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Question: Ella Smith - JPMC - Analyst
: Good evening. Thank you so much for taking my question. So Jeff, maybe first for you. You mentioned raising the registered agent price. I think it
was from $199 to $249. I was wondering if you can update us on how that's going and maybe how Legal Zoom differentiates that product versus
your competitors.
Question: Ella Smith - JPMC - Analyst
: And Noel, maybe for you. Your 4Q '24 free cash flow was exceptionally strong. I think it exceeded the top end of your guidance by $15 million or
so. Do you have any comments about maybe what happened in the quarter? And any thoughts about maybe free cash flow to EBITDA conversion
moving forward?
Question: Trevor Young - Barclays - Analyst
: First, on the Formation Nation acquisition, can you quantify specifically how much revenue and EBITDA is baked in for fiscal '25 before any of the
synergies? And then how should we think about layering that in from a modeling perspective across transaction and subscription revenues? That's
my first question.
Question: Trevor Young - Barclays - Analyst
: Jeff, just back to your comments on pricing, some potential increases, but maybe also some decreases as you push towards more of that subscription
mix. How do we bridge that with the overall full-year guide? How much is baked in, in terms of pricing lift in that 5% revenue growth for the full
year?
Question: Andrew Boone - JMP Securities - Analyst
: One tactical and one more strategic. Can you talk about the very strong subscription net unit adds that we've seen kind of in the back half of 2024?
The attach rate, if I think about that compared to kind of business formations has just been much higher than we've seen historically. Can you talk
about the drivers of that? And then how do we think about the drivers of that for '25?
And then a little bit more strategically, Jeff, can you just touch on the partnership strategy? Where does that go over the next kind of two to three
years? What does that help you guys unlock both internally in terms of more resources as well as then touching new partners and bringing new
services on the platform?
Question: Patrick McIlwee - William Blair - Analyst
: So your implied market share stepped down by another point this quarter, and I know you're focused more so on customer quality versus market
share at this point. But I just wanted to ask how we should think about your share going forward? And if there's a certain level or critical mass of
formations you hope to maintain and further, how material Formation Nation is in terms of volumes?
Question: Patrick McIlwee - William Blair - Analyst
: Right. Just one more, if I may. Jeff, in recent quarters, you've talked a little bit more about your strategy with AI leveraging your library of documents
to power the capabilities on your platform. And you've launched a couple of new products recently, but I just wanted to ask if you could quickly
touch on your longer-term vision for what other products or capabilities could look like with that technology.
Question: Elizabeth Porter - Morgan Stanley - Analyst
: I wanted to ask about the marketing piece a little bit more. I was hoping you could just unpack the strategy around building out more of the
education and increasing brand spend. I think you said 2x without increasing the marketing budget. So first, just where are some of the offsets?
And secondly, what are you doing differently in terms of the messaging or the channels now compared to when you were last leaning in on
marketing after the IPO?
Question: Elizabeth Porter - Morgan Stanley - Analyst
: Great. No, that's super helpful context. And then just as a follow-up, I wanted to dig in on the subscription revenue guidance. I know there's a lot
of moving pieces. But could you help us just understand the bridge better from 2% in Q4 of 2024 to double digits exiting 2025.
How much is just driven by the fact that year-over-year comps are materially easing kind of the contribution from Formation Nation, 1100 accountant,
you have price in there. else just demand changes in the core. So I know there's a couple of moving pieces, but any sort of like factors or ranking
would be super helpful for us.
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