Good afternoon. Welcome to Skillz First Quarter 2023 Conference Call. I will now turn the call over to Susan Swanson for opening remarks. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Skillz First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. With me today are Andrew Paradise, Skillz CEO; Casey Chafkin, CSO; and Jason Roswig, President and CFO. Note, our full financial results will be published tomorrow and will be available in our Investor Relations website. Before I turn the call over to Andrew, please note that some of our management's comments today will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities Laws. Forward-looking statements, which are usually identified by the use of words such as will, expect, should, or other similar phrases are subject to numerous risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. Therefore, you should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on them. We refer you to these company's SEC filings for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact future operating results and financial condition. During the call, management will discuss non-GAAP measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's operating performance. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of these measures and the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in our first quarter 2023 earnings release. With that, I'll turn the call over to Andrew for some brief opening remarks before we open the call for questions. Andrew?

Thank you, Susan, and to all of you for joining the call. In the first quarter, we continued to make progress on the four strategic pillars that we laid out last year, while we continue to navigate difficult demand and macro environments. We're cautiously optimistic about the progress we're making. And also want to be honest with our shareholders and ourselves that we're in the middle of tremendous change and it'd be premature to say we're out of the woods. To briefly review the quarter before I turn the call to Jason, let me begin with the first pillar, enhancing our platform to improve customer and developer engagement and retention. Our product team continues to grow and mature and we're seeing positive changes in terms of the rigor and discipline, and perhaps, most importantly, our customers stickiness and engagement as seen in our payback improvements. To this end, to name a few of the product initiatives we achieved over the quarter. We launched and scaled new limited time challenges which have driven improvements in paying user behavior. We also launched a new play screen user interface resulting in positive trends in pro tournaments engagement, as well as pro retention. For developers, we rolled out the Skillz [discord server] (ph) to enhance community support. We updated the SDK release process to provide greater clarity to all releases including OTA and we added site instrumentation to enhance usage in sites inside of our developer console. This brings me to our second pillar, upleveling our organization. We made a lot of progress in reshaping the organization to fuel growth and innovation. We're really excited to welcome Elly Ryu, our new Controller and Global Head of Accounting. She's joining our staff and has already made a significant impact in upgrading our accounting team's talent.…

Thanks, Andrew. Revenue in the first quarter was $44.4 million down $52% year-over-year and down 5% sequentially. Our payer conversion rate, which is our paying MAU, divided by our MAU, was 18% in the quarter. First quarter user acquisition marketing was $8.4 million, a decrease of 86% year-over-year and down 11% sequentially as we continue to improve, lower our payback period and user acquisition cost. Q1 engagement marketing was $17.6 million down 59% year-over-year and down 11% quarter-over-quarter. Research and development was $8.9 million in the quarter, down 52% year-over-year. On a non-GAAP basis, R&D was 17% of quarterly revenue. Q1 sales and marketing was $34.9 million, down 70% year-over-year. This includes $1.9 million of stock based compensation. On a non-GAAP basis, sales and marketing was 74% of Q1 revenue, down 50 percentage points year-over-year and up 4 percentage points quarter-over-quarter. Q1 general and administrative expense was $28 million down 70% year-over-year. This includes $7.4 million in stock-based compensation. On a non-GAAP basis, Q1 G&A was 46% of revenue, up 25 percentage points year-over-year. On a sequential basis, G&A was up 13 percentage points as percent of revenue. Net loss of $35.6 million decreased $114 million year-over-year and decreased $107.4 million, or 75% sequentially for the first quarter. Q1 adjusted EBITDA was negative $20.9 million down 67% year-over-year and up 121% sequentially. Q1 adjusted EBITDA margin of negative 47% was down 21 percentage points year-over-year and up 27 percentage points sequentially. We ended the quarter with $521 million of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities and $273.6 million of debt outstanding. With that, I'll turn it over to Andrew for closing comments.

