Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Data Door FrontPorge podcast. We have a packed show today after a very surprising or in some ways unsurprising, but in other ways, very surprising earnings.
大家好,欢迎来到 Data Door FrontPorge 的新一期播客节目。今天的节目内容非常丰富,因为我们的业绩令人惊讶,或者在某种程度上不足为奇,但在其他方面却非常惊人。
Last week, Open Door reported Q4 2022 earnings and the result was in some ways different than what we expected. Tana, August 3. Yeah. So Thursday, Open Door reported after the close. I think, you know, for us throughout 2022, when we estimated for the quarter, we felt pretty good across the board for all the KPIs that we measure. And we released our own internal estimates on Wednesday before the earnings.
I think we came in pretty much exactly in line for things like home sold and revenue, as well as home's purchased, where we were a little bit different was actually Gross margins, which I think surprised us. Open Door actually posted a just the Gross margins of negative 3.2%. You were expecting somewhere closer to negative 1%, and in fact, negative 1.6% was the lowest end of our range. And so I think that has prompted a lot of research on our part over this past weekend to investigate the reasons why there might be such a discrepancy between observed and estimated and actual. And I think we have some ideas.
For context, like Q4, in terms of housing market, was a really difficult quarter. If you look at the sales numbers that are coming out now, we're like, Q4 and in pro January, the home data sales numbers, it was really depressing volume. So Open Door was likely to, likely trying to move homes. And with that, might have given more concessions than we kind of observed in the data.
Yeah, I think there's three possible explanations for the discrepancy in the data. One is that our data are wrong. And I think to sort of look into that, we have north of 130,000 transactions for Open Door in the database. We have sales estimates going back 20 plus quarters. And I think what we've seen from the data is actually that we're always within 5%. Less than 100 basis points at most of gross margin in all of those quarters. So our methodology, we feel pretty strong about. And I think that that's reflected in the fact that we nailed home sold revenue, home sales purchase, etc. and we did that in all the other quarters that we've done. We've done this as a business.
And so that's option one. Option two is that there was an outsized effect, margin drag from non disclosure states. And so our states where sales data are not publicly available. And so states like Texas, Utah, for example, are states where the sold price of a home is not public information.
And so therefore we have no visibility into the sales margins or sales price of home sold in those markets. And in Q4, for example, one fourth of all Open Door transactions were in these non disclosure states or markets. And so that means that we only had visibility into 75% of Open Door sales transactions.
But if you kind of walk that back and think about how bad those markets would have to perform to create the delta between our estimated negative 1.1 margins and Open Door's actual negative 3.2 margins, markets like Texas would have had to be the worst markets in Open Door's entire category. Right? They would have to be almost as bad as San Francisco, Worst and Phoenix, Worst and Las Vegas. And if you look at the metrics in those markets, it just doesn't make much sense. Right?
Like the price cuts in markets like Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Open Door's largest two markets in Texas are actually really low. Right? They have all of the metrics of top markets for Open Door. And that's sort of the proxy that we've been using for Texas markets is think like price cut, percent pending, et cetera.
As additional context, just in case people are confused why we have stayed on price cuts, but not on their actual margins. Listing stator is actually wearable. So if a home sales on the open market, we can kind of guess based on the last listed price, sales price in the MLS what the actual sales price was. But the purchase prices are not so Open Door doesn't purchase on the open market. They buy this privately from sellers. That is not reported in the deed data. So there's only six data on their purchase price.
We see their listing prices. We see how many price cuts they are making until the home sells. And that's what you're saying is way better than a market like Phoenix. So it's unlikely that the margin is anywhere close as negative as Phoenix or San Francisco. Right. Like Phoenix and San Francisco have mean price cuts maybe in the five plus percent range per home, whereas Dallas, Fort Worth, for example, Open Door's largest market in Texas is real is closer to 2%, right, which is even better than a market like Atlanta, which is perennial.
Leave one of Open Door's stronger mark. Basically what I'm saying is the Texas markets outside of Austin, Austin's pretty bad. But Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, 80% of Open Door's Texas business all have the metrics of markets with positive unit economics. And so that brings us to option number three to explain this delta or this discrepancy.
