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Amplitude, Inc. (AMPL)

Q3 2022 Earnings Call· Wed, Nov 2, 2022

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Yaoxian Chew

Management

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Amplitude's Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. I'm Yaoxian Chew, Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me are Spenser Skates, CEO and Co-Founder of Amplitude; and Hoang Vuong, the company's Chief Financial Officer. During today's call, management will make forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our financial outlook for the fourth quarter and full year 2022, the expected performance of our products, our expected quarterly and long-term growth, investments and our overall future prospects. These forward looking statements are based on current information, assumptions, and expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties some of which are beyond our control that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these statements. Further information on the risks that could cause actual results to differ is included in our filings with the Security and Exchange Commission, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and we assume no obligation to update these statements after today's call except as required by law. Certain financial measures used on today's call are expressed on a non-GAAP basis. We use these non-GAAP financial measures internally to facilitate analysis of our financial and business trends and for internal planning and forecasting purposes. These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations and should not be used in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation between these GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures is included in our earnings press release, which can be found on our Investor Relations website at investors.amplitude.com. With that, I'll hand the call over to Spenser.

Spenser Skates

Management

Thank you, Yao. Good afternoon, everyone tuning in for our Q3 2022 earnings call. Amplitude delivered a strong third quarter we closed with $61.6 million in revenue, up 35% year-over-year. This was above the high end of our guidance. We are also delivering strong operating leverage and raising our margin outlook for the year, thanks to our disciplined investment approach. Our dollar-based net retention was 123%. We now have more than 1,900 customers. For those of you joining us for the first time, Amplitude helps companies build amazing products, drive growth, and win their categories. We are a digital analytics platform that gives self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. With Amplitude, teams can understand what product features are working, where users are getting stuck and what actions lead to the right outcomes. Nothing is more critical to driving digital revenue growth. Our land performance in Q3 was exceptional. It was our best land bookings quarter in Amplitude's history. New Amplitude customers include Zillow, Fox Broadcasting, Volkswagen, Volaris Airlines, Shell, and Ably. We also had several large six-figure wins. Our customers tell us that Amplitude delivers better ROI than their existing solutions. We can provide insights that were not possible with other means and our self-service approach is more scalable. However, the macroeconomic environment has clearly shifted. This quarter was more challenging with regards to expansion in churn, and we expect these dynamics to persist through 2023. As our customers try to navigate the sudden whiplash from the pandemic to 2021 highs to current macroeconomic weakness, we want to work with them to ensure their success. Hoang will provide more details on how the environment will temper our growth expectations in the near-term. Against this, I'm confident that the need for digital analytics will drive long-term durable growth for Amplitude's…

Hoang Vuong

Management

Thanks, Spenser, and thanks again to everyone for joining us today. Third quarter revenue was $61.6 million, up 35% year-over-year. Customer count was also up 35% year-over-year to 1,913. Dollar-based net retention was 123%. In the third quarter, reflects our superior product position and strong execution to deliver our best land booking quarters ever. We signed numerous large deals, thanks to our go-to-market and product teams. They did a tremendous job in highlighting competitive differentiation and showing how Amplitude help our customer build amazing products, drive growth and win the categories. It is also worth mentioning that more than one-quarter of our lands in Q3 had Google Analytics as an incumbent solution. We started 2022 with a goal of driving longer term contracts and attacking new products. We're excited to see more large customers signing multiyear deals. We also crossed a significant milestone of $10 million in ARR from both experiment and our new products in just one year. This is strong validation and execution of our strategy, especially in this macro environment. We mentioned the potential headwinds in the economy during our last earnings call, and we saw the following specific impact in Q3. Expansion bookings were lighter than expected as some of our customer business slowed and budget scrutiny remained elevated. We saw higher churn from small businesses who were unable to pay and partial churn increase as customers rightsize due to budget or utilization. If we look past the near-term headwinds, our growth factors have not changed. We will work to continue to acquire new customers around the world, expand across our existing customer base, and extend our product leadership in an early and under-penetrated market. We are confident that we can continue to navigate this environment and come out even stronger. We’re seeing results from prior…

Hoang Vuong

Operator

As a reminder, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up in the interest of time. Un-mute your mic and turn a video when called upon. Our first question comes from Michael Turits at KeyBanc. Michael?

Q - Michael Vidovic

Analyst

Hi. This is Michael Vidovic on for Michael Turits. Thanks for taking my question and congrats on the quarter guys.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Thanks, Michael.

