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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD)

Q2 2023 Earnings Call· Tue, Aug 30, 2022

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Operator

Operator

Thank you for standing by and welcome to CrowdStrike’s Financial Fiscal Second Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today’s program maybe recorded. And now, I’d like to introduce your host for today’s program, Maria Riley, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Maria Riley

Analyst

Good afternoon and thank you for your participation today. With me on the call are George Kurtz, President and Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CrowdStrike and Burt Podbere, Chief Financial Officer. Before we get started, I would like to note that certain statements made during this conference call that are not historical facts, including those regarding our future plans, objectives, growth and expected performance, including our outlook for the third quarter and fiscal year 2023 are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent our outlook only as of the date of this call. While we believe any forward-looking statements we make are reasonable, actual results could differ materially because the statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties. We do not undertake and expressly disclaim any obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Further information on these and other factors that could affect the company’s financial results is included in the filings we make with the SEC from time-to-time, including the section titled Risk Factors in the company’s quarterly and annual reports. Additionally, unless otherwise stated, excluding revenue, all financial measures discussed on this call will be non-GAAP. A discussion of why we use non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation schedule showing GAAP versus non-GAAP results is currently available in our earnings press release, which maybe found on our Investor Relations website at ir.crowdstrike.com or on our Form 8-K filed with the SEC today. With that, I will now turn the call over to George to begin.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Thank you, Maria and thank you all for joining us. The CrowdStrike team delivered a strong second quarter headlined by record net new ARR of $218 million as growth accelerated to 45% year-over-year, record net new customer additions and record non-GAAP operating profit. We achieved several additional milestones in the quarter. Ending ARR grew to $2.14 billion on a 59% year-over-year growth rate. We believe this makes us the second fastest software company reported to reach the $2 billion ARR milestone. Ending ARR for our emerging products grew to $219 million, up 129% year-over-year. This included record-setting net new ARR for both Identity Protection and Humio and we also achieved record net new ARR for modules deployed in a public cloud. Quarterly revenue exceeded $500 million for the first time. We added over 1,700 net new customers, another first for the company. Gross retention climbed to a new record for the second consecutive quarter, and dollar-based net retention reached its highest level in seven quarters. We achieved these results while also driving record non-GAAP operating profit of $87 million, a 147% increase over Q2 of last year, and growing free cash flow of 84%. As Burt will discuss in a few minutes, we are raising our revenue guidance for the year and remain committed to delivering non-GAAP operating leverage and 30% or greater free cash flow margin for the year while investing in key initiatives that will further widen the gap between CrowdStrike and the competition. Moving to our markets, the competitive environment remains favorable and our win rates remain consistent. We continue to see strong demand even as organizations responded to macroeconomic conditions. For CrowdStrike, this primarily manifested in the form of increased levels of required approvals on some deals as companies evaluated investment priorities, which can extend the…

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Thank you, George, and good afternoon, everyone. As a quick reminder, unless otherwise noted, all numbers, except revenue, mentioned during my remarks today are non-GAAP. We delivered another outstanding quarter, exceeding the high end of our guidance on all metrics. Strength in multiple areas of the business and superb execution by the CrowdStrike team translated to rapid growth at an increased scale, record non-GAAP operating profit and strong cash generation. In the second quarter, we continued to maintain very high unit economics, drive leverage and remain very capital-efficient. We also continued to execute on our investment plan for the year, fueling innovation on the Falcon platform, expansion into new markets and growing the CrowdStrike team. Our second quarter results are a testament to the resilience of our markets, value of our platform and the ongoing durability of our SaaS business model that provides excellent visibility and enables us to deliver high growth with strong profitability and free cash flow. In the quarter, ending ARR grew 59% year-over-year to surpass the $2 billion milestone. Net new ARR growth accelerated to 45% year-over-year. We delivered a record $218.1 million in net new ARR, representing our strong momentum in the market. The composition of net new ARR in Q2 was very well balanced across deal size with no outsized contribution from any 1 deal. Our dollar-based net retention rate was above our benchmark, reaching its highest level since Q3 in fiscal 2021. Gross retention reached a new record for the third consecutive quarter, demonstrating our strong commitment to stopping the breach, delivering value to customers and restoring trust to the security posture of companies worldwide. As George mentioned, we are also seeing more customers standardize on the Falcon platform and adopt more modules. We believe these trends will create an enduring business opportunity…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of Saket Kalia from Barclays. Your question, please.