留下开放门户的强烈印象之一。基本上我是在说,奥斯汀以外的德克萨斯市场很好,奥斯汀很糟糕。但是达拉斯、沃思堡、休斯顿、圣安东尼奥,这四个城市80%的Open Door 德克萨斯业务都有市场积极单元经济指标。因此,这就引出了我们解释这种差异的第三种选择。
And that's that Open Door is granting seller or buyer credits to increase the velocity of transactions. And there's precedence for this, right, that happened, for example, at the end of September, so the end of Q3 so that Open Door would be able to, you know, close on more sales, offload more of this Q2 inventory. And there's actually an economic benefit for it, right, every day that Open Door owns these Q2 homes that are never going to make a profit.
Open Door将向卖家或买家提供信贷,以提高交易速度。这种做法已经有先例,例如在9月底,也就是第三季度结束时发生过这种情况,这使得Open Door能够更多地完成销售,卸货更多第二季度的库存。实际上,这样做还有经济上的好处,每天Open Door拥有这些永远不能盈利的第二季度住房。
Open Door is paying property tax, HOA, right, maintenance fees, selling fees, marketing, all the above. And so offloading this inventory as quickly as possible is a benefit to Open Door. And so it makes sense to incentivize these sales. The problem with this as an explanation is it's completely invisible to data methodology, right? It's invisible to scraping.
Open Door公司正在支付财产税、物业所有者协会费、维护费、销售费用、营销费用,以及以上所有费用。因此,尽快卸下这些库存对于Open Door公司有利。因此,激励这些销售是有意义的。但这个解释的问题是它完全看不到数据方法论,对于爬虫来说也是看不到的。
And so it creates a lot of variability in collecting data. And I think that we saw that for Q4, the gross margin results were 200 basis points worse than expected. And we certainly saw it for Q1 where Open Door guided for even worse gross margins than Q4. And we're seeing an improvement in margins in Q1. So I think that definitely bears discussion as well. Yeah.
And what you mentioned, what's different from Q3 is that they announced what kind of commission bonuses they give to agents that we could incorporate that into our estimates. This time we didn't even know this was going on. There was some reports on Reddit, but you'd never know how widespread it is. If they only go giving seller credits on a few homes, they always give seller credits on a few homes or what the scale was and what the data shows is the scale of seller credits and rate buy downs was probably quite big.
Yeah, but that brings us to the last point that you mentioned is like the Q1 guidance is not at all what we are seeing the data for Q1 so far. Q1 has been quite an impressive quarter so far, right? Yeah.
So we've seen pretty much week on week with the exception of maybe two weeks, an improvement in open doors gross margin since mid-November, right? Like every week it's it's it's increased. The trend is going like this.
So mid-November, middle of Q4, right? And now we're at the end of February, so two thirds of the way through Q1. You were expecting open door to guide for positive gross margins in Q1 and then they turned around and guided for negative 5% gross margins, which is worse than their guidance for Q4. For Q4, they guided negative 4.4%.
They posted negative 3.2. Now for Q1, they're guiding for negative 5%. It's just the discrepancy doesn't make sense and I think that this is another reason why we're gravitating towards this explanation that open doors offering these seller credits to ensure that these transactions happen.
I think another piece of data to support that point is that in Q4, 90% of open door sales were the Q2 offer cohort. In Q1, 60% of open door sales are from the Q2 offer cohort. But it's important to understand that for any given cohort of homes, the first homes that you sell are the best homes in the cohort. We've talked about this in the past, the lemon problem. The farther along you get into that cohort, the deeper you get, the worse those homes become. And so, ostensibly, you're in a situation where in Q1 and Q2, selling off these remnant Q2 offer cohort homes is going to require more incentives, more work. And it potentially lower margins.
Ideally, we'd see this in the actual bot and sold margin data, but it seems like open door is doing this sort of just with the seller. And so, the only people that know the actual value are open door themselves and the individual trans actor. I think what's important to mention is this is not necessarily worse than what they have in write down in Q3, right?
