Verb Technology Company, Inc.

Good afternoon and welcome to the first quarter of 2025's financial results conference call for Verbe Technology Company Incorporated. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. Please be advised the call is being recorded at the company's request. On our call today is Rory Gay-Catayel, Verbe's founder, chairman, and CEO. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that the statements made during this conference call will include forward-looking statements under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Divagation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, expected as required by law, as the underlying facts and circumstances may change. Verbe Technology Company disclaims any obligations to update these forward-looking statements, as well as those contained in the company's current and subsequent primaries for the SEC. I would now like to turn the call over to Rory Gay-Catayel, CEO. Rory?

Thank you, moderator, and thanks to everyone for joining us today for our first quarter 2025 financial results and business update conference call. So, for those of you who have reviewed our 10-2 file this morning, or the summarized results in the press release we issued this morning, well, well, you already know, right? You know the company is firing on all cylinders, and I'm talking about a 12-cylinder, finely tuned, exotic sports roaster, and yeah, yeah, we had a crazy good quarter. This is a verb we've envisioned, and this is a verb we've manifested, and this is a verb we have worked so hard to deliver. And the best part, the really best part, is this is just the beginning. I've got to hand it to my management team. They never stopped believing through all the trials and tribulations, and we've had more than I'll share. They stuck it out with me. We drew strength from one another, and no matter what, no matter what, we never gave up, and I appreciate them all so very much, and our amazing, amazing board of directors. And now that we've begun to hit our stride, they're all feeling it. They know where we're taking this vehicle, and for those of you listening to this or stuck it out with us, and for those of you thinking about joining us, from here on out, it's going to be a fun ride. We're trashed up, zero debt, insanely undervalued, and each verb division is performing very, very well. So I'm not going to take your time reading the 10-2 or reiterating everything we discussed about the company just six weeks or so ago when we reported our 20-24 results, but I will definitely enjoy sharing some of our team's accomplishments in just the first three months of this year. So, all right, let's start with revenue. But first, let me provide some context. In 2-1 of 20-24, we reported revenue of just $20,000. In 2-4 of 20-24, we reported revenue of $723,000, definitely a great quarter, and the first full quarter after we instituted a number of changes to our business model. As in the entirety of 20-24, we reported a total of $895,000. But in 2-1 of 20-25, we reported $1.3 million. That's 80% revenue growth over the prior quarter and approximately 46% growth over all four quarters of revenue of 20-24 combined. And while we've been busy signing and launching a plethora of new clients, we identified what we believe is the hottest AI social commerce technology company in the market and negotiated the terms of $8.5 million, cash and stock acquisition, signed a comprehensive term sheet, and then rapidly drove the deal to a closing, all while actively integrating their AI technology into our own platform. We used about 4.2 million in cash in closing an acquisition, and look, I really liked having a very robust, zero debt cash-up balance sheet. So, being realistic, we identified a funding opportunity with extraordinary shareholder-friendly terms, negotiated it, documented it, and closed it. A non-dilutive, non-convertible, non-voting preferred stock deal with just a 9% annual dividend. And with that, we added $5 million back onto the balance sheet. This deal is with a trusted financial partner with whom we've now done several very successful deals. I do feel sorry for other companies doing terrible, horrible financing, steep, steep discounts in market price, pre-funded warrants, triple warrants coverage, decimating half tables, and rendering many of these companies unfinanceable going forward, who ultimately get shorted into oblivion. And you see it every day. Tough times for a lot of companies, and I'm very grateful that we're in such a strong cash position, and we've been able to maintain a super clean tab table, no warrants overhang, and a very tight load, and obviously not desperate to find the source of capital. In fact, we love cash on hand, no debt, and growing revenue across all businesses. We expect to be able to fund operations easily, easily into 2028 and beyond. As to the growth behind Market.Life, we've signed many very high profile clients and continue to do so. And I've been asked, well, why aren't we announcing them? Which you have to do multiple times a month, but the answer is most of these deals are where we're white labeling our platform for these well-known brands, and our contract prohibits us from announcing the names. I wish I could. If I could, I doubt our stock would still be trading for 50% of our net cash with zero value given for all our business units. It's crazy. It's just crazy. I've also been asked why we don't see as many live streams on Market.Life as we used to, and that's because our new technology allows us to stream directly from our client's own website, and then multicast their streams across multiple social media channels, simultaneously. And this is really the killer act, growing so many more clients because it allows these brands to own and continue to own the customer relationship while still streaming over other social platforms. We're also seeing strong, strong growth in shoppable ads among many other areas of our Market.Life and now live com business units. Our telehealth platforms, Vanity Prescribed and GoodgoalRx continue to grow month over month, adding recurring subscription-based revenue. And our GoFundYourself crowdfunding TV show is developing at almost pulse-like following, and more and more issuers are applying to be on the show, forcing us now to become much more selective and to accommodate demand, we're now shooting multiple episodes twice a month. And it costs issuers pay to be on the show. And now we're about to launch season two on Shutter. So in closing, I refer you to our form 10-2 file today for greater details, comparing our Q1 2025 financial results, as well as the press release that we distributed today, summarizing those results for additional information that I've not covered in my conference call today. So thank you, thank you for your interest in Verge and for taking the time to listen to our Q1 2025 financial results. And I presume you can tell how excited we are about the business, really excited. And oh yes, I do indeed expect Q2 results to be even...