Coursera, Inc.
For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Oct 31, 2025.
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(In millions, except per share amounts)
- BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) of Coursera, Inc., a Delaware public benefit corporation, and its subsidiaries (“Coursera,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and following the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim reporting. As permitted under those rules, certain footnotes or other financial information that are normally required by GAAP can be condensed or omitted. These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) have been prepared on the same basis as our annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, that are necessary for a fair statement of our financial information. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025 or for any other interim period or for any other future year.
These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on February 24, 2025 (“Form 10-K”).
Description of Business
Coursera is an online learning platform that aims to provide access to world-class, affordable, and relevant education and skills training by connecting learners, institutions, and content creators in our ecosystem. We deliver branded content and product capabilities through an integrated platform that encompasses our global reach, data, and technology, making it customizable and extensible for both individual learners and institutions. We partner with trusted content creators, such as university and industry partners, to provide high-quality adult education and training solutions to a wide range of individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments. We also sell directly to institutions, including employers, colleges and universities, organizations, and governments, enabling their employees, students, and citizens to gain critical skills aligned with job market needs. Our corporate headquarters is located in Mountain View, California.
Chief Executive Officer Transition and Segment Reporting
Effective February 3, 2025, our Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Gregory Hart as our President, Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), and a Class III director on our Board. Refer to Note 11 for additional information.
Our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is our CEO. In connection with Mr. Hart’s appointment as our CEO, we simplified our business model and conduct our operations throughtwo reporting segments: Consumer and Enterprise. This updated structure reflects how our CODM assesses performance and allocates resources to support our strategic and operational priorities. This segment reporting change does not impact our Enterprise segment or consolidated results. Refer to Note 13 for additional information.
Reclassification
As of June 30, 2025, we changed the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets’ caption for “Educator partners payable” to “Content liabilities.” In conjunction with this update, $0.4 million and $2.2 million of unpaid purchases of content assets as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 are now reflected in “Content liabilities.” These amounts would have previously been reported in “Other accounts payable and accrued expenses.” Other certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to current presentation.
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- SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Principles of Consolidation
The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) include the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no significant changes to our significant accounting policies as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the significant accounting policies described in our Form 10-K.
Concentrations of Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to concentration of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents. We only invest in high-credit-quality instruments and maintain our cash equivalents in fixed-income securities. We place our cash primarily with domestic financial institutions that are federally insured within statutory limits.
For the purpose of assessing the concentration of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable and significant customers, we treat a group of customers under common control or customers that are affiliates of each other as a single customer. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, we did not have any customers that accounted for more than 10% of our revenue. As of September 30, 2025, we did not have any customers that accounted for more than 10% of our net accounts receivable balance.
Our business model relies on educational content and credentialing programs from content creators. Our largest content creator has global brand recognition and supplies a variety of in-demand content across multiple domains. The loss of, or significant reduction in, this partnership or one of our other large content creator relationships could have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures as of the date of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited), as well as the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. We base our estimates on historical experience, current conditions, and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Significant items subject to such estimates, judgments, and assumptions include, but are not limited to, those related to the determination of principal versus agent and variable consideration in our revenue contracts; stock-based compensation expense; period of benefit for capitalized commissions; internal-use software costs; useful lives of long-lived assets; the carrying value of operating lease right-of-use assets; the valuation of intangible assets; loss contingencies and potential recoveries; and income tax expense, including the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities, among others. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and any such differences could be material to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited).
Impairment of Assets
Deferred Costs, Net and Other Assets
Impairment losses for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 were immaterial. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recognized impairment losses of $1.2 million on deferred partner fees and $1.0 million on content development grants, which we do not expect to recover. These impairment losses were recorded within cost of revenue and sales and marketing expenses, respectively, in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires public entities on an annual basis to disclose (1) specific categories in the tax rate reconciliation and (2) income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. This ASU will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The amendments should be applied on a prospective basis, though retrospective application is permitted. We preliminarily expect the new ASU to result in disclosure of disaggregated data about our tax payments within certain U.S. states, India, Canada, and the U.K. We are evaluating the components of our tax rate reconciliation to ensure disclosure of sufficient information to enable users of our financial statements to understand the nature and magnitude of factors contributing to the difference between the effective tax rate and the statutory tax rate.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), which requires disclosure, on an annual and interim basis, of specified disaggregated information about certain costs and expenses. Additionally, in January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), to clarify the effective date of ASU 2024-03. ASU 2024-03 will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2027 and for interim reporting periods beginning with our fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2028, with early adoption permitted. The amendments may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. We are currently evaluating the impact ASU 2024-03 will have on our financial statement disclosures.