They made it in terms of gap numbers, they made a huge write down in Q3 saying, hey, all the homes we have on our books from your Q2 offer cohort say will be massively negative, negative growth margins. What we expected is that this was a very conservative outlook and because it was such a massive write-off, did we will see kind of advancing out more, especially gap numbers, which was also worse than expected in Q1. And now, there's a lot of hope out there that so how write down work, I guess we have to explain it, write down only account for negative margins.
So they are forecasting or trying to anticipate what price all those homes they have on the books will sell and they take all the negative growth margins of those homes and take them as a write down. It excludes all the homes they might make money on. So those would balance it out and maybe push them into a more positive gap accounting because write down is only a just inventory values negatively, you never increased it about.
So now looking to Q1, which will report in May, they will have a large or majority of their homes sold, right? And at that point, we can see is was it worse than they expected in Q3 or was it as about this they expected? Right. And I think it's also important to emphasize too is it's February the 26th right now, right?
And so there's one month left in Q1, but for real estate data, we have access like through data door, we have access to pending data. And so for us, the quarter is already over, right? We already know all of the transactions that are going to happen in the quarter. We know the gross margins, we know the revenue, we know, you know what I mean? We have all of the data basically except for the number of homes purchased.
And so for us, knowing all these data and seeing open doors guidance for the quarter, it's really hard to reconcile the differences because they're huge. It's an enormous difference between what we're seeing in the data and what open door guided for. And I think that that's been one of the more shocking parts of receiving the data and also doing the research this weekend that kind of led to this podcast.
And it's not even just on the bottom line, even the top line is quite surprising, right? Here it goes. So, yeah, we will, I guess, see in the next few weeks as those pending close as well as when Q1 is announced how different it is.
This is like some form of sand bagging to come out in Q1 with maybe a more surprising outcome. It would be a strange strategy. You don't want to be sand bagging at the point where they are right now. But maybe that's part of it. I hope that's not a strategy because I, yeah, I would not recommend that one.
But knowing theory, I, or at least knowing kind of about her style and everything she seems kind of like a no nonsense type person. Obviously she's been responsible probably for the majority of the estimate so far throughout her tenure as open doors, CFO and now C, CEO. And they've always sand bagged a bit. But this would be, this would be more than we're okay with, right? This is, this isn't like a beaten raise kind of situation. This is, this is like a huge departure from what the data say. Yep.
Talking about some of the other things that carry, try to guide towers, the next few, two quarters. One question that always came up is about their acquisition pace. When we have been talking since the end of last year, begin of this year is, openly has massively reduced the number of homes they're purchasing. We are done to like a few hundred homes a week. I think they're listing about 200 homes consistently over the last few.
One hundred homes a week in acquisition volume right now. They mentioned that we should expect a pickup in volume as we move through the second quarter. So I guess we won't see much anymore in the Q1 data for context. Our purchase data is basically four weeks delayed. It takes four to six weeks to complete the report data to county assessors. There's no forward looking data. We can look at the findings. So we just have to wait it out. That means we probably won't see anything, any increase until the end of April, right? That's what they're kind of hinting towards.
They also talked a little bit about them increasing or decreasing spreads a little bit. I guess they saw some of that home home activity, home size activity going a lot better than they seasonally expected in January and cut down on spreads. But they also said, hey, as soon as we're seeing that data turn around, we're going to fix back up there. So there's not a lot of hope for going back into a growth mode anytime soon.
That's kind of gets us to the next topic, which is they talked about what the past deposited to adjusted net income is and when that might happen. So what they carefully talked about is becoming adjusted net income positive by mid 2024 with revenue run rate of $10 billion, which is again, a hat scratcher because we are right now on a higher revenue run rate than tell them billion dollar and know we're close there.
And probably indicates that the next quarters of the Q1 will be not even close to the same revenue that aligns with the purchase data that we are seeing. They just won't be enough homes to sell. And probably they're going to increase turrets where they were at scale again of $10 billion run rate, which they say is basically the scale that were in 2019 by mid 2024.
Yeah, and I think the important point here is that revenue doesn't matter. For open-door revenue never mattered. It never contributed to stock price. When open-door had 5 billion revenue per quarter, the stock price was just falling. It was in freefall. No one cares about revenue for open-door because it's considered low-quality revenue. And so I, as a shareholder, am not so much worried with open-door guiding for lower revenue. What I'm most interested in is them finding a profitable business.
