applicable listing standards of the Nasdaq. We expect that the requirements of these rules and
regulations will continue to increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs, make some activities more
difficult, time-consuming and costly and place significant strain on our personnel, systems and resources.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures
and internal control over financial reporting. We are continuing to develop and refine our disclosure controls and other
procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we will file with the
SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that
information required to be disclosed in reports under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our principal
executive and financial officers. We are also continuing to improve our internal control over financial reporting. In order to
maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial
reporting, we have expended, and anticipate that we will continue to expend, significant resources, including accounting-
related costs and significant management oversight.
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Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate because of changes in conditions
in our business. Further, weaknesses in our disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting may be
discovered in the future. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls or any difficulties encountered in their
implementation or improvement could harm our results of operations or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations and
may result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods. Any failure to implement and maintain effective
internal control over financial reporting also could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and
annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed with the SEC.
Ineffective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting could also cause investors to lose
confidence in our reported financial and other information, which would likely have a negative effect on the trading price of
our common stock. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed
on the Nasdaq.
We are required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among
other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting on an annual basis. This assessment includes
disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. In
addition, we are required to have our independent registered public accounting firm issue an opinion on the effectiveness of
our internal control over financial reporting on an annual basis. During the evaluation and testing process, 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. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is
effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our
internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial
reports, which could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations and could cause a decline in the price of
our common stock and we may be subject to investigation or sanctions by the SEC.
We may require additional capital to support our operations or the growth of our business and we cannot be certain that
this capital will be available on reasonable terms when required, or at all.
We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to
respond to business challenges, including the need to develop new features or otherwise enhance our database software,
improve our operating infrastructure or acquire businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to secure additional
capital through equity or debt financings. If we raise additional capital, our existing stockholders could suffer significant
dilution and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of
our common stock. Any debt financing that we may secure in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our
capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain
additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. We may not be able to obtain
additional financing on terms that are favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on
terms that are satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to
business challenges could be significantly impaired and our business may be harmed.
We are a multinational organization with a distributed workforce facing increasingly complex tax issues in many
jurisdictions and we could be obligated to pay additional taxes in various jurisdictions.
As a multinational organization, we may be subject to taxation in several jurisdictions around the world with
increasingly new and complex tax laws, the amount of taxes we pay in these jurisdictions could increase substantially as a
result of changes in the applicable tax principles, including increased tax rates, new tax laws or revised interpretations of
existing tax laws and precedents, which could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity and operating results.
Additionally, the rise of flexible work policies resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue to increase the
complexity of our payroll tax practices and may lead to challenges with our payments to tax authorities. Furthermore,
authorities in the many jurisdictions in which we operate or have employees could review our tax returns and impose
additional tax, interest and penalties and the authorities could claim that various withholding requirements apply to us or our
subsidiaries or assert that benefits of certain tax treaties are not available to us or our subsidiaries, any of which could have a
material impact on us and the results of our operations.
The enactment of legislation implementing changes in U.S. taxation of international business activities or the adoption of
other tax reform policies could materially impact our financial position and results of operations.
Changes to U.S. tax laws, including limitations on the ability of taxpayers to claim and utilize foreign tax credits and
the deferral of certain tax deductions until earnings outside of the United States are repatriated to the United States, as well as
changes to U.S. tax laws that may be enacted in the future, could impact the tax treatment of our foreign earnings. Due to the
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expansion of our international business activities, any changes in the U.S. taxation of such activities may impact our evidence
supporting a full valuation allowance or increase our worldwide effective tax rate and adversely affect our financial position
and results of operations.
Potential tax reform globally and in the United States may result in significant changes to U.S. federal income taxation
law, including changes to the U.S. federal income taxation of corporations (including ours) and/or changes to the U.S. federal
income taxation of stockholders in U.S. corporations, including investors in our common stock. For example, the U.S. Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) was enacted on December 22, 2017 and significantly revised the U.S. corporate
income tax law. Additional significant changes to U.S. federal corporate tax law were made by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,
and Economic Security Act, and the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”). The Company has determined that it
is not currently subject to the tax effects of the IRA, which includes a corporate alternative minimum tax and an excise tax on
stock buybacks. In addition, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “OECD”), has issued
guidelines that change long-standing tax principles and may introduce tax uncertainty as countries amend their tax laws to
adopt certain parts of the guidelines. In December 2022, the European Union (“EU”) reached unanimous agreement, in
principle, to implement the global minimum tax. EU members will be required to institute local laws in 2023, which are
intended to be effective for tax years beginning after 2023. Additional changes to global tax laws are likely to occur, and such
changes may adversely affect our tax liability.
We continue to monitor the progression of new global and U.S. legislation impact on our effective tax rate. We are
currently unable to predict whether any future changes will occur and, if so, the impact of such changes, including on the U.S.
federal income tax considerations relating to the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock.
Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.
As of January 31, 2023, we had net operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards for U.S. federal and state, Irish and U.K.
income tax purposes. A lack of future taxable income would adversely affect our ability to utilize these NOLs before they
expire. In general, under Section 382 of the Code, a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” (as defined under
Section 382 of the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations) is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its pre-change
NOLs to offset future taxable income. We may experience a future ownership change under Section 382 of the Code that
could affect our ability to utilize the NOLs to offset our income. Furthermore, our ability to utilize NOLs of companies that
we have acquired or may acquire in the future may be subject to limitations. There is also a risk that due to regulatory
changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise
be unavailable to reduce future income tax liabilities, including for state tax purposes.
For these reasons, we may not be able to utilize a material portion of the NOLs reflected on our balance sheet, even if
we attain profitability, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us and could adversely affect our
results of operations and financial condition.
Taxing authorities may successfully assert that we should have collected or in the future should collect sales and use,
value added or similar taxes and we could be subject to liability with respect to past or future sales, which could adversely
affect our results of operations.
We do not collect sales and use, value added or similar taxes in all jurisdictions in which we have sales and we believe
that such taxes are not applicable to our products and services in certain jurisdictions. Sales and use, value added and similar
tax laws and rates vary greatly by jurisdiction. Certain jurisdictions in which we do not collect such taxes may assert that such
taxes are applicable, which could result in tax assessments, penalties and interest, to us or our end-customers for the past
amounts and we may be required to collect such taxes in the future. If we are unsuccessful in collecting such taxes from our
end-customers, we could be held liable for such costs. Such tax assessments, penalties and interest, or future requirements
may adversely affect our results of operations.
We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international
markets or subject us to liability if we violate the controls.
Our offerings are subject to U.S. export controls and we incorporate encryption technology into certain of our
offerings. These encryption offerings and the underlying technology may be exported outside of the United States only with
the required export authorizations, including by license.
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Furthermore, our activities are subject to the economic sanctions laws and regulations by the U.S. and other
jurisdictions that prohibit the shipment of certain products and services without the required export authorizations or export to
countries, governments and persons targeted by the sanctions. While we take precautions to prevent our offerings from being
exported in violation of these laws, including obtaining authorizations for our encryption offerings, implementing IP address
blocking and screenings against U.S. Government and international lists of restricted and prohibited persons, we cannot
guarantee that the precautions we take will prevent violations of export control and sanctions laws.
We also note that if our channel partners fail to obtain appropriate import, export or re-export licenses or permits, we
may also be adversely affected, through reputational harm as well as other negative consequences including government
investigations and penalties. We presently incorporate export control compliance requirements in our channel partner
agreements. Complying with export control and sanctions regulations for a particular sale may be time-consuming and may
result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities.
If we fail to comply with U.S. and other sanctions and export control laws and regulations, we and certain of our
employees could be subject to substantial civil or criminal penalties, including the possible loss of export or import
privileges, fines, which may be imposed on us and responsible employees or managers and, in extreme cases, the
incarceration of responsible employees or managers.
Also, various countries, in addition to the United States, regulate the import, export and sale of certain encryption and
other technology, including permitting and licensing requirements and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to
distribute our offerings or could limit our customers’ ability to implement our offerings in those countries. Changes in our
offerings or future changes in export and import regulations may create delays in the introduction of our offerings in
international markets, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our offerings globally or, in some
cases, prevent the export or import of our offerings to certain countries, governments, or persons altogether. Any change in
export or import regulations, economic sanctions or related legislation, or change in the countries, governments, persons or
technologies targeted by such regulations, could result in decreased use of our offerings by, or in our decreased ability to
export or sell our offerings to, existing or potential customers with international operations. Any decreased use of our
offerings or limitation on our ability to export or sell our offerings would likely adversely affect our business operations and
financial results.
Our business is subject to the risks of earthquakes, fire, floods, pandemics and public health emergencies and other
natural catastrophic events and to interruption by man-made problems such as power disruptions,security breaches or
other security incidents, or terrorism.
As of January 31, 2023, we have customers in over 100 countries and employees in over 25 countries. A significant
natural disaster or man-made problem, such as an earthquake, fire, flood, an act of terrorism, the regional or global outbreak
of a contagious disease, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, or other catastrophic event occurring in any of these locations,
could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Further, if a natural disaster or man-made
problem were to affect data centers used by our cloud infrastructure service providers this could adversely affect the ability of
our customers to use our products. In addition, natural disasters, regional or global outbreaks of contagious diseases and acts
of terrorism could cause disruptions in our or our customers’ businesses, national economies or the world economy as a
whole. Moreover, these types of events could negatively impact consumer and business spending in the impacted regions or
depending upon the severity, globally, which could adversely impact our operating results. For example, the COVID-19
pandemic and/or the precautionary measures that we, our customers, and the governmental authorities adopted resulted in
operational challenges, including, among other things, adapting to new work-from-home arrangements. More generally, a
catastrophic event could adversely affect economies and financial markets globally and lead to an economic downturn, which
could decrease technology spending and adversely affect demand for our products and services. Any prolonged economic
downturn or a recession could materially harm our business and operating results and those of our customers, could result in
business closures, layoffs, or furloughs of, or reductions in the number of hours worked by, our and our customer's
employees, and a significant increase in unemployment in the United States and elsewhere. Such events may also lead to a
reduction in the capital and operating budgets that we or our customers have available, which could harm our business,
financial condition, and operating results. As we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the trading prices for our and
other technology companies' common stock may be highly volatile as a result of a catastrophic event, which may reduce our
ability to access capital on favorable terms or at all. In the event of a major disruption caused by a natural disaster or man-
made problem, we may be unable to continue our operations and may endure system interruptions, reputational harm, delays
in our development activities, lengthy interruptions in service, breaches of data security and loss of critical data, any of which
could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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In addition, data security threats have become more prevalent, we face increased risk from these activities to maintain
the performance, reliability, security and availability of our subscription offerings and related services and technical
infrastructure to the satisfaction of our customers, which may harm our reputation and our ability to retain existing customers
and attract new customers.
To the extent any of the above or similar events occur and adversely affect our business and results of operations, such
event may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks and uncertainties described in this “Risk Factors”
section which may materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We are subject to risks related to our environmental, social, and governance activities and disclosures.
We are in the process of developing our sustainability initiatives. The implementation of such initiatives may require
considerable investment and if these initiatives are not perceived to be adequate, or if the positions we take (or choose not to
take) on social and ethical issues are unpopular with some of our employees, partners, or with our customers or potential
customers, our reputation could be harmed, which could negatively impact our ability to attract or retain employees, partners
or customers.
In addition, there is an increasing focus from regulators, certain investors and other stakeholders concerning
environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) matters, both in the United States and internationally. We communicate
certain ESG-related initiatives and goals regarding environmental matters, diversity and other matters in our annually
released Corporate Sustainability Report, on our website and elsewhere. Any of our current or future initiatives, goals and
commitments could be difficult to achieve and costly to implement. We could fail to achieve, or be perceived to fail to
achieve, our ESG-related initiatives, goals and commitments. In addition, we could be criticized for the timing, scope or
nature of these initiatives, goals and commitments, or for any revisions to them.
Additionally, there can be no assurance that our reporting frameworks and principles will be in compliance with any
new environmental and social laws and regulations that may be promulgated in the United States and elsewhere, and the costs
of changing any of our current practices to comply with any new legal and regulatory requirements in the United States and
elsewhere may be substantial. Furthermore, industry and market practices may further develop to become even more robust
than what is required under any new laws and regulations, and we may have to expend significant efforts and resources to
keep up with market trends and stay competitive among our peers.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
The trading price of our common stock has been and is likely to continue to be volatile, which could cause the value of
our common stock to decline.
Technology stocks have historically experienced high levels of volatility. The trading price of our common has been
and is likely to continue to be volatile. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the trading price of our common stock include
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actual or anticipated changes or fluctuations in our results of operations;
whether our results of operations meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors;
announcements of new products or technologies, commercial relationships, acquisitions or other events by us or
our competitors;
changes in how customers perceive the benefits of our product and future product offerings and releases;
departures of key personnel;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
fluctuations in the trading volume of our shares or the size of our public float;
sales of large blocks of our common stock;
changes in actual or future expectations of investors or securities analysts;
significant data breach involving our software;
litigation involving us, our industry, or both;
regulatory developments in the United States, foreign countries or both;
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“flash crashes,” “freeze flashes” or other glitches that disrupt trading on the securities exchange on which we are
listed.
In addition, if the market for technology stocks or the stock market in general experiences a loss of investor
confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, results of operations or
financial condition. The trading price of our common stock might also decline in reaction to events that affect other
companies in our industry even if these events do not directly affect us. In the past, following periods of volatility in the
trading price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. If our
stock price is volatile, we may become the target of securities litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs
and divert our management’s attention and resources from our business. This could have an adverse effect on our business,
results of operations and financial condition.
We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business and future operating
results, which would cause our stock price to decline.
We release earnings guidance in our quarterly and annual earnings conference calls, quarterly and annual earnings
releases, or otherwise, regarding our future performance that represents our management’s estimates as of the date of release.
This guidance includes forward-looking statements based on projections prepared by our management. Projections are based
upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while presented with numerical specificity, are inherently subject to
significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies on our business, many of which are beyond
our control and are based upon specific assumptions with respect to future business decisions, some of which will change.
Some of those key assumptions relate to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the macroeconomic environment,
including inflation and interest rates, which are inherently difficult to predict. We intend to state possible outcomes as high
and low ranges which are intended to provide a sensitivity analysis as variables are changed but are not intended to imply that
actual results could not fall outside of the suggested ranges. The principal reason that we release guidance is to provide a
basis for our management to discuss our business outlook with analysts and investors. Furthermore, analysts and investors
may develop and publish their own projections of our business, which may form a consensus about our future performance.
Our actual business results may vary significantly from such guidance or that consensus due to a number of factors, many of
which are outside of our control, including due to the global economic uncertainty and financial market conditions caused by
the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing geopolitical instability resulting from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,
severely diminished liquidity and credit availability, declines in consumer confidence, declines in economic growth, increases
in unemployment rates, increases in inflation rates, higher interest rates and uncertainty about economic stability, any of
which or combination thereof could materially and adversely affect our business and future operating results. Furthermore, if
we make downward revisions of our previously announced guidance, if we withdraw our previously announced guidance, or
if our publicly announced guidance of future operating results fails to meet expectations of securities analysts, investors or
other interested parties, the price of our common stock would decline.
Guidance is necessarily speculative in nature, and it can be expected that some or all of the assumptions underlying the
guidance furnished by us will not materialize or will vary significantly from actual results. Accordingly, our guidance is only
an estimate of what management believes is realizable as of the date of release. Actual results may vary from our guidance
and the variations may be material. In light of the foregoing, investors are urged not to rely upon our guidance in making an
investment decision regarding our common stock.
Any failure to successfully implement our operating strategy or the occurrence of any of the events or circumstances
set forth in this “Risk Factors” section in this report could result in the actual operating results being different from our
guidance, and the differences may be adverse and material.
Our issuance of additional capital stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our equity incentive
plans or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.
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 and consultants under our equity 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 in companies,
products or technologies and issue equity securities to pay for any such acquisition or investment. Any such issuances of
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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.
We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our capital stock. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the
operation and expansion of our business and we do not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result,
investors in our common stock may only receive a return if the market price of our common stock increases.
The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management's attention and affect our
ability to attract and retain additional executive management and qualified board members.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements of the Nasdaq and other applicable
securities rules and regulations. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to compliance with
these requirements. Moreover, these laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations and their
application in practice may evolve over time as regulatory and governing bodies issue revisions to, or new interpretations of,
these public company requirements. Such changes could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and
higher legal and financial costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We will continue to
invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards and this investment may result in increased general
and administrative expenses and a diversion of management's time and attention from revenue-generating activities to
compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by
regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate
legal proceedings against us and our business may be adversely affected.
Being a public company under these rules and regulations has made it more expensive for us to obtain director and
officer liability insurance and in the future, we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs
to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified executive officers or
members of our Board of Directors, particularly to serve on our audit and compensation committees.
As a result of the disclosures within our filings with the SEC, information about our business and our financial
condition is available to competitors and other third parties, which may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by
competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and results of operations could be adversely
affected. Even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims and the time and resources
necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business and results of
operations.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and
the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes
between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for
disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is
the exclusive forum for the following types of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law:
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any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty;
any action asserting a claim against us arising under the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and
restated certificate of incorporation, or our amended and restated bylaws; and
any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal-affairs doctrine.
This provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act.
Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all such
Securities Act actions. Accordingly, both state and federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain such claims. To prevent
having to litigate claims in multiple jurisdictions and the threat of inconsistent or contrary rulings by different courts, among
other considerations, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of
the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under
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the Securities Act. These exclusive forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that
it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us
and our directors, officers and other employees. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum
provisions are facially valid, a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in
the exclusive forum provisions. In such instance, we would expect to vigorously assert the validity and enforceability of the
exclusive forum provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation. This may require significant additional
costs, and there can be no assurance that the provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions. If a court were
to find either exclusive-forum provision in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or
unenforceable in an action, we may incur further significant additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other
jurisdictions.
Delaware law and our corporate charter and bylaws contain anti-takeover provisions that could delay or discourage
takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could
delay or prevent a change in control of our company. These provisions could also make it difficult for stockholders to elect
directors who are not nominated by the current members of our Board of Directors or take other corporate actions, including
effecting changes in our management. These provisions include:
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a classified Board of Directors with three-year staggered terms, which could delay the ability of stockholders to
change the membership of a majority of our Board of Directors;
the ability of our Board of Directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms
of those shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval, which could be used to
significantly dilute the ownership of a hostile acquirer;
the exclusive right of our Board of Directors to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our
Board of Directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director, which prevents stockholders from being
able to fill vacancies on our Board of Directors;
a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which forces stockholder action to be taken at an annual
or special meeting of our stockholders;
the requirement that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by our Board of Directors, the
chairperson of our Board of Directors or our chief executive officer, which limitations could delay the ability of
our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or to take action, including the removal of directors;
the requirement for the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the voting power of all of the then
outstanding shares of the voting stock, to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of
incorporation relating to the management of our business (including our classified board structure) or certain
provisions of our amended and restated bylaws, which may inhibit the ability of an acquirer to effect such
amendments to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt;
the ability of our Board of Directors to amend our bylaws, which may allow our Board of Directors to take
additional actions to prevent an unsolicited takeover and inhibit the ability of an acquirer to amend our bylaws
to facilitate an unsolicited takeover attempt; and
advance notice procedures with which stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our Board of
Directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a
potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or
otherwise attempting to obtain control of us.
In addition, as a Delaware corporation, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which
may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from merging or
combining with us for a specified period of time.
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Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public markets, or the perception that they might occur, could
cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our 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 cause the market price of
our common stock to decline.