Thanks Jason. To note, as we've disclosed in April, we repurchased approximately 160 million of our outstanding debt obligations. This will have a nearly $16 million positive impact for us over the next 3.5 years. It's an incredibly material development to extending our runway, to fix our business, to revert it to the growth engine, then 2017 caused us to win the Inc. 5000 as America's fastest growing private company. Thank you all, again, for taking the time to join us today. We look forward to providing updates throughout the year on our progress of returning Skillz to sustained profitable growth.

We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question we have comes from Jason Tilchen from Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks for taking the question. Two, if I can. The first, just wondering if you could maybe just talk for a minute about the concentration of the user base around some of the top gains in the platform today versus where it was prior to the strategy to sort of reduce marketing and engagement spend? And then I have a follow-up from here. Thanks.

Thanks Jason. This is Andrew Paradise. I was going to turn it over to Jason Roswig, who I think would be best to comment on that.

Thanks Jason. I would mention that our concentration has been relatively consistent over time. It has been about 80% now consistently for this quarter and last quarter. I would note that our intent with our new standardized developer revenue share model is to bring new content onto the [indiscernible] over time and continue to diversify that number.

Great. And just sort of on the same topic, as it relates to sort of ongoing efforts to sort of expand the genres on the platform, can you talk about some of the initiatives that are in place there and where that stands and maybe any updates on sort of the engagement with the NFL games and other sort of recent partnerships that you've had over the past few quarters? Thanks.

Sure. So, just one thing I wanted to add also on concentration. We've always seen concentration in the top few games, like other media platforms. And now I can maybe draw an analogy there is something like HBO won that when Game of Thrones was the most popular show on HBO, where they probably saw the majority of usage being watching that show. So, I don't think we anticipate that in the future that there won't always be some level of concentration in the top one or few pieces of content on the platform. In terms of expanding genres, so we did the deal with [Legacy] (ph) games to integrate the photon multiplayer engine so that we could have more sophisticated multiplayer games in the platform and really move out of asynchronous video games like Solitaire, Cube or Blackout Bingo, into more sophisticated games. First turn based genres, so we have games like Dominoes Gold that are now running turn based playing dominoes if you'd like. You can imagine all the other different turn based games potentially being -- moving on to the platform over time as we -- we really saw a significant disparity between our form of monetization, so skill based gaming monetization versus IP and ads with the old revenue share model. And what I mean by that is, both with ads and in-app purchasing they provide the developers with real-time revenue reporting. The way we ran and built this business is very much from my background as a person building and inventing the payments industry. So we pioneered the space, we set up our revenue share with the developers in the same way that our business makes money, which our business, as you may know, we take in a deposit from a user. We actually don't…

Great. That that was really helpful. And maybe just one more quick one if I can. Last year, the conversion rate of paying users from the total MAU peaked at sort of low 19% range and it sort of flattened out here around 18%. I was curious with a new strategy with lower engagement marketing spend and focus on more efficient programs there, where you see that conversion rate trending over time?

Sure. And maybe I can -- this is Andrew talking again. Maybe I can turn it over to Casey Chafkin, our Chief Strategy Officer to talk a little bit about that.

Sure. And thank you for the continued engagement, Jason. From a conversion perspective, lowering engagement marketing decreases the incentive for potentially for new users to convert into paying users, but increases the profitability on those users that we generate. And so, in terms of our paying DAU versus our playing DAU, we expect that to remain relatively stable and potentially increase a little bit as we continue to decrease marketing spend and have more mature users on the platform.

Great. Thank you.

There are no further questions. So I will turn the call back to Andrew Paradise.

Okay. Well, thank you everyone for tuning in today to listen to our earnings call. I will look forward to reporting on progress with the next quarter. I think we are not out of the woods yet in terms of turning around and really rebooting the operations for our business. But I think I would message, as I said earlier, cautious optimism that we're making headway. Thank you for the time and we'll talk you then.

That concludes the conference call. Thank you for your participation and enjoy the rest of your day. You may now disconnect your line.