And so I don't care if it's 2 billion in revenue because there's no multiples that open-door is being valued on that are based on revenue, right? It's all about profitability, especially in this down market. And so if open-door confines to a profitable business somewhere in that space, then I'm all for it, even if it's at the lower.
I mean, I remember we were talking about this last year and the year before when it seemed like this housing market would go forever that 40 billion revenue a year didn't seem unreasonable, right? They're barely scratching the surface of penetration in the United States. If I buyers got to 10%, for example, that's a $600 billion business in a year like 2024.
Yeah, but basically what they're telling us with that is that they expect drastically change their cost structure, because adjusted net income positive is something we've only seen at $20 plus billion in revenue, which would be double what they are saying, expecting for next year. And the explanation here was that they are working on removing 100 business points of margin of actual costs from the system. There wasn't much more explanation to that.
There could be things that they were pushing out for a long time because they thought they can scale things with people instead of automation that they're now identifying and it's the right time to solve them. It could be meaning because they're reducing acquisitions and sales, they're going to need a lot less. That's a lot of stuff that is variable versus people that they actually hire, right? It could be part of that, but still has crazy, even with 100 basis points cuts, it's kind of we're not getting to adjusted income with 10 billion in revenue. So there's a little bit of a crash mark, especially since Kerry said there's not a lot of assumptions with asset light, capital light, parts of the business contributing to that. So it's not going to be the third party marketplace. It's not going to be by with open door or a list of open door that makes up a big amount to get there.
Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And as you said, she didn't really outline much in the way of specific policies or measures that we're going to lower costs so substantially. I think to you in me it makes sense, right? Open door was positioned for hyper growth mode. Basically, since they went public, they were scaling as rapidly as possible. They were buying as many homes as possible. They were able to push Zillow off a ledge because of that tactic.
And so the idea that a company that's hiring and growing and focused on so many different bets and moonshots can suddenly pull all that back and save at least 100 basis points of the cost structure seems pretty likely. And I know that she said that third party and list with open door won't be material parts of this estimation, but they will be, right? They have to be for this company.
And so I think those are probably two topics worth discussing, right? The change in the goals for third party, but then also the real nugget, I thought, like the best part of the whole earnings call was for commentary around the product market that they found with list with open door or list with certainty.
Yeah, talking about third party, I guess the big shocker or for us, it's not a shocker because we were quite critical of the goal in the first place is last year they were talking about getting to 30% of their sales going through their marketplace. And goal seemingly got revised or clarified that it's going to be 30% of sales in the markets where they rose, which currently is Houston, Dallas and Austin and a very different goal than what we heard last year.
Yeah, yeah. I think Eric will talk to Ben Thompson about the Sunsertetri in November or December or whatever it was. And that's the project that he's currently leading is getting exclusives to be this material proportion of open doors overall transaction volume. And I think we've been critical of this plan from the start, right? Because like I said, a data door, we monitor exclusives volume, both first party and third party.
It's hard to imagine for a company selling 40,000, 30,000 homes a year that open door can suddenly get to 10,000 homes sold through this third party marketplace within a year. It just seems like an impossible amount of skill. And a few months later on the earnings call this past Thursday, Kerry confirmed our skepticism and said that only in the markets that open doors currently activated, they're going to be 30%.
I think what was exciting to hear her say with that significant caveat is that they're really working on the product number one to make sure that when they do scale it, it's right. But number two, that they were going to be adding more markets this year. And I think that that's really important.
Although when I do the math in my head right now, it's Austin DFW in Houston, right? That's like 80 plus percent of open doors Texas market, which is historically like one fifth to one fourth of open doors overall book of business.
So it's a significant percentage of homes, right? I haven't done the math on it just yet, but if open door actually did get to 30% in 20% that's 6% of the overall business. I'd still be pretty happy with that. And it would definitely contribute to the bottom line at least.
That's back in the Mac napkin math, but probably 50 basis points in gross margin, maybe a little bit less. Which I mean, it all helps write 100 basis points of cost saving plus 50 basis point improvement and gross margins that that's a, I mean, that's a big swing in the viability of this business and certainly cash burn.