Saket Kalia

Analyst

Okay, great. Hey, folks. Thanks for taking my question here. George, a lot of great stuff to talk about, but maybe the one that I’d love to hone in on is the higher attach rate on identity. Can you just remind us whether the identity module here is displacing something else within your customer base and what do you think is driving that higher attach rate to new logos?

George Kurtz

Analyst

Yes, great, Saket. Thanks for the question. It’s not displacing anything because nothing else exists. And that was one of the things that we really got ahead of with our Preempt acquisition well before anyone else in the market. And when we think about the sort of attacks that are out there, 80% of the attacks leverage compromised identities and lateral movement, which is a big part of how breaches occur. So when we think about our identity module, which is baked into our agent, single agent, it’s much differentiated from everything else that’s out there. It works with Active Directory and Azure AD. It’s been a real game changer for customers. And I continue to see customer feedback even during the proof of value stage that they have never seen this level of visibility in their identity and Active Directory infrastructure and they continue to find many, many weaknesses. So to me, it’s a real game changer and I think it can be as big as XDR and it’s going to be a core module going forward.

Saket Kalia

Analyst

Very helpful. Thanks, guys.

Maria Riley

Analyst

Operator, you can please take our next question.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Nowinski from Wells Fargo. Your question, please.

Andrew Nowinski

Analyst

Congrats on another great quarter. I just wanted to ask about your new logo adds. It looks like you added four Fortune 100 customers this quarter, which I presume were larger deals, even though you said there were no outsized deals in the quarter. I’m wondering, your new logo adds in total only increased maybe mid-single digits. But I’m wondering if you’re just focusing on larger customers now or if you’re seeing more customers starting the initial deal with more modules like Preempt and Humio, etcetera, that might – whereas it might have been a smaller initial land a year or 2 ago. Thanks.

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Hi, Andy, it’s Burt. Thanks for the question. So first and foremost, we’re very pleased with the net new logo count of 1,741, a new record for us. And we’re pleased with what we’ve seen in the makeup of the 1,741 new logos. I think that when we go through the various details with respect to the new logos, we found that, hey, we got new logos coming in from large companies. We have new logos coming in from smaller companies. And as typical, the velocity is driven more by mid-market and SMB. It’s also worthy to note that we do have a very strong MSSP business. We talked about the fact that it’s grown 150% year-over-year, and that is not reflected in the 1,741 in terms of net new logos. So overall, we are very pleased with the Q2 performance. We think that we have great opportunities to go after new logos and to continue to gain new business, especially when you think of the backdrop in terms of what’s available to us, sure, just under 20,000 logos to date. That’s great, and we’re very pleased about that, but when you think about the overall market that’s available to us that’s a very small number. And so we think that we’re still in the very early innings in terms of net new logos that we can go after.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of John DiFucci from Guggenheim Partners. Your question, please.

John DiFucci

Analyst

Listen, George and Burt, really impressive results here, especially given the macro backdrop. But George, you mentioned that security is not discretionary, and that makes sense. But when you win, you’re displacing someone at least for your core products in our observation because we’re old, I guess. If this becomes a prolonged and even perhaps deeper macro slowdown, what we’ve seen is that customers start to freeze. It’s almost as if they have gotten by with what they have up until now, and then they don’t want to introduce any more change, which brings risk. And there is enough risk in the macro environment. I’m just wondering, how do you see this developing going forward? Because you’ve avoided this up until now, for sure. But how do you think it happens going forward, not only for CrowdStrike, but even for the broader security, IT security space? Because a lot of your brethren have sort of held up really well in this, too.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Well, I think it goes to the durability of security and the business model that we’ve built and certainly the platform play. And I think if you’re a point product, your comments will resonate. I think when you look at a true platform like CrowdStrike, the conversations that we are having, and I’ve had many of them with CIOs, Board members, CEOs over the last quarter – couple of quarters, and it really was about how do we do more with CrowdStrike, we want to consolidate. So we didn’t necessarily see them freezing. We saw them thinking about how they could spend more with CrowdStrike and reduce their overall spend in security. And as we’ve talked about before, we spend a lot of time in value selling and something we call our business value assessment where we actually compute an ROI, which typically is 150% within the first year. So that’s the kind of strategic conversations that we’re having up and down the stack. And then when you think about the macro environment, people don’t want to add heads. Falcon Complete is a game changer for them. They couldn’t do what we do for the price that we charge. I mean they need an army of internal people to try to do what we do, and it’s just not possible with the level of expertise. So we look at the macros and opportunity at CrowdStrike to further consolidate in our customer base.

