Kiwi Camara
Analyst · Stifel. Please proceed
We're seeing acceleration, not just in the U.S., but also internationally. And so when we think about what's driving our growing appetite, and it's definitely growing for investing internationally, it's less actually the growth of the U.S. business and more just the growth of the international business, which has been on fire. What's interesting about our clientele, we serve very large enterprises, typically, and then the law firms who represent them. And if you look at both of those kinds of clients, they're generally multinational. So well before we had an office in London, we had American multinational clients using our solution on legal matters that were cited everywhere in the world, from South Africa, to Korea, to China, to Japan, to all over Europe, and so on. And we also have the opposite, we had Japanese multinationals, Korean multinationals, whose first encounter with Disco was for handling U.S. cited litigation or regulatory matters, again, long before we had an international presence. And so the way we thought about launch in London a few years ago, was actually less targeted on the local London market and more about simply following our American clients, both literally the clients, but also the law firms who represented them. As you know, most of the large law firms now have offices all over the world, and represent clients all over the world. And so when we take advantage of that highly networked nature of the legal industry to spread, that's, again driver of international expansion. Now, what we discovered once we were on the ground in the UK is tremendous local demand. And we're generally what we're seeing, actually, in some of the non U.S. markets, is that in many of these markets you have people who are going straight to the cloud. It's not that they've built up a big relationship with one of the incumbents kind of services based providers is that they're just going directly to a cloud solution. And so that's different and good for Disco in terms of international growth.