And we've seen a lot of movement on open doors to usives in the last few weeks. Obviously we saw third party number of third party listings increase. I think for the first time they were more third party exclusives listed than actually third party exclusives, which is to write the right direction.
The other thing we saw is a little experimenting and failing up in filling up the content of the page, right? Especially in Austin, we were at the point where they only had like eight listings on the page.
Something they're experimenting with right now, which we discovered last week is that they're actually listing their own first party homes that on the MLS also on exclusives so that a buyer can buy the same homes that open to a list on the MLS directly from open door for a cheaper price. Basically without the buyer agent commission with the same benefits of any other exclusive home. So 50k, a price match and everything else that comes with it is another interesting development.
It's probably what we would like to see nationwide. An ability for buyers to directly buy homes from open door would be a massive post improvement to the whole business. We'll need to see how that evolves in the next few months.
And what they're trying to do, the product that they're trying to fill the void of not having the exclusive available nationwide is a list with certain. It's a semi new product from open door.
They offered list with open door for some time in the last few years where basically they connected you with an agent if you really wanted to list your home on MLS instead of taking a cash offer and it was kind of one of the options that were buried somewhere.
What they did, experiment with in the last few months, which they mentioned on their earnings class, like they're they explicitly promote list with certainty. As an additional product to get in your cash offer to sellers where spreads in markets where spreads are really high.
So if you're coming to open door to get an offer, they're using for the first time, they're aggressively using this funnel of seller leads to actually get them to agents, which is something that was they would have been obvious for a long time.
It's something they could have tapped into for a long time, but they only decided now to. And what do you think about that, Tyler?
这是他们本可以长期利用的东西,但他们直到现在才决定去做。Tyler,你对此有何看法?
I, so like I said, I thought this is the best part of the earnings call in granted. I think a lot of the earnings call left me a scratch in my head and a little bit frustrated. But this I thought was sort of the exciting point of the earnings call.
What you would open door saying is that when it provides an offer for a homeowner, it doesn't always convert those homeowners. And in fact, it's only converting about 10% right now given that it's offering such low values for homes that it can be safe, right, and maintain positive unit economics for all the homes that it purchases.
And so I think what they've realized is there's still a large percentage of people that are high intent home sellers that open door wants to monetize these are leads, right. And so as opposed to selling to the zilos and the red fins of the world, right, what open door is doing is they're saying, okay, we understand that this price isn't right for you.
But I think it's valuable to have this offer in your back pocket. And so what if you list with us, right, what if we connect to you with other potential home buyers and other offers and we'll take a small cut of the eventual sale.
And at the end of the day, if you don't find anything that you like, you can always sell to us and you have a guarantee cash offer. And what they found is that 20 to 25%.
This number is enormous, right? Like 10% right now are converting to an open to traditional open door offer. 20 to 25% are converting to this list with open door list with certainty. And what that means is that open door is taking a completely profit, like 100% profit cut from these home transactions.
What is it, Sebastian? One and a half percent, one, one percent. How much is it? Yeah, so we don't know the fee structure of the new list with certainty product, but based on the all list with open door product, basically charging us 5% commission fee to the seller, which is equal to the 5% they would make open door to get the cash offer. One percent of that goes to open door, 1.5% goes to the partner agent that works with the list at home and 2.5% go to the buy agent.
Yeah, which is the perm depending on the market, but it's like the default by a small commission. So at least 1% of that home sale is going to open door, right? In that situation, open door didn't have to use any of its balance sheet to not to use any leveraging to not have to pay H away. It didn't have to pay repairs, didn't have to pay property taxes, right? And open door is still getting 1% of that home and that's really important that open door has found that space. And while it's not exactly third party, right, that was at least a 3% profit on those homes.
20 to 25% of open doors, not insignificant funnel converting to this list with open door to get 1%. I think is going to be a meaningful component of open doors business.
Now the question is how did they suddenly find this product and why did they revive it? Here's my theory for why. In 2021, growth companies, private companies reached astronomical valuations, right? Investing was fun and that has changed, right?