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, which provides a practical expedient for estimating expected credit losses on current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Accounting Standards Codification 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The practical expedient allows entities to assume that current conditions as of the balance sheet date remain unchanged over the remaining life of the asset. This ASU will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2026, and for interim reporting periods beginning with our fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The amendments are to be applied prospectively. We are currently evaluating the impact ASU 2025-05 will have on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40), which aims to modernize the accounting for internal-use software costs by eliminating references to software development stages and introducing a new threshold for capitalization. Under the updated guidance, capitalization begins when (1) management authorizes and commits to funding the project and (2) it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used for its intended purpose. The ASU also provides enhanced guidance on evaluating the “probable-to-complete” threshold and consolidates website development cost guidance into Subtopic 350-40. This ASU will be effective for annual reporting periods beginning with our fiscal year ending December 31, 2028 and for interim reporting periods beginning with our fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2029, with early adoption permitted. The amendments may be applied prospectively, retrospectively, or using a modified retrospective approach. We are currently evaluating the impact ASU 2025-06 will have on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
- REVENUE RECOGNITION
Deferred Revenue
Revenue recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 that was included in the corresponding deferred revenue balance at the beginning of each year was $149.2 million and $129.8 million.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Remaining performance obligations represent contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes deferred revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and unbilled amounts that will be recognized as revenue in future periods. As of September 30, 2025, we had remaining performance obligations of $339.0 million and expect to recognize approximately 70% as revenue over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter.
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Costs to Obtain and Fulfill Contracts
The following table presents our capitalization and amortization of commissions and related payroll tax expenditures recorded within sales and marketing in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commissions and related payroll tax expenditures: | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 |
| Capitalization | $3.4 | $3.8 | $7.3 | $8.9 |
| Amortization | $3.8 | $3.9 | $11.6 | $11.3 |
Deferred commissions and related payroll tax expenditures, which are included in deferred costs and other assets, were as follows:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Deferred costs, net | $12.7 | $13.8 |
| Other assets | $11.4 | $14.6 |
- INVESTMENTS
Investments Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
The following table summarizes our investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis by balance sheet classification and investment type:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmortizedCost | Fair Value - Level 1 | AmortizedCost | Fair Value - Level 1 | |
| Cash equivalents—U.S. Treasury securities | $550.7 | $550.7 | $529.5 | $529.5 |
| Cash equivalents—money market funds | 220.1 | 220.1 | 174.2 | 174.2 |
| Total cash equivalents | $770.8 | $770.8 | $703.7 | $703.7 |
Gross unrealized and realized gains and losses related to our cash equivalents were not material for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Investments Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis
Our existing equity investments are remeasured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis when an identifiable event or change in circumstance may have a significant adverse impact on its fair value. No such events or changes occurred during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
- CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS
Restricted Cash
The reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash was as follows:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | $797.7 | $726.1 |
| Restricted cash, current | — | 1.6 |
| Restricted cash, non-current | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash | $798.5 | $728.4 |
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Accounts Receivable, Net
Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Billed accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses | $46.8 | $55.4 |
| Unbilled accounts receivable | 11.9 | 4.3 |
| Accounts receivable, net | $58.7 | $59.7 |
Property, Equipment, and Software, Net
Property, equipment, and software, net consisted of the following:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Internal-use software and website development | $113.1 | $94.6 |
| Computer equipment and purchased software | 4.9 | 4.7 |
| Leasehold improvements | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 0.8 | 0.5 |
| Total property, equipment, and software | 119.9 | 100.5 |
| Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | (78.1) | (63.6) |
| Property, equipment, and software, net | $41.8 | $36.9 |
