Ryan Schaffer
Management
Welcome to the Q2 2024 Expensify Earnings. I'm Expensify CFO, Ryan Schaffer, and with me I have our, Co-Founder and CEO -- I'm sorry, I have our Founder and CEO, not Co-Founder, David Barrett. But before we begin, please note that all the information presented on today's call is unaudited, and during the course of this call, management may make forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these described in these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in the earnings release that we issued today, along with the comments on this call, are made only as of today and will not be updated as actual events unfold. Please refer to today's press release and our filings with the SEC for a detailed discussion of the risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made today. Please also note that on today's call, management will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. While we believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information for investors, the presentation of this information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to today's press release or the investor presentation for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures. With that out of the way, let's talk about the financials. In Q2, our revenue was $33.3 million. Our average paid members were 684,000. So, these numbers have basically leveled off. They're effectively flat quarter-over-quarter. They're both within 1% of Q1, and also our interchange was $4 million, which is a 14% quarter-over-quarter increase and a 48% year-over-year increase. Our operating cash flow was $9.3 million. Again, operating cash flow includes timing of customer funds, which can vary depending on when the quarter ends. Our free cash flow, which excludes the timing of customer funds, was $5.7 million, which is a 10% quarter-over-quarter increase, something we're very happy about. We've talked a lot about our cost-cutting measures and we're pleased with the results that we're seeing. Our net loss was $2.8 million, but our non-GAAP net income was $5.6 million and our adjusted EBITDA was $10.2 million, something we're very happy about. All right. Now, my favorite topic, the Expensify Card. Quarterly interchange from the card grew 48% year-over-year to $4 million. And now my favorite subject is the program manager issue. So, as you know, we've been transitioning our members from our old card program to our new card program. The new card program has two benefits. One, we earn 20% more interchange on every transaction. And also under the new program, our interchange will be considered revenue instead of contra expense in cost of revenue. So, it cleans up the financial story. It makes the financials easier to understand. So, our net interchange was $3.5 million. Our interchange in revenue is $5 million for a total interchange of $4 million. So, the way to kind of read this is $3.5 million on the old program, $5 million -- or $0.5 million on the new program, total $4 million. We're also increasing our free cash flow guidance. Previously, our guidance was $10 million to $12 million for the year. Last quarter, we increased that to $11 million to $13 million. And now we're increasing our annual year guidance to $15 million to $16 million, which is a big jump and I think a testament to the effectiveness of the discipline that we put into reducing our costs. Again, our free cash flow is $5.7 million, which is a 10% increase from Q1. As you know, we don't give paid member guidance, but we do show you the actuals from how the current quarter is going. So in July, our paid members were up to 689,000. If you look at the pink bars, they show this current July and then every July in the past. And normally, July is a bit of a soft month. You'll see that we generally see a month-over-month decrease, but this month we're actually up. So things -- that's good news. So, we're excited about that. All right. Now let's talk about some business highlights. Our SEO keywords have increased 122% year-over-year. This is important because it's top of funnel. Basically in order to be on the first page, you have to work your way there. So the progress across our long tail keywords has been increasing quarter-over-quarter. So, we're encouraged by the progress we're seeing there, and this is the more actual results. These are the keywords that are on the first page, which get almost all the clicks. So, we've seen a 57% increase quarter-over-quarter in our first page SEO keywords. So, our content marketing strategy is working and working well and quickly, so that's something to be encouraged by. Also, we continue to see a brisk improvement in our number of global reimbursement customers. Global reimbursement is important because we're a global company, and our customers want to reimburse their employees no matter what country they're in. And these are generally larger customers being in many or further in the U.S., global reimbursement is important for large enterprise customers. But it's also important because it allows us to expand globally in countries that we normally struggled or we have historically struggled to grow in. So, this kind of unlocks a more global opportunity. Additionally, you might have seen that we announced our partnership with Apple for their upcoming 2025 film, F1, which is expected to be a very successful blockbuster. We are the title team sponsor in that film. So as you can see in this Instagram post on the right, you see Mr. Brad Pitt with Expensify across his chest. So, we are -- our name is on the car. It's on all the jerseys. It has a very big placement within the film, something we're very excited by. The movie is still filming. It doesn't come out until next year, and we've already gotten such great coverage in TV -- on both TV and online that we've reached over 600 million impressions. Additionally, due to the fact that we have such crazy good placement on all across the movie and how much buzz this movie is generating, our earned media coverage is estimated to be over $100 million at this point. For those of you not familiar with the term, earned media, what that means is, what would be the financial equivalent to get all the placement that we have gotten effectively for free due to all the buzz. So if you think about how much does it cost to have one of the biggest stars in the world have our name on their chest for months and months and be filmed by the paparazzi and covered on the news across the world. Also, all the placements that we're getting during F1 races and all the YouTube videos and everything that people are creating. They also released a trailer, which has been seen over 10 million times on YouTube alone, also across X and other social media. So the coverage that this has generated thus far is estimated to -- it would have cost us $100 million to get that. Obviously, we have paid $100 million for that. So that's what earned media means. With that, I want to hand it over to our CEO, David Barrett.