Operator

Operator

Thank you [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Rudy Kessinger from D.A. Davidson. Your question, please.

Rudy Kessinger

Analyst

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Certainly, a lot to like here given the macro backdrop. I guess if I narrow in on one – maybe one metric, the customers with 6-plus and 7-plus modules, that stepped up 1 point from Q1. But the customers – percentage of customers with 5-plus was flat at 59%. We’ve seen that figure go up 2 to 3 points a quarter for the last several years now. Anything to note there? Did you see any customers on the new logo front that maybe just given the macro, maybe took one or two fewer modules to start out? And if so, obviously, identity sounds like that attach rate is increasing nicely. But any modules in particular that saw maybe a bit more of an impact to demand than others?

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Hi, this is Burt. So great question. So when we think about the module, that has been doing really well. We go back to the April 7 webinar when we talked about the hyper growth modules, and these are modules that have year-over-year growth rates that are significantly higher than the overall customer growth. And we zoom in on a few of them. There are things that we’ve been talking about for a long time like Spotlight. That’s our vulnerability management product module, and that’s gone really well. We think about some of our cloud modules, whether they are our Cloud Workload Protection or Horizon, these are getting traction. But also the Identity Threat Detection. George just talked about it. We’re really excited about how that’s been taken up by not only the existing customer base, but by new customers that are coming in and enjoying all the benefits of attaching themselves to a true cloud-native platform. And so I think that there are a lot of opportunities to go in terms of more module adoption with customers. As you said, we’ve had an uptick on both the 7 plus and 6 plus. And I think that we’re going to continue to see customers come in enjoying all benefits of attaching themselves through the cloud-native platform. And so I think that there are a lot of opportunities to go in terms of more module adoption with customers, as you said we have had enough take on both the 7 plus and 6 plus and I think that we are going to continue see customers come in and land with more modules in the future and certainly as we continue to come out with new modules. So we’re excited about those module adoption rates, and I think they are best in class, and we’re glad to see that we saw the uptick of the – in the 6 and 7. And remember, we got rid of the four category, which is amazing. That was over and above that 70% benchmark. So that was exciting and encouraging just in and of itself. Good question, though. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg from RBC. Your question, please.

Matt Hedberg

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking my question, guys. George, for you, the other thing, obviously, we’ve been talking about Humio for a while. It’s great to see it had another record quarter. When you think about your expansion motion, what are [Technical Difficulty]

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Instrument things like Kubernetes clusters when you look at the ability to flow data into something like an Elastic, they are certainly looking for alternatives. And Humio’s flexibility is the fact that it can take data from anywhere, and it can do that ingestion-free. It doesn’t need an index, and it’s very, very efficient from a cost perspective. So we continue to get pulled into security and non-security deals. We had a record Humio quarter with some great wins. We see frustration with incumbent vendors across the SIEM space as well as the observability space. And a lot of times, companies will – they’ll try to roll their own. They’ll go to open source and try to pull in different stacks. And it’s really complex. And they just love the ease of use and the flexibility that Humio provides. So we continue to be extremely bullish on Humio and its various use cases, which are security, non-security-related. And we had some great wins in both SIEM replacement, in log management as well as observability.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Rob Owens from Piper Sandler. Your question, please. Rob Owens, your line is open.