The following table presents depreciation and amortization expense related to property, equipment, and software as well as the portion of amortization expense related to internal-use software and website development that is recorded within cost of revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |
| Depreciation and amortization expense | $4.8 | $4.6 | $14.7 | $15.0 |
| Amortization expense for internal-use software and website development | $4.6 | $4.2 | $14.0 | $13.6 |
Intangible Assets, Net
Intangible assets, net consisted of the following:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrossCarryingValue | AccumulatedAmortization | NetCarryingValue | GrossCarryingValue | AccumulatedAmortization | NetCarryingValue | |
| Content assets | $39.3 | $(13.7) | $25.6 | $31.2 | $(7.6) | $23.6 |
| Developed technology | 8.4 | (8.4) | — | 8.4 | (7.5) | 0.9 |
| Intangible assets | $47.7 | $(22.1) | $25.6 | $39.6 | $(15.1) | $24.5 |
Capitalization of content assets and amortization expense for intangible assets were as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |
| Capitalization of content assets | $1.9 | $7.0 | $8.6 | $12.5 |
| Amortization expense for intangible assets | $2.5 | $1.4 | $7.1 | $3.7 |
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As of September 30, 2025, future expected amortization expense for intangible assets was as follows:
| Remainder of 2025 | $2.3 |
| 2026 | 7.5 |
| 2027 | 6.1 |
| 2028 | 5.5 |
| 2029 | 3.7 |
| Thereafter | 0.5 |
| Total | $25.6 |
- LEASES
We have entered into various non-cancelable office space operating leases with lease periods expiring through June 2030. These leases do not contain residual value guarantees, covenants, or other restrictions.
In August 2024, we entered into an operating lease agreement for office space in Mountain View, California to replace our existing headquarters lease, resulting in the recognition of an operating lease right-of-use asset and operating lease liability of $3.0 million. The lease term commenced in September 2024 and terminates in June 2030. The operating lease agreement includes an option to extend or terminate the lease, which is not reasonably certain to be exercised and, therefore, is not factored into the determination of lease payments.
- INCOME TAXES
Income tax expense or benefit for interim periods is determined using an estimate of our annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items, if any, that are considered in the relevant period. Each quarter, we update the estimate of the annual effective tax rate, and if the estimated tax rate changes, we record a cumulative adjustment.
Our effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 was (10.1%) and (12.4%). For the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, our effective tax rate was (14.5%) and (6.1%). The difference between the effective tax rate and the U.S. federal statutory rate is primarily due to a valuation allowance for our federal and state net deferred tax assets, income taxes on foreign operations, U.S. state income taxes, and stock-based compensation expense.
As of September 30, 2025, we continued to have a full valuation allowance against our U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets. Management regularly evaluates the realizability of our deferred tax assets. Adjustments are recorded to income during the period in which management makes the determination a deferred tax asset is more likely than not to be realized.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was enacted into law in the U.S. The OBBBA provides for the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and restores certain favorable corporate tax provisions, such as the current deduction for U.S.-based research expenditures. The impact of the OBBBA was not material to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) and related disclosures.
- NET LOSS PER SHARE
The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |
| Numerator: | ||||
| Net loss | $(8.6) | $(13.7) | $(24.2) | $(57.9) |
| Denominator: | ||||
| Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share—basic and diluted | 164.6 | 157.6 | 162.6 | 156.8 |
| Net loss per share—basic and diluted | $(0.05) | $(0.09) | $(0.15) | $(0.37) |
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The following potentially dilutive securities were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share calculations for the periods presented because the impact of including them would have been anti-dilutive:
| Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Restricted stock units (“RSUs”) | 17.7 | 17.6 |
| Common stock options | 11.6 | 9.6 |
| Performance stock units (“PSUs”) | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| ESPP stock purchase rights (“ESPP Rights”) | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Total | 30.2 | 28.0 |
- COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be subject to legal proceedings, as well as demands, claims, and threatened litigation. The outcomes of legal proceedings and other contingencies are inherently unpredictable, subject to significant uncertainties, and could be material to our operating results and cash flows for a particular period. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on our business because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. Other than the matters described below, we are not currently party to any legal proceeding that we believe, as of the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows, or financial condition should such litigation or claim be resolved unfavorably.