In addition, we have options outstanding that, if fully exercised, would result in the issuance of shares of our common
stock. We also have restricted stock units (“RSUs”) outstanding that, if vested and settled, would result in the issuance of
shares of common stock. All of the shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options and vesting of RSUs
and the shares reserved for future issuance under our equity incentive plans, are registered for public resale under the
Securities Act. Accordingly, these shares will be able to be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to
applicable vesting requirements.
Furthermore, a substantial number of shares of our common stock is reserved for issuance upon the exercise of the
2026 Notes (as defined below). If we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation on the 2026 Notes solely in shares of our
common stock upon conversion of the 2026 Notes, we will be required to deliver shares of our common stock, together with
cash for any fractional share.
Risks Related to our Outstanding Notes
We have incurred a significant amount of debt and may in the future incur additional indebtedness. We may not have
sufficient cash flow from our business to make payments on our substantial debt when due.
In June and July 2018, we issued $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% convertible senior notes due
2024 (the “2024 Notes”), which were redeemed on December 3, 2021, in a private placement and in January 2020, we issued
$1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes” and, together with
the 2024 Notes, the “Notes”) in a private placement and concurrently repurchased for cash approximately $210.0 million of
the aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Notes.
We may be required to use a substantial portion of our cash flows from operations to pay interest and principal on our
indebtedness. Our ability to make scheduled payments of the principal of, to pay interest on or to refinance our indebtedness,
including the 2026 Notes, depends on our future performance, which is subject to economic, financial, competitive and other
factors beyond our control. Such payments will reduce the funds available to us for working capital, capital expenditures and
other corporate purposes and limit our ability to obtain additional financing for working capital, capital expenditures,
expansion plans and other investments, which may in turn limit our ability to implement our business strategy, heighten our
vulnerability to downturns in our business, the industry, or in the general economy, limit our flexibility in planning for, or
reacting to, changes in our business and the industry and prevent us from taking advantage of business opportunities as they
arise. Our business may not be able to generate cash flow from operations in the future sufficient to service our debt and
make necessary capital expenditures. If we are unable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more
alternatives, such as selling assets, restructuring debt or obtaining additional equity capital on terms that may be onerous or
highly dilutive. We may not be able to engage in any of these activities or engage in these activities on desirable terms, which
could result in a default on our debt obligations.
In addition, we and our subsidiaries may incur substantial additional debt in the future, subject to the restrictions
contained in our future debt agreements, some of which may be secured debt. We are not restricted under the terms of the
indentures governing the 2026 Notes, from incurring additional debt, securing existing or future debt, recapitalizing our debt,
repurchasing our stock, pledging our assets, making investments, paying dividends, guaranteeing debt or taking a number of
other actions that are not limited by the terms of the indenture governing the Notes that could have the effect of diminishing
our ability to make payments on the Notes when due. Additionally, weakness and volatility in capital markets and the
economy, in general or as a result of macroeconomic conditions such as rising inflation, could limit our access to capital
markets and increase our costs of borrowing.
The conditional conversion feature of the 2026 Notes, if triggered, may adversely affect our financial condition and
operating results.
In the event the conditional conversion feature of the 2026 Notes is triggered, holders of the 2026 Notes will be
entitled to convert their 2026 Notes at any time during specified periods at their option. If one or more holders elect to
convert their Notes, unless we elect to satisfy our conversion obligation by delivering solely shares of our common stock
(other than paying cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share), we would be required to settle a portion or all of our
conversion obligation in cash, which could adversely affect our liquidity. We also may not have enough available cash or be
able to obtain financing at the time the 2026 Notes mature. Our failure to pay any cash payable on future conversions of the
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2026 Notes as required by the indenture would constitute a default under the indenture for the 2026 Notes. In addition, even
if holders of 2026 Notes do not elect to convert their 2026 Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to
reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the 2026 Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which
would result in a material reduction of our net working capital.
The conditional conversion feature of the 2026 Notes was not triggered during the three months ended January 31,
2023, as the last reported sale price of our common stock was not more than or equal to 130% of the applicable conversion
price for each series of Notes for at least 20 trading days in the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on January 31,
2023 (the last trading day of the fiscal quarter). Therefore, the 2026 Notes are not convertible at the option of the holders
thereof, in whole or in part, from February 1, 2023 through April 30, 2023. Whether the 2026 Notes will be convertible
following such fiscal quarter will depend on the continued satisfaction of this condition or another conversion condition in the
future.
The capped call transactions may affect the value of the 2026 Notes and our common stock.
In connection with the pricing of the 2026 Notes, we entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions with
certain counterparties. The capped call transactions cover, subject to customary adjustments, the number of shares of our
common stock initially underlying the 2026 Notes. The capped call transactions are expected to offset the potential dilution to
our common stock upon any conversion of the 2026 Notes. In connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped
call transactions, the counterparties or their respective affiliates entered into various derivative transactions with respect to
our common stock concurrently with or shortly after the pricing of the 2026 Notes, including with certain investors in the
2026 Notes.
The counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding
various derivatives with respect to our common stock and/or purchasing or selling our common stock or other securities of
ours in secondary market transactions prior to the maturity of the 2026 Notes (and are likely to do so on each exercise date of
the capped call transactions, which are scheduled to occur during the observation period relating to any conversion of the
2026 Notes on or after October 15, 2025), or following any termination of any portion of the capped call transactions in
connection with any repurchase, redemption or early conversions of the 2026 Notes or otherwise. This activity could also
cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of our common stock. We do not make any representation or
prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any potential effect that the transactions described above may have on the price
of shares of our common stock.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Item 2. Properties
Our current principal executive office is located in New York, New York and, as of January 31, 2023, consists of
approximately 106,230 square feet of space under a lease that expires in December 2029.
We lease 45 other offices around the world for our employees, including in Dublin, Gurgaon, Palo Alto, Sydney and
Austin.
We lease all of our facilities and do not own any real property. We intend to procure additional space in the future as
we continue to add employees and expand geographically. We believe our facilities are adequate and suitable for our current
needs and that, should it be needed, suitable additional or alternative space will be available to accommodate our operations.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
The information required to be set forth under this Item 3 is incorporated by reference to Note 8, Commitments and
Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
Market Information for Common Stock
Our Class A common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Global Market (the “Nasdaq”) under the symbol “MDB.” Prior to
June 11, 2020, we had two classes of common stock, Class A and Class B. Our Class B Common Stock was not listed or
traded on any exchange, but each share of Class B common stock was convertible at any time at the option of the holder into
one share of Class A common stock. On June 11, 2020, all outstanding shares of our Class B common stock, par value $0.001
per share, automatically converted into the same number of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share,
pursuant to the terms of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. No additional shares of Class B common
stock will be issued following such conversion. Refer to Note 9, Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit), in the Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements, of this Form 10-K for a discussion of our conversion
of Class B common stock.
Holders of Record
As of March 15, 2023, there were 48 stockholders of record of our common stock and the closing price of our common
stock was $212.13 per share as reported on the Nasdaq. Because many of our shares of common stock are held by brokers
and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders represented by
these record holders.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds
and any future earnings for the operation and expansion of our business. Accordingly, we do not anticipate declaring or
paying dividends in the foreseeable future. The payment of any future dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of
Directors and will depend on our results of operations, capital requirements, financial condition, prospects, contractual
arrangements, any limitations on payment of dividends present in any debt agreements and other factors that our Board of
Directors may deem relevant.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
There were no repurchases of shares of our common stock during the three months ended January 31, 2023.
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Stock Performance Graph
The graph below shows a comparison, from January 31, 2018 through January 31, 2023, of the cumulative total return
to stockholders of our common stock relative to the Nasdaq Composite Index (“Nasdaq Composite”) and the Nasdaq
Computer Index (“Nasdaq Computer”).
The graph assumes that $100 was invested in each of our common stock, the Nasdaq Composite and the Nasdaq
Computer at their respective closing prices on January 31, 2018 and assumes reinvestment of gross dividends. The stock price
performance shown in the graph represents past performance and should not be considered an indication of future stock price
performance.
This performance graph shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC for purposes of Section
18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section and shall not be deemed to be incorporated
by reference into any filing of MongoDB, Inc. under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
Item 6. Reserved
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto
included in Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Form 10-K. All information presented
herein is based on our fiscal calendar. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years, quarters, months or periods refer
to our fiscal years ended January 31 and the associated quarters, months and periods of those fiscal years.
Overview
MongoDB is the developer data platform company whose mission is to empower developers to create, transform, and
disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. The foundation of our offering is the world’s leading,
modern general purpose database. Organizations can deploy our database at scale in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid
environment. Built on our unique document-based architecture, our database is designed to meet the needs of organizations
for performance, scalability, flexibility and reliability while maintaining the strengths of relational databases. In addition to
the database, our developer data platform includes a set of, tightly integrated, capabilities such as search, time series and
application-driven analytics that allow developers to address a broader range of application requirements. Our business model
combines the developer mindshare and adoption benefits of open source with the economic benefits of a proprietary software
subscription business model.
We generate revenue primarily from sales of subscriptions, which accounted for 96% of our total revenue for the each
of the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
MongoDB Atlas is our hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service (“DBaaS”) offering, which we run and manage in the
cloud, and includes comprehensive infrastructure and management, as well as a host of additional features, such as MongoDB
Atlas Search. During the year ended January 31, 2023, MongoDB Atlas revenue represented 63% of our total revenue, as
compared to 56% in the prior year, reflecting the continued growth of MongoDB Atlas since its introduction in June 2016.
We have experienced strong growth in self-serve customers of MongoDB Atlas. These customers are charged monthly in
arrears based on their usage. In addition, we have also seen growth in MongoDB Atlas customers sold by our sales force.
These customers typically sign annual contracts and pay in advance or are invoiced monthly in arrears based on usage.
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is our proprietary commercial database server offering for enterprise customers that
can run in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced revenue represented 29%, 35%
and 44% of our subscription revenue for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We sell
subscriptions directly through our field and inside sales teams, as well as indirectly through channel partners. The majority of
our subscription contracts are one year in duration and are invoiced upfront. When we enter into multi-year subscriptions, the
customer is typically invoiced on an annual basis or pays upfront.
Many of our enterprise customers initially get to know our software by using Community Server, which is our free-to-
download version of our database that includes the core functionality developers need to get started with MongoDB without
all the features of our commercial platform. Our platform has been downloaded from our website more than 365 million
times since February 2009 and over 125 million times in the last 12 months alone. We also offer a free tier of MongoDB
Atlas, which provides access to our hosted database solution with limited processing power and storage, as well as certain
operational limitations. As a result, with the availability of both Community Server and MongoDB Atlas free tier offerings,
our direct sales prospects are often familiar with our platform and may have already built applications using our technology.
A core component of our growth strategy for MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is to convert developers
and their organizations who are already using Community Server or the free tier of MongoDB Atlas to become customers of
our commercial products and enjoy the benefits of either a self-managed or hosted offering.
We also generate revenue from services, which consist primarily of fees associated with consulting and training
services. Revenue from services accounted for 4% of our total revenue for each of the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022
and 2021, respectively. We expect to continue to invest in our services organization as we believe it plays an important role
in accelerating our customers’ realization of the benefits of our platform, which helps drive customer retention and
expansion.
We believe the market for our offerings is large and growing. We have experienced rapid growth and have made
substantial investments in developing our platform and expanding our sales and marketing footprint. We intend to continue to
invest to grow our business to take advantage of our market opportunity.
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Macroeconomic and Other Factors
Our operational and financial performance is subject to risks including those caused by the adverse macroeconomic
environment and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adverse macroeconomic conditions include slower or negative economic growth, higher inflation and higher interest
rates. During the year ended January 31, 2023, the macroeconomic environment negatively impacted our business. For
instance, we experienced slower than historical growth rates for our existing MongoDB Atlas applications. While the impact
of these macroeconomic conditions on our business, results of operations and financial position remain uncertain over the
long term, we expect to experience macroeconomic headwinds on growth rate for our existing MongoDB Atlas applications
in the short term.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we adopted several measures to protect our employees, maintain
operations and support our customers globally. Such measures included temporarily requiring employees to work remotely,
suspending non-essential travel, and replacing in-person marketing events with virtual events. As conditions improved, we
began to re-open our offices in the United States and certain other locations globally for employees to voluntarily return. In
April 2022, we moved forward with our return to office plan, which encompasses a hybrid approach to in-office attendance
based on the different needs of teams across the Company. The full extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our
future operational and financial performance is dependent on a number of factors outside of our control and is difficult to
predict.
We continue to monitor the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the macroeconomic environment, the
geopolitical landscape and, recently, the challenges in the banking industry. As these factors develop and we evaluate their
impact on our business, we may adjust our business practices accordingly. For further discussion of the potential impacts of
these factors on our business, operating results, and financial condition, see the section titled “Risk Factors” included in Part
I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K. Other factors affecting our performance are discussed below, although we caution you that the
COVID-19 pandemic may also impact these factors.
Factors Affecting Our Performance
Extending Product Leadership and Maintaining Developer Mindshare
We are committed to delivering market-leading products to continue to build and maintain credibility with the global
software developer community. We believe we must maintain our product leadership position and the strength of our brand to
drive further revenue growth. We intend to continue to invest in our product offerings with the goal of expanding the
functionality and adoption of our developer data platform. During 2021, we improved the ease of use of our platform by
introducing innovation that facilitates data partitioning and expanded the breadth of functionality of our platform by
introducing native time series support across our platform. During 2022, we continued to build on these improvements and
further extended our offering. The new features, capabilities and improvements such as column store indexes, in-app
analytics, Atlas Serverless, Atlas Device Sync, allow developer teams to accomplish more over a wider range of workloads
while preserving a consistent developer experience and optimizing for modern application architectures. And with Queryable
Encryption, we introduced the industry’s first encrypted search scheme using breakthrough cryptography engineering.
We intend to continue to invest in our engineering capabilities and marketing activities to maintain our strong position
in the developer community. We have spent $1.4 billion on research and development since our inception. Our results of
operations may fluctuate as we make these investments to drive increased customer adoption and usage.
Growing Our Customer Base and Expanding Our Global Reach
We are intensely focused on continuing to grow our customer base. We have invested, and expect to continue to
invest, in our sales and marketing efforts and developer community outreach, which are critical to driving customer
acquisition. As of January 31, 2023, we had over 40,800 customers across a wide range of industries and in over 100
countries, compared to over 33,000 customers and over 24,800 customers as of January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. All
affiliated entities are counted as a single customer and our definition of “customer” excludes users of our free offerings.
As of January 31, 2023, we had over 6,400 customers that were sold through our direct sales force and channel
partners, as compared to over 4,400 and over 3,000 such customers as of January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. These
customers, which we refer to as our Direct Sales Customers, accounted for 87%, 85% and 82% of our subscription revenue
for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The percentage of our subscription revenue from Direct
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Sales Customers increased, in part, due to existing self-serve customers of MongoDB Atlas becoming Direct Sales
Customers. We are also focused on increasing the number of overall MongoDB Atlas customers as we emphasize the on-
demand scalability of MongoDB Atlas by allowing our customers to consume the product with minimal commitment. We
had over 39,300 MongoDB Atlas customers as of January 31, 2023. The growth in MongoDB Atlas customers included new
customers to MongoDB and existing MongoDB Enterprise Advanced customers adding incremental MongoDB Atlas
workloads.
Retaining and Expanding Revenue from Existing Customers
The economic attractiveness of our subscription-based model is driven by customer renewals and increasing existing
customer subscriptions over time, referred to as land-and-expand. We believe that there is a significant opportunity to drive
additional sales to existing customers and expect to invest in sales and marketing and customer success personnel and
activities to achieve additional revenue growth from existing customers. If an application grows and requires additional
capacity, our customers increase their usage of our platform. Growth of an application is impacted by a number of factors
including the macroeconomic environment. During the year ended January 31, 2023, we experienced a negative impact from
the macroeconomic environment on the growth of existing Atlas applications, which affected our revenue growth. We expect
the macroeconomic environment to continue to negatively impact our revenue growth. In addition, our customers add
incremental workloads or expand their subscriptions to our platform as they migrate additional existing applications or build
new applications, either within the same department or in other lines of business or geographies. Also, as customers
modernize their information technology infrastructure and move to the cloud, they may migrate applications from legacy
databases. Our goal is to increase the number of customers that standardize on our platform within their organization, as well
as add new workloads with new and existing customers. Over time, the subscription amount for our typical Direct Sales
Customer has increased.
We calculate annualized recurring revenue (“ARR”) and annualized monthly recurring revenue (“MRR”) to help us
measure our subscription revenue performance. ARR includes the revenue we expect to receive from our customers over the
following 12 months based on contractual commitments and, in the case of Direct Sales Customers of MongoDB Atlas, by
annualizing the prior 90 days of their actual usage of MongoDB Atlas, assuming no increases or reductions in their
subscriptions or usage. For all other customers of our self-serve products, we calculate annualized MRR by annualizing the
prior 30 days of their actual usage of such products, assuming no increases or reductions in usage. ARR and annualized MRR
exclude professional services. The number of customers with $100,000 or greater in ARR and annualized MRR was 1,651,
1,307 and 975 as of January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Our ability to increase sales to existing customers will
depend on a number of factors, including customers’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our products and services,
competition, pricing, economic conditions or overall changes in our customers’ spending levels.
We also examine the rate at which our customers increase their spend with us, which we call net ARR expansion rate.
We calculate net ARR expansion rate by dividing the ARR at the close of a given period (the “measurement period”), from
customers who were also customers at the close of the same period in the prior year (the “base period”), by the ARR from all
customers at the close of the base period, including those who churned or reduced their subscriptions. For Direct Sales
Customers included in the base period, measurement period or both such periods that were self-serve customers in any such
period, we also include annualized MRR from those customers in the calculation of the net ARR expansion rate. Our net
ARR expansion rate has consistently been over 120%, demonstrating our ability to expand within existing customers.
Our ability to increase sales to existing customers will depend on a number of factors, including customers’
satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our products and services, competition, pricing, economic conditions or overall changes in
our customers’ spending levels.
Investing in Growth and Scaling Our Business
We are focused on our long-term revenue potential. We believe that our market opportunity is large and we will
continue to invest in scaling across all organizational functions in order to grow our operations both domestically and
internationally. Any investments we make in our sales and marketing organization will occur in advance of experiencing the
benefits from such investments, so it may be difficult for us to determine if we are efficiently allocating resources in those
areas. We have increased our sales and marketing headcount to 2,249 employees as of January 31, 2023 from 1,713
employees and 1,171 employees as of January 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
Subscription Revenue. Our subscription revenue is comprised of term licenses and hosted as-a-service solutions.
Revenue from our MongoDB Atlas offering is primarily generated on a usage basis and is billed either monthly in arrears or
paid upfront. Subscriptions to term licenses include technical support and access to new software versions on a when-and-if
available basis. Revenue from our term licenses is recognized upfront for the license component and ratably for the technical
support and when-and-if available update components. Associated contracts are typically billed annually in advance. The
majority of our subscription contracts are one year in duration. When we enter into multi-year subscriptions, the customer is
typically invoiced on an annual basis or pays upfront. Our subscription contracts are generally non-cancelable and non-
refundable.
Services Revenue. Services revenue is comprised of consulting and training services and is recognized over the period
of delivery of the applicable services. We recognize revenue from services agreements as services are delivered.
We expect our revenue may vary from period to period based on, among other things, the timing and size of new
subscriptions, customer usage patterns, the proportion of term license contracts that commence within the period, the rate of
customer renewals and expansions, delivery of professional services, the impact of significant transactions and seasonality of
or fluctuations in usage from our MongoDB Atlas customers.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of Subscription Revenue. Cost of subscription revenue primarily includes third-party cloud infrastructure
expenses for our hosted as-a-service solutions. We expect our cost of subscription revenue to increase in absolute dollars as
our subscription revenue increases and, depending on the results of MongoDB Atlas, our cost of subscription revenue may
increase as a percentage of subscription revenue as well. Cost of subscription revenue also includes personnel costs, including
salaries, bonuses and benefits and stock-based compensation, for employees associated with our subscription arrangements
principally related to technical support and allocated shared costs, as well as depreciation and amortization.