Rob Owens

Analyst

Sorry, my phone cut out there. Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. George, I would love for you to expand around your comments on consolidation. And we’ve seen a few cycles, obviously, maybe not as many as Mr. DiFucci, who admitted to his age earlier. But that being said, why here and now given we’ve had platform plays before? And do you think this is economic, this is technical, part of the problem set? Thanks.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Sure. I think now is the time given the current macro. And when we think about platform plays, we’re both probably showing our age, but there aren’t a whole bunch of platform plays out there in security, and I think that’s one of the things that we’ve really focused on from a CrowdStrike perspective, to be that foundational cloud platform that you think about in other spaces. So now that a true platform company is out there covering 22 modules, it really is the perfect opportunity with the current macro backdrop. And it certainly has stimulated the conversations in our ability to reduce costs and complexity for large and small companies. And then when you combine that with a very unique offering again with Falcon Complete, customers are – they are not interested in adding a bunch of heads, right? So they want to take advantage of the offerings that we have in that area where we can do it much more cost effectively and efficient than they ever can with a better outcome. So I think it’s really a combination of a robust platform with many, many modules in multiple categories as well as some of the very unique offerings like Falcon Complete that has really driven the conversation home with customers. Again, better outcome, but we’re having that financial discussion at the right levels with many large and small customers. Thank you, Rob.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Alex Henderson from Needham. Your question, please.

Alex Henderson

Analyst

Great. Thank you very much. So a lot of people have, over time, thought of you guys as an endpoint company. Obviously, we’ve always thought of you as a platform. The first thing you ever told me was you’re a platform, and I totally agree with it. And there is been a lot of conversation about price pressure. As an endpoint company, I’ve seen price pressure or some churn. And I think the statistics here strongly suggest that you’re not seeing either. I was hoping you could talk a little bit about the proof points that, a, you’re not seeing any pricing pressure; and b, there is no evidence of any customer churn. I think your gross retention being at a record is a pretty good indicator of that as well as the GMs and the net retention rates. But could you talk to those two issues a little bit?

George Kurtz

Analyst

Sure. And I think I’ll start with the latter comments you made. If you look at our gross retention, at a record, if you look at net retention, just how well we’ve done, and obviously, we will put that out at the end of the year, what it means is customers like our technology, they stay with us and they buy more from us. In a market like ours, there is always going to be companies like to compete on price because they are AV only. And I think you’ve got to look at our platform and say, well, you’ve got AV, which is differentiated, but it’s one module. And if companies are trying to compete on price there, at the end of the day, what we’re selling is prevention of breaches, right? It’s not just malware prevention, which we’ve seen a lot of companies, legacy and non-legacy, just try to focus on that. And if that’s where they started as an AV company or next-gen AV, and then it pulls other things on, it really isn’t a true platform. And I think the genius and the beauty of what we built here is probably the most scale way, using cloud architecture on the planet in terms of our ability to ingest, no reboots, you deploy it immediate time to value, and it just works. So even if there was pricing pressure in one module, which we don’t always see, I mean, obviously, there is competition out there, when we put together all of the modules, our ability to consolidate, our TCO play with a real ROI, this is very compelling for customers large and small. So again, there is always been lots of companies in our space. And I think to your point, we’ve proven that while our form factor is agent cloud, we’re doing many more things in a different way that go beyond just traditional endpoint protection.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Fatima Boolani from Citi. Your question, please.

Fatima Boolani

Analyst

Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for taking my question. George, maybe this one is for you. Just with respect to some of the traction and sort of the hyper growth trajectory you’re seeing with capabilities that are embedded in Falcon Complete and even OverWatch, I think one of the things that some of your competitors, your peers in the past have stumbled into is sort of the rules of engagement with the channel. And yet you disclosed doing MSSP business that was up 150% year-over-year. So I’d love to kind of get your perspective on how you’re sort of threading that needle between staying cooperative without getting too competitive and really driving triple-digit growth in modules and capabilities that otherwise on the surface would seem to sort of encroach into some of your partners’ business and franchises. Thank you.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Sure. That’s a good question. And I think there is a lot of fud from our competitors out there because they don’t have anything like Falcon Complete, as an example, which is absolutely top of the industry. And when you look at what we’ve done, we try to make it a win-win. You look at a partnership like what we have with Mandiant. Obviously, we’ve got these capabilities in certain areas, but they are leveraging our technology. And that’s the key area. Can they leverage our technology as they bring us into account? Fantastic. We’re happy with that. Or in some managed service providers, they’ll take our offering and then – and kind of rebundle it into a broader offering that might cover network or other areas, and we’re happy with that, too. And as a manufacturer, we are experts in what we do. So we try to make it a win-win, and that’s the reason why our MSSP business has grown so dramatically, a, it’s the best technology, and the rules of engagement have been really important. There are deal edges. We protect the account. And then we also focus on leveraging our services as part of a broader service that an MSSP have – has. And at the end of the day, the numbers don’t lie in terms of our success there. So that’s what we’re focused on, the facts, not the fiction.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Roger Boyd from UBS. Your question, please.

