Zendesk, Inc.
989 Market
Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
July 11, 2022
Dear Zendesk Stockholder:
I am pleased to invite you to attend the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Zendesk, Inc. (“Zendesk”) which will be held virtually on August 17, 2022 at 8:00 a.m.
Pacific Time.
As we prepare for our Annual Meeting, we reflect upon another year of significant change and growth. We continue to see our customers and the businesses they serve, our employees and the neighborhoods in which they live, our offices and communities they are located in around the world, and our own families, in a constant state of evolution. This evolution is leading to a reimagining in the way we live and work, led by the acceleration of a digital-first economy and a remote-first workforce. Despite this, Zendesk continues to be the service and sales software company that makes it easy for companies and customers to create connections. Our solutions power billions of customer conversations around the world. By focusing on simplifying complexity and increasing efficiency, Zendesk helps businesses move fast and adapt to changing customer needs and expectations.
The Zendesk Suite combines several of our customer service products including Support, Guide, Talk, Explore, Chat, Gather, and Sunshine into one powerfully simple offering. Additionally, both customers and our sales team benefit from having this powerful combination available in a single product with an easy-to-understand price point. Our customers’ response to Suite has been tremendous: since its launch February 2021, Suite has grown to account for 35% of our ARR and over $500 million in total ARR as of year end 2021.
We are also pleased that our investments into the enterprise customer segment are now showing significant results. These investments have been made over multiple years across our product, go-to-market, and other teams to provide enterprise customers with the quality of product and service that they expect. As a result, we achieved several milestones this year: customers generating over $250,000 in annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) now account for 38% of our total ARR, up from 32% at the end of 2020, while we now have over 100 customer accounts generating $1 million or more in ARR.
These factors and more allowed us to deliver 30% year-on-year revenue growth in 2021, an acceleration from our 26% growth rate in 2020. Additionally, they gave us the confidence to raise our 2025 revenue target to $3.4 billion, or a 26% compound annual growth rate over the next four years.
In addition to our investments in the enterprise customer segment, we strive each day to live our values of inclusivity, humblidence, trust, simplicity, purpose and community. We are investing our time and resources to help these communities to both meet the challenges of today and thrive in the future. At Zendesk, we believe this work starts with a fundamental commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are embodying this commitment through targeted recruiting partnerships, debiasing our job descriptions using artificial intelligence software, and initiatives that focus on ensuring representation from underrepresented communities. To ensure that our value of inclusivity permeates throughout Zendesk, we continue to invest in inclusive talent management and retaining diverse talent by building and supporting our employee communities. More than ever, we’re committed to building a diverse and creative company that stands for empathy, equity, and being a good neighbor to the communities we serve.
We invite you to read more below and in our letter to stockholders dated February 10, 2022, including major developments in our solutions during 2021, and our approach for delivering continued growth and value for our stockholders. Our quarterly stockholder letter also contains more information regarding how we calculate some of our operating metrics, such as ARR and customer accounts.
You can attend the Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ZEN2022, where you will be able to listen to the meeting live, submit questions, and vote online. Details including how to attend the Annual Meeting online, and the business to be conducted, are more fully described in the accompanying Notice of 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement.
Thank you for your ongoing support of and continued interest in Zendesk. We look forward to your attendance at our Annual Meeting.
Sincerely,
Mikkel Svane
Chair of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT
We have engaged MacKenzie Partners, Inc., who we refer to as “MacKenzie Partners,” to assist in the solicitation of proxies for the Annual Meeting. Whether or not you plan to attend the meeting, please ensure that your shares are voted at the Annual Meeting by signing and returning a proxy card or by using our Internet or telephonic voting system.