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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9451182" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fastly">Fastly</keyword> fell below $90 after its first-quarter adjusted loss projections fell short of expectations. </li><li>The content delivery network says it expects to post an adjusted loss of $0.09 to $0.13 per share for the current quarter. </li><li>Fastly's fourth-quarter adjusted loss of $0.09 per share was better than Wall Street's prediction of a loss of $0.10.</li></ul>Fastly <keyword id="6368159" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stock">stock</keyword> tumbled Thursday after the content delivery network's guidance missed Wall Street's target while its net loss for the fourth quarter widened.The company late Wednesday forecast a first-quarter adjusted loss of $0.09 to $0.13 per share compared with expectations of a loss of $0.09 per share, according to Yahoo Finance.It projected a full-year 2021 adjusted loss of $0.35 to $0.44 per share compared with the average analyst estimate of a loss of $0.21 per share.Shares of Fastly dropped 14% to an intraday low of $82, with the move wiping out its gain for the year. Over the past 12 months, the stock nearly quadrupled in value.The company, whose products speed websites and applications, said its fourth-quarter net loss was $0.40 per share, wider than its loss of $0.15 per share a year earlier.Fastly's adjusted loss for the quarter came in at $0.09, narrower than Wall Street's loss projection of $0.11. A year ago, it lost $0.10 per share.Revenue for the fourth quarter was $82.6 million, stepping up from $58.9 million in the same period last year and higher than the $82 million Wall Street had expected.

Fastly stock slides 14% as quarterly loss widens and outlook misses Wall Street's expectations

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">FastlyFastly, led by CEO Artur Bergman. right, is expect to go public this week.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/fastly">Fastly</a>, a startup that helps websites run faster, is set to go public this week on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSLY."</li><li>If Fastly prices at the high end of its $14 to $16 range, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ipo">IPO</a> could value the company at $1.45 billion.</li><li>It's much lower than Uber's $75.5 billion market cap at the time of its IPO, but don't let that fool you - Fastly has more in common with this year's crop of successful <keyword id="6356323" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="enterprise">enterprise</keyword> tech IPOs, like PagerDuty and Zoom, than it does with any car-ride company.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Read more on the Business Insider homepage</a>.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/fastly">Fastly</a>, a startup which helps websites apps run faster, is expected to start trading Thursday on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/nyse">New York Stock Exchange</a> under the symbol "FSLY" in an initial public offering that could value the company as high as $1.45 billion. It's a small valuation in today's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ipo">IPO</a> landscape, which just saw <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/uber">Uber</a> go public at a valuation of $75.5 billion - an ultra-high price has since deflated considerably on the public markets in the days since its debut. But Fastly represents a different type of unicorn tech startup than Uber. It's a developer-focused company with a smaller valuation - one of a handful of IPO-ready startups in the space which could fill the coffers of bankers and investors alike once all of the headliners like Uber and Slack have come and gone.The IPO is led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse.Here's what you need to know about Fastly.<h2>It's more like PagerDuty than Uber</h2>Fastly sells security and content delivery services to other large companies like the New York Times and Spotify, as well as Alaska Airlines and Microsoft's GitHub.Unlike Oracle or other legacy tech giants, which historically locked customers into contracts, or cloud subscription services like Salesforce, which make money on recurring monthly subscriptions, Fastly charges customers by how much they use its product. Indeed, most of its customers don't have long-term contractual financial commitments to the company, <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517413/000119312519137435/d702138ds1a.htm#toc702138_16">according to its S-1 IPO filing.</a>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-says-ipo-market-could-cool-by-midsummer-2019-5">Investors have seen triple-digit returns on some 2019 IPOs, but UBS think there are 2 key reasons it could cool by midsummer</a>Like the IT management company PagerDuty, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bessemer-ventures-ethan-kurzweil-why-bet-pagerduty-before-ipo-2019-4">which went public in April</a> with a $1.76 billion valuation, or Zoom, which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-prices-ipo-36-share-2019-4">went public around the same time at a valuation of $9.2 billion</a>, Fastly operates at a smaller scale, compared to some of the other 2019 IPOs.At the end of March, Fastly had 489 employees headquartered out of San Francisco. Its customer base is also relatively slim. Fastly said that as of December 2018, 84% of its revenue is derived from 227 enterprise-sized customers. Its average enterprise customer accounted for $530,000 in revenue. <h2>Its revenue is growing, but it's not profitable</h2>In terms of fundamentals, Fastly is growing quickly. The company generated $144.6 million in revenue in calendar 2018, up 37.8% from its $105 million in revenue in 2017.Like other companies in its unicorn startup cohort, however, it's still losing money. Fastly lost $30.9 million in the 2018 calendar year, down 4.7% from $32.5 million in losses in 2017.The company was last valued at $925 million in 2018, according to PitchBook, <a href="https://www.fastly.com/press/press-releases/fastly-secures-40m-investment-help-worlds-most-important-companies-deliver-secure-content-scale">after raising $40 million</a> from Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, Sozo Ventures, and Swisscom Ventures. Altogether the company has raised $220 million. Its most high-profile investors include Battery Ventures and ICONIQ Capital.In its S-1, Fastly set a price range of $14 to $16 per share, which would give it an initial market cap of $1.45 billion if it prices at the high point - a significant uptick from that last private valuation. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bessemer-ventures-ethan-kurzweil-why-bet-pagerduty-before-ipo-2019-4">One of PagerDuty's earliest investors shares why he went big on the IT-management company before it reached $1.76 billion</a>While Uber raised $8.1 billion in its IPO, Fastly is looking to raise just $180 million. That's about the size of an extra-large venture capital round, considering that a $100 million round usually corresponds to a $1 billion valuation.<h2>New shareholders won't have much power</h2>Fastly was founded by CEO Artur Bergman in 2011, long after the incumbent Akamai started in 1998 and its more direct rival Cloudflare was founded in 2009.The company will IPO with a dual class share structure which favors early investors and employees, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-share-structure-ceo-ben-silbermann-rights-2019-3">similarly to the structures seen at Lyft and Pinterest</a>. This gives the current leadership team near-complete control on the board level, leaving shareholders with a financial stake but little say over the future of the company. One of the largest shareholders is Bergman, who owns 15.5% of the company. Investor August Capital owns 20.2% of Fastly, Iconiq owns 12.8%, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures owns 10.7% and Amplify Partners owns 10.6%.Each of the parties mentioned above will retain about the same percentage of voting control once the company goes public since their Class B stock holds 10 votes for every one vote held by the Class A stock being sold in the IPO. In sum, Fastly's current shareholders will retain 98.6% of the overall voting power at the company after it goes public.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/40-big-tech-predictions-for-2019?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_leadgen&amp;itm_content=uber&amp;itm_campaign=40-big-tech-predictions-for-2019"></a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-details-you-missed-2019-4">12 details you may have missed in 'Game of Thrones' season 8 episode 3</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Here's what you need to know about Fastly, the fast-growing unicorn startup that could go public this week at a valuation of $1.45 billion