Michael Vidovic

Analyst

On the CDP side, you talked about exceeding expectations internally. And I know you're not giving specifics, but I'm curious if you could talk about what draws customers to your CDP versus the competitors? And then, are those customers generally replacing an existing CDP provider or they didn't have one week in with usually?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

It's both. So think, First, in a macro environment like this, you're getting a bunch of spend consolidation where you're trying to eliminate multiple vendor spend and come on to us, something like an Amplitude. And so, being able to have a CDP and experiment offering, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff on product and marketing analytics helps us drive that. I think with -- ATB grocery was actually an example of, they came on net new to Amplitude for the first time and they bought -- decided to buy the full stack outright. They didn't really have anything in place already. They had a bunch of people who just joined the company that had been previous Amplitude users at another company decided to go all-in with us from the start. We are seeing other places where we're already on the analytics and then they're adding in CDP, either because they don't have one or to replace an existing vendor. So that's definitely happening, too. And so, I think from my standpoint, definitely a lot of strong data points in terms of traction from that as well as experiment.

Michael Vidovic

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Great. Next question comes from Clarke Jeffries at Piper, followed by Elizabeth Porter. Clarke.

Clarke Jeffries

Analyst

Yes. Hello. Thank you for taking the question. First, I wanted to dig into the highest quarter for new land bookings in the company's history. Could you dig into any industry or driver that really enable that? And -- this is the first quarter of sub-100 net adds from 2020. So you were able to still net that strong quarter a new land, even with a lower amount of customers. And so, can you talk about how contract values were trending, any drivers of strength there?

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. So let me break that down for you. I think on one of the big trends that we're seeing is that, I think, historically, it was only very sophisticated, more bleeding edge technology companies that were big adopters of Amplitude. So this would be the DoorDash’s or the Atlassian’s or Intuit’s or the HubSpot’s of the world. That have already embraced this way of building product, and we're kind of ready to go when they first met us. I think what we're seeing is, more of the kind of average or majority technology company. I called out Zillow, which was fantastic land in Q3. We had a record -- another record deal that was actually an eight-figure deal for multiple years with a household tech company name. And so, that was exciting to see. So I think you see this change from early adopter tech companies to more of the majority tech companies. And that's something that's happening in a big way now. I think, on the -- in terms of total number of customer adds, I think it's definitely a more challenging environment for some of the long tail and smaller and earlier-stage start-ups, where the funding is not like it was in 2021. And so, because of that, a lot of them are cutting back on resources and spend decisions and things like that. And so, that's how I net those two things out.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Hey, Clarke. I just want to make a correction to, I think, Spenser mention, there was six-plus figure deal, was not an eight-figure deal. So I don't want to post -- overreacting to that. I do think, the only thing I would add to that is what we're seeing in terms of acquisition of new customer, both last quarter and this quarter, you're starting to see some companies you naturally think of it being digitally native. So that's why we're saying we're so early in this market. Filing a company that you would think they've already been doing product analytics and digital analytics for a long time, going, 'Hey, wow, maybe this isn't the best way’, whether it's their in-house solution or they were using some existing marketing solution, going, 'Hey, is there something better’, as they evaluate and they discover Amplitude and they're moving over to us. And, obviously, those digital companies have a lot more event volume. They already have an existing digital business. And so, that's helping our land value. And as you pointed out, our new ad did decrease relative to prior quarter, but a big chunk of that also had to do with churn from smaller businesses, as I mentioned, they’re unable to pay.

Clarke Jeffries

Analyst

Great. And just one follow-up, Hoang. Another quarter of 48% CRPO growth, could you walk us through the divergence between revenue growth and CRPO growth and ultimately, would you expect them to converge over the near term?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Yes. So I would ask you to focus on the revenue growth. I mean, obviously, as I mentioned on the CRPO is benefiting from the multiyear and so as you kind of reach some kind of plateau in a multiyear are is that you may actually see a flip between revenue and CRPO. And so I would focus on the revenue growth.

Clarke Jeffries

Analyst

All right, perfect. Thanks very much.