We regularly review the status of each significant matter and assess its potential likelihood of loss or exposure. We record an accrual for loss contingencies for legal proceedings when we believe that an unfavorable outcome is both (i) probable and (ii) reasonably estimable in terms of the amount or range of any possible loss. The actual liability in any such matters may be materially different from the Company’s estimates, if any, which could result in the need to adjust the liability and record additional expenses.
Privacy Arbitration Matters
Law firms representing a significant number of purported claimants have threatened to file or filed arbitration demandsfor alleged violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) and allege, among other things, that without consent or knowledge of the plaintiffs, Coursera disclosed the video viewing history and certain other information of the plaintiffs to a third-party company and made similar disclosures without the knowledge or consent of other unidentified users. Certain firms also claim violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and/or various state wiretapping and unfair or deceptive practices laws. Under the VPPA, each claimant may be entitled to recover damages for each alleged violation of the VPPA, as well as punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and costs, and equitable relief. Without admitting to any liability or wrongdoing, we settled claims with a substantial portion of these claimants in the fourth quarter of 2024 for $4.7 million, for which we recovered the full amount with insurance proceeds.
Additionally, we entered into settlement agreements with the majority of the remaining claimants in May 2025 for $4.5 million, which we paid in July 2025. The remaining arbitration claims are not considered material. While we maintain insurance policies intended to provide coverage for the aforementioned claims and have notified our insurance carriers about these claims, there can be no assurance regarding if or to what extent our insurance may cover such claims or any future claims.
Legal fees related to these matters were insignificant during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and the three months ended September 30, 2024 and were $1.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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Indemnifications
In the normal course of business, we enter into contracts and agreements that contain a variety of representations and warranties and provide for the potential of general indemnification obligations. Our exposure under these agreements is unknown because it involves future claims that may be made against us but have not yet been made. To date, we have not paid any material claims and have not been required to defend any actions related to our indemnification obligations; however, we may record charges in the future as a result of these indemnification obligations. In addition, we have indemnification agreements with certain of our directors, executive officers, and other employees that require us, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service with Coursera. The terms of such obligations may vary.
- STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Share Repurchase Program
On April 26, 2023, the Board approved a share repurchase program with authorization to purchase up to $95.0 million of our common stock, excluding commissions and fees. We funded these share repurchases with our existing cash and cash equivalents and completed the purchase authorization on May 7, 2024.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we repurchased an aggregate of approximately 3.1 million shares of our common stock for $36.7 million under the aforementioned program.
- EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Stock Incentive Plans
As of September 30, 2025,15.3 million shares and 6.2 million shares of our common stock were reserved for future issuance under our 2021 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”) and 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”). Shares issuable under the 2021 Plan and the ESPP may be drawn from authorized but unissued shares or from treasury stock. In 2024, we began settling stock option exercises, vesting of RSUs, and ESPP purchases by reissuing shares of our common stock from treasury stock. During the three months ended September 30, 2025, we reissued all of our remaining treasury stock.
Leadership Transitions
As described in Note 1, Mr. Hart was appointed on February 3, 2025 (the “Start Date”) as our President, CEO, and a Class III director on our Board. Pursuant to the terms of his offer letter, the Board granted Mr. Hart new hire equity awards consisting of approximately 1.9 million RSUs,3.7 million service-based stock options, and 1.4 million performance-based stock options. The RSUs are scheduled to vest over four years, with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of the Start Date,6.25% vesting on February 15, 2026, and the remainder vesting in equal quarterly installments thereafter, subject to Mr. Hart’s continued employment through each vesting date. The service-based stock options have an exercise price of $7.81 per share and are scheduled to vest over four years, with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of the Start Date and the remainder vesting in equal quarterly installments thereafter, subject to continued employment. The performance-based stock options also have an exercise price of $7.81 per share and are scheduled to vest upon satisfaction of both service- and market-based vesting conditions. The service-based vesting condition is consistent with the vesting schedule of the service-based stock options, and the market-based vesting condition is satisfied when the trailing simple moving average closing price of the Company’s common stock over a 60-trading day period equals or exceeds $12.81 per share.
We estimated the grant date fair value of the service-based stock options utilizing the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, resulting in a fair value of $4.47 per share. The Black-Scholes model considers several variables and assumptions in estimating the fair value of options, including the exercise price, expected term, risk-free interest rate, and expected stock price volatility over the expected term.