Cost of Services Revenue. Cost of services revenue primarily includes personnel costs, including salaries, bonuses and
benefits, and stock-based compensation, for employees associated with our professional service contracts, as well as, travel
costs, allocated shared costs and depreciation and amortization. We expect our cost of services revenue to increase in absolute
dollars as our services revenue increases.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross Profit. Gross profit represents revenue less cost of revenue.
Gross Margin. Gross margin, or gross profit as a percentage of revenue, has been and will continue to be affected by a
variety of factors, including the average sales price of our products and services, the mix of products sold, transaction volume
growth and the mix of revenue between subscriptions and services. We expect our gross margin to fluctuate over time
depending on the factors described above and, to the extent MongoDB Atlas revenue increases as a percentage of total
revenue, our gross margin may decline as a result of the associated hosting costs of MongoDB Atlas.
Operating Expenses
Our operating expenses consist of sales and marketing, research and development and general and administrative
expenses. Personnel costs are the most significant component of each category of operating expenses. Operating expenses
also include travel and related costs and allocated overhead costs for facilities, information technology and employee benefit
costs.
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel costs, including salaries, sales
commission and benefits, bonuses and stock-based compensation. These expenses also include costs related to marketing
programs, travel-related expenses and allocated overhead. Marketing programs consist of advertising, events, corporate
communications, and brand-building and developer-community activities. We expect our sales and marketing expense to
increase in absolute dollars over time as we expand our sales force and increase our marketing resources, expand into new
markets and further develop our self-serve and partner channels.
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Research and Development. Research and development expense consists primarily of personnel costs, including
salaries, bonuses and benefits, and stock-based compensation. It also includes amortization associated with intangible
acquired assets and allocated overhead. We expect our research and development expenses to continue to increase in absolute
dollars, as we continue to invest in our developer data platform and develop new products.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel costs, including
salaries, bonuses and benefits, and stock-based compensation for administrative functions including finance, legal, human
resources and external legal and accounting fees, as well as allocated overhead. We expect general and administrative
expense to increase in absolute dollars over time as we continue to invest in the growth of our business, as well as incur the
ongoing costs of compliance associated with being a publicly traded company.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Other income (expense), net consists primarily of interest income, interest expense, gains and losses on investments
and gains and losses from foreign currency transactions.
Provision for Income Taxes
Provision for income taxes consists primarily of state income taxes in the United States and income taxes in certain
foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business. As of January 31, 2023, we had net operating loss (“NOL”)
carryforwards for U.S. federal and state, Irish and U.K. income tax purposes of approximately $1.9 billion, $1.8 billion,
$697.2 million and $42.9 million, respectively, which begin to expire in the year ending January 31, 2028 for U.S. federal
purposes and January 31, 2024 for state purposes. Operating losses in the United States, for years after January 31, 2019, in
Ireland and the U.K. may be carried forward indefinitely. The deferred tax assets associated with the NOL carryforwards in
each of these jurisdictions are subject to a full valuation allowance. Under Section 382 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (the “Code”), a corporation that experiences an “ownership change” is subject to a limitation on its ability to utilize its
pre-change NOLs to offset future taxable income. We also have U.S. federal and state research credit carryforwards of $94.1
million and $8.9 million, respectively, which begin to expire in the year ending January 31, 2029 for federal purposes and
January 31, 2025 for state purposes. Beginning in fiscal year 2023, provisions in the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
require the Company to capitalize and amortize research and development (“R&D”) expenditures rather than deducting the
costs as incurred. As the result of the new R&D capitalization effective in fiscal year 2023, the capitalized amounts resulted
in a decrease of the current year net operating loss. Capitalized R&D expenditures are deductible as amortized in future
periods. Therefore, the Company recorded a deferred tax asset for the capitalized R&D expenditures.
Utilization of the federal NOL carryforwards and credits may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the
ownership change limitations provided by the Code, as amended and similar state provisions. The annual limitation, should
we undergo an ownership change, may result in the expiration of U.S. federal or state net operating losses and credits before
utilization; however we do not expect any such limitation to be material.
Highlights for the Years Ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
For the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, our total revenue was $1,284.0 million, $873.8 million and
$590.4 million, respectively. The increase in total revenue was primarily driven by an increase in subscription revenue from
our Direct Sales Customers. Our net loss was $345.4 million, $306.9 million and $266.9 million for the years ended January
31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively, driven primarily by higher sales and marketing spend and research and development
costs. Our operating cash flow was $(13.0) million, $7.0 million and $(42.7) million for the years ended January 31, 2023,
2022 and 2021, respectively.
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Results of Operations
The following tables set forth our results of operations for the periods presented in U.S. dollars (in thousands) and as a
percentage of our total revenue. Percentage of revenue figures are rounded and therefore may not subtotal exactly.
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
Revenue:
Subscription .................................................................................... $
Services ..........................................................................................
Total revenue ..............................................................................
Cost of revenue:
Subscription(1)
Services(1)
..................................................................................
........................................................................................
Total cost of revenue ..................................................................
Gross profit .........................................................................................
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing(1) ....................................................................
Research and development(1) ..........................................................
General and administrative(1) ..........................................................
Total operating expenses ............................................................
Loss from operations ..........................................................................
Other income (expense), net ...............................................................
Loss before provision for income taxes ...........................................
Provision for income taxes ...............................................................
Net loss ................................................................................................ $
(1)
Includes stock-based compensation expense as follows (in thousands):
Cost of revenue—subscription ....................................................................................... $
Cost of revenue—services .............................................................................................
Sales and marketing .......................................................................................................
Research and development .............................................................................................
General and administrative ............................................................................................
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
1,235,122 $
842,047 $
48,918
1,284,040
284,583
64,721
349,304
934,736
31,735
873,782
217,901
41,591
259,492
614,290
699,201
421,692
160,498
1,281,391
(346,655)
13,401
(333,254)
12,144
(345,398) $
471,890
308,820
122,944
903,654
(289,364)
(13,525)
(302,889)
3,977
(306,866) $
565,349
25,031
590,380
145,280
31,796
177,076
413,304
325,100
205,161
92,347
622,608
(209,304)
(53,389)
(262,693)
4,251
(266,944)
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
19,682 $
14,387 $
10,565
143,073
159,099
49,035
6,325
91,947
104,335
34,075
8,970
4,953
54,632
57,611
23,147
Total stock-based compensation expense ................................................................. $
381,454 $
251,069 $
149,313
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Percentage of Revenue Data:
Revenue:
Subscription ...................................................................................
Services ..........................................................................................
Total revenue ..............................................................................
Cost of revenue:
Subscription ...................................................................................
Services ..........................................................................................
Total cost of revenue ..................................................................
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
Sales and marketing .......................................................................
Research and development ............................................................
General and administrative ............................................................
Total operating expenses ............................................................
Loss from operations ..........................................................................
Other income (expense), net ..............................................................
Loss before provision for income taxes ............................................
Provision for income taxes ................................................................
Net loss ................................................................................................
Comparison of the Years Ended January 31, 2023 and 2022
Revenue
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
96 %
4
100
22
5
27
73
54
33
13
100
(27)
1
(26)
1
(27) %
96 %
4
100
25
5
30
70
54
35
14
103
(33)
(1)
(34)
1
(35) %
96 %
4
100
25
5
30
70
55
35
15
105
(35)
(9)
(44)
1
(45) %
(in thousands)
Subscription .................................................................. $
Services .........................................................................
Total revenue ............................................................ $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
1,235,122 $
48,918
1,284,040 $
842,047 $
31,735
873,782 $
Change
$
393,075
17,183
410,258
%
47 %
54 %
47 %
Total revenue growth reflects increased demand for our platform and related services. Subscription revenue increased
by $393.1 million primarily due to an increase of $360.5 million from our Direct Sales Customers, inclusive of the impact
from Direct Sales Customers who were self-serve customers of MongoDB Atlas in the prior-year period. The increase in
services revenue was driven primarily by the continued increase in delivery of consulting services.
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Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit and Gross Margin Percentage
(in thousands)
Subscription cost of revenue ......................................... $
Services cost of revenue ...............................................
Total cost of revenue ................................................
Gross profit ................................................................... $
Gross margin .................................................................
Subscription .............................................................
Services ....................................................................
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
284,583
$
217,901
$
64,721
349,304
41,591
259,492
66,682
23,130
89,812
934,736
$
614,290
$
320,446
31 %
56 %
35 %
52 %
73 %
77 %
(32) %
70 %
74 %
(31) %
The increase in subscription cost of revenue was primarily due to a $50.9 million increase in third-party cloud
infrastructure costs, including costs associated with the growth of MongoDB Atlas. The increase in third-party infrastructure
costs was partly offset by continued cost efficiencies realized as we scale MongoDB Atlas. In addition, subscription cost of
revenue was higher due to a $11.5 million increase in personnel costs and stock-based compensation associated with
increased headcount in our support organization. The increase in services cost of revenue was primarily due to a
$15.8 million increase in personnel costs and stock-based compensation associated with increased headcount in our services
organization, and a $4.1 million increase in costs driven by an increase in the volume of consulting and training services.
Total headcount in our support and services organizations increased 38% from January 31, 2022 to January 31, 2023.
Our overall gross margin improved to 73%. Our subscription gross margin increased to 77% as efficiencies realized in
managing our third-party cloud infrastructure costs more than offset the negative margin impact from the increasing
percentage of revenue from MongoDB Atlas. The impact of higher services personnel costs and stock-based compensation
and lower utilization rate resulted in negative services gross margin.
Operating Expenses
Sales and Marketing
(in thousands)
Sales and marketing ...................................................... $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
699,201 $
471,890 $
227,311
48 %
The increase in sales and marketing expense included $140.8 million from higher personnel costs and stock-based
compensation, driven by an increase in our sales and marketing headcount to 2,249 as of January 31, 2023 from 1,713 as of
January 31, 2022, which includes non-quota-carrying hires in sales operations, customer success and marketing. Sales and
marketing expense also increased $69.8 million from costs associated with our higher headcount, including higher
commissions expense, higher travel costs and higher computer hardware and software expenses. Travel costs increased also
due to the easing of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, sales and marketing expenses increased by
$10.2 million due to increased spending on marketing programs including the return to in-person attendance for our
MongoDB World event.
Research and Development
(in thousands)
Research and development ........................................... $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
421,692 $
308,820 $
112,872
37 %
The increase in research and development expense was primarily driven by a $97.8 million increase in personnel costs
and stock-based compensation as we increased our research and development headcount by 19%. Research and development
expense also increased due to higher computer hardware and software expenses, increased third-party infrastructure costs and
higher travel costs driven by higher headcount. Travel costs increased also due to the easing of restrictions related to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
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General and Administrative
(in thousands)
General and administrative ........................................... $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
160,498 $
122,944 $
37,554
31 %
The increase in general and administrative expense was due to higher costs to support the growth of our business and
to maintain compliance as a public company. In particular, these higher costs were driven by an increase in general and
administrative personnel headcount resulting in $31.5 million higher personnel costs and stock-based compensation. In
addition, general and administrative expense increased due to higher professional services fees, higher office-related expenses
driven by higher headcount, and higher travel costs. The increase in travel costs was primarily driven by higher headcount
and the easing of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other Income (Expense), net
(in thousands)
Other income (expense), net ........................................ $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
13,401 $
(13,525) $
26,926
(199) %
Other income (expense), net, for the year ended January 31, 2023 improved primarily due to higher interest income
from our short-term investments, unrealized gains related to our non-marketable securities, as well as lower interest expense
following the redemption of convertible securities.
Provision for Income Taxes
(in thousands)
Provision for income taxes .............................................. $
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
Change
$
%
12,144 $
3,977 $
8,167
205 %
The increase in the provision for income taxes during the year ended January 31, 2023 was primarily due to an
increase in foreign taxes as the Company continued its global expansion. In addition, the overall provision for income taxes
for the year ended January 31, 2022 includes a reduction in the valuation allowance as a result of goodwill from an
immaterial business combination and the impact from the adoption of ASU 2020-06.
Comparison of the Years Ended January 31, 2022 and 2021
For a discussion of our results of operations for the year ended January 31, 2022 as compared to the year ended
January 31, 2021, refer to Part II, Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 18, 2022.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of January 31, 2023, our principal sources of liquidity were cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments and
restricted cash totaling $1.8 billion. Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of bank deposits and money market
funds. Our short-term investments consist of U.S. government treasury securities and our restricted cash represents collateral
for our available credit on corporate credit cards. We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents and short-term
investments will be sufficient to fund our operating and capital needs for at least the next 12 months.
On June 29, 2021, we entered into an underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs &
Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell
2,500,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at an offering price of $365.00 per share. We received net
proceeds of $889.2 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $22.7 million and offering expenses
of $0.6 million. Offering expenses included legal, accounting and other fees.
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On October 1, 2021, we issued a notice of redemption (the “Redemption Notice”) for the aggregate principal amount
outstanding of its 2024 Notes. We satisfied our conversion obligations with respect to conversions occurring after the date of
the Redemption Notice and prior to December 3, 2021 (the “Redemption Date”) by delivering shares of common stock, plus
cash in lieu of any resulting fractional shares (physical settlement). Pursuant to the Redemption Notice, on the Redemption
Date, we redeemed the outstanding principal of the 2024 Notes that were not converted prior to such date at a redemption
price in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2024 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest. Approximately $1.9
million aggregate principal amount outstanding as of October 31, 2021 were converted to 27,377 shares of the Company’s
common stock with the remaining balance settled in cash. The extinguishment of the 2024 Notes on December 3, 2021 was
immaterial to our financial statements. For further discussion on the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes, please refer to Note 6,
Convertible Senior Notes, in Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, of this Form 10-K.
We have generated significant operating losses and negative cash flows from operations as reflected in our
accumulated deficit and historical consolidated statements of cash flows. As of January 31, 2023, we had an accumulated
deficit of $1.5 billion. We expect to continue to incur operating losses, may continue to experience negative cash flows from
operations in the future and may require additional capital resources to execute strategic initiatives to grow our business. Our
future capital requirements and adequacy of available funds will depend on many factors, including our growth rate and any
impact on it from global macroeconomic conditions, including rising interest rates and inflation, the timing and extent of
spending to support development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing and international operation activities, the
timing and size of new subscription introductions and customer usage of our developer data platform, the continuing market
acceptance of our subscriptions and services and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and our
business, financial condition and results of operations. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and macroeconomic
conditions on the global economy and our operations continues to evolve, we will continue to assess our liquidity needs. We
may in the future enter into arrangements to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, services and technologies,
including intellectual property rights. We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that
additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we
are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely
affected.
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented (in thousands):
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities ................................ $
Net cash used in investing activities ........................................................
Net cash provided by financing activities ...............................................
Operating Activities
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
(12,970) $
(33,308)
30,200
6,980 $
(852,142)
890,892
(42,673)
(262,656)
27,581
Cash used in operating activities during the year ended January 31, 2023 was $13.0 million. This was primarily
driven by our net loss of $345.4 million, which included non-cash charges of $381.5 million for stock-based compensation
and $16.1 million for depreciation and amortization. The continuing growth of our sales and our expanding customer base led
to an increase in accounts receivable of $91.5 million and deferred commissions of $49.1 million. In addition, accrued
liabilities decreased by $16.2 million reflecting lower expenses and timing of payments. These were partly offset by our cash
collections, which increased our deferred revenue by $85.8 million.
Cash provided by operating activities during the year ended January 31, 2022 was $7.0 million. Our net loss of $306.9
million included non-cash charges of $251.1 million for stock-based compensation, $13.7 million for depreciation and
amortization, $10.8 million for lease-related charges, $7.5 million for accretion of discount on our short-term investments and
$4.0 million for debt issuance costs. In addition, our accrued and other non-current liabilities increased to $63.0 million,
driven mainly by increased bonuses and related payroll taxes and higher commissions. The continuing growth of our sales
and our expanding customer base led to an increase in deferred revenue of $137.2 million, offset by an increase in deferred
commissions of $84.7 million and an increase in accounts receivable of $62.3 million. Cash provided by operating activities
was negatively impacted by higher prepaid and other current assets of $19.9 million.
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Investing Activities
Cash used in investing activities during the during the year ended January 31, 2023 was $33.3 million, primarily due to
purchases of marketable securities, net of proceeds from maturities, of $23.0 million, $7.2 million of cash used for purchases
of property and equipment and $3.1 million of additional investment in non-marketable securities.
Cash used in investing activities during the year ended January 31, 2022 was $852.1 million, primarily due to cash
used to purchase marketable securities, net of maturities, of $835.3 million, as a result of the increased cash balance
following our June 2021 equity offering, $4.5 million of net cash used for an immaterial acquisition and $4.3 million of cash
to purchase non-marketable securities. In addition, we used $8.1 million of cash to purchase property and equipment.
Financing Activities
Cash provided by financing activities during the year ended January 31, 2023 was $30.2 million, due to $29.0 million
of proceeds from the issuance of common stock under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan and $5.7 million exercises of stock
options, partly offset by $4.5 million of principal repayments of finance leases.
Cash provided by financing activities during the year ended January 31, 2022 was $890.9 million, primarily due to
$889.2 million net proceeds from our June 2021 equity offering, $25.2 million of proceeds from the issuance of common
stock under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan and $9.7 million of proceeds from the exercises of stock options, partially
offset by $5.6 million principal repayments of finance leases, as well as $27.6 million used to repay a portion of our 2024
convertible notes upon redemption.
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Contractual Obligations and Commitments
The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of January 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Payments Due by Period
0.25% convertible senior notes due 2026
Finance lease obligations
Operating lease obligations
Purchase obligations
Total
Total
1,158,597
59,347
53,526
1,146,064
$ 2,417,534 $
Less Than 1
Year
1 to 3 Years
3 to 5 Years
More Than 5
Years
2,875
8,073
11,993
200,706
223,647 $ 1,716,473 $
1,155,722
17,156
18,237
525,358
—
17,422
10,929
420,000
448,351 $
—
16,696
12,367
—
29,063
At January 31, 2023, our material short-term and long-term cash requirements for various contractual obligations and
commitments consisted of the following:
•
•
•
•
principal and future interest payments related to our 2026 Notes;
our purchase obligations under non-cancelable agreements for cloud infrastructure capacity commitments and
subscription and marketing services. Subsequent to January 31, 2023, the Company expanded its enterprise
partnership arrangement with a cloud infrastructure provider that includes a non-cancelable commitment of
$300 million over the next five years, commencing in March 2023, which is not included in the table above;
our finance and operating lease obligations under non-cancelable leases for office space expiring through 2032; and
accounts payable and accrued liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet (primarily short-term in nature).
For further details of our contractual obligations and lease agreements, refer to our Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements, within Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K, specifically Note 6,
Convertible Senior Notes, Note 7, Leases and Note 8, Commitments and Contingencies.
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Critical Accounting Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires
us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses and related
disclosures. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our estimates are based on historical experience
and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Our actual results could differ from
these estimates.
The critical accounting estimates, assumptions and judgments that we believe have the most significant impact on our
consolidated financial statements are described below.
Revenue Recognition
We derive our revenue from two sources: (1) the sales of subscriptions, which includes the usage-based database-as-a-
service offering and the term license and post-contract customer support (“PCS”); and (2) services revenue comprised of
consulting and training arrangements. We recognize revenue when our customer obtains control of promised goods or
services in an amount that reflects the consideration that we expect to receive in exchange for those goods or services. In
determining the appropriate amount of revenue to be recognized as we fulfill our obligations under each of our agreements,
we perform the following steps:
i.
ii.
Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer. We contract with our customers through order
forms, which are governed by master sales agreements. We determine we have a contract with a customer when the
contract is approved, each party’s rights regarding the products or services to be transferred is identified, the
payment terms for the services can be identified, we have determined the customer has the ability and intent to pay
and the contract has commercial substance. We apply judgment in determining the customer’s ability and intent to
pay, which is based on a variety of factors, including the customer’s historical payment experience or, in the case of
a new customer, credit, reputation and financial or other information pertaining to the customer. At contract
inception, we evaluate whether two or more contracts should be combined and accounted for as a single contract and
whether the combined or single contract includes more than one performance obligation. We have concluded that
our contracts with customers do not contain warranties that give rise to a separate performance obligation.
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract. Performance obligations promised in a contract are
identified based on the services or products that will be transferred to the customer that are both (1) capable of being
distinct, whereby the customer can benefit from the service or product either on its own or together with other
resources that are readily available from third parties or from us and (2) distinct in the context of the contract,
whereby the transfer of the services or products is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract. To the
extent a contract includes multiple promised services or products, we apply judgment to determine whether
promised services or products are capable of being distinct and distinct in the context of the contract. If these criteria
are not met, the promised services or products are accounted for as a combined performance obligation.
iii. Determination of the transaction price. The transaction price is determined based on the consideration to which
we expect to be entitled in exchange for transferring services and products to the customer. Variable consideration is
included in the transaction price if, in our judgment, it is probable that a significant future reversal of cumulative
revenue under the contract will not occur. None of our contracts contain a significant financing component.
iv. Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract. If the contract contains a
single performance obligation, the entire transaction price is allocated to the single performance obligation. For
contracts that contain multiple performance obligations, we allocate the transaction price to each performance
obligation based on a relative standalone selling price (“SSP”) basis. We also consider if there are any additional
material rights inherent in a contract and if so, we allocate a portion of the transaction price to such rights based on
SSP. We determine each SSP based on multiple factors, including past history of selling such performance
obligations as standalone products. We estimate SSP for performance obligations with no observable evidence using
adjusted market, cost plus and residual methods to establish the SSPs. In cases where directly observable standalone
sales are not available, we utilize all observable data points including competitor pricing for a similar or identical
product, market and industry data points and our pricing practices to establish the SSP.
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v. Recognition of revenue when, or as, we satisfy a performance obligation. We recognize revenue at the time the
related performance obligation is satisfied when control of the services or products are transferred to the customers,
in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those services or products.
We record our revenue net of any value added or sales tax.
Business Combinations
We use our best estimates and assumptions to assign fair value to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and
liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date. The excess of the fair value of purchase consideration over the fair values of the
tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed is recorded as goodwill. These estimates are inherently
uncertain and subject to refinement. During the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date,
we may record adjustments to the fair value of these tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the
corresponding offset to goodwill. In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax-related valuation allowances are initially
established in connection with a business combination as of the acquisition date. Upon the conclusion of the measurement
period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent
adjustments are recorded to our consolidated statements of operations. Acquisition-related expenses are recognized separately
from the business combination and are expensed as incurred.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We have operations both within the United States and internationally and we are exposed to market risk in the ordinary
course of business. The uncertainty that exists with respect to the global economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and
the macroeconomic environment has introduced significant volatility in the financial markets.
Interest Rate Risk
Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of bank deposits and money market funds and our short-term
investments consist of U.S. government treasury securities. As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, we had cash, cash equivalents,
restricted cash and short-term investments of $1.8 billion. The carrying amount of our cash equivalents reasonably
approximates fair value, due to the short maturities of these instruments. The primary objectives of our investment activities
are the preservation of capital, the fulfillment of liquidity needs and the fiduciary control of cash and investments. We do not
enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes. Our investments are exposed to market risk due to a fluctuation in
interest rates, which may affect our interest income and the fair market value of our investments. The effect of a hypothetical
10% increase or decrease in interest rates would not have had a material impact on the fair market value of our investments as
of January 31, 2023 and 2022.
In January 2020, we issued $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2026 in a
private placement (the “2026 Notes”). The fair value of the 2026 Notes is subject to interest rate risk, market risk and other
factors due to the conversion feature. The fair value of the 2026 Notes will generally increase as our common stock price
increases and will generally decrease as our common stock price declines. The interest and market value changes affect the
fair value of the 2026 Notes, but do not impact our financial position, cash flows or results of operations due to the fixed
nature of the debt obligation. Additionally, we carry the 2026 Notes at face value less unamortized issuance costs on our
balance sheet, and we present the fair value for required disclosure purposes only.
Foreign Currency Risk
Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars, British pounds (“GBP”) or Euros (“EUR”). A portion of
our operating expenses are incurred outside the United States and denominated in foreign currencies and are subject to
fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the GBP and EUR. Additionally,
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may cause us to recognize transaction gains and losses in our statement of
operations. The effect of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates applicable to our business would not
have a material impact on our historical consolidated financial statements for the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022.
Given the impact of foreign currency exchange rates has not been material to our historical operating results, we have not
entered into derivative or hedging transactions, but we may do so in the future if our exposure to foreign currency should
become more significant. As our international operations grow, we will continue to reassess our approach to manage our risk
relating to fluctuations in currency rates.
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Market Risk
We could experience additional volatility to our consolidated statements of operations due to observable price changes
and impairments to our non-marketable securities. These changes could be material based on market conditions and events,
particularly in periods of significant market fluctuations that affect our non-marketable securities. Our non-marketable
securities are subject to a risk of partial or total loss of invested capital. As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, the total amount of
non-marketable securities included in other assets on our balance sheet was $9.8 million and $4.8 million, respectively.
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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
MongoDB, Inc.
Form 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2023
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 238)
Financial Statements:
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 31, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of MongoDB, Inc.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of MongoDB, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of
January 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive loss, of stockholders'
equity (deficit) and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 31, 2023, including the related notes
(collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). We also have audited the Company's internal control over
financial reporting as of January 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013)
issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of the Company as of January 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the
three years in the period ended January 31, 2023 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over
financial reporting as of January 31, 2023, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013)
issued by the COSO.
Change in Accounting Principle
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed the manner in which it accounts for
convertible senior notes as of February 1, 2021.
Basis for Opinions
The Company's management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal
control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting,
included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility
is to express opinions on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and on the Company's internal control over
financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance
with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and
the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform
the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material
misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in
all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond
to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the
consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our
audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial
reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness
of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered
necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures
that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and
dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and
expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the
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company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or
disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also,
projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial
statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relates to accounts or
disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective,
or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated
financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate
opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Revenue Recognition - Allocation of Transaction Price in Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Performance Obligations
As described in Notes 2 and 10 to the consolidated financial statements, other subscription revenue was $426.9 million for
the year ended January 31, 2023. Certain of the Company’s contracts with customers contain multiple performance
obligations, such as the license portion of time-based software licenses, post-contract customer support, and services. For
these contracts that contain multiple performance obligations, management allocates the transaction price to each
performance obligation based on a relative standalone selling price. Management determines each standalone selling price
based on multiple factors, including past history of selling such performance obligations as standalone products. Management
estimates standalone selling price for performance obligations with no observable evidence using adjusted market, cost plus
and residual methods to establish the standalone selling prices. In cases where directly observable standalone sales are not
available, management utilizes all observable data points including competitor pricing for a similar or identical product,
market and industry data points, and the Company’s pricing practices.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to revenue recognition - allocation of
transaction price in revenue arrangements with multiple performance obligations is a critical audit matter are (i) the
significant judgment by management in estimating the standalone selling price for certain of the Company’s performance
obligations and allocating the transaction price based on a relative allocation of standalone selling price to those individual
performance obligations, which in turn led to (ii) significant auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort in performing
procedures and evaluating management’s estimates of standalone selling price and the allocation of transaction price to the
individual performance obligations.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall
opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to
the revenue recognition process, including controls over the estimation of the standalone selling price and the allocation of
transaction price to the individual performance obligations. These procedures also included testing management’s process for
estimating the standalone selling prices, which involved (i) evaluating the appropriateness of the methodologies used by
management in establishing the standalone selling prices; (ii) assessing the reasonableness of the significant assumptions
developed by management; and (iii) testing the source data utilized in management’s estimate calculations. These procedures
also included testing the relative allocation of transaction price to individual performance obligations based on a sample of
contracts.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
San Jose, California
March 17, 2023
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2013.
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MONGODB, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands of U.S. dollars, except share and per share data)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $6,362 and $4,966 as of January 31, 2023
and 2022, respectively
Deferred commissions
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Total current assets
Property and equipment, net
Operating lease right-of-use assets
Goodwill
Acquired intangible assets, net
Deferred tax assets
Other assets
Total assets
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
Accrued compensation and benefits
Operating lease liabilities
Other accrued liabilities
Deferred revenue
Total current liabilities
Deferred tax liability, non-current
Operating lease liabilities, non-current
Deferred revenue, non-current
Convertible senior notes, net
Other liabilities, non-current
Total liabilities
Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)
Stockholders’ equity:
Common stock, par value of $0.001 per share; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized as of January 31, 2023 and
2022; 70,005,957 shares issued and 69,906,586 shares outstanding as of January 31, 2023 and 67,543,731
shares issued and 67,444,360 shares outstanding as of January 31, 2022
Additional paid-in capital
Treasury stock, 99,371 shares (repurchased at an average of $13.27 per share) as of January 31, 2023 and
2022
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Accumulated deficit
Total stockholders’ equity
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
As of January 31,
2023
2022
$
455,826 $
473,904
1,380,804
1,352,019
285,192
83,550
31,212
195,383
63,523
32,573
2,236,584
2,117,402
57,841
41,194
57,779
11,428
2,564
62,625
41,745
57,775
20,608
1,939
181,503
147,494
$ 2,588,893 $ 2,449,588
$
8,295 $
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
67
MONGODB, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands of U.S. dollars, except share and per share data)
Revenue:
Subscription
Services
Total revenue
Cost of revenue:
Subscription
Services
Total cost of revenue
Gross profit
Operating expenses:
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Research and development
General and administrative
Total operating expenses
Loss from operations
Other income (expense):
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Interest expense
Other expense, net
Loss before provision for income taxes
Provision for income taxes
Net loss
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
$
1,235,122 $
48,918
1,284,040
842,047 $
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873,782
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934,736
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421,692
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Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and
diluted
68,628,267
64,563,032
58,984,604
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
68
MONGODB, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Net loss
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Unrealized income (loss) on available-for-sale securities
Foreign currency translation adjustment
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Total comprehensive loss
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
$
(345,398) $
(306,866) $
(266,944)
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MONGODB, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
$
(345,398) $
(306,866) $
(266,944)
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
Stock-based compensation
Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs
Amortization of finance right-of-use assets
Amortization of operating right-of-use assets
Deferred income taxes
Amortization of premium and accretion of discount on short-term investments, net
Unrealized gain on non-marketable securities
Unrealized foreign exchange loss (gain)
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Deferred commissions
Other long-term assets
Accounts payable
Accrued liabilities
Operating lease liabilities
Deferred revenue
Other liabilities, non-current
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of property and equipment
Acquisition, net of cash acquired
Investment in non-marketable securities
Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities
Purchases of marketable securities
Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs
Payments of issuance costs for convertible senior notes
Proceeds from exercise of stock options, including early exercised stock options
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Repurchase of early exercised stock options
Principal repayments of finance leases
Repayments of convertible senior notes attributable to principal
Proceeds from tenant improvement allowance on build-to-suit lease
Net cash provided by financing activities
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Net (decrease) increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of year
16,110
381,454
3,375
3,974
9,098
(562)
(5,954)
(1,857)
1,260
(91,450)
2,315
(49,077)
(99)
3,163
(16,189)
(9,692)
85,759
800
(12,970)
(7,244)
—
(3,098)
13,671
251,069
4,005
3,974
6,810
(2,579)
7,540
—
1,519
(62,277)
(19,865)
(84,742)
233
1,146
59,248
(6,866)
137,241
3,719
6,980
(8,072)
(4,469)
(4,343)
1,425,000
550,000
(1,447,966)
(1,385,258)
(33,308)
(852,142)
—
—
5,707
29,003
—
(4,510)
—
—
30,200
(2,003)
(18,081)
474,420
889,184
—
9,665
25,209
—
(5,572)
(27,594)
—
890,892
(1,532)
44,198
430,222
14,177
149,313
49,120
3,975
6,380
(364)
1,460
—
(1,329)
(47,633)
4,824
(41,623)
(1,094)
1,216
34,859
(4,014)
48,239
6,765
(42,673)
(11,773)
—
(500)
740,000
(990,383)
(262,656)
—
(4,154)
17,000
18,523
(11)
(4,633)
—
856
27,581
1,264
(276,484)
706,706
430,222
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of year
$
456,339
$
474,420
$
71
Supplemental cash flow disclosure
Cash paid during the period for:
Income taxes, net of refunds
Interest expense
Noncash investing and financing activities
Vesting of early exercised stock options
Purchases of property and equipment included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash within the consolidated balance
sheets to the amounts shown in the statements of cash flows above:
Cash and cash equivalents
Restricted cash, non-current
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
2021
$
11,164
$
5,672
$
5,837
6,271
—
366
10
1,324
2,310
6,998
100
2,848
$
$
455,826
$
473,904
$
429,697
513
516
525
456,339
$
474,420
$
430,222
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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1. Organization and Description of Business
MongoDB, Inc. (“MongoDB” or the “Company”) was originally incorporated in the state of Delaware in November
2007 under the name 10Gen, Inc. In August 2013, the Company changed its name to MongoDB, Inc. The Company is
headquartered in New York City. MongoDB is the developer data platform company. The foundation of the Company’s
offering is the leading, modern general purpose database, which is built on a unique document-based architecture.
Organizations can deploy the Company’s database at scale in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment. The
Company’s robust platform enables developers to build and modernize applications rapidly and cost-effectively across a
broad range of use cases. In addition to selling subscriptions to its software, the Company provides post-contract support,
training and consulting services for its offerings. The Company’s fiscal year ends on January 31.
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and include the accounts of the Company and all of its wholly owned
subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions and accounts have been eliminated.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make
estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent
assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the
reporting periods. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, allowances for doubtful accounts, the
incremental borrowing rate related to the Company’s lease liabilities, stock-based compensation, legal contingencies, fair
value of acquired intangible assets and goodwill, useful lives of acquired intangible assets and property and equipment, fair
value of non-marketable securities and accounting for income taxes. The Company bases these estimates on historical and
anticipated results, trends and various other assumptions that it believes are reasonable under the circumstances, including
assumptions as to future events.
The COVID-19 pandemic and global macroeconomic conditions, including slower economic growth, rising interest
rates and inflation, continue to impact demand and supply for a broad variety of goods and services, including demand from
the Company’s customers.
Estimates and assumptions about future events and their effects cannot be determined with certainty and therefore
require the exercise of judgment. As of the date of issuance of these financial statements, the Company is not aware of any
specific event or circumstance that would require the Company to update its estimates, assumptions and judgments or adjust
the carrying value of its assets or liabilities. These estimates may change as new events occur and additional information is
obtained and are recognized in the consolidated financial statements as soon as they become known. Actual results could
differ from those estimates and any such differences may be material to the Company’s financial statements.
Foreign Currency
The functional currency of the Company’s international subsidiaries is either the U.S. dollar or the local currency in
which the international subsidiary operates. For foreign subsidiaries where the U.S. dollar is the functional currency, foreign
currency denominated monetary assets and liabilities are re-measured into U.S. dollars at current exchange rates and foreign
currency denominated non-monetary assets and liabilities are re-measured into U.S. dollars at historical exchange rates.
Transaction gains or losses from foreign currency re-measurement and settlements are included in other income (expense),
net in the consolidated statements of operations. For foreign subsidiaries where the functional currency is the local currency,
the Company uses the exchange rate as of the balance sheet date to translate assets and liabilities and the average exchange
rate during the period to translate revenue and expenses into U.S. dollars. Translation gains or losses resulting from
translating foreign local currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss
as a component of stockholders' equity (deficit).
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Comprehensive Loss
The Company’s comprehensive loss includes net loss, unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale debt securities
and foreign currency translation adjustments.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less at the date of
purchase to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains such investments primarily in money market funds, which have
readily determinable fair values. Money market funds are measured using quoted prices in active markets with changes
recorded in other income (expense), net on the consolidated statements of operations.
Marketable Securities
The Company’s short-term investments consist of U.S. government treasury securities. The Company determines the
appropriate classification of its short-term investments at the time of purchase and reevaluates such designation at each
balance sheet date. The Company has classified and accounted for its short-term investments as available-for-sale debt
securities as the Company may sell these securities at any time for use in its current operations or for other purposes, even
prior to maturity. As a result, the Company classifies its short-term investments within current assets on the consolidated
balance sheets.
Available-for-sale debt securities are recorded at fair value each reporting period. Realized gains and losses are
determined based on the individual security level and are reported in other income (expense), net in the consolidated
statements of operations. Unrealized gains and losses, net of taxes, on these short-term investments are reported as a separate
component of accumulated other comprehensive loss on the consolidated balance sheets until realized.
If the estimated fair value of an available-for-sale debt security is below its amortized cost basis, then the Company
evaluates for impairment. The Company considers its intent to sell the security or whether it is more likely than not that it
will be required to sell the security before recovery of its amortized basis. If either of these criteria are met, the debt security’s
amortized cost basis is written down to fair value through other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of
operations. If neither of these criteria are met, the Company evaluates whether unrealized losses have resulted from a credit
loss or other factors. When a credit loss exists, the Company compares the present value of cash flows expected to be
collected from the debt security with the amortized cost basis of the security to determine what allowance amount, if any,
should be recorded. An impairment relating to credit losses is recorded through an allowance for credit losses reported in
other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of operations. The allowance is limited by the amount that the fair
value of the debt security is below its amortized cost basis.
For the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, the Company did not record any impairment charges for its
marketable debt securities in its consolidated statements of operations.
Restricted Cash
As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company pledged $0.5 million of collateral for its available credit on corporate
credit cards. Restricted cash balances have been excluded from the Company’s cash and cash equivalents balance and are
included in other assets on the consolidated balance sheets.
Non-marketable Securities
Non-marketable securities consist of debt and equity investments in privately-held companies, which are classified as
other assets on the consolidated balance sheets. The Company’s non-marketable debt securities are measured at fair value at
each reporting period. The Company’s non-marketable equity securities do not have readily determinable fair values. Under
the measurement alternative election, the Company accounts for these non-marketable equity securities at cost and adjusts for
observable price changes in orderly transactions for the identical or similar investment of the same issuer or upon
impairment. These securities are not eligible for the net-asset-value practical expedient from fair value measurement. The
measurement alternative election is reassessed each reporting period to determine whether the non-marketable securities
continue to be eligible for this election.
The Company periodically evaluates its non-marketable equity securities for impairment when events and
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the investment may not be recovered. Impairment indicators may include,
but are not limited to, a significant deterioration in earnings performance, credit rating, asset quality or business outlook or a
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significant adverse change in the regulatory, economic, or technological environment. If the non-marketable equity securities
are considered impaired, the Company will record an impairment charge within other income (expense) on its consolidated
statements of operations for the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the investment. For the years
ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, the Company did not record any impairment charges related to its non-marketable
equity securities in its consolidated statements of operations.