Operator

Operator

Great. Next question from Elizabeth Porter [ph], followed by Arjun Bhatia.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Thank you so much. I wanted to ask on the NOI. So we did see that bigger decline and just because it is a 12-month rolling number. We don't usually see that much kind of quarter-to-quarter change. So it's helping to provide, you called out a couple of headwinds, but just a little bit more color on where you're seeing kind of more of that pressure the churn versus the upsell? And any sort of qualifiers on what we should think about for the floor? Is there a risk that, that number goes kind of below what we saw in the first half of 2021? Thanks.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Thanks. It's great question. I think as Spenser mentioned this in his prepared comments in terms of the [indiscernible]. I think what you're seeing is in 2021, we had some customers who really drove a massive expansion as their business grew and kind came back from COVID and post COVID. I think what we're seeing actually in 2022 is the actually a combination of two things. One is expansion kind of being a lot less from those existing customer base and at the same time, you've also seen churn. We obviously mentioned in Q1, we had some high term both with Twitter and also us deciding not to do business with Russia and Ukraine. I think what you start seeing is you've got really high expansion that drove a lot of growth in 2021 and then you got lower expansion combined with higher churn as counter-ply by the current macroeconomic and some of the things that happened in Q1, that's kind of play into that net retention rate.

Spenser Skates

Management

The only thing I'd want to add to that is, I think, from my standpoint, we want to do the right long-term thing for all our customers. And so I think some of them may have overambitious projected out 2021 growth rates for the very long term. And so, a lot of them are asking us to right-size spend. I don't think we're getting a lot of churns in that segment. And so what we want to do, all of them have confidence that they're going to increase their spend with Amplitude long term and so we're deploying different levers to help them out, whether from helping them track the ROI that spend better by seeing what data is being used, who is using it to, selling -- getting them additional products if they're not getting all the usage that they want out of [indiscernible] or in some cases, decreasing the volume that they're doing with Amplitude.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

I think to make a good point there, we did the same thing in early 2020 when first Coors head us and you guys probably saw when we obviously went public, we pulled out a net retention rate of like 116, I believe, at that time. And I think the right thing is always to do the right thing for the customer because ultimately, you're going to expand into other business units, other product lines, they're going to go and buy experiment and audience CDP. And so we love the future of where it is, and we're going to do the right thing for the customer in today's environment.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Got you. And I think it makes a lot of sense. And my second question, I just wanted to ask on the operating margins, really nice expansion that you drove in the quarter. Is the pulling back on any of those expenses? Is that more of a reaction to the macro or something more structurally in part? And also, just a little bit more color on what were some of the biggest areas of improvement that drove that leverage?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Yes. I'll kind of talk through a few things actually, because at the end of the day for us, we've always operated very efficiently. I mean if you look at our operating margin from last year and we're actually spending more, we're actually increasing our investment in product development. We were at 19%, we're now at 23%. And so we're actually investing in the increase in expenditures actually for this particular year synthase around investment priority development some stuff kind of obviously post-COVID return into office and also doing event like Amplify and so we're actually investing and spending. Some of the cutback that you're seeing is actually as a result of us kind of bringing in new leadership and them saying, "Hey, let's take a pause on things we know are not working, so that I can actually redeploy and use them on new bets and new things that I think we're working even better". And we never want for spend, just to spend. That just seems silly. And so I think our ability to turn on operating margins, a, obviously, our gross margin is at a very solid number of 74% compared to where we were before somebody on that's gaining us three points. And then us also being much more prudent around our investment plan to make sure that we put more into things that are working and then taking off of things that are not.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Jason Starr

Analyst

Great. Arjun from Blair, you're up followed by Koji Ikeda from Bank of America. Arjun, please.

Arjun Bhatia

Analyst

Awesome. Thank you. Spenser, and maybe this one for Vuong, actually. Just want to clarify one thing. On churn, are you seeing churn in larger customers outside of Twitter? And is it true churn, or is it down sell? And then just last one on this topic. As customers do churn, whether it's SMB or enterprise, what are they going to? Are they just saying, we don't need anything, they're going back to their in-house system, going to GA, what's the replacement for Amplitude that they do decide to shut it down?

