Yelp Investor Presentation Deck
Safe Harbor: Forward-Looking Statements
These slides and the accompanying oral presentation contain forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in these slides and the accompanying
oral presentation, including statements regarding Yelp Inc.'s ("Yelp" or the "Company") future operations, future performance, expected financial results and future financial position, future revenue
and revenue growth rates, future share repurchase activity, strategic and investment priorities, long-term financial targets and target margins, projected growth, expenses and savings, trends,
opportunities, prospects, estimates and plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as
"believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "forecast," "guidance," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "project," "plan," "potential," "target," "opportunity," "model," "expect" or the negative
or plural of these words or similar expressions. The Company has based these forward-looking statements largely on its estimates of its financial results and its current expectations and projections
about future events and financial trends that it believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, short-term and long-term business operations and objectives and
financial needs.
These forward looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the fact that we have a limited operating history in an evolving and competitive
industry; that our growth rate may not be sustainable; that we rely on traffic to our website from search engines like Google and Bing; our ability to generate sufficient revenue to maintain and
increase profitability, particularly in light of our significant ongoing sales and marketing expenses; our ability to reduce or control expenses sufficiently to meet our profitability targets; our ability to
introduce successful new products, services and partnerships; our ability to maintain and expand our base of advertisers, including enterprise customers, particularly as an increasing portion of
advertisers have the ability to cancel their ad campaigns at any time; our ability to attract, retain and motivate well-qualified employees, particularly in sales and marketing; our ability to increase
traffic to our platform and generate and maintain sufficient high quality content from our users; our ability to maintain a strong brand and manage negative publicity that may arise; our ability to
manage acquisitions of new businesses, solutions and technologies and to integrate and monetize those businesses, solutions or technologies; the efficacy of our automated recommendation
software; our ability to develop our communities effectively; our ability to deal with an increasingly competitive local search environment; our ability to timely upgrade and develop our systems and
infrastructure; and changes in political, business and economic conditions. These risks and uncertainties may also include those described in the Company's most recent Form 10-Q or 10-K filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for Company management to predict all risks, nor can the Company assess the impact of all factors on its business or the extent to which any
factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements the Company may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties
and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in these slides and the accompanying oral presentation may not occur and actual results could differ materially and
adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although the Company believes
that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance or events and circumstances
reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. Moreover, neither the Company nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the
forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of its date. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking
statements for any reason after the date of this presentation, to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in the Company's expectations.
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