In 2022, investing became not fun, particularly if you like technology companies. If you like boring companies, it was probably just fine for you, but companies like open door, really real estate technology companies, suffered. And the reason I bring that up is because you can't really raise at this point in prop tech. Like if you didn't have the cash to survive this downturn, you're really struggling. Take a look at ribbon.
They recently laid off nearly 90% of their staff because it's so hard right now, right? Home transactions are down 50% year-over-year, at least early on. And home values are down as well. And so what I'm getting at is that the power buyers, right? The companies like Orchard River, Ribbon, Knock, they're really struggling. And so I think in 2021, when they were all very well monetized, well funded, aggressively aiming at growth, they could compete against the open doors in this power buyer space, which is what list with open doors is. In 2023, these companies are weak, right? They are devitalized in anemic. And I think open door is recognizing that opportunity as a better funded public entity with a bigger balance sheet of more opportunistic, I guess, to take advantage of this space and fill this need.
Because other companies have gone before them and kind of created this product market fit, open doors kind of capitalizing on that in this down market. Yeah, it's, it's assassinating.
因为其他公司已经先他们一步创造了这种产品市场适合度,开发了这个下行市场的机会。是的,它非常成功。
I wouldn't call it, it's a very creative way of, of using a cellophangle to still be able to capture part of the transaction that might happen anyway of serious sellers. What's interesting is the certain deep part. So the product they had before is just list with open door. So you, we connect you to a cell agent, then you're going to do the regular MLS listing. And you obviously can get an open door offer, but that will explain 14 days.
What the certain deep piece means here is that while you're listing on the MLS, you can fall back to the open door offer at any time. I wonder what the conditions here are is for 60 days, the for 90 days, really forever. They would be kind of weird. But basically if you see nobody's wants to buy them at home, you can put it off market. You don't pay anything and you take the, the, the off door and at that point, it's a regular seller conversion. We probably like to bear high spreads, right?
It's basically like the third party marketplace. Yes, it's very similar to the third party marketplace where the market place is just a regular MLS, but it's, it's using the same, it's solving the same problem for the seller. So they, they know, they're some of this marketplace is not ready yet to be rolled up nationwide. It probably would take a do a disservice to then iterating on a product if they decide to go outside of taxes and know they have to deal with it in different ways, home transactions work in each market while iterating on a product, messing things up, keeping it small, iterating on that when they're ready, they're going to draw up more, expect by the end of 2023.
But in the meantime, they figured out this, this twist on the product they had before to still convert sellers, which I have to give them a little credit to. It's an interesting approach. Obviously, it's hard to see other than what the Open Door is going to record on that. It's going to be hard to capture data on this on how successful it is, but it's promising.
Yeah, I mean, I would, I would go so far as to say that this is the economics of the listing with Open Door model is maybe one and a half percent to Open Door, right? In terms of profit. For exclusives currently, third party is 3% of the home sale price. I would go so far as to say that if there's significant regulatory issues or difficulty scaling, the third party marketplace list with Open Door is a product that no one else can can bill. Similar to the exclusives marketplace outside of Offerpad, but they just don't have the scale for it, I think currently.
And it seems like they've already found product market fit if they're converting 20 to 25% of sellers, right? Basically, what they're saying is it costs you an extra one and a half percent to eat even that. I mean, we don't know, we don't know the economics of the transaction just yet, but basically what it's saying is you have a guaranteed offer in your back pocket, but we will help facilitate your home sale. We'll, we'll take some of the, some of the burden off you.
And actually, with all of the other like appraisal match guarantee and all the other benefits that you get in the third party marketplace, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if the, the margin, like the actual gross margin of the third party, or sorry, the list with Open Door sales are similar to the third party marketplace. And theoretically, it can be available nationwide today.
Right. We don't know. We're open market. I just turned the road out. Yeah. Yes. Just what's interesting here and maybe we can dive into this a little bit deeper next time. But it obviously for Open Door, it also has an impact on their potential sales price of the home. If the home was listed once and taking off the market. If the seller, the says list with Open Door and then out there, what? Okay, I don't get any offers. I'm just going to take the cash offer. Then home has an MLS entry saying it was taking off the market, which usually indicates that it's not a great home. Like it has an impact on valuation.