FastlyFormer Fastly CEO Artur Bergman will become chief architect and executive chairman.<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Thursday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/fastly">Fastly</a> CEO Artur Bergman announced he would be stepping down as CEO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fastly-ipo-what-you-need-to-know-2019-5">less than a year after the internet infrastructure company went public</a>.</li><li>"At my core, I am a developer," Bergman wrote in an email to Fastly employees, saying his "true strengths and passions lie in building the architecture and innovation, including our compute platform."</li><li>The tech company went public last April, and was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ipo">considered one of the best performing tech IPOs</a> that included several disappointing market debuts.</li><li>While current Fastly president Joshua Bixby will replace Bergman as CEO, <a href="https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-new-ceo">according to a blog post announcing the news,</a> Bergman will assume the title of chief architect and executive chairperson. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/fastly">Fastly</a> CEO Artur Bergman is stepping down, the internet infrastructure company announced Thursday.<a href="https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-new-ceo">In a blog post announcing the news</a>, Bergman said he would instead assume the role of chief architect and executive chairperson. Current Fastly president Joshua Bixby will replace Bergman as the company's CEO."At my core, I am a developer," Bergman wrote in an email to Fastly employees. "While I will always cherish the time I have spent leading Fastly, my true strengths and passions lie in building the architecture and innovation, including our compute platform. I like being in the trenches, solving the most complex problems for our customers, and ultimately providing them with a better experience at the edge."Bergman founded Fastly in 2011, and the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fastly-ipo-what-you-need-to-know-2019-5">company went public in April.</a> Although it didn't have the starpower of Uber or Slack at the time of its debut, Fastly was among the handful of enterprise software companies that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/ipo">performed better on public markets</a> than its consumer-facing cohort members. However, the company has struggled to meet expectations in the year since, and growth has plateaued in recent months. Like several other newly public tech companies, Fastly has struggled to reach profitability even after its IPO.The company sells security and content delivery tools to other large companies. <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517413/000119312519137435/d702138ds1a.htm#toc702138_16">In its filing ahead of going public</a>, Fastly said some of its customers include The New York Times, Alaska Airlines, Spotify, and Microsoft's Github. However, it doesn't charge these customers a subscription for its services and instead only charges customers based on how much they use its product. The revenue model has been a sticking point for public and private investors looking for a more reliable revenue stream.Fastly's stock, traded under the stock ticker "FSLY" on the New York Stock Exchange, was off roughly 10% on market close Friday on the news of the leadership shakeup. Bixby joined Fastly in 2013 as a senior executive and president from startup incubator Stanley Park Ventures. According to Bergman's note, Bixby has led multiple parts of the business during his tenure, including sales, marketing, corporate development, and engineering. "Several years ago, I entrusted him to run the part of the organization that I have the most expertise in - engineering," Bergman wrote. "I have learned that Joshua is open-minded, a creative problem solver, and an innovator at heart. He intuitively understands what type of people, systems, and organization are needed to grow with integrity and humanity."Bergman recently returned from paternity leave, where he had the ability to rethink his role within the company, he wrote. Prior to going public, Fastly had raised $220 million in venture capital from Battery Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, and others, according to Pitchbook.Fastly did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.<a href="https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-new-ceo">Read the full blog post announcing the leadership changes here.</a> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-navy-seal-gear-mission-tools-tech-innovation-2020-1">Former Navy SEAL commander shares the best gear he got to use</a></h3>

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