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| The growth of our Marketplace margins, Supplier Service margins are strong |
| We grew revenue 31% year-over-year to $128 million, driven by accelerating 42% year-over-year growth in Marketplace revenue |
| So we're really happy about the growth of that |
| Q4 Marketplace gross margin improved 500 basis points year-over-year |
| Overall, in 2023, we delivered 30% Marketplace growth and stronger active buyer and order growth despite an ongoing contraction in US manufacturing |
| We are gaining significant market share |
| On top of strong Marketplace revenue and gross profit growth, we improved our operating leverage, reducing our adjusted EBITDA loss in Q4 by 32% from Q3 to $2.9 million, as we continue to balance growth and profitability goals |
| On a year-over-year basis, Q4 adjusted EBITDA improved by $12.8 million, driven by significant leverage in our core US Marketplace partly offset by investments internationally |
| We're seeing viral new user growth within teams and organizations, we're seeing good engagement team engagement on our platform and Teamspace overall plays an important role in our engagement on the enterprise level |
| So you should expect good strong growth in active buyers |
| Q4 gross margin for Supplier Services was 87.3%, driven by the high gross margin of Thomas Marketing and Advertising services and growing financial services |
| We expect there to continue to be robust growth in our new active buyers |
| There is strong demand to join our rapidly growing platform |
| So as we think about our continued growth over the years, Eric, that's -- we're confident that, that's one of the levers that we can pull in, and we're continuing to see robust adoption |
| That should be really strong growth for us in the next couple of years |
| We saw very strong growth towards the end of the year internationally |
| And long term, that's going to help fuel growth and profitability |
| We saw a strong growth in production work, including our revamped quick-turn injection molding offering |
| Q4 Marketplace revenue increased 42% year-over-year, driven by a strong growth in the number of active buyers |
| Q4 revenue increased 31% year-over-year to $128 million, driven by strong Marketplace growth |
| The early feedback remains positive, with rapid adoption, including over 1,500 teams created since launch |
| We also have said February is better than January |
| As Randy mentioned, Q4 was a record revenue and gross profit quarter for Xometry, driving significant improvement in adjusted EBITDA on a year-over-year basis |
| Again, we expect this year to have robust growth in active buyers, new active buyers, and we are pushing our into enterprise |
| We also talked about this morning that we expect the net adds to improve in Q1 quarter-over-quarter as we resumed more normal marketing investments |
| He brings extensive operational excellence to Xometry and will help us achieve our long-term operating margin targets |
| Jim successfully executed our initial public offering, and help drive growth and scale in our business, including expanding internationally |
| Capitalizing on these trends, we expect robust growth in 2024 and for many years thereafter |
| In 2024, we expect our active buyer growth to remain strong |
| In Q4, we had the highest revenue in gross profit in Xometry's history, beating our previous highs from Q3 of 2023 |
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| However, January was much weaker than we had anticipated, particularly as the number of large orders declined significantly |
| As Randy mentioned, Q1 started off slower as Marketplace revenue growth was softer in January, driven by a lower number of large orders |
| Supplier Services revenue declined 15% year-over-year in Q4 |
| We discontinued the sales of tools and materials in the US in Q2, which negatively impacted Supplier Services revenue by approximately $2 million year-over-year in Q4 |
| Again, the only thing that's sort of changed here is that in January, we saw a drop in those large orders that impacted our revenue per buyer |
| I mean, we had a weaker-than-expected January |
| While revenue trends improved from January to February, we expect Q1 year-over-year Marketplace growth will be slower than that in Q4 |
| The drop -- the forecasted drop in Supplier Services this year is really driven just by the discontinuation of our historic supplies business |
| But in January, when people held back on their budgets that hurt us |
| We expect supplier services to be down approximately 15% year-over-year primarily due to the exit of tools and materials business in May of '23 |
| Xometry is a technology company disrupting a massive addressable market with millions of buyers |
| I mean, again, January was unexpected for us, things that were picked up in February, but we just were less than two months in a year |
| The number of active paying suppliers in Q4 2023 was 7,271 on a trailing 12-month basis, a decrease of 6% year-over-year |
| For 2024, we expect Marketplace growth of at least 20% year-over-year and expect supplier services to be down approximately 10% year-over-year, driven by the discontinuation of the sales of tools and materials, and the wind down of noncore services |
| And then for Jim, you're pushing out some of the EBITDA targets a little bit here on some of the revenue weakness |
| Q4 Marketplace revenue was $112 million and Supplier Services revenue was $16 million, reflecting the discontinuation of the sale of tools and materials |
| Supplier Services gross margin increased 1,130 basis points year-over-year due to the discontinuation of the sales of tools and materials, which carried a significant lower gross margin |
| I mean, you're guiding revenue basically flat or same levels as Q3 '23, but EBITDA loss, almost twice is worse |
| And then just second, on the January being slightly weaker than expected, could you share more about what you're seeing and what you think is driving that decline in larger orders? I know you mentioned a softer macro, but any color there would be super helpful |
| But January was certainly not where we were wanted it to be, particularly because of those larger orders, and that had an impact |
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