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| As we move through 2024, this will be combined with ramping new cohorts that result from our improved sales performance that delivered over 50% bookings growth in 2023 |
| First, lapping the Cash App revenue presentation change; second, realizing existing customers' growth as we lap all the elevated renewal activity, and third, benefiting from the ramping new programs as we progress through the year |
| I know you've mentioned in the past that because of your enhanced data capabilities that your ability to forecast TPV is significantly better than it has been in the past |
| Starting in the second half of 2024, our business and financial metrics are expected to reflect this momentum as we return to growth |
| In the second half of '24, our business performance metrics are expected to improve significantly after lapping almost all of the major renewal activity, particularly Cash App |
| Second, the revitalization and strength of our sales bookings since Q4 of 2022 should lead to a fair amount of new business launching and ramping on our platform throughout the year |
| And that's a great win because it's really a structural benefit for our -- for those programs and therefore, our P&L |
| So I would say across the board, our credit pipeline is extremely healthy |
| In conclusion, we are exiting 2023 with great business momentum and a solid foundation to deliver sustainable growth, profitability and innovation in 2024 and beyond |
| Outside our fewer financial performance, we've delivered on product innovation, sales growth and operational efficiencies |
| But all of them have great potential and transformative potential |
| First, by renewing over 80% of our TPV in the last seven quarters, most of which are in contracts of at least 4 years, we have secured our attractive customer base and opened up potential cross-selling opportunities as we continue to expand our platform capabilities |
| Our ability to replenish the pipeline is actually very strong |
| Fourth, Marqeta's differentiated platform in terms of both breadth and depth of our capabilities gives us an outsized market opportunity as many fintechs continue to thrive, combined with the continued emergence of embedded finance use cases |
| So we're very excited about that |
| Now looking forward, credit is a phenomenal opportunity to a lot of the debit partners we have |
| This path will lead to sustainable growth, profitability, innovation and a great ability to capitalize on the fast-growing embedded finance market |
| Last fiscal year was a transformative year for Marqeta, and I'm excited about the foundation laid for the future of our company |
| Really strong bookings with what was up 50%, I believe |
| Net revenue and gross profit outperformed due to stronger-than-expected TPV growth, particularly in BNPL, on-demand delivery and accelerated wage access, as well as higher network incentives, continued execution of efficiency initiatives, such as streamlining technology spend as well as delays in planned investments, coupled with higher gross profit led to $3 million of adjusted EBITDA in the quarter |
| I mean, throughout my career, I've had tremendous success in Poland |
| So although Afterpay has been successful for them and for our business, that's an incredible installed base |
| The pipeline is extremely healthy |
| So I mean, the win-win-win gives us ironically an accelerator, and we're extremely excited about it |
| Specifically, in the fourth quarter, we captured another solid slate of bookings, generally in line with the makeup of what we saw during the year |
| Although most bookings came from North America, 20% of the deals came from Europe and predominantly from net new customers, which bodes well for the future of that geography for Marqeta |
| Q4 was a strong finish to the year with TPV growth of 33% and better-than-expected results for net revenue, gross profit and expense driving positive adjusted EBITDA |
| In addition to growing our bookings, we also made great strides in accelerating the time to launch for new programs signed to convert these bookings into revenue and gross profits faster |
| The second one is strong back-end engineering, risk operations, AI, machine learning, so on and so forth |
| Our ability to offer credit, debit, banking and risk solutions at scale positions us well to unlock the massive embedded finance opportunity that's ahead of us |
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| Q4 net revenue was $119 million, a contraction of 42% year-over-year |
| The full year net revenue was $676 million, representing a 10% contraction from the previous year |
| As expected, this is a few points lower than the second half of 2023 due to the unfavorable business mix and slower growth from a few of our customers without much contribution from new program launches at this point |
| There's an additional 10 percentage point decline in net revenue growth due to the Cash App renewal pricing |
| The first half gross profit contraction is now expected to be a little worse than what we shared at our November Investor Day due to unfavorable business mix and revised expectations for the timing of when some key customers will achieve certain price tiers based on their TPV trajectory |
| First, the Cash App renewal lowered growth by mid-20 percentage points |
| We were negative 4% on an adjusted basis, as you mentioned, we were negative 4% in our reported results |
| Q4 adjusted operating expenses were over $3 million lower than we expected, mostly due to investment timing delays, particularly hiring as we just recently established an office location in Poland, which we intend to utilize for a significant portion of our headcount growth |
| Gross profit was negatively impacted primarily by several renewals, particularly Cash App and changes in our Visa incentives at the start of the year |
| So we think that although it's unfortunate that there's some disruption in the marketplace like that |
| However, the Q2 gross margin will be approximately 7 points lower than Q1 as our network incentive tiers reset in April with our two largest network partners |
| It was low to mid-single digit of gross profit growth drag in Q4 as a result of those |
| We expect Q2 to be our only negative adjusted EBITDA quarter with a margin in the negative 79% range due to a combination of the resetting of our network incentives weighing on gross profit and additional investment needed to support our growth |
| Our gross profit of $83 million contracted by 4% versus Q4 2022, primarily due to the Cash App renewal pricing |
| Lastly, we lost full Visa incentives for two of our customers at the start of 2023, lowering growth by low to mid-single digits each quarter until we lap this impact in Q1 of '24 |
| Three factors continue to weigh on gross profit growth |
| The most significant impact was the 59 point growth headwind related solely to the revenue presentation change resulting from the Cash App renewal |
| The difference was further exacerbated by the fact that we did not reinvest some of the savings in new initiatives and focus areas as quickly as we intended, as we referred to in my Q4 2023 comments |
| Our net revenue of $119 million in the quarter contracted 42% year-over-year, which included a decrease of 59 percentage points from the revenue presentation change related to our Cash App contract renewal |
| For Q1 2024, we expect net revenue to contract between 45% and 48%, including a 65 to 70 percentage point negative impact of the Cash App renewal, mostly due to the revenue presentation change, consistent with what we have seen in the last two quarters |
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