The grant date fair value of the performance-based stock options was estimated using a Monte Carlo simulation model, resulting in a fair value of $4.91 per share and a derived service period of 1.8 years. We are recognizing the related stock-based compensation expense using the accelerated attribution method, which recognizes the fair value of each vesting tranche over the longer of the derived service period and contractual vesting period.
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In connection with the CEO transition, we entered into separation and advisory agreements with our former CEO. The advisory agreement was effective through August 15, 2025. During the advisory period, he continued to vest in his stock awards, and the exercise period of his outstanding vested stock options was extended through August 3, 2026. The modification of his stock-based awards, coupled with a non-substantive service period, resulted in the recognition of $4.1 million of stock-based compensation expense during the nine months ended September 30, 2025. The separation agreement also included other benefits, which are not considered material.
Effective October 29, 2025, Kenneth Hahn resigned from his positions as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. Under the retention agreement entered into on January 29, 2025, Mr. Hahn’s resignation qualified him for enhanced severance benefits. In connection with his departure, on October 30, 2025, we entered into a separation agreement and a one-year advisory agreement with Mr. Hahn, which included a general release of claims. During the advisory period, his outstanding equity awards will continue to vest according to their original terms, and the exercise period for his vested stock options will be extended through October 29, 2027. As a result of the modification of Mr. Hahn’s equity awards and our determination that the advisory period constitutes a non-substantive service period, we expect to recognize the related stock-based compensation expense during the three months ending December 31, 2025. Other benefits provided under the separation and advisory agreements are not considered material.
Stock Options
We grant stock options at prices equal to the grant date fair value. Typically, these stock options expireten years from the grant date and vest ratably over afour-year service period.
Stock option activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was as follows:
| Number ofShares | Weighted-AverageExercisePrice | Weighted-AverageRemainingContractualTerm (in Years) | AggregateIntrinsicValue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance—December 31, 2024 | 9.1 | $7.64 | 4.97 | $25.3 |
| Granted | 5.2 | 7.81 | ||
| Exercised | (2.5) | 3.55 | ||
| Canceled | (0.2) | 18.65 | ||
| Balance—September 30, 2025 | 11.6 | $8.38 | 6.55 | $47.3 |
| Options vested | 5.7 | $8.62 | 3.79 | $25.5 |
RSUs and PSUs
RSUs have a service-based vesting condition, which is satisfied generally either (i) over four years with a 25% cliff vesting period afterone year and 6.25% vesting each quarter thereafter for new hires, or (ii) over four years with 6.25% vesting each quarter for new grants to existing employees. The related stock-based compensation expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period.
In 2024 and 2025, we granted PSUs to certain executives under the 2021 Plan. PSU grants have both performance and service-based vesting conditions. The ultimate number of units that will vest is determined based on the achievement of annual revenue against a pre-established target (with defined threshold and maximum amounts ranging from 50% to 150% of target). If annual revenue is below the threshold amount, none of the PSUs will vest. If annual revenue is equal to or exceeds the threshold amount,25% of the PSUs ultimately granted will vest after one year, and 6.25% of the remaining PSUs will vest quarterly over the subsequent three years. The fair value of each unit is determined on the grant date, and the related stock-based compensation expense is recognized using the accelerated attribution method. We evaluate the vesting conditions on a quarterly basis and recognize stock-based compensation expense if the achievement of the performance condition is probable.
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RSU and PSU activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was as follows:
| RSUs · PSUs | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number ofUnits · Weighted-AverageGrant Date Fair Value · AggregateIntrinsicValue · Number ofUnits · Weighted-AverageGrant Date Fair Value · AggregateIntrinsicValue | |||||||
| Unvested balance—December 31, 2024 | 16.1 | $12.82 | $136.7 | 0.3 | $14.36 | $2.2 | |
| Granted(1) | 10.5 | 8.03 | 0.5 | 7.94 | |||
| Vested(2) | (5.4) | 13.75 | (0.1) | 14.36 | |||
| Forfeited(3) | (3.5) | 12.02 | (0.1) | 14.36 | |||
| Unvested balance—September 30, 2025 | 17.7 | $9.86 | $207.1 | 0.6 | $9.19 | $7.4 | |
(1) For PSUs, the amount presented as the number of units granted is based on the performance condition being achieved at the target level. Once the performance period is complete, the number of units that will vest may range from 0% to 150% of the target amount based on actual performance.