During the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company invested $3.1 million and $4.3 million, respectively,
of its cash in non-marketable securities of privately-held companies. The Company evaluated its ownership, contractual and
other interests of its investments and determined that as of January 31, 2023, there were no variable interest entities required
to be consolidated in the Company’s consolidated financial statements, as the Company was not the primary beneficiary and
did not have the power to direct activities that most significantly impact the entities’ economic performance. The Company’s
maximum loss exposure is limited to the carrying value of these investments.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, accounts
receivable, non-marketable securities, accounts payable and accrued liabilities. Cash equivalents are measured at fair value on
a recurring basis. Short-term investments classified as available-for-sale debt securities are recorded at fair value. Non-
marketable securities consist of debt and equity securities. Non-marketable debt securities are measured at fair value at each
reporting period. Non-marketable equity securities are measured at fair value as of the date of observable price changes in
orderly transactions for the identical or a similar investment of the same issuer or upon impairment. Accounts receivable,
accounts payable and accrued liabilities are stated at their carrying value, which approximates fair value due to the short time
to the expected receipt or payment date.
The Company follows ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures with respect to assets and liabilities that
are measured at fair value. Under this standard, fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset
or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly
transaction between market participants on the measurement date. The standard establishes a fair value hierarchy, which
requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair
value. The standard describes three levels of inputs, as described below, of which the first two are considered observable and
the last unobservable, that may be used to measure fair value:
•
•
•
Level 1: Observable inputs, such as quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at
the measurement date.
Level 2: Observable inputs, other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and
liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by
observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair
value of the assets or liabilities.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk are primarily cash and cash
equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments and accounts receivable. The primary focus of the Company’s investment
strategy is to preserve capital and meet liquidity requirements. The Company maintains its cash accounts with financial
institutions where, at times, deposits exceed insurance coverage limits. The Company invests its excess cash in highly-rated
money market funds and in short-term investments consisting of U.S. government treasury securities.
The Company extends credit to customers in the normal course of business. The Company performs credit analyses
and monitors the financial health of its customers to reduce credit risk. The Company does not require collateral from
customers to secure accounts receivable. Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest.
The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts relating to certain trade accounts receivable based on various
factors, including the review of credit profiles of its customers, contractual terms and conditions, current economic trends and
historical customer payment experience.
As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, no customer represented 10% or more of net accounts receivable. For the years
ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, no customer represented 10% or more of revenue.
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Software Development Costs
Software development costs for software to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed are expensed as incurred until the
establishment of technological feasibility, at which time those costs are capitalized until the product is available for general
release to customers and amortized over the estimated life of the product. Technological feasibility is established upon the
completion of a working prototype that has been certified as having no critical bugs and is a release candidate. To date, costs
and time incurred between the establishment of technological feasibility and product release have not been material, resulting
in software development costs qualifying for capitalization being immaterial. As a result, the Company has not capitalized
any related software development costs in any of the periods presented.
Costs related to software acquired, developed, or modified solely to meet the Company’s internal requirements, with
no substantive plans to market such software at the time of development, costs related to the development of web-based
product, or implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract, are capitalized during the
application development stage. Costs incurred during the preliminary planning and evaluation stage of the project and during
post implementation operational stage are expensed as incurred. There were no material qualifying costs incurred during the
application development stage and the Company did not capitalize any qualifying costs related to computer software
developed for internal use, or implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract in the years
ended January 31, 2023 and 2022.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over the following
estimated useful lives:
Property and Equipment
Computer and office equipment
Purchased software
Servers
Furniture and fixtures
Website costs
Leasehold improvements
Estimated Useful Life
Two to three years
Two years
Three years
Five years
Three years
Lesser of estimated useful life or remaining lease term
Depreciation commences once the asset is ready for its intended use. Upon retirement or sale, the cost of assets
disposed of and the related accumulated depreciation, is removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is reflected
in the consolidated statements of operations. There was no material gain or loss incurred as a result of retirement or sale in
the periods presented. Repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred.
Business Combinations
The Company uses its best estimates and assumptions to assign fair value to the tangible and intangible assets acquired
and liabilities assumed as of the acquisition date. The excess of the fair value of purchase consideration over the fair values of
the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed is recorded as goodwill. These estimates are inherently
uncertain and subject to refinement. During the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date,
the Company may record adjustments to the fair value of these tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed,
with the corresponding offset to goodwill. In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax-related valuation allowances are
initially established in connection with a business combination as of the acquisition date. Upon the conclusion of the
measurement period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first,
any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. Acquisition-related
expenses are recognized separately from the business combination and are expensed as incurred.
Leases
The Company determines if an arrangement is, or contains, a lease at inception. An arrangement is or contains a lease
if the arrangement conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for
consideration.
The Company measures lease liabilities based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term at the lease
commencement date. As the Company’s leases generally do not provide an implicit discount rate, the net present value of
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future minimum lease payments is determined using the Company’s incremental borrowing rate. Options in the lease terms to
extend or terminate the lease are not reflected in the lease liabilities unless it is reasonably certain that any such option will be
exercised.
The Company measures right-of-use assets at the lease commencement date based on the corresponding lease
liabilities adjusted for (i) prepayments made to the lessor at or before the commencement date, (ii) initial direct costs incurred
and (iii) certain tenant incentives under the lease. The Company evaluates the recoverability of the right-of-use assets for
possible impairment in accordance with the long-lived assets policy.
The Company accounts for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component for all leases. The Company
has elected not to recognize right-of-use assets or lease liabilities for leases with an initial lease term of twelve months or less,
and instead recognize the associated lease payments for these short-term leases in the consolidated statements of operations
on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Lease expenses for minimum lease payments for operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease
term. Amortization expense of the right-of-use assets for finance leases is generally recognized on a straight-line basis over
the shorter of the lease term or the useful life of the asset. Interest expense for finance leases is recognized based on the
incremental borrowing rate used to determine the finance lease liability. Variable lease payments are expensed as incurred
and are not included within the lease liability and right-of-use assets calculation.
Operating leases are reflected in operating lease right-of-use assets, operating lease liabilities and operating lease
liabilities, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Finance leases are included in property and equipment, net, other
accrued liabilities, and other liabilities, non-current on the consolidated balance sheets. Within the consolidated statements of
cash flows, the Company classifies all cash payments associated with operating leases within operating activities and for
finance leases, repayments of principal are presented within financing activities and interest payments are presented within
operating activities.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
The Company evaluates the recoverability of its long-lived assets for possible impairment whenever events or
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of these assets is
measured by a comparison of the carrying amounts to the future undiscounted cash flows the assets are expected to generate.
If such review indicates that the carrying amount is not recoverable, the carrying amount of such assets is reduced to fair
value. Impairment charges related to long-lived assets during the years presented were not material. Refer to Note 4, Property
and Equipment, net for more information.
In addition to the recoverability assessment, the Company periodically reviews the remaining estimated useful lives of
long-lived assets. If the estimated useful life assumption for any asset is changed due to new information, the remaining
unamortized balance would be depreciated or amortized over the revised estimated useful life, on a prospective basis.
Goodwill and Other Acquired Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired in business
combinations. Other acquired intangible assets are stated at the fair value acquired as determined by a valuation technique
commensurate with the intended use of the related asset. Definite-lived intangible assets are considered long-lived assets and
are amortized on a straight-line basis over the periods that expected economic benefits will be provided. Goodwill and any
indefinite-lived intangible assets are not amortized; rather, they are evaluated for impairment annually and whenever events
or changes in circumstances indicate that the value of the asset may be impaired.
The Company performs its annual impairment analysis in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. The Company first
assesses the qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of the Company’s single
operating segment is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the
quantitative goodwill impairment test. If the Company determines that it is more likely than not that its fair value is less than
its carrying amount, then the quantitative goodwill impairment test will be performed. The quantitative goodwill impairment
test identifies goodwill impairment and measures the amount of goodwill impairment loss to be recognized by comparing the
fair value of the Company’s single operating segment with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount exceeds its fair value,
no further analysis is required; otherwise, any excess of the carrying amount over the implied fair value is recognized as an
impairment loss and the carrying value of goodwill is written down to fair value. No indicators of impairment of goodwill
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were identified during the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, and accordingly, the Company has not recorded any
impairment of goodwill during those periods.
Revenue Recognition
The Company derives its revenue from two sources: (1) the sales of subscriptions, which includes the usage-based
database-as-a-service offering and the term license and post-contract customer support (“PCS”); and (2) services revenue
comprised of consulting and training arrangements. The Company recognizes revenue when its customer obtains control of
promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for
those goods or services. In determining the appropriate amount of revenue to be recognized as it fulfills its obligations under
each of its agreements, the Company performs the following steps:
i.
ii.
Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer - The Company contracts with its customers through
order forms, which are governed by master sales agreements. The Company determines it has a contract with a
customer when the contract is approved, each party’s rights regarding the products or services to be transferred is
identified, the payment terms for the services can be identified, the Company has determined the customer has the
ability and intent to pay and the contract has commercial substance. The Company applies judgment in determining
the customer’s ability and intent to pay, which is based on a variety of factors, including the customer’s historical
payment experience or, in the case of a new customer, credit, reputation and financial or other information
pertaining to the customer. At contract inception, the Company evaluates whether two or more contracts should be
combined and accounted for as a single contract and whether the combined or single contract includes more than one
performance obligation. The Company has concluded that its contracts with customers do not contain warranties that
give rise to a separate performance obligation.
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract - Performance obligations promised in a contract are
identified based on the services or products that will be transferred to the customer that are both (1) capable of being
distinct, whereby the customer can benefit from the service or product either on its own or together with other
resources that are readily available from third parties or from the Company and (2) distinct in the context of the
contract, whereby the transfer of the services or products is separately identifiable from other promises in the
contract. To the extent a contract includes multiple promised services or products, the Company applies judgment to
determine whether promised services or products are capable of being distinct and distinct in the context of the
contract. If these criteria are not met, the promised services or products are combined and accounted for as a single
performance obligation.
iii. Determination of the transaction price - The transaction price is determined based on the consideration to which the
Company expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring services and products to the customer. Variable
consideration is included in the transaction price if, in the Company’s judgment, it is probable that a significant
future reversal of cumulative revenue recognized under the contract will not occur. None of the Company’s
contracts contain a significant financing component.
iv. Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract - If the contract contains a single
performance obligation, the entire transaction price is allocated to the single performance obligation. For contracts
that contain multiple performance obligations, the Company allocates the transaction price to each performance
obligation based on a relative standalone selling price (“SSP”) basis. The Company also considers if there are any
additional material rights inherent in a contract and if so, the Company allocates a portion of the transaction price to
such rights based on SSP. The Company determines each SSP based on multiple factors, including past history of
selling such performance obligations as standalone products. The Company estimates SSP for performance
obligations with no observable evidence using adjusted market, cost plus and residual methods to establish the SSPs.
In cases where directly observable standalone sales are not available, the Company utilizes all observable data points
including competitor pricing for a similar or identical product, market and industry data points and the Company’s
pricing practices to establish the SSP.
v. Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation - The Company recognizes
revenue at the time the related performance obligation is satisfied when control of the services or products are
transferred to the customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in
exchange for those services or products. The Company records its revenue net of any value added or sales tax.
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Subscription Revenue
The Company sells subscriptions directly through its field and inside sales teams and indirectly through channel
partners, as well as through its self-serve channel. The majority of the Company’s subscription contracts are one year in
duration and are invoiced upfront. When the Company enters into multi-year subscription contracts, the customer is typically
invoiced on an annual basis or pays upfront. The Company’s subscription contracts are generally non-cancelable and non-
refundable.
The Company derives subscription revenue from providing its software to customers with its database-as-a-service
offering that include comprehensive infrastructure and management of the Company’s database and can also be purchased
with additional enterprise features. Performance obligations related to database-as-a-service solutions are recognized on a
usage-basis, as the use of this service represents a direct measurement of the value to the customer of the goods or services
transferred to date relative to the remaining goods or services promised under the contract.
The Company’s subscription revenue also includes time-based software licenses sold in conjunction with PCS. These
subscription offerings are generally priced on a per server basis, subject to a per server random access memory (“RAM”)
limit. Performance obligations related to subscription revenue for time-based software licenses include a license portion,
which represents functional intellectual property under which a customer has the legal right to the license. The license
provides significant standalone functionality and is therefore deemed a distinct performance obligation. License revenue is
recognized at a point in time, upon delivery and transfer of control of the underlying license to the customer, which is
typically the subscription start date.
Performance obligations related to PCS include unspecified updates, as well as support and maintenance. While
separate performance obligations are identified within PCS, the underlying performance obligations generally have a
consistent continuous pattern of transfer to a customer during the term of a contract. Revenue from PCS is recognized ratably
over the contract duration.
Services Revenue
The Company’s services contracts are generally provisioned on a time-and-materials basis. Revenue is recognized on a
proportional performance basis as the services are delivered to the customers.
Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
Certain of the Company’s contracts with customers contain multiple performance obligations, including those
described above such as the license portion of time-based software licenses, PCS, database-as-a-service offering and services.
For these contracts, the Company accounts for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The
transaction price is allocated to each separate performance obligation based on its relative SSP basis.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of Subscription Revenue
Cost of subscription revenue primarily includes third-party cloud infrastructure expenses for the Company’s database-
as-a-service offering. Cost of subscription revenue also includes personnel costs, including salaries, bonuses and benefits and
stock-based compensation, for employees associated with the Company’s subscription arrangements principally related to
technical support and allocated shared costs, as well as depreciation and amortization.
Cost of Services Revenue
Cost of services revenue primarily includes personnel costs, including salaries and benefits and stock-based
compensation for employees associated with the Company’s professional service contracts, as well as, travel costs, allocated
shared costs and depreciation and amortization.
Deferred Commissions
The Company capitalizes its incremental costs of obtaining subscription contracts with customers, which generally
consist of sales commissions paid to the Company’s sales force and related payroll taxes, as well as fees paid to marketplace
vendors. Incremental costs that are expected to be amortized during the succeeding twelve months are recorded on the
Company’s consolidated balance sheets as deferred commissions with the remaining, non-current, portion recorded under
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other assets. Deferred commissions are amortized over a period of benefit that the Company has determined to be generally
five years. The Company determined the period of benefit by taking into consideration the length of its customer contracts, its
technology and other factors. Deferred commissions also include all other sales commissions and related payroll taxes for
subscription contracts, which are amortized based on the pattern of the associated revenue recognition over the related
contractual subscription period. Sales commissions are generally paid up front and one month in arrears, however, the timing
of payment is based on contractual terms of the underlying subscription contract and is subject to an evaluation of customer
credit-worthiness. The deferred commission amounts are recoverable through the future revenue under the non-cancelable
customer contracts. Amortization of deferred commissions is included in sales and marketing expense in the consolidated
statements of operations. The Company adopted the practical expedient that permits an entity to expense the costs to obtain a
contract as incurred when the expected amortization period is one year or less. Deferred commissions are reviewed
periodically for impairment. Refer to Note 10, Revenue for more information.
Deferred Revenue
Deferred revenue primarily consists of customer billings or payments received in advance of the Company satisfying
the performance obligations on its subscription and services contracts. The Company generally invoices its customers
annually in advance for its subscription services. Typical payment terms provide that customers pay the amount due within
30 days of the invoice date. Deferred revenue that is anticipated to be recognized during the succeeding twelve-month period
is recorded as current deferred revenue and the remaining portion is recorded as non-current. The Company’s contract
liabilities are classified as deferred revenue upon the right to invoice or when payments have been received for undelivered
products or services. Deferred revenue does not necessarily represent the total contract value of annual or multi-year, non-
cancelable subscription agreements.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The Company records a receivable when an unconditional right to consideration exists, such that only the passage of
time is required before payment of consideration is due. Timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of
invoicing to customers. If revenue recognized on a contract exceeds the billings, then the Company records an unbilled
receivable for that excess amount, which is included as part of accounts receivable, net in the Company’s consolidated
balance sheets.
The Company is exposed to credit losses primarily through the sales of subscriptions and services, which are recorded
as accounts receivable, inclusive of unbilled receivables. The Company performs initial and ongoing evaluations of its
customers' financial position and generally extends credit without collateral. Accounts receivable are recorded at amortized
cost, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts, and do not bear interest.
The allowance for doubtful accounts represents the best estimate of lifetime expected credit losses against the existing
accounts receivable, inclusive of unbilled receivables, based on certain factors including past collection experience, credit
quality of the customer, current aging of the receivable balance, current economic conditions, reasonable and supportable
forecasts, as well as specific circumstances arising with individual customers. Extensive judgment is required in assessing
these factors. Due to the short-term nature of the Company’s accounts receivable, forecasts have limited relevance to the
Company’s expected credit loss estimates. Accounts receivable are written off against the allowance for doubtful accounts
when management determines a balance is uncollectible and the Company no longer actively pursues collection of the
receivable. The Company’s estimates of the allowance for credit losses may not be indicative of the Company’s actual credit
losses requiring additional charges to be incurred to reflect the actual amount collected. See also Note 10, Revenue for more
information on allowance for doubtful accounts and unbilled receivables.
Convertible Senior Notes
The Company early adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update
(“ASU”) 2020-06—Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—
Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s
Own Equity (“ASU 2020-06”) as of February 1, 2021 using the modified retrospective transition method.
Prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06, in accounting for the issuance of the Company’s convertible senior notes (the
“Notes”), the Notes were separated into liability and equity components. The carrying amounts of the liability component
was calculated by measuring the fair value of similar liabilities that do not have associated convertible features. The carrying
amount of the equity component representing the conversion option was determined by deducting the fair value of the
liability component from the par value of the respective Notes. This difference represented the debt discount that was
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amortized to interest expense over the respective terms of the Notes using the effective interest rate method. The equity
component was recorded in additional paid-in capital and was not remeasured as long as it continued to meet the conditions
for equity classification.
In accounting for the debt issuance costs related to the Notes, the Company allocated the total amount incurred to the
liability and equity components of the Notes based on their relative fair values. Issuance costs attributable to the liability
component were being amortized to interest expense over the contractual term of the Notes. The issuance costs attributable to
the equity component were netted against the equity component representing the conversion option in additional paid-in
capital.
Transactions involving contemporaneous exchanges of cash between the same debtor and creditor in connection with
the issuance of a new debt obligation and satisfaction of an existing debt obligation by the debtor are evaluated as a
modification or an exchange transaction depending on whether the exchange is determined to have substantially different
terms. For exchange transactions that are considered an extinguishment of debt, the total consideration for such an exchange
is separated into liability and equity components by estimating the fair value of a similar liability without a conversion option
and assigning the residual value to the equity component. The gain or loss on extinguishment of the debt is subsequently
determined by comparing repurchase consideration allocated to the liability component to the sum of the carrying value of the
liability component, net of the proportionate amounts of unamortized debt discount and remaining unamortized debt issuance
costs.
The liability component of the Notes was classified as non-current until the reporting period date was within one year
of maturity of the Notes or when the Company has received a redemption request, but settlement would occur after the
reporting period date. Under these circumstances, the net carrying amount of the Notes was classified as a current liability
and a portion of the equity component representing the conversion option was reclassified to temporary equity in the
consolidated balance sheets. The portion of the equity component classified as temporary equity was measured as the
difference between the principal and net carrying amount of the Notes, excluding debt issuance costs.
Upon adoption of ASU 2020-06, the Company no longer records the conversion feature of its convertible senior notes
in equity. Instead, the Company combined the previously separated equity component with the liability component, which
together is now classified as debt, thereby eliminating the subsequent amortization of the debt discount as interest expense.
Similarly, the portion of issuance costs previously allocated to equity was reclassified to debt and amortized as interest
expense. Accordingly, the Company recorded a decrease to accumulated deficit of $52.6 million, a decrease to additional
paid-in capital of $309.4 million, a decrease to temporary equity of $4.7 million and an increase to convertible senior notes,
net, of $261.5 million. There was an immaterial benefit from the reversal of the deferred tax liability associated with the
convertible senior notes upon the adoption of ASU 2020-06. Prior period financial statements were not restated.
Also upon adoption, the Company is no longer utilizing the treasury stock method for earnings per share purposes.