Roger Boyd

Analyst

Hey, thanks for taking the question. Congrats on the impressive results. Wanted to go back to cloud security. Really impressive growth there. I think you’ve done a really good job of proving out the need for a tightly integrated agent plus agentless technology, but I was curious if you could talk a little bit about the reception you’ve seen specifically to the Horizon product and how you think that backs up against the pure plays out there. Thanks.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Sure. We’re absolutely excited about Horizon as well as the combination of Cloud Workload Protection, and we think it stacks up very well. And more importantly, where is the differentiation? The differentiation is in things like the ability to actually protect the workload and the infrastructure, right? So you’ve got agentless in Horizon, and you’ve got our Cloud Workload Protection, which we have tremendous capabilities there. This is what customers want. If you look at the pure plays out there, they are just covering agentless. And candidly, that’s the easiest thing to do because you just plug into APIs. We’ve got to build some workflows around it, and there is certainly some good competitors in the market. At the end of the day, it’s really the combination of an agentless on a platform that’s going to give you visibility in the cloud as well as in your hybrid data centers. And that’s what we’re seeing. We continue to add many, many capabilities. We’ve added OverWatch threat hunting for cloud. We’ve got dynamic container analysis and image assessment. So we continue to build in those areas, and we’re seeing a great reception. And I think when you look at our heritage of threat intelligence and things like indicators of attack, a lot of our competitors are just doing sort of policy misconfigurations and not really – they are not really able to understand if they are under attack or where an attack might be possible. And we’ve applied that indicator of attack knowledge from our endpoints into the cloud. So we feel really good about that. Obviously, everyone is in the early innings in the cloud journey, which is exciting because it’s a greenfield opportunity. And we feel like we have got the right products and the right go-to-market motion around it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Joe Gallo from Jefferies. Your question please.

Joe Gallo

Analyst

Hey guys. Thanks for the question. Just a follow-up to John’s earlier question, no comment on his age, by the way. George, on those extra levels of scrutiny, any incremental context? Were they SMB or enterprise? Any geo-location specifically? And are these deals pure cyber, or are they broader with Humio and other infrastructure aspects? And then, Burt, are you including any extra conservatism in your guidance because of those? Thanks.

George Kurtz

Analyst

Yes. I think if you look across either geographies or segments, I mean there is nothing that really stands out. It’s really company-dependent and industry-dependent. And again, you would expect an additional level of scrutiny. The beauty is as I called out in the report and the script is the fact the deals that we forecast post close, right? And I think that’s really important when we think about the current macro backdrop. And what we are doing is really, from a sales perspective, make sure we are getting ahead of it, right, through our DVA process, making sure that we have got all of who we need and understand the accounts and who has to sign off because there is additional sign-off that has to happen. So, that’s sort of my commentary on that. I don’t know, Burt, if you want to add to it.

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Yes. Just on the guide, I mean I think we have stuck to our guns. We guide to what we see, not to what we don’t see. And we took an appropriately pragmatic view on the macro. And that’s how we looked at the guide for this year.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ittai Kidron from Oppenheimer. Your question please.

Ittai Kidron

Analyst

Thank you, guys. Great quarter. A couple for me. George, you haven’t talked about XDR, the XDR Alliance and how is traction moving along there. Maybe you can give us an update. And then for Burt, FX, you haven’t mentioned that at all in the quarter. Can you talk about the impact to your business on FX and how it’s impacting you globally?

George Kurtz

Analyst

Yes. Perfect. I will start. When we think about XDR, it’s going very well. And in fact, we have got some, I think great announcements at Falcon. So, we talked about that in our script of making sure that people attend that or even our investor event virtually. So, we continue to build out our alliance. We have actually also partnered with AWS in some of the efforts that they have to standardize on open formats, which I think is good for the industry. We continue to add integrations. And again, when you look at our XDR approach, it starts with the best EDR and our ability to add third-party information into our decision-making. So, so far, so good. I think us included as well as the rest of the industry, it’s still an emerging category and there is a lot of marketing hype around it. And we are focused on delivering the best technology outcome for customers and it really extending that experience that we have with our Insight product, which is, in our opinion, the best EDR in the market and extending that to third-party. So, the workflows are similar and we are looking for additional detections that are outside of just the endpoint domain. So, that’s a little bit about XDR.