Spenser Skates

Management

Yeah. Let me take this one high level and then I can let Vuong fill on some of the details. So the biggest reasons are either companies or business units getting shut down or going out of business or lack of ability to secure implementation resources. We almost never see someone kind of go backward in the maturity journey. It's not like folks are going to Google Analytics or to saying, "Hey, I'm going to go try to build this in-house after having not been successful with Amplitude. And so that never happens. And so I think for us, it's about making sure customers get implemented, customers get set up. Thats's a huge focus of Thomas and Lambert and team in terms of what we want to try to drive in this environment. The other thing is, from our customers, I think there is an expectation even for the ones rightsizing that they will continue to grow with us long-term. I just talked to current six, seven-figure customer a few weeks ago that was like, "Hey, I want to be conscious about how we're spending over the next year because they're going through spending reevaluation internally in their company. But their expectation is that in out years in 2024 and beyond that they'll continue to grow with us as they have since they've started with us five years ago. And so for -- on the customer side, -- it's not -- from a competitive standpoint, we feel really well set up. We're always kind of the product that's the most innovative bleeding edge in terms of what we're able to do.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Yeah. I mean the only thing I can add with you there, obviously, like you said you do see churn coming from small businesses that are unable to pay, I think the large enterprise customer, the only time they really do churn is that they really have not kind of adopted into our solution. Because if you're leaving -- to answer your question, there's no word -- they're not going to go back to something else. It's really either they're going out of business or they're just not going to get those questions answered. I do think that for the good customers, what we're seeing because of the macro environment is that they have a much tighter budget. And so they may actually be looking at the data that they're sending in and trying to figure out ways to optimize that. Now we're actually taking a very different stance on it, which is we're saying, hey, great, we -- let's help you. I think as Spenser mentioned this in the prepared remarks, we're trying to work around giving more visibility to the data owner to understand how they're using the data, what data has high value because again, we help them, we believe it would be better off in the long run. And so it means that in the near term, they like, hey, I got budget constraint. I got to figure out how to save a dollar here, a dollar there. We're actually trying to help them identify which events may not be used and how you can actually do it smarter. And so that's going to cause some near-term issues. But in the long term, I think the health of the relationship is going to be really strong.

Arjun Bhatia

Analyst

Yeah, absolutely. That makes a lot of sense. And then just when we – when you think about the coming quarters and even going into next year, the Google Analytics opportunity, are you expecting that to ramp-up, or is the – is what you're seeing now in terms of the impact on new customers and the migrations that are taking place. Is that kind of a steady state that you expect to contribute over the next few quarters?

Spenser Skates

Management

I'd say – I don't know, I mean, a-third of our new customers coming from Google Analytics is already pretty significant. And so I think we'll expect to continue to see that over the next few quarters. I mean, Google just announced that they're extending the sun-setting date for Universal Analytics, because a lot of their customers are unhappy. And so I think that will continue. Our focus there in terms of being the bridge from previous generation tool to an amplitude, we'll continue to bear fruit and be successful. That's a huge part of why we built out a whole bunch of marketing analytics that we talked about on last quarter's earnings call. And so I expect to see lands. Now, will it grow even more? I certainly hope so, and we're investing in that way in the business in that way?

Arjun Bhatia

Analyst

Awesome. Thank you very much

Spenser Skates

Management

Thanks, Arjun.

Operator

Operator

Great. Next question from Koji Ikeda, followed by Nick Altmann from Scotia. Koji, please.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the questions. Great to see you, Spenser and Hoang. I wanted to ask you a question on billings.

Spenser Skates

Management

Same to you, Koji.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Hey, guys. Wanted to ask you a question on billings. So I recall back in the second quarter, there was kind of a $10 million pull forward and that would help back quarter but affect this third quarter. So – but I guess even after adding back that $10 million, the third quarter billings would still be – I mean, we calculate roughly 23%. So a pretty big decel from what we've seen in the past. And then when you look at that compared to the billings growth 60%, and Hoang, I do realize that you just had focus on revenue, but billings has been really topical out there and with this big but delta. I just want to make sure we're understanding any sort of volatility or what could be causing volatility in the billings and how it could potentially affect the forward growth trajectory?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Thanks. First of all, as we said last time, our billings in Q2 actually grew 57% quarter-to-quarter. And so actually, that was a very strong billing quarter. And a big piece of that was obviously that you mentioned, the $10 million that we obviously moved to the renewal base, but we actually had a really large expansion happened in the month of April in Q2. And some of those customers are actually supposed to renew in Q3. And so yes, from a billing standpoint, we grew 4% year-over-year for Q3, referring the fact that a big portion of that renewal base moved over Q2, we're actually – that billion was actually a little bit higher than we were expecting.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Okay. Okay. So –

Hoang Vuong

Operator

And the last thing, I would – one last piece just to remember on our billings, we tend to – just as a reminder, we build the following month, right? So we don't build in the same month. So then we actually obviously have bookings that actually happened in the month of let's say, September, they're going to be built in October, or if your contracts get started in October, you're not going to go down into October. And so that's another factor to catch in into where the billing is going to come in. So our billing will be pretty lumpy when you look at quarter-over-quarter and something like that.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Got it. Okay. Understood. And then I wanted to ask you a question on international just really thinking about 40% of revenue for you guys is coming international and Hoang you mentioned you priced in USD. So presumably, it's a lot – it's getting harder for international customers to buy the product. So just taking forward, if FX persists at these kind of levels, how are you thinking about packaging pricing internationally to help alleviate any sort of FX headwinds, international sales cycles?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