Instead, the Company is applying the if-converted method when reporting the number of potentially dilutive shares of
common stock. Although the required use of the if-converted method will not impact the diluted net loss per share as long as
the Company is in a net loss position, the Company is required to include disclosures of all the underlying shares regardless
of the average stock price for the reporting period.
The Company’s convertible senior notes are classified as non-current liabilities until the reporting period date is within
one year of maturity of the convertible senior notes or when the Company has received a redemption request, but settlement
will occur after the reporting period date. Under such circumstances, the carrying amount of the convertible senior notes, net
of the associated unamortized debt issuance costs, is classified as a current liability.
Research and Development
Research and development costs are expensed as incurred and consist primarily of personnel costs, including salaries,
bonuses and benefits and stock-based compensation. Research and development costs also include amortization associated
with acquired finite-lived intangible assets and allocated overhead.
Advertising
Advertising costs are expensed as incurred, or the first time the advertising takes place, based on the nature of the
advertising and include direct marketing, events, public relations, sales collateral materials and partner programs. Advertising
costs were $18.7 million, $18.0 million and $12.8 million for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Advertising costs are recorded in sales and marketing expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
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Stock-Based Compensation
Compensation expense related to stock-based awards granted to employees and non-employees is calculated based on
the fair value of stock-based awards on the date of grant. For restricted stock units, fair value is based on the closing price of
the Company’s common stock on the grant date.
For stock options and purchase rights issued to employees under the 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“2017
ESPP”), the Company determines the grant date fair value using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. This option-pricing
model requires the use of assumptions, which are subjective and generally requires significant judgment to determine. The
assumptions for the option-pricing model were determined as follows:
i.
Expected Term. The expected term represents the period that stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding.
For option grants that are considered to be “plain vanilla,” the Company determines the expected term using the
simplified method. The simplified method deems the term to be the average of the time-to-vesting and the
contractual life of the options. For purchase rights granted under the 2017 ESPP, the expected term represents the
offering period.
ii. Expected Volatility. Since the Company had limited trading history of its common stock, the expected volatility for
its stock option grants was derived from the average historical stock volatilities of several unrelated public
companies within the Company’s industry that the Company considered to be comparable to its own business over a
period equivalent to the expected term of the stock option grants. For purchase rights granted under the 2017 ESPP,
the volatility is derived from the historical volatility of the Company’s common stock.
iii. Risk-Free Interest Rate. The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of
grant for zero-coupon U.S. Treasury notes with maturities approximately equal to the option’s expected term and
2017 ESPP offering period.
iv. Dividend Rate. The expected dividend is assumed to be zero as the Company has never paid dividends and has no
current plans to do so.
The Company’s stock price volatility and expected option life involve management's best estimates, both of which
impact the fair value estimated under the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and, ultimately, the expense that will be
recognized.
The Company recognizes the related stock-based compensation expense for restricted stock units and stock options on
a straight-line basis over the employee’s requisite service period, which is generally four years. The Company has elected to
account for forfeitures as they occur. The Company recognizes the stock-based compensation expense related to the 2017
Employee Stock Purchase Plan on a straight-line basis over the offering period.
Net Loss Per Share
The Company calculates basic net loss per share by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number of shares of
common stock outstanding during the period, less shares subject to repurchase. Diluted net loss per share is computed by
giving effect to all potentially dilutive securities outstanding for the period, including stock options, restricted stock units and
convertible senior notes. Refer to Note 12. Net Loss Per Share for more information.
Segment Information
The Company has one operating and reportable segment as the Company’s chief operating decision maker, the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), reviews financial information on an aggregate and consolidated basis for
purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. Accordingly, all required segment information can be
found in these consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.
Income Taxes
The Company follows the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. This method requires recognition
of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the carrying
amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce the
deferred tax assets to the amount the Company believes is more likely than not to be realized.
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The Company recognizes the tax benefit from uncertain tax positions only if it is more likely than not that the tax
position will be sustained on examination by the tax authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefit
is measured based on the largest benefit that is more likely than not of being realized upon ultimate settlement. The Company
recognizes interest and penalties on amounts due to taxing authorities as a component of other income (expense), net.
Related Party Transactions
All contracts with related parties are executed in the ordinary course of business. There were no material related party
transactions in the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, there were no material
amounts payable to or amounts receivable from related parties.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Disclosures by Business Entities about Government Assistance. In November 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-10,
Government Assistance (Topic 832): Disclosure by Business Entities about Government Assistance, which requires
companies to disclose information about certain government assistance they receive. Disclosure requirements include: the
types of government assistance received, the accounting for any such assistance, and the effect of the assistance on the
company's consolidated financial statements. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15,
2021. The Company adopted this ASU for the year ended January 31, 2023 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this ASU
did not have a material impact on the Company’s disclosures.
3. Fair Value Measurements
The following tables present information about the Company’s financial assets that have been measured at fair value
on a recurring basis as of January 31, 2023 and 2022 and indicate the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs utilized to
determine such fair value (in thousands):
Financial Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds
Short-term investments:
Fair Value at January 31, 2023
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
$
268,985 $
— $
— $
268,985
U.S. government treasury securities
Total financial assets
1,380,804
1,649,789 $
$
—
— $
—
— $
1,380,804
1,649,789
Financial Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents:
Money market funds
Short-term investments:
Fair Value at January 31, 2022
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
$
331,221 $
— $
— $
331,221
U.S. government treasury securities
Total financial assets
1,352,019
1,683,240 $
$
—
— $
—
— $
1,352,019
1,683,240
The Company utilized the market approach and Level 1 valuation inputs to value its money market mutual funds and
U.S. government treasury securities because published net asset values were readily available. The contractual maturity of all
marketable securities was less than one year as of January 31, 2023 and 2022. As of January 31, 2023, unrealized losses on
the Company’s U.S. government treasury securities were approximately $2.4 million. The fluctuations in market interest rates
impact the unrealized losses on these securities. The Company does not intend to sell these securities and, as a result, does not
expect to realize these losses in its financial statements. The Company concluded that an allowance for credit losses was
unnecessary for short-term investments as of January 31, 2023 and 2022. Gross realized gains and losses were not material
for each of the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022.
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Convertible Senior Notes
The Company measures the fair value of its outstanding convertible senior notes on a quarterly basis for disclosure
purposes. The Company considers the fair value of its convertible senior notes at January 31, 2023 to be a Level 2
measurement due to limited trading activity of the convertible senior notes. Refer to Note 6, Convertible Senior Notes, to the
consolidated financial statements for further details.
Non-marketable Securities
As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, the total amount of non-marketable equity and debt securities included in other
assets on the Company’s balance sheets were $9.8 million and $4.8 million, respectively. During the year ended January 31,
2023, the Company invested an additional $3.1 million of its cash in non-marketable equity securities. In addition, the
Company recorded an unrealized gain on certain of these non-marketable securities of $1.9 million during the year ended
January 31, 2023. No gain or loss was recognized during the year ended January 31, 2022. Refer to Note 2, Summary of
Significant Accounting Policies, for further details. The Company considers these assets as Level 3 within the fair value
hierarchy when an impairment or observable price changes in orderly transactions are recognized on these non-marketable
securities during the period. The estimation of fair value for these investments is inherently complex due to the lack of readily
available market data and inherent lack of liquidity and requires the Company’s judgment and the use of significant
unobservable inputs in an inactive market. In addition, the determination of whether an orderly transaction is for the identical
or a similar investment requires significant management judgment, including understanding the differences in the rights and
obligations of the investments, the extent to which those differences would affect the fair values of those investments and the
stage of operational development of the entities.
4. Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consists of the following (in thousands):
Servers
Furniture and fixtures
Computer and office equipment
Purchased software
Leasehold improvements
Website costs
Construction in process
Finance lease right-of-use assets
Total property and equipment
January 31, 2023
January 31, 2022
$
1,350 $
4,525
4,949
985
35,219
969
879
27,489
76,365
1,044
2,903
2,446
985
30,070
969
4,562
31,463
74,442
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization
Property and equipment, net
(18,524)
57,841 $
(11,817)
62,625
$
Depreciation and amortization expense related to property and equipment was $6.9 million, $4.5 million and $5.5
million for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Depreciation and amortization expense excludes
amortization with respect to the finance lease right-of-use asset, which is described further in Note 7, Leases.
Depreciation expense for the year ended January 31, 2021 included an impairment charge of $2.1 million related to the
Company’s former office space in Dublin, Ireland. In December 2019, the Company signed an agreement to lease
approximately 40,000 square feet of office space to accommodate its growing employee base in Dublin. The lease
commenced on February 1, 2020 and as of January 31, 2021, the former Dublin office was not occupied by the Company.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has been unable to assign nor secure a sub-tenant for the former
Dublin office. Accordingly, the Company recognized an impairment charge as part of depreciation expense that represented
the remaining carrying value of the right-of-use asset for this office location.
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5. Goodwill and Acquired Intangible Assets, Net
The following table summarizes the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill during the periods presented (in
thousands):
Balance, beginning of the year
Increase in goodwill related to business combinations
Balance, end of the year
$
$
57,775 $
4
57,779 $
55,830
1,945
57,775
January 31, 2023
January 31, 2022
In April 2021, the Company made an acquisition for total cash consideration of $9.0 million, of which $4.5 million
was the purchase price to be allocated and $4.5 million will be recognized as post-combination compensation expense. For
accounting purposes, this business combination was deemed immaterial. The Company allocated $3.4 million to the acquired
developed technology intangible asset based on fair value to be amortized over its economic useful life of five years. The
Company also recorded $1.9 million of goodwill, which included a tax benefit associated with the acquisition due to the
release of the valuation allowance of $0.8 million.
The gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization of the Company’s intangible assets are as follows (in
thousands):
Developed technology
Customer relationships
Total
Developed technology
Customer relationships
Total
Gross Carrying Value
$
38,100 $
15,200
53,300 $
Gross Carrying Value
$
38,100 $
15,200
53,300 $
$
$
January 31, 2023
Accumulated
Amortization
Net Book Value
Weighted-Average
Remaining Useful Life
(in years)
(29,122) $
(12,750)
(41,872) $
8,978
2,450
11,428
1.7
0.8
January 31, 2022
Accumulated
Amortization
Net Book Value
Weighted-Average
Remaining Useful Life
(in years)
(22,982) $
(9,710)
(32,692) $
15,118
5,490
20,608
2.6
1.8
Acquired intangible assets are amortized on a straight-line basis. Amortization expense of intangible assets was $9.2
million, $9.1 million and $8.5 million for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Amortization
expense for developed technology was included as research and development expense in the Company’s consolidated
statements of operations. Amortization expense for customer relationships was included as sales and marketing expense in
the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.
As of January 31, 2023, future amortization expense related to the intangible assets is as follows (in thousands):
Years Ending January 31,
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Total
85
$
8,505
2,130
680
113
—
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6. Convertible Senior Notes
The net carrying amounts of the Company’s 2026 Notes (as defined herein) were as follows for the periods presented
(in thousands):
Principal
Unamortized debt issuance costs
Net carrying amount
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2023
$
$
1,149,972 $
(10,092)
1,139,880 $
1,149,988
(13,467)
1,136,521
As of January 31, 2023, the total estimated fair value (Level 2) of the outstanding 2026 Notes was approximately $1.4
billion. The fair value was determined based on the closing trading price per $100 of the 2026 Notes as of the last day of
trading for the period. The fair value of the 2026 Notes is primarily affected by the trading price of the Company’s common
stock and market interest rates.
The following table sets forth the interest expense related to the 2024 Notes (as defined herein) and 2026 Notes for the
periods presented (in thousands):
January 31, 2023
January 31, 2022
January 31, 2021
2024 Notes (2)
2026 Notes
2024 Notes
2026 Notes
2024 Notes
2026 Notes
Contractual interest expense
Amortization of debt discount (1)
Amortization of issuance costs (1)
Total
$
$
— $
—
—
— $
2,859 $
—
3,375
6,234 $
168 $
—
647
815 $
2,876 $
—
3,358
6,234 $
675 $
3,976
276
4,927 $
2,875
43,026
1,851
47,752
(1) The decrease in total interest expense for the year ended January 31, 2022, as compared to the respective prior year was due to
the derecognition of the unamortized debt discount, partially offset by the increase in the amortization of issuance costs previously
recognized in equity. These changes were the result of the Company’s adoption of ASU 2020-06, as of February 1, 2021, as
described in Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.
(2) The aggregate principal amount outstanding of the 2024 Notes was redeemed by the Company in December 2021.
In June 2018, the Company issued $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% convertible senior notes due
2024 in a private placement and, in July 2018, the Company issued an additional $50.0 million aggregate principal amount of
convertible senior notes pursuant to the exercise in full of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase additional convertible
senior notes (collectively, the “2024 Notes”). The 2024 Notes were senior unsecured obligations of the Company with
interest payable semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on December 15, 2018, at a rate
of 0.75% per year. The 2024 Notes had a maturity date of June 15, 2024, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased.
The total net proceeds from the offering, after deducting initial purchase discounts and debt issuance costs, were
approximately $291.1 million.
In January 2020, the Company issued $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.25% convertible senior notes due
2026 in a private placement and, also in January 2020, the Company issued an additional $150.0 million aggregate principal
amount of convertible senior notes pursuant to the exercise in full of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase additional
convertible senior notes (collectively, the “2026 Notes”). The 2026 Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company
and interest is payable semiannually in arrears on July 15 and January 15 of each year, beginning on July 15, 2020, at a rate
of 0.25% per year. The 2026 Notes will mature on January 15, 2026, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased. The
total net proceeds from the offering, after deducting initial purchase discounts and estimated debt issuance costs, were
approximately $1.13 billion.
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On January 14, 2020, in connection with the issuance of the 2026 Notes, the Company used a portion of the net
proceeds to repurchase $210.0 million aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Notes (the “2024 Notes Partial Repurchase”)
leaving $90.0 million aggregate principal outstanding on the 2024 Notes immediately after the exchange. The 2024 Notes
Partial Repurchase were individually privately negotiated transactions conducted not pursuant to a redemption notice. The
2024 Notes Partial Repurchase and issuance of the 2026 Notes were deemed to have substantially different terms due to the
significant difference between the value of the conversion option immediately prior to and after the exchange, and
accordingly, the 2024 Notes Partial Repurchase was accounted for as a debt extinguishment.
On October 1, 2021, the Company issued a notice of redemption (the “Redemption Notice”) for the aggregate principal
amount outstanding of its 2024 Notes. Pursuant to the Redemption Notice, the Company redeemed the outstanding principal
of the 2024 Notes that were not converted prior to such date at a redemption price in cash equal to 100% of the principal
amount of the 2024 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The extinguishment of the 2024 Notes on December 3, 2021 was
immaterial to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Terms of the 2026 Notes
For the 2026 Notes, the initial conversion rate is 4.7349 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal
amount of the 2026 Notes, which is equal to an initial conversion price of approximately $211.20 per share of common stock,
subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events.
The 2026 Notes will be convertible at the option of the holders at any time prior to the close of business on the
business day immediately preceding October 15, 2025, only under the following circumstances:
(1) during any fiscal quarter commencing after the fiscal quarter ending on April 30, 2020 (and only during such
fiscal quarter), if the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock for at least 20 trading days
(whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on and including, the last
trading day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the conversion price
of the 2026 Notes on each applicable trading day;
(2) during the five-business day period after any five consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in
which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the 2026 Notes for each trading day of the measurement
period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock and the
conversion rate of the 2026 Notes on each such trading day;
(3) if the Company calls any or all of the 2026 Notes for redemption, at any time prior to the close of business on
the scheduled trading day immediately preceding the redemption date; or
(4) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events (as set forth in the indenture governing the 2026 Notes).
On or after October 15, 2025, until the close of business on the scheduled trading day immediately preceding the
maturity date, holders may convert all or any portion of their 2026 Notes, in multiples of $1,000 principal amount, at the
option of the holder, regardless of the foregoing circumstances. Upon conversion, the Company will satisfy its conversion
obligation by paying or delivering, as the case may be, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of
cash and shares of the Company’s common stock, at the Company’s election. If a fundamental change (as defined in the
indenture governing the 2026 Notes) occurs prior to the maturity date, holders of the 2026 Notes will have the right to require
the Company to repurchase for cash all or any portion of their 2026 Notes at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the 2026 Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental
change repurchase date. In addition, if specific corporate events occur prior to the applicable maturity date, or if the Company
elects to redeem the 2026 Notes, the Company will increase the conversion rate for a holder who elects to convert their notes
in connection with such a corporate event or redemption in certain circumstances. It is the Company’s current intent to settle
the principal amount of the 2026 Notes in cash.
During the three months ended January 31, 2023, the conditional conversion feature of the 2026 Notes was not
triggered as the last reported sale price of the Company's common stock was not more than or equal to 130% of the
conversion price for at least 20 trading days in the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on January 31, 2023 (the last
trading day of the fiscal quarter) and therefore the 2026 Notes are not currently convertible, in whole or in part, at the option
of the holders from February 1, 2023 through April 30, 2023. Whether the 2026 Notes will be convertible following such
period will depend on the continued satisfaction of this condition or another conversion condition in the future. Since the
Company has the election of repaying the 2026 Notes in cash, shares of the Company’s common stock, or a combination of
both, the Company continued to classify the 2026 Notes as long-term debt on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of
January 31, 2023.
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During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2023, certain holders elected to redeem an immaterial aggregate principal
amount of the 2026 Notes. The Company elected to settle the redemption through the issuance of common stock. The
Company may elect to repay the 2026 Notes in cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of both cash
and shares with respect to future conversions of the 2026 Notes.
Beginning on January 20, 2023, the Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2026 Notes, at its option,
if the last reported sale price of its common stock was at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20
trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such
period) ending on and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides a notice of
redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2026 Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and
unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Capped Calls
In connection with the pricing of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated
capped call transactions with certain counterparties (the “Capped Calls”). The Capped Calls associated with the 2024 Notes
each had an initial strike price of approximately $68.15 per share, subject to certain adjustments, which corresponded to the
initial conversion price of the 2024 Notes. These Capped Calls had initial cap prices of $106.90 per share, subject to certain
adjustments.
The Capped Calls associated with the 2026 Notes each have an initial strike price of approximately $211.20 per share,
subject to certain adjustments, which corresponds to the initial conversion price of the 2026 Notes. These Capped Calls have
initial cap prices of $296.42 per share, subject to certain adjustments.
The Capped Calls are expected to partially offset the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon any
conversion of the 2024 Notes or 2026 Notes, with such offset subject to a cap based on the cap price. The Capped Calls
associated with the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments, approximately 4.4 million shares
and 5.4 million shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively. The Capped Calls are subject to adjustment upon the
occurrence of specified extraordinary events affecting the Company, including merger events, tender offers and the
announcement of such events. In addition, the Capped Calls are subject to certain specified additional disruption events that
may give rise to a termination of the Capped Calls, including nationalization, insolvency or delisting, changes in law, failures
to deliver, insolvency filings and hedging disruptions. For accounting purposes, the Capped Calls are separate transactions
and not part of the terms of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes. As these transactions meet certain accounting criteria, the
Capped Calls are recorded in stockholders' equity (deficit) and are not accounted for as derivatives. The cost of $37.1 million
and $93.8 million incurred to purchase the Capped Calls associated with the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes, respectively, was
recorded as a reduction to additional paid-in capital and will not be remeasured. The Company did not unwind any of its
Capped Calls through January 31, 2023.
7. Leases
The Company has entered into non-cancelable operating and finance lease agreements, principally real estate for office
space globally. The Company may receive renewal or expansion options, leasehold improvement allowances or other
incentives on certain lease agreements. Lease terms range from one to 12 years and may include renewal options, which the
company deems reasonably certain to be renewed. The exercise of the lease renewal option is at the company's discretion.