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Yes. I will jump in, George, leaning on the FX question. I think there was nothing material or we would have talked about it. We primarily invoice in U.S. dollars, but we do have expenses incurred in currencies out of the U.S. But on the deal side, it goes back to what George has been talking about. It’s the platform play. It’s lowering TCO. It’s all those things that we are able to bring to bear that nobody else can.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Hamza Fodderwala from Morgan Stanley. Your question please.

Hamza Fodderwala

Analyst

Hey guys. Thanks for squeezing me in. Just a quick one for Burt. I was wondering if you could give more context on your comments around second half seasonality. I think normally, Q4, generally stronger. Q3, you do see a little bit of lighter seasonality, although you do have the Fed vertical really take off during that quarter. So, can you give us a sense of how the net new ARR patterns should be? Should it be similar to last year, year before that? Just any color you could give us would be really helpful.

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Sure. Take a step back and just look at the current quarter. We have outperformed our expectations for, really, the full first half of the year. I am really pleased with our strong start to the year with record pipe. We just posted $218 million in net new ARR, and of course, really pleased about that. And we expect to see a seasonal build throughout the year, albeit less pronounced quarter-to-quarter seasonality in comparison to what we have seen in the prior years. So, that’s how I would frame it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Shaul Eyal from Cowen. Your question please.

Shaul Eyal

Analyst

Good afternoon guys. Congrats on the solid performance. George, last quarter, Preempt grew 30% quarter-over-quarter. This quarter, it’s accelerating to 100%. In recent months, we have witnessed an accelerated level of consolidation, specifically within the identity category, paying SailPoint to name a few. How is that impacting Preempt’s business in the context of both displacement and greenfield opportunities?

George Kurtz

Analyst

Well, a good question, and I will reiterate again as I do I think on every call that we partnered with Ping and Okta and others, right. And our identity product is really specific to the endpoints and active directory in terms of identity threat protection and detection. So, we continue to work with them. And I think when you look at the environment today, there is just a continued demand for having a handle on identity. And we are one piece of it on the endpoints of servers and the direct restructures. And there is other players in the market that handle identity access brokering, etcetera. So, from our standpoint, we, as I reiterated, continue to see very, very strong demand with a very differentiated technology. As you pointed out, 100% quarter-over-quarter growth. New logo attach rate tripled quarter-over-quarter. And the answer is why it gets back to the architecture, the single lightweight agent, very easy for us to activate it, very easy for us to activate it at scale and trials. And a lot of times, what we will see is when there is high threat environments, customers will activate and get immediate value, and then we can convert them over into paying customers. So, again, this is, I think going to be a standout for us, a, in terms of the acquisition we did and also in terms of the integration and our ability to go to market with it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our final question for today comes from the line of Gregg Moskowitz from Mizuho. Your question please.

Gregg Moskowitz

Analyst

Hi. Thank you for taking the question. Congrats on a very good ARR performance. I did want to ask about RPO, which historically has risen by double digits sequentially in Q2 period, although this quarter went up mid-single digits. Were there any changes to average duration? Is this perhaps somewhat reflective of the increased levels of approval that you noted earlier, or is there anything else that you would call out? Thanks.

Burt Podbere

Analyst

Hey Gregg. Thanks for the question. So, really I think the focus really is on net new. That really – net new ARR, that’s really the one that tells the health of the business as opposed to RPO or as opposed to billings or what have you. And we are excited about the fact that we are going in with a record pipeline. We have just posted the strongest net new ARR quarter in company history. So, I think that when you think about reaching a record $218 million in net new with any outsized deals, you are really showing strong health in the business. And so overall, we are just really pleased with the results. And that’s the metric that we zoom in on. That’s the metric that our whole company is rallying around, and that’s the focus for us.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This does conclude the question-and-answer session of today’s program. I would like to hand the program back to George Kurtz for any further remarks. End of Q&A:

George Kurtz

Analyst

Great. Thank you. Well, I certainly want to thank all of you for your time today. We appreciate your interest and look forward to seeing you in person at our upcoming Falcon conference and our Investor Day via webcast. Thank you so much. And that concludes the call.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for your participation in today’s conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Good day.