This is actually -- it's not just international that we're looking at this. It's for the entire customer base. One of the big opportunities in 2023 for us is we're going to be focusing more on a product-led growth motion, which includes a self-service and a whole bunch of other things to allow customers to get started at lower price points or more easily with Amplitude as we get into next year. And so that's going to be -- that will allowing someone to, hey, let's start small, prove out some ROI and then grow with us over time, is going to be one of the big levers as we look to next year.

Koji Ikeda

Analyst

Got it. Thanks guys. Thanks for taking the questions.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Yes, sure.

Operator

Operator

Nick Altmann from Scotia, followed by Claire Guido from UBS.

Nick Altmann

Analyst

Yes. Great. Thanks guys. I'm curious if you've seen sort of any change from customers, either on the net new side of the equation or at renewal, just in terms of their event volume commitments, right? Like just given the macro environment, I'm curious just from a customer perspective, are they taking a little bit more of a conservative approach to their event volume commitments and so perhaps, maybe there's going to be more overages in the future or have you guys not really seen more sort of scrutiny on upfront commitments at renewal or even on the net new side?

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Yes. So, it tends not to happen as much on the net new side. It really is on the renewal side that there are some customers that are putting a bunch of pressure on how much -- what event volume they're doing. That's why I mentioned that we're going to be doing a whole bunch more on the tooling side to give better transparency into the value as well as helping them find other places that we can help drive that value. I think for event volume, one of the other big things is customers want to know that as they continue to scale with us, we'll scale with them. And so that's another big area of investment for 2023 is we're going to be doing a whole bunch of there so for very, very large volume customers that we're able to track more of the data, because the more data we can track the more value that we’re able to provide.

Nick Altmann

Analyst

Overdues have trended as of late and whether those have been sort of impacted given the macro? And as a follow-up, I guess, is it sort of pertains to your guidance philosophy, do you typically embed a certain level of overdues in your guidance, or is that typically the driver of upside?

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. Nick, I'll take that one. Overdues for us is a relatively very small percentage of our revenue, call it, under 2% or so. Because obviously, what typically happens is if customers are going over, they'll actually end up renewing and expanding under contract. And that's why we saw, for instance, in Q2 such a large expansion happened early in that quarter in the month of April, which is those customers were already over. And so, again, our number one priority is partnering with the customer. And so we're not trying to get them from overdues. We obviously -- it helps us to have the right contracts so that we can do a better job of planning and executing on that side. But we haven't seen kind of a, call it, again, it's such a small percentage. We’ve always seen a big increase or decrease per se on the overdues. It's been fairly consistent. If anything, it may have gone down slightly, because some of those large customers already expanded, like I said, in April. So that after this expansion, always tend to go down slightly, and then they begin to build up again. But it's such a small percentage of it.

Nick Altmann

Analyst

Got it. Yes. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Next question from Claire Guido from UBS, followed by Tyler Radke from Citi. Claire please.

Claire Guido

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking the question. So sorry to go back and harp on billings a little bit. But is the softening the more a reflection of invoice timing or is it related to the more flexible payment terms, maybe or changes in duration given the macro? And then, as a second part as well, if billings on an adjusted basis for the pull forward, it's kind of in the low 20s. Should we think of that as a leading indicator going forward to potential revenue growth next year or

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. So a couple of things on billing. Again, the timing of the billing in terms of us doesn't matter. And so therefore, the timing of the bookings also matter. In Q2, our linear area that booking happened to be more front-end loaded in the quarter. In our Q3, more of our bookings were more back-end loaded. And so now being back-end loaded is actually more normal and typical for us. And so that's why we were talking – even though we guide on billing, if we were -- as I mentioned earlier, I think our drilling actually kind of was a little bit higher than we thought. But the house has a lot to do with our linearity of where they happen. And so as they happen in end of the quarter, they'll get built in the following quarter.

Claire Guido

Analyst

Okay. Great. Thank you. And maybe you don't want to touch on the low 20s comment, but could that be used as kind of a leading indicator for rev growth, or since it's going to be so variable quarter-to-quarter, not something to focus on too much

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. I mean I would point you to what we guided for Q4 in terms of our guidance for that quarter. I think we're guiding to a midpoint like 20% and as far as the fiscal year 2023, obviously, we'll wait until the early part of next year to provide guidance on that as we kind of continue to monitor the environment.