I guess that there's also covered by the increased spreads at that point. It's a really fascinating topic. You have to model it in because the homes that do convert to an Open Door sale, you need a bigger spread in the homes that don't, you probably wouldn't. Right. So it's interesting. It's an interesting data problem for smarter people than me. I guess we need to do another episode.
We talked about this last time on all of Open Door's power bank, cable booths, both on the buy with Open Door site and list with certainty now. It's pretty fascinating.
All right. We are already 40 minutes in. So let's cover one last topic. I feel like we're going to have to do another episode on all the things that came up in those air ninks because it has been a lot. And there was a lot of shocking news is it was not mentioned on the earnings call, but there was an SEC Friday that Daniel Marillo chief investment officer left to come. Resigned. I think it was a resignation. Yeah. Yeah.
I was a little shocked about this. I've read the interviews and spoken briefly with the guy who was Daniel Marillo before Daniel Marillo. And a lot of ex open door employees who all really respect him and sort of his contribution to the company. I've also met Daniel Marillo one time. We chatted briefly about Zillow's demise and how Open Door responded in Q3 of 2021. I think it's a shock.
He's obviously been an integral part of Open Door performance as a public company and he's run the entire pricing team since they went public. And so seeing him leave, plus the reshuffle in late Andrew Loweky, caring move in the CEO, Eric, moving to president marketplace. There's been a lot of changes from the company, you know, a C suite that went public a few years ago.
Yeah. I guess we will need to monitor Daniel's LinkedIn profile is like he had plans for something else that where he thought this time might be more well-spent than an open door. If there was a more disagreement at the top and he left and just going to go on vacation for a four year, that will be interesting to look at. We will never hear the full story here probably. Well unless Daniel comes on the show and tells us I can tell you this, he can make a lot more money working pretty much anywhere that he's qualified for outside of Open Door. Right? Definitely took a pay cut coming from Citadel to Open Door.
All right, I think that was a good summary of the most surprising things we heard last week. We are still planning to do a Twitter spaces.
好的,我认为上周听到的最令人惊讶的事情已经总结得很好了。我们仍在计划进行Twitter空间会议。
I guess we have to explain. We had a Twitter spaces. We had a few things that we had to do for the first day of earnings. But before earnings, we canceled before earnings. A lot of people speculated that after we sold earnings we just canceled it.
Then about the case. We read about that shock. Yeah. Timing, and emergency situation at work. Right? Yeah. We can share the facts to confirm the timing of this event. It definitely wasn't because Open Door's results were very different than what we expected. I have a different day job and it's not very flexible and something came up and I couldn't make the spaces.
Yeah. So we probably scheduled this maybe for next week or this week. This week or this week. We will take any of your questions and we're looking forward to talk to you.
是的,所以可能我们把这个安排在下周或者这周。我们很乐意回答你的任何问题,期待与你交流。
Make sure to follow us on Twitter and obviously get a data door subscription to read all of our follow up that will come in next few weeks and months. How we think Q1 will look like and beyond. And it's going to be an event for next few months. And we will be here to talk about it.
And on the way down then hopefully on the way up. Yeah, hopefully eventually there's a way up that I'd like to see that myself. What is somber episodes? Our beds. We'll make it there. There are some of these. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I left a few times. I think it's a tough time to be a growth stock investor and particularly hard to be a prop to investor. But Openore is a plan. They're a smart company and they have a lot of opportunity ahead.
And I think for the most part they have a monopoly on the space. They're certainly not competing for price with a competitor. And so I think that's important. And Zillow was around. It was a trickier time. Offer pads around and certainly they're doing fine as well. It's just they're competing at a different volume than Openore right now.
And they too are trying to just survive this current dislocation. And so if either of these companies can make it through, there's a huge opportunity to be a middle man in residential real estate. But in the meantime, there's a lot of speculation and a lot to sort of follow and trend to figure out if it's going to happen.
And I hope it does because I really do think that we need innovation in a residential real estate transaction. There never has really been innovation in this space. And that's why I think both of us get so passionate about this issue and why we've defended companies that are attempting it. But it's a tough time. It's a tough time to be attempting it. And so we're going to keep following it.