During the year ended January 31, 2023, the Company entered into a new agreement to lease office space in Gurgaon,
India for a term of five years with total estimated aggregate base rent payments of $7.0 million. This lease commenced and
payments began in April 2022.
In December 2022, the Company entered into a sublease agreement to lease office space in London, U.K. for a term of
six years. The Company estimates total aggregate base rent payments, net of tenant incentives expected to be received, of
$7.1 million. As the lease had not commenced as of January 31, 2023, the Company’s lease costs are not included in the
tables below.
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Lease Costs
The components of the Company’s lease costs included in its consolidated statements of operations were as follows (in
thousands):
Finance lease cost:
Amortization of finance lease right-of-use assets
Interest on finance lease liabilities
Operating lease cost
Short-term lease cost
Total lease cost
Balance Sheet Components
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
$
$
3,974 $
2,891
11,437
2,808
21,110 $
3,974
3,173
8,856
1,207
17,210
The balances of the Company’s finance and operating leases were recorded on the consolidated balance sheet as
follows (in thousands):
Finance Lease:
Property and equipment, net
Other accrued liabilities (current)
Other liabilities, non-current
Operating Leases:
Operating lease right-of-use assets
Operating lease liabilities (current)
Operating lease liabilities, non-current
Supplemental Information
$
$
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
27,489 $
5,483
43,690
41,194 $
8,686
36,264
31,463
4,511
49,173
41,745
8,084
38,707
The following table presents supplemental information related to the Company’s finance and operating leases (in
thousands, except weighted-average information):
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from finance lease
Operating cash flows from operating leases
Financing cash flows from finance lease
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases
Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years):
$
Finance lease
Operating leases
Weighted-average discount rate:
Finance lease
Operating leases
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
$
2,891
11,932
4,510
9,346
6.9
6.1
5.6 %
6.0 %
3,173
8,846
5,572
14,434
7.9
7.0
5.6 %
4.2 %
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Maturities of Lease Liabilities
Future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable finance and operating leases on an annual undiscounted cash
flow basis as of January 31, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):
Year Ending January 31,
Finance Lease
Operating Leases
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Thereafter
Total minimum payments
Less imputed interest
Present value of future minimum lease payments
Less current obligations under leases
Non-current lease obligations
8. Commitments and Contingencies
$
8,073 $
8,445
8,711
8,711
8,711
16,696
59,347
(10,174)
49,173
(5,483)
43,690 $
$
11,993
10,251
7,986
6,120
4,809
12,367
53,526
(8,576)
44,950
(8,686)
36,264
The following table includes certain non-cancelable agreements primarily for subscription, marketing services and
cloud infrastructure capacity commitments entered into by the Company (in thousands):
Year Ending January 31,
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Thereafter
Total minimum payments
Other Obligations
$
$
200,706
260,955
264,403
205,000
215,000
—
1,146,064
Refer to Note 7, Leases, for further details on obligations under non-cancelable finance and operating leases, including
future minimum lease payments.
Non-cancelable Material Commitments
Other than certain non-cancelable operating leases described in Note 7, Leases, during the year ended January 31,
2023, there have been no material changes outside the ordinary course of business to the Company’s contractual obligations
and commitments. Subsequent to January 31, 2023, the Company expanded its enterprise partnership arrangement with a
cloud infrastructure provider that includes a non-cancelable commitment of $300 million over the next five years,
commencing in March 2023.
Other Commitments
The Company has entered into irrevocable, standby letters of credit, which serve as security deposits for certain of the
Company’s leases and expire through October 2025. The maximum amount that can be drawn under these letters of credit is
$1.3 million. As of January 31, 2023, no amounts have been drawn under the letters of credit.
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Legal Matters
From time to time, the Company has become involved in claims, litigation and other legal matters arising in the
ordinary course of business including intellectual property claims, labor and employment claims and breach of contract
claims. For example, on March 12, 2019, Realtime Data LLC (“Realtime”) filed a lawsuit against the Company in the United
States District Court for the District of Delaware alleging that the Company is infringing three U.S. patents that it holds: U.S.
Patent No. 9,116,908, U.S. Patent No. 9,667,751 and U.S. Patent No. 8,933,825. On May 4, 2021, in a consolidated action
that includes Realtime’s case against MongoDB, the District Court granted certain defendants’ motion to dismiss without
prejudice, finding that the patents are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Realtime filed an amended complaint against the
Company on May 18, 2021, and the Company moved to dismiss that amended complaint on June 29, 2021. On August 23,
2021, the District Court granted the Company’s motion to dismiss. On August 25, 2021, Realtime filed a notice of appeal of
the Delaware District Court’s order. Realtime filed its appellate brief on December 2, 2021 and the defendants (including
MongoDB) filed a responsive brief on March 11, 2022. Realtime filed a reply brief on April 29, 2022. The oral argument
took place before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on February 10, 2023.
The Company investigates all claims, litigation and other legal matters as they arise. Although claims and litigation are
inherently unpredictable, as of January 31, 2023, the Company is currently not aware of any matters that, if determined
adversely to the Company, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on its business, financial
position, results of operations or cash flows. The Company accrues estimates for resolution of legal and other contingencies
when losses are probable and estimable. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company
because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.
Indemnification
The Company enters into indemnification provisions under its agreements with other companies in the ordinary course
of business, including business partners, landlords, contractors and parties performing its research and development. Pursuant
to these arrangements, the Company agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and reimburse the indemnified party for certain
losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party as a result of the Company’s activities. The terms of these
indemnification agreements are generally perpetual. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could
be required to make under these agreements is not determinable. To date, the Company has not incurred material costs as a
result of such commitments. The Company maintains commercial general liability insurance and product liability insurance
to offset certain of the Company’s potential liabilities under these indemnification provisions.
The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and executive officers. These
agreements require the Company to indemnify such individuals, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, for certain
liabilities to which they may become subject as a result of their affiliation with the Company.
9. Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)
Class A and Class B Common Stock
Prior to June 11, 2020, the Company had two classes of common stock, Class A and Class B. The rights of the holders
of Class A and Class B common stock were identical, except with respect to voting. Each share of Class A common stock is
entitled to one vote per share. Each share of Class B common stock was entitled to 10 votes per share.
On June 11, 2020, all outstanding shares of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share,
automatically converted into the same number of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share, pursuant to
the terms of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. No additional shares of Class B common
stock will be issued following such conversion. The conversion occurred pursuant to Article V, Section 5(a) of the Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which provided that each share of Class B common stock would convert
automatically into one fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A common stock at 5:00 p.m. in New York City, New
York on the first trading day falling on or after the date on which the outstanding shares of Class B common stock
represented less than 10% of the aggregate number of shares of the then outstanding Class A common stock and Class B
common stock. The Company filed a certificate with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware effecting the retirement
and cancellation of the Company’s Class B common stock and eliminating the authorized Class B common stock, thereby
reducing the total number of the Company’s authorized shares of common stock by 100,000,000.
As of January 31, 2023, the Company had authorized 1,000,000,000 shares of common stock, each par value $0.001
per share, of which 70,005,957 shares of common stock were issued and 69,906,586 were outstanding.
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2021 Common Stock Offering
On June 29, 2021, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, pursuant to which the Company
agreed to issue and sell 2,500,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at an offering price of $365.00 per
share.
The Company received net proceeds of $889.2 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of
$22.7 million and offering expenses of $0.6 million. Offering expenses included legal, accounting and other fees and, along
with underwriting discounts and commissions, were recorded in additional paid-in capital as a reduction of the proceeds upon
the closing of the offering in July 2021.
10. Revenue
Disaggregation of Revenue
Based on the information provided to and reviewed by the Company’s CEO, its Chief Operating Decision Maker, the
Company believes that the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of its revenue and cash flows and how they are affected by
economic factors is most appropriately depicted through the Company’s primary geographical markets and subscription
product categories. The Company’s primary geographical markets are North and South America (“Americas”); Europe,
Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”); and Asia Pacific. The Company also disaggregates its subscription products between its
MongoDB Atlas-related offerings and other subscription products, which include MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
The following table presents the Company’s revenues disaggregated by primary geographical markets, subscription
product categories and services (in thousands):
Primary geographical markets:
Americas
EMEA
Asia Pacific
Total
Subscription product categories and services:
MongoDB Atlas-related
Other subscription
Services
Total
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2023
2021
$
781,763 $
361,566
140,711
$ 1,284,040 $
527,081 $
257,846
88,855
873,782 $
361,351
177,448
51,581
590,380
$
808,263 $
426,859
48,918
$ 1,284,040 $
492,287 $
349,760
31,735
873,782 $
270,805
294,544
25,031
590,380
Customers located in the United States accounted for 55%, 54% and 56% of total revenue for the years ended
January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Customers located in the United Kingdom accounted for 10% of total revenue
for the year ended January 31, 2021. No other country accounted for 10% or more of revenue for the periods presented.
As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, the majority of the Company’s long-lived assets were located in the United States
and Ireland.
Contract Liabilities
The Company’s contract liabilities are recorded as deferred revenue in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and
consist of customer invoices issued or payments received in advance of revenues being recognized from the Company’s
subscription and services contracts. Deferred revenue, including current and non-current balances as of January 31, 2023,
2022 and 2021 was $460.3 million, $375.2 million and $238.0 million, respectively. Approximately 27% and 23% of the
total revenue recognized in the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022 was from deferred revenue at the beginning of each
respective period.
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Remaining Performance Obligations
Remaining performance obligations represent the aggregate amount of the transaction price in contracts allocated to
performance obligations not delivered, or partially undelivered, as of the end of the reporting period. Remaining performance
obligations include unearned revenue, multi-year contracts with future installment payments and certain unfulfilled orders
against accepted customer contracts at the end of any given period. As of January 31, 2023, the aggregate transaction price
allocated to remaining performance obligations was $461.1 million. Approximately 62% is expected to be recognized as
revenue over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter. The Company applies the practical expedient to omit
disclosure with respect to the amount of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations if the related
contract has a total duration of 12 months or less.
Unbilled Receivables
Revenue recognized in excess of invoiced amounts creates an unbilled receivable, which represents the Company’s
unconditional right to consideration in exchange for goods or services that the Company has transferred to the customer.
Unbilled receivables are recorded as part of accounts receivable, net in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. As of
January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, unbilled receivables were $9.7 million, $6.1 million and $5.7 million, respectively.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The adoption of ASU 2016-13 on February 1, 2020 required the Company to change from an incurred loss impairment
model to an expected credit loss model. Accordingly, the Company considers expectations of forward-looking losses, in
addition to historical loss rates, to estimate its allowance for doubtful accounts on its accounts receivable. The following is a
summary of the changes in the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts (in thousands):
Balance at January 31, 2021
Provision
Recoveries/write-offs
Balance at January 31, 2022
Provision
Recoveries/write-offs
Balance at January 31, 2023
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
$
$
$
6,024
4,749
(5,807)
4,966
5,595
(4,199)
6,362
The increase in allowance for doubtful accounts at January 31, 2023 was primarily driven by the increase in sales.
Costs Capitalized to Obtain Contracts with Customers
Deferred commissions were $252.4 million and $203.3 million as of January 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Amortization expense with respect to deferred commissions, which is included in sales and marketing expense in the
Company’s consolidated statements of operations, was $79.0 million, $49.1 million and $28.6 million for years ended
January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. There was no impairment loss in relation to the costs capitalized for the
periods presented.
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11. Equity Incentive Plans and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
2008 Stock Incentive Plan and 2016 Equity Incentive Plan
The Company adopted the 2008 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended, the “2008 Plan”) and the 2016 Equity Incentive
Plan (as amended, the “2016 Plan”), primarily for the purpose of granting stock-based awards to employees, directors and
consultants, including stock options, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and other stock-based awards. With the establishment of
the 2016 Plan in December 2016, all shares available for grant under the 2008 Plan were transferred to the 2016 Plan. The
Company no longer grants any stock-based awards under the 2008 Plan and any shares underlying stock options canceled
under the 2008 Plan will be automatically transferred to the 2016 Plan. Stock options granted under the stock option plans
may be either incentive stock options (“ISOs”) or nonstatutory stock options (“NSOs”). ISOs may be granted to employees
and NSOs may be granted to employees, directors, or consultants. All outstanding stock options as of January 31, 2023 were
granted as NSOs with the exception of one ISO award. The exercise prices of the stock option grants must be no less than
100% of the fair value of the common stock on the grant date as determined by the Board of Directors. If, at the date of grant,
the optionee owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding stock (a “10%
stockholder”), the exercise price must be at least 110% of the fair value of the common stock on the date of grant as
determined by the Board of Directors. Options granted are exercisable over a maximum term of 10 years from the date of
grant or five years from the date of grant for ISOs granted to any 10% stockholder. The Board of Directors or a committee
thereof determines the vesting schedule for all equity awards. Stock option awards generally vest over a period of four years
with 25% vesting on the one year anniversary of the award and the remainder vesting monthly over the next 36 months of the
grantee’s service to the Company. RSU awards granted to new employees generally vest over a period of four years with
25% vesting on the one year anniversary of the award and the remainder vesting quarterly over the next 12 quarters, subject
to the grantee’s continued service to the Company. RSUs granted to existing employees generally vest quarterly over a period
of four years, subject to the grantee’s continued service to the Company.
Pursuant to the terms of the 2016 Plan, the shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance was
increased by 3.4 million shares in February 2022. As of January 31, 2023, the Company has approximately 12.1 million
shares of common stock available for future grants.
Stock Options
The following table summarizes stock option activity for the periods presented (in thousands, except share and per
share data and years):
Balance - January 31, 2021
Options exercised
Options forfeited and expired
Balance - January 31, 2022
Options exercised
Options forfeited and expired
Balance - January 31, 2023
Options vested and exercisable - January 31, 2022
Options vested and exercisable - January 31, 2023
Stock options vested and expected to vest - January 31, 2023
Shares
3,881,545 $
(1,279,669)
(9,982)
2,591,894
(801,272)
(809)
1,789,813 $
2,591,894 $
1,789,813 $
1,789,813 $
Options Outstanding
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(In Years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
7.50
7.57
10.95
7.46
7.12
5.72
7.60
7.46
7.60
7.60
4.8 $ 1,405,540
3.9 1,030,680
3.3 $ 313,980
3.9 $ 1,030,680
3.3 $ 313,980
3.3 $ 313,980
There were no options granted during the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022. The intrinsic value of options
exercised for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 was determined to be $211.1 million, $469.1 million and
$481.8 million, respectively.
There were no options vested during the year ended January 31, 2023. The aggregate grant date fair value of stock
options vested during the years ended January 31, 2022 and 2021, was $1.3 million and $4.3 million, respectively. As of
January 31, 2023, there was no unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to outstanding stock options.
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Restricted Stock Units
The following table summarizes RSU activity for the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022:
Unvested - January 31, 2021
RSUs granted
RSUs vested
RSUs forfeited and canceled
Unvested - January 31, 2022
RSUs granted
RSUs vested
RSUs forfeited and canceled
Unvested - January 31, 2023
Shares
Weighted-Average
Grant Date Fair Value
per RSU
3,473,512 $
1,578,721
(1,437,133)
(388,341)
3,226,759
2,224,117
(1,511,529)
(459,141)
3,480,206 $
139.68
405.46
149.47
193.77
258.85
288.84
224.04
293.40
288.58
As of January 31, 2023, there was $922.4 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to
outstanding RSUs that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.66 years.
Executive Performance Share Awards
During three months ended April 30, 2022, the Company created a long-term performance-based equity award
program and granted performance share units (“PSUs”) to the Company’s CEO and certain other executives. The vesting of
PSUs is conditioned upon the achievement of certain targets for the year ended January 31, 2023.The PSUs vest annually
over a period of three years from the date of grant, subject to the executive’s continued employment with the Company. Each
vested PSU entitles the executive to one share of common stock. A PSU performance factor of 100 will result in the targeted
number of PSUs being vested. The minimum percentage of PSUs that can vest is zero, with a maximum percentage of 200.
On the date of grant, the Company assumed a performance factor of 100, which would result in 74,823 PSUs to be issued, if
fully vested.
The grant date fair value of these PSUs was $23.7 million at a performance factor of 100, which was determined by
using the closing price of the Company’s stock at the date of grant. Compensation expense is being recognized over the
requisite service period based on the probability of the performance conditions being satisfied using the accelerated
attribution method. Following the completion of the performance year, the achieved PSU performance factor was 98.5.
During year ended January 31, 2023, the Company recognized $11.5 million of compensation expense related to these PSUs.
As of January 31, 2023, the Company had $10.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to these PSUs,
which it expects to be recognized over the remaining service period of approximately two years.
2016 China Stock Appreciation Rights Plan
In April 2016, the Company adopted the 2016 China Stock Appreciation Rights Plan (as amended, the “China SAR
Plan”) for its employees in China. These awards, which are granted to new employees, generally vest over four years with
25% vesting on the one year anniversary of the award and the remainder vesting monthly over the next 36 months of the
grantee’s service to the Company. Awards granted to existing employees generally vest quarterly over a period of four years,
subject to the grantee’s continued service to the Company. The China SAR Plan units are cash settled upon exercise and will
be paid as a cash bonus equal to the difference between the strike price of the vested plan units and the fair market value of
common stock at the end of each reporting period.
As of November 1, 2021, the Company does not expect to grant stock appreciation rights in the future and will instead
grant RSUs to its employees in China. Therefore, no China SAR Plan units were granted for the year ended January 31, 2023.
For the years ended January 31, 2022 and 2021 the Company granted 5,532 and 2,763 units of the China SAR Plan,
respectively, at a weighted average strike price of $386.23 and $165.08 per share, respectively.
During the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, upon the vesting of 1,141, 1,296 and 4,316 units,
respectively, the total expense recognized related to China SAR was $2.5 million, $1.6 million and $2.6 million, respectively.
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As of January 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s liability balance related to the China SAR Plan was $3.3 million and
$6.5 million, respectively. These amounts were recorded as part of the accrued compensation and benefits on the Company’s
consolidated balance sheet and recognized as bonus expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. During
the year ended January 31, 2023, the Company paid $0.2 million in cash upon the exercise of 1,336 units. As of January 31,
2023, there were 16,988 China SAR Plan units outstanding of which 385 units remained unvested.
2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In October 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted and stockholders approved, the 2017 Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (the “2017 ESPP”). Subject to any plan limitations, the 2017 ESPP allows eligible employees to contribute,
normally through payroll deductions, up to 15% of their earnings for the purchase of the Company’s common stock at a
discounted price per share. Except for the initial offering period, the ESPP provides for separate six-month offering periods.
Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the Company’s common stock will be purchased for the
accounts of employees participating in the ESPP at a price per share that is the lesser of (1) 85% of the fair market value of
the Company’s common stock on the first trading day of the offering period, or (2) 85% of the fair market value of the
Company’s common stock on the last trading day of the offering period.
Pursuant to the terms of the 2017 ESPP, the shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance was
increased by 674,444 shares in February 2022. As of January 31, 2023, there were 3,001,980 shares of the Company’s
common stock available for future issuance under the 2017 ESPP.
During the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021 there were 149,352, 85,401 and 134,930 shares, respectively,
of common stock purchased under the ESPP. The total expense related to the ESPP for years ended January 31, 2023, 2022
and 2021 was $13.7 million, $9.4 million and $7.0 million, respectively. As of January 31, 2023, there was $7.7 million of
unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to the ESPP offering period expected to end in June 2023.