Claire Guido

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Great. Next question from Tyler Radke, Tyler?

Tyler Radke

Analyst

Yes. Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to touch just on the go-to-market side. So obviously, there's been some new changes to sales leadership, just curious if how you're thinking about maybe some of the changes for next year as you’re going through the planning cycle, whether it's from a overall messaging or just how you're thinking about organizing or compensating the salesforce? And then secondly, if you could just comment on your overall visibility into next year. I know RPO has been outgrowing current RPO. So you are seeing multiyear contracts, but -- just give us a sense on how your visibility has improved and how we should think about next year. Thank you.

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. So first, I'm really excited that Thomas is here. I mean, he's already driven a lot of changes within the organization, up level leadership that we have across the board. So Tifenn, our new CMO, who I mentioned, very excited that he brought her in multiple hires across sales ops leadership, sales leadership, enablement, a few other areas. And we'll continue to evolve the team. I think the way I think about setting it up is we're building out the leadership from to take us from here to $1 billion in revenue, and that's a new kind of stage for us as a company. Obviously, we've done a great job in kind of getting us here, but now it's about how do we build the machine that executes for the next few years. In terms of the different areas -- I mean, from sales comp, we always love compensating great salespeople rolling, so if you want to make a lot of money, come join us here at Amplitude. And so that's an area that we're always evaluating how to reward great sellers and great sales performance and we want to make sure to set people up well there. I think there's a lot, just generally on the execution that we're focused on improving. So I mentioned a whole bunch of areas during the prepared remarks, forecasting pipeline growth, enablement, inspection on top accounts and things like that. And so I think while we're -- I'm seeing a lot of great improvement there. Thomas has only been here for a few months, and so there's still quite a ways for that to play out as we go forward over the next few quarters.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

And Tyler, to address your question on visibility. I think it's a little bit of a mixed bag. I think, obviously, we're really excited by that we actually have more multiyear and you see it in our RPO. And then we're also starting to see some really great traction on the land side. But I think also the macroeconomic kind of pressure on both – kind of both partial turn and full turn on those customer base, it's kind of -- this is a given some of those clouds too. And so at the moment, it seems like we're always chasing one thing and then somebody else has changed. I think like if you were to ask it earlier in the quarter, we felt -- I'm sorry, early in the year, we felt really good about a lot of things. And the question around land was actually going to be more like, hey, how is that going to come out? How is that going to play out? And as we kind of put a lot of energy and execution on that, you're starting to see the benefit from that. And now obviously, the macro is causing some of those things that we weren't really expecting. And -- but we're going to work and manage through those too. Q – Tyler Radke: Great. And then if I could just ask a follow-up on competition. So obviously, you touched on Google Analytics earlier, but just as we think about the reduced VC funding environment and obviously less capital formation. How are you seeing that change the competitive position with some of the privates out there, if there's anything to call out? Thank you.

Spenser Skates

Management

Yes. I mean we're still in a great competitive position. I think we continue to win a lot of the top growing companies and bureaus [ph] is a phenomenal example of that on the consumer side, where they've really taken off in a big way and their big amplitude customers. And our focus is continuing on trying to win that. I think one of the big things, as I talked about, is like pricing and packaging to make sure that we have more options and opportunities for those people to come on to amplitude. I think the value in them is not just in the revenue, but that a lot of those companies are the most bleeding edge when it comes to how they think about what data they're looking at and how they're using that to drive product. And so we want to make sure to be successful with them, which is why we're doing a bunch on the pricing and packaging front as well in making sure to be very specific about targeting the top grown companies. A lot of them -- a lot of the larger companies, both in tech and non-tech actually look to those startups when they say, how should I build out the data-driven product first culture. And so it's super important for us to win. And so we're continuing to do that, and we're -- that's always a top priority on our end. Q – Tyler Radke: Thank you. End of Q&A:

Spenser Skates

Management

Great. And with that, I'm seeing no further questions in queue. We will be at the UBS Global TMT Conference in December. Details will be posted to the Investor Relations page Amplitude’s website at investors.amplitude.com. Thank you very much for attending our Q3 earnings conference call. You may now disconnect.

Yaoxian Chew

Management

Thank you, everyone.

Hoang Vuong

Operator

Thank you, guys.