(2) Includes 0.2 million units or 83.85% of PSUs granted in March 2024, certified as vested by our Human Resources and Compensation Committee in February 2025 based on attainment against the pre-established annual revenue target.
(3) Forfeited PSUs include awards forfeited due to the failure to meet service-based vesting conditions and those that did not satisfy the performance-based vesting condition. The latter represents the difference between the PSUs granted in March 2024 at target and the number of units vested based on the attainment against the pre-established annual revenue target.
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expense is classified in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |
| Cost of revenue | $0.6 | $0.6 | $1.9 | $2.0 |
| Research and development | 8.5 | 10.1 | 26.0 | 32.0 |
| Sales and marketing | 5.3 | 5.8 | 15.7 | 22.2 |
| General and administrative | 8.6 | 8.7 | 29.0 | 26.9 |
| Restructuring related charges | — | — | (1.6) | — |
| Total | $23.0 | $25.2 | $71.0 | $83.1 |
We capitalized $2.0 million and $2.2 million of stock-based compensation related to our internal-use software during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and $5.7 million and $6.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
The table below presents unrecognized employee compensation cost related to unvested shares and the weighted-average period over which it is expected to be recognized:
| September 30, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unrecognized Employee Compensation Cost Related to Unvested Shares | Weighted-Average Period Over Which the Compensation Is Expected to Be Recognized(in Years) | |
| RSUs | $158.2 | 2.7 |
| Common stock options | 23.3 | 3.1 |
| ESPP Rights | 3.2 | 0.7 |
| PSUs | 4.1 | 3.5 |
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Common Stock Reserved for Issuance
The following table presents total shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| RSUs outstanding | 17.7 | 16.1 |
| Stock options outstanding | 11.6 | 9.1 |
| PSUs outstanding | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Shares available for future grants | 21.5 | 22.5 |
| Total shares of common stock reserved | 51.4 | 47.9 |
401(k) Plan
We have a 401(k) savings plan that provides for a discretionary employer-matching contribution. We made matching contributions of $0.2 million to the plan for both the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and $1.4 million and $1.5 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
- RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
We have an ongoing content sourcing agreement with DeepLearning.AI Corp (“DeepLearning.AI”), which is owned by our chairman and co-founder, Dr. Andrew Ng. This agreement was entered into in the ordinary course of business and subject to standard commercial terms. Fees associated with this agreement are included within cost of revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. We recognized content fees under this agreement of $2.0 million during both the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 and $6.6 million and $6.4 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024. Related content liabilities were $2.0 million and $4.1 million as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
- RESTRUCTURING RELATED CHARGES
During 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, in alignment with our efforts to refine our business strategy and hone our focus, we reduced our expenses and prioritized investments in key initiatives expected to drive long-term, sustainable growth.
In January 2024, we implemented a plan to restructure our Enterprise segment sales force. Related cash payments approximated the expense amount for the period and are reflected as cash used in operating activities within our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. In October 2024, we announced a commitment to further reduce overall expenses, focus our efforts, and prioritize future investments in key initiatives that we expect will drive long-term, sustainable growth. This initiative resulted in a reduction of our global workforce by approximately 9%, creating capacity for targeted investments, as well as incremental profitability.
As a result of these actions, we recognized restructuring related charges of $2.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. There were no restructuring related charges during the three months ended September 30, 2024. Related cash payments approximated the expense amount for the period and are reflected as cash used in operating activities within our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recognized charges of $0.7 million, made cash payments of $5.2 million, and also recognized a reversal of stock-based compensation expense of $1.6 million due to the forfeiture of RSUs and stock options. There were no restructuring related charges during the three months ended September 30, 2025.
- SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Segment Information
As disclosed in Note 1, our CODM is our CEO. Under our CEO’s leadership, we have simplified our business model to better reflect our focus on serving adult learners at every stage. This includes a broad set of offerings that span from standalone courses to university degrees. As a part of this strategy, degrees has been incorporated into our Consumer segment as another product category that supports our learners. These changes aim to ensure that our investments effectively serve a broad audience of learners.