The fair value of the purchase rights granted under the 2017 ESPP was estimated on the first day of the offering period
using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following assumptions:
Expected term (in years)
Expected volatility
Risk-free interest rate
Dividend yield
Early Exercise of Stock Options
2023
0.50
90% - 92%
2.24% - 4.68%
—%
Years Ended January 31,
2022
0.50
56% - 61%
0.06% - 0.13%
—%
2021
0.50 - 0.54
47% - 64%
0.09% - 0.19%
—%
The Company allowed employees and directors to exercise options granted prior to vesting. The unvested shares are
subject to lapsing repurchase rights upon termination of employment. For early exercised stock options under the 2008 Plan,
the repurchase price is at the original purchase price. For early exercised stock options under the 2016 Plan, the repurchase
price is the lower of (1) the then-current fair market value of the common stock on the date of repurchase and (2) the original
purchase price. The proceeds initially are recorded in other current and non-current liabilities from the early exercise of stock
options and reclassified to common stock and paid-in capital as the repurchase right lapses.
There were no shares of the Company’s common stock issued during the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
for stock options exercised prior to vesting. The Company did not repurchase any shares of common stock related to unvested
stock options during the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022. As of January 31, 2023 there were no shares held by
employees and directors that were subject to repurchase.
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MONGODB, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
Total stock-based compensation expense recognized in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations is as
follows (in thousands):
Cost of revenue—subscription
Cost of revenue—services
Sales and marketing
Research and development
General and administrative
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
$
19,682 $
14,387 $
10,565
143,073
159,099
49,035
6,325
91,947
104,335
34,075
8,970
4,953
54,632
57,611
23,147
Total stock-based compensation expense
$
381,454 $
251,069 $
149,313
12. Net Loss Per Share
The Company calculates basic net loss per share by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number of shares of
common stock outstanding during the year, less shares subject to repurchase. Diluted net loss per share is computed by giving
effect to all potentially dilutive common shares outstanding for the period, including stock options and restricted stock units.
Refer to Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, for further details on the Company’s methodology for
calculating net loss per share.
Basic and diluted net loss per share was the same for each year presented, as the inclusion of all potential common
shares outstanding would have been anti-dilutive due to the net loss reported for each year presented.
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except share and
per share data):
Numerator:
Net loss
Denominator:
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
$
(345,398) $
(306,866) $
(266,944)
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic
and diluted
68,628,267
64,563,032
58,984,604
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
$
(5.03) $
(4.75) $
(4.53)
Prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06, the Company calculated the potential dilutive effect of its 2024 Notes and 2026
Notes under the treasury stock method. As a result, only the amount by which the conversion value exceeded the aggregate
principal amount of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes (the “conversion spread”) was considered in the diluted earnings per
share computation. The conversion spread only had a dilutive impact on diluted net income per share when the average
market price of the Company’s Class A common stock for a given period exceeded the initial conversion price of $68.15 per
share for the 2024 Notes and $211.20 per share for the 2026 Notes.
Upon the adoption of ASU 2020-06 on February 1, 2021, the Company calculates the potential dilutive effect of its
2024 Notes and 2026 Notes under the if-converted method. Under this method, diluted earnings per share is determined by
assuming that all of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes were converted into shares of the Company’s common stock at the
beginning of the reporting period.
In connection with the issuance of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes, the Company entered into Capped Calls, which
were not included for purposes of calculating the number of diluted shares outstanding, as their effect would have been
antidilutive. The Capped Calls are expected to partially offset the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon
any conversion of the 2024 Notes and 2026 Notes.
97
MONGODB, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
The following weighted-average outstanding potentially dilutive shares of common stock were excluded from the
computation of diluted net loss per share for the periods presented because the impact of including them would have been
anti-dilutive:
Stock options pursuant to the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan
Stock options pursuant to the 2008 Stock Incentive Plan
Unvested restricted stock units
Unvested executive PSUs
Early exercised stock options
Shares underlying the conversion option of the 2024 Notes
(conversion spread only prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06)
Shares underlying the conversion option of the 2026 Notes
(conversion spread only prior to the adoption of ASU 2020-06)
Total
13. Income Taxes
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2023
571,680
1,599,415
3,860,345
69,667
—
—
778,172
2,391,439
3,680,895
—
102
2021
1,340,476
3,759,063
3,864,504
—
5,032
231,637
889,755
5,445,039
11,546,146
5,445,107
12,527,352
450,869
10,309,699
The components of loss before provision for income taxes were as follows (in thousands):
United States
Foreign
Total
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
$
$
(253,433) $
(161,502) $
(159,331)
(79,821)
(141,387)
(103,362)
(333,254) $
(302,889) $
(262,693)
The components of the provision for income taxes were as follows (in thousands):
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
$
844 $
426 $
59
11,812
12,715
(13)
24
(582)
(571)
12,144 $
80
6,005
6,511
(1,574)
6
(966)
(2,534)
3,977 $
215
171
4,229
4,615
5
10
(379)
(364)
4,251
Current:
Federal
State
Foreign
Total
Deferred:
Federal
State
Foreign
Total
Provision for income taxes
$
98
MONGODB, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
The items accounting for the difference between income taxes computed at the federal statutory income tax rate and
the provision for income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
Income tax benefit at statutory rate
State taxes, net of federal benefit
Impact of foreign income taxes
Foreign branch income included in the United States
Stock-based compensation
Non-deductible expenses
Officer compensation in excess of $1 million
Change in valuation allowance
Research and development credits
Foreign tax credit
Foreign withholding tax expense
Prior year true ups
Other
$
(69,983) $
66
27,892
1,353
(39,669)
1,318
7,085
106,156
(19,395)
(3,349)
844
(278)
104
(63,606) $
68
34,730
1,175
(138,842)
2,200
9,117
175,664
(14,932)
(2,470)
426
447
—
Provision for income taxes
$
12,144 $
3,977 $
(55,165)
143
25,569
297
(107,800)
991
—
157,822
(18,197)
(711)
215
1,100
(13)
4,251
The increase in the provision for income taxes during the years ended January 31, 2023 and January 31, 2022 was
primarily due to an increase in foreign taxes as the Company continued its global expansion. In addition, the overall provision
for income taxes for the year ended January 31, 2022 was lower due to a reduction in the valuation allowance as a result of
goodwill from an immaterial business combination and the impact from the adoption of ASU 2020-06.
Deferred Income Taxes
Deferred income taxes arise from temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for
financial reporting and the amounts used for income tax reporting purposes, as well as operating losses and tax credit
carryforwards.
99
MONGODB, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets are shown in the following table as of January 31, 2023
and 2022, respectively (in thousands):
Deferred tax assets:
Net operating loss carryforwards
Deferred revenue
Finance and operating lease liabilities
Capitalized research and development costs
Other reserves
Gross deferred tax assets
Valuation allowance
Total deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance
Deferred tax liabilities:
Years Ended January 31,
2023
2022
$
689,166 $
82,607
22,182
68,409
24,195
886,559
(809,006)
77,553
636,011
64,765
23,500
—
23,460
747,736
(677,283)
70,453
Finance and operating lease right-of-use assets
(15,962)
(16,765)
Convertible senior notes
Deferred commission
Other liabilities and accruals
Total deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax assets
—
(52,194)
(7,058)
(75,214)
$
2,339 $
—
(43,063)
(8,767)
(68,595)
1,858
Deferred tax assets are recognized when management believes it more likely than not that they will be realized. Deferred tax
assets are reduced by a valuation allowance if, based on available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the
deferred tax assets will not be realized. The valuation allowance for deferred tax assets as of January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
was $809.0 million, $677.3 million and $374.8 million, respectively. The valuation allowance increased by $131.7 million
and $302.5 million during the years ended January 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. In assessing the realizability of deferred
tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not
be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during
the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of
deferred tax liabilities (including the impact of available carryback and carryforward periods), projected future taxable
income and tax planning strategies in making this assessment.
As of January 31, 2023 the Company had net operating loss carryforwards for U.S. federal, state, Irish and U.K.
income tax purposes of $1.9 billion, $1.8 billion, $697.2 million and $42.9 million, respectively, which begin to expire in the
year ending January 31, 2028 for U.S. federal purposes and January 31, 2024 for state purposes. Operating losses in the
United States, for years after January 31, 2019, in Ireland and the United Kingdom may be carried forward indefinitely. The
Company also has U.S. federal and state research credit carryforwards of $94.1 million and $8.9 million, respectively, which
begin to expire in the year ending January 31, 2029 for federal purposes and January 31, 2025 for state purposes. Utilization
of the federal net operating loss carryforwards and credits may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the
ownership change limitations provided by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and similar state provisions. The
annual limitation, should the Company undergo an ownership change, may result in the expiration of federal or state net
operating losses and credits before utilization, however the Company does not expect any such limitation to be material.
Uncertain Tax Positions
The calculation of the Company’s tax obligations involves dealing with uncertainties in the application of complex tax
laws and regulations. ASC 740, Income Taxes, provides that a tax benefit from an uncertain tax position may be recognized
when it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including resolutions of any related
appeals or litigation processes, on the basis of the technical merits. The Company has assessed its income tax positions and
recorded tax benefits for all years subject to examination, based upon the Company’s evaluation of the facts, circumstances
and information available at each period end. For those tax positions where the Company has determined there is a greater
than 50% likelihood that a tax benefit will be sustained, the Company has recorded the largest amount of tax benefit that may
potentially be realized upon ultimate settlement with a taxing authority that has full knowledge of all relevant information.
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MONGODB, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
For those income tax positions where it is determined there is less than 50% likelihood that a tax benefit will be sustained, no
tax benefit has been recognized.
Although the Company believes that it has adequately reserved for its uncertain tax positions, the Company can
provide no assurance that the final tax outcome of these matters will not be materially different. As the Company expands
internationally, it will face increased complexity and its unrecognized tax benefits may increase in the future. The Company
makes adjustments to its reserves when facts and circumstances change, such as the closing of a tax audit or the refinement of
an estimate. To the extent that the final tax outcome of these matters is different than the amounts recorded, such differences
will affect the provision for income taxes in the period in which such determination is made.
The following table summarizes the changes in the Company’s unrecognized gross tax benefits during the periods
presented (in thousands):
Unrecognized tax benefits at beginning of year
Increase (decrease) in tax positions in prior years
Additions based on tax positions in the current year
Unrecognized tax benefits at end of year
Years Ended January 31,
2022
2021
2023
$
$
22,698 $
(177)
6,763
17,484 $
(1,894)
7,108
5,290
6,059
6,135
29,284 $
22,698 $
17,484
As of January 31, 2023, unrecognized tax benefits would not have any impact on the Company’s effective tax rate if
recognized.
The Company continues to monitor and apply its permanent reinvestment of foreign earnings assertion under the rules
of the Tax Act. The Company has not provided for U.S. federal income and foreign withholding taxes on approximately $2.2
million of undistributed earnings from non-U.S. operations as of January 31, 2023 because the Company intends to reinvest
such earnings indefinitely outside of the United States. If the Company were to distribute these earnings, foreign tax credits
may become available under current law to reduce the resulting U.S. income tax liability. The Company has estimated the
amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability related to these earnings to be approximately $0.1 million.
The Company is not currently under Internal Revenue Service, state, or foreign income tax examination with the
exception of an audit in France for which the Company does not expect a material outcome. The Company does not
anticipate any significant increases or decreases in its uncertain tax positions within the next twelve months. The Company
files tax returns in the United States for federal and certain states. All tax years remain open to examination for both federal
and state purposes as a result of the net operating loss and credit carryforwards. The Company files foreign tax returns in
various foreign jurisdictions. These foreign returns are open to examination for the fiscal years ending January 31, 2014
through January 31, 2022.
Beginning in fiscal year 2023, provisions in the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 require the Company to capitalize
and amortize research and development (“R&D”) expenditures rather than deducting the costs as incurred. As a result of the
new R&D capitalization effective in fiscal year 2023, the capitalized amounts resulted in a decrease of the current year net
operating loss. Capitalized R&D expenditures are deductible as amortized in future periods. Therefore, the Company
recorded a deferred tax asset for the capitalized R&D expenditures.
In August 2022, the U.S. enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”), which includes a corporate alternative
minimum tax and an excise tax on stock buybacks. The Company has determined that it is not currently subject to the
provisions of this legislation. In addition, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“the OECD”), has
issued guidelines that change long-standing tax principles and may introduce tax uncertainty as countries amend their tax
laws to adopt certain parts of the guidelines. In December 2022, the European Union (“EU”) reached unanimous agreement,
in principle, to implement the global minimum tax. EU members will be required to institute local laws in 2023, which are
intended to be effective for tax years beginning after 2023. Additional changes to global tax laws are likely to occur, and such
changes may adversely affect the Company’s tax liability.
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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d-15(e) under the
Exchange Act that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or
submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the
SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to
ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is
accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, as
appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the
effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of January 31, 2023. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure
controls and procedures as of January 31, 2023, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of
such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.
Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate “internal control over financial reporting,”
as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and Rule 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our management conducted an evaluation of the
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2023 based on the criteria established
in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission.
Based on the results of its evaluation, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was
effective as of January 31, 2023. The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of January 31, 2023 has
been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in its report, which
is included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation
required by Rule 13a-15(d) and Rule 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended January 31,
2023 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes that our disclosure
controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of
achieving their objectives and are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, our management does not expect that
our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A
control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the
objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource
constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all
control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any,
have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty and that
breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts
of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of
controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events and there can be no assurance
that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may
deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may
occur and not be detected.
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Item 9B. Other Information
None.
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
Not Applicable.
103
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
PART III
The information required by this Item (other than the information set forth in the next paragraph in this Item) will be
included in the 2023 Proxy Statement to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended
January 31, 2023 and is incorporated herein by reference.
We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code of Conduct”), applicable to all of our employees,
executive officers and directors. The Code of Conduct is available on our website at investors.mongodb.com. The nominating
and corporate governance committee of our Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the Code of Conduct and must
approve any waivers of the Code of Conduct for employees, executive officers and directors. We expect that any amendments
to the Code of Conduct, or any waivers of its requirements, will be disclosed on our website, as required by applicable law or
the listing standards of The Nasdaq Global Market. The inclusion of our website address in this Form 10-K does not include
or incorporate by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Form 10-K”) the information on or accessible
through our website.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this Item will be included in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by
reference.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this Item will be included in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by
reference.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence
The information required by this Item will be included in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by
reference.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The information required by this Item will be included in the 2023 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by
reference.
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PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a) Documents filed as part of this report
(1) All financial statements
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 238)
Financial Statements:
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 31, 2023 and 2022
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for years ended January 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Page
65
67
68
69
70
71
73
Schedules have been omitted either because they are not applicable or the required information is included in the
financial statements or the notes thereto.
105
(3) Exhibits
Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by Reference
Filed
Herewith
Form File No.
Exhibit Filing Date
3.1
3.2
3.3
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
10.1#
10.2#
10.3#
10.4#
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
Registrant
8-K 001-38240
3.1
10/25/17
Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant
Certificate of Retirement
S-1
333-220557
8-K 001-38240
Form of Class A common stock certificate of Registrant
S-1/A 333-220557
Indenture, dated as of January 14, 2020, by and between
MongoDB, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee
8-K 001-38240
3.4
3.1
4.1
4.1
9/21/17
6/16/20
10/6/17
1/14/20
Form of Global Note, representing MongoDB, Inc.’s 0.25%
Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (included as Exhibit A to
the Indenture filed as Exhibit 4.5)
Description of Registered Securities
2008 Stock Incentive Plan and Forms of Option Agreement
and Exercise Notice thereunder, as amended to date
Amended and Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan and
Forms of Stock Option Agreement, Notice of Exercise,
Stock Option Grant Notice and Restricted Stock Unit Award
Agreement thereunder
Amended and Restated Form of Restricted Stock Unit
Award Agreement, effective as of March 1, 2022
Forms of Restricted Stock Award Grant Notice and
Restricted Stock Award Agreement under the Amended and
Restated 2016 Equity Incentive Plan
8-K 001-38240
4.2
1/14/20
10-K 001-38240
4.7
3/22/21
S-1
333-220557
10.1
9/21/17
S-1/A 333-220557
10.2
10/6/17
10-K 001-38240
10.3
3/18/22
10-K 001-38240
10.3
3/30/18
10.5#
2016 China Stock Appreciation Rights Plan and Form of
China Stock Appreciation Rights Award Agreement
S-1/A 333-220557
10.3
10/6/17
10.6#
2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10-Q 001-38240
10.1
9/2/22
10.7#
10.8#
10.9#
10.10#
Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between the
Registrant and each of its directors and executive officers
S-1
333-220557
10.5
9/21/17
Second Amended and Restated Offer Letter, dated
December 20, 2021, by and between the Registrant and Dev
Ittycheria
Second Amended and Restated Offer Letter, dated
December 21, 2021, by and between the Registrant and
Michael Gordon
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated
January 10, 2022, by and between MongoDB Switzerland
GmbH and Cedric Pech
10-K 001-38240
10.8
3/18/22
10-K 001-38240
10.9
3/18/22
10-K 001-38240
10.1
3/18/22
10.11#
Amended and Restated Offer Letter, dated December 21,
2021, by and between the Registrant and Mark Porter
10-K 001-38240
10.11
3/18/22
10.12
10.13
Lease, between PGREF I 1633 Broadway Tower, L.P. and
MongoDB, Inc., dated December 14, 2017
10-K 001-38240
10.12
3/30/18
Purchase Agreement, dated June 25, 2018, by and among
MongoDB, Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman
Sachs & Co. LLC and Barclays Capital Inc.
8-K 001-38240
99.1
6/28/18
106
Exhibit
Number
Description
Incorporated by Reference
Filed
Herewith
Form File No.
Exhibit Filing Date
10.14
Form of Confirmation for 2018 Capped Call Transactions
8-K 001-38240
10.15
Purchase Agreement, dated January 9, 2020, by and among
MongoDB, Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman
Sachs & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital, Inc. and Citigroup
Global Markets, Inc.
8-K 001-38240
99.2
99.1
6/28/18
1/14/20
10.16
Form of Confirmation for 2020 Capped Call Transactions
8-K 001-38240
99.2
1/14/20
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
10.17#
21.1
23.1
31.1
31.2
32.1*
32.2*
Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award
Agreement
Subsidiaries of the Registrant
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent
registered public accounting firm
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to
Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules
13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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*
Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
This certification is deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference
into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary
None.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
MONGODB, INC.
Date: March 17, 2023
By:
/s/ Dev Ittycheria
Name: Dev Ittycheria
Title:
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the
following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Dev Ittycheria
Dev Ittycheria
/s/ Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon
/s/ Thomas Bull
Thomas Bull
/s/ Tom Killalea
Tom Killalea
/s/ Archana Agrawal
Archana Agrawal
/s/ Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha
/s/ Hope Cochran
Hope Cochran
/s/ Francisco D’Souza
Francisco D’Souza
/s/ Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
Charles M. Hazard, Jr.
/s/ Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman
/s/ John McMahon
John McMahon
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
March 17, 2023
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial
Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
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Harsha JalihalChief People OfficerPeder UlanderChief Marketing OfficerAlan ChhabraEVP, WW Partners and AsiaRoelof BothaPartner, Sequoia CapitalHope CochranManaging Director, Madrona Venture GroupMindy LiebermanChief Information OfficerCailin NelsonEVP, Engineering, CloudDwight MerrimanCo-founderMark PorterChief Technology OfficerArchana AgrawalChief Marketing Officer, AirtableJohn McMahonExecutive Sales Consultant Michael GordonChief Operating Officer & CFOCedric PechChief Revenue OfficerDev IttycheriaPresident & Chief Executive OfficerChip HazardGeneral Partner, Flybridge Capital PartnersDev IttycheriaPresident & Chief Executive OfficerTom KillaleaChairmanRonnen MillerEVP, Global Technical ServicesAndrew StephensGeneral CounselLena SmartChief Information Security OfficerLeadershipExecutive teamBoard membersFrank D’SouzaManaging Partner & Co-Founder of Recognize PartnersSahir AzamChief Product Officer Annual
Report
2023