Welcome to the seventh episode of the Data Door Front Purchase podcast. We have a packed show today. Fuck, it's not a picture. Okay, let's start again. I put them up. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it sells better when we call it a back show.
All right. Welcome to the seventh episode of the Data Door Front Purchase podcast. We have an exciting show today. We will talk about the topic of the weekend. Silicon Valley Bank going under and what that means for open door. What is the relationship between Silicon Valley Bank and Open Door right now? We will talk about this with certainty.
好的,欢迎收听第七期 Data Door Front Purchase 播客。今天我们有一个令人兴奋的节目。我们将谈论周末的话题。硅谷银行破产了,这对 Open Door 意味着什么?硅谷银行和 Open Door 目前的关系是什么?我们将确定地谈论这个问题。
Something we heard about in the areas called. We talked a little bit about it in our last discussion. They may own on Twitter Spaces last week. We're going to dive into that a bit more. And then lastly, we have a listener question on how great pending margins look like a forebender. So these are our free main topics today.
Let's jump into this situation with SVD. It's right now it's an evolving situation for us. It's a someday evening in the US time. The situation right now is that another bank signature bank failed and this had stepped in and guaranteed full deposit for both signature bank and Silicon Valley bank for everybody to get their money out on Monday, which is really positive after the weekend went and how much screaming there wasn't on Twitter. But more importantly, for this podcast is like what was or installation of open door and how could this affect them? Title of this.
Any information that. Yeah, so so I commented about this on Twitter this this past week when I heard about it. I heard from one of my sources. Who I trust that open door has less than 1% of their capital in Silicon Valley bank and none of their critical business accounts are run out of Silicon Valley bank, which was encouraging to hear. I mean, it's a move point now because it sounds like no one's going to be missing their money anyways.
But I will say there is a historic relationship between Silicon Valley bank and open door and a lot of the founders of open door have recognized the idea that without Silicon Valley bank support early on, there probably wouldn't be an open door. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of disruptive and private technology companies and Silicon Valley over the past few decades who, you know, partnered with Silicon Valley bank. So I think overall and maybe maybe this is a separate topic.
I mean, when you look into the cause of all of this, it really does appear to be mismanaged funds. But I will say it's a huge blow for the startup community and it's unfortunate to see because Silicon Valley was very important for founders. Yeah. There's probably some other better podcast to cover like what actually went wrong here. It probably wouldn't have just the fact that Silicon Valley bank, but as we see now with signature bank and and probably some other banks that are in this in no situation where they have to be very long duration but low interest instruments that wouldn't be worth the same as they were when rates were lower.
So if everybody is going to get for their money and the bank would probably not be able to cover the amounts of time in time, I guess that's what happened here. The spicy thing is because in Silicon Valley a lot, it's a lot about herd mentality. Everybody is running to the same sectors. If it's crypto or like AI, everybody wants to fund the same things. Obviously, if the big VC companies tell their companies to pull up money out of Silicon Valley bank, everybody else was also running after the money. I think in the end what happened on Fridays that 25% of deposits, like over 40 billion dollars, I got fired out and that kind of result in whatever shock we saw after that.
And the risk is that this could happen to other banks. So that's why they've had stepped in and said, hey, all the deposits, not just the insured part, we will cover them from the right decision. I think just a double tap on that. And like you said, this isn't really the podcast to go into exactly what happened, but I think we can we can simplify this a little bit.
I think there's there's two things that you look for for security in a bank when you have a massive deposit, right? One is how much of it is insured by the federal government and only banks really have that designation that's part of what gives them power as banks, right? But then the other thing is how much liquidity does that bank have? And the liquidity profile, how much cash do they actually have available in the event that there is a bank run so they could cover all deposits, right? So that ratio is really important.
And I think a lot of the, you know, the really powerful banks in the United States, right, like the JP Morgan, the Wells Fargo bank for America, those types of company, they have massive liquidity profiles because of the 2008 financial crisis.
But for Silicon Valley bank, you know, you, you look at what happened in the past couple of years, you think open door, mistimed mortgage rates and interest rates, right? Like Silicon Valley bank was even worse, right? They bought 80 billion of mortgage back securities when interest rates were near zero, trying to get a 1.5% yield.
And then the Fed raised interest rate 75 basis points four times and then again, you know, 50, et cetera. And you're in a situation where those 80 billion dollars of assets are only gaining 1.5%. When you're consumer bank, it like sofi or whatever is giving you 4%.
People start wanting more yield on their funds. And I think because Silicon Valley bank didn't have very much of their assets ensured by the federal government number one, but two really just didn't have a liquidity.
Compared to their deposits, they're in a situation where a bank run made it very easy for them to go under. Yeah, it will be interesting what the consequences of this are in the next two months.
和他们的存款相比,他们很容易陷入银行崩盘的情境。接下来两个月内的后果会很有趣。
I mean, people are speculating from when maybe rate hikes will slow down or stop, which is obviously great for mortgage rates probably, but who knows what else will break in this environment?
Yeah, what? Well, this important to know is you mentioned as far as we know, open door when we had very small amount of money and Silicon Valley bank.
嗯,什么事?嗯,需要知道的是,你提到当我们只有很少的资金和硅谷银行的时候开