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Beginning in fiscal year 2025, due to the simplification of our business model and the change in how our CODM assesses performance and allocates resources, we have identifiedtwo reporting segments: Consumer and Enterprise. This is also consistent with how we disaggregate revenue. The segment reporting change does not impact our Enterprise segment or consolidated results. Prior-period segment information has been recast to conform to the current presentation.
Our CODM primarily measures each segment’s performance based on revenue and gross profit. Segment gross profit, as presented below, is defined as segment revenue less segment content costs within cost of revenue. These costs are considered significant segment expenses that are regularly reviewed by our CODM. Other costs of revenue, including platform operation and maintenance costs, amortization of internal-use software and intangible assets, and stock-based compensation expense, are managed on an enterprise-wide basis and not reported by segment. In addition, we do not report operating expenses, other income (expense), net, or income tax expense (benefit) by segment because our CODM reviews this financial information on a consolidated basis.
Our CODM does not use segment-level asset information to assess performance or allocate resources. Therefore, we do not track our long-lived assets by segment. The geographic identification of these assets is provided below.
Financial information for each reportable segment was as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 | ||||||||
| Consumer · Enterprise · Consolidated · Consumer · Enterprise · Consolidated | ||||||||
| Revenue | $130.3 | $63.9 | $194.2 | $115.7 | $60.4 | $176.1 | ||
| Segment content costs | 50.6 | 19.4 | 70.0 | 47.0 | 18.1 | 65.1 | ||
| Segment gross profit | $79.7 | $44.5 | $124.2 | $68.7 | $42.3 | $111.0 | ||
| Segment gross profit margin | 61.2% | 69.6% | 64.0% | 59.4% | 70.0% | 63.0% | ||
| Other costs of revenue: | ||||||||
| Platform operation and maintenance costs | 10.5 | 8.6 | ||||||
| Amortization of internal-use software | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | 2.5 | 1.4 | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Cost of revenue | $88.2 | $79.9 | ||||||
| Gross profit | $106.0 | $96.2 | ||||||
| Gross profit margin | 54.6% | 54.6% | ||||||
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| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 2024 | ||||||||
| Consumer · Enterprise · Consolidated · Consumer · Enterprise · Consolidated | ||||||||
| Revenue | $370.7 | $189.9 | $560.6 | $338.9 | $176.6 | $515.5 | ||
| Segment content costs | 143.3 | 57.4 | 200.7 | 137.0 | 55.3 | 192.3 | ||
| Segment gross profit | $227.4 | $132.5 | $359.9 | $201.9 | $121.3 | $323.2 | ||
| Segment gross profit margin | 61.3% | 69.8% | 64.2% | 59.6% | 68.7% | 62.7% | ||
| Other costs of revenue: | ||||||||
| Platform operation and maintenance costs | 30.3 | 28.0 | ||||||
| Amortization of internal-use software | 14.0 | 13.6 | ||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | 7.1 | 3.7 | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | 1.9 | 2.0 | ||||||
| Cost of revenue | $254.0 | $239.6 | ||||||
| Gross profit | $306.6 | $275.9 | ||||||
| Gross profit margin | 54.7% | 53.5% | ||||||
Geographic Information
Revenue
The following table summarizes the revenue by region based on the billing address of our customers:
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |
| United States | $97.7 | $92.2 | $287.0 | $275.7 |
| Europe, Middle East, and Africa | 47.5 | 42.2 | 136.0 | 121.5 |
| Asia Pacific | 28.6 | 23.4 | 79.9 | 65.9 |
| Other | 20.4 | 18.3 | 57.7 | 52.4 |
| Total | $194.2 | $176.1 | $560.6 | $515.5 |
No single country other than the United States represented 10% or more of our total revenue during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Long-lived Assets
The following table presents our long-lived assets, consisting of property, equipment, and software, net of depreciation and amortization, and operating lease right-of-use assets, by geographic region:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | $43.8 | $39.0 |
| Rest of World | 1.5 | 0.9 |
| Total | $45.3 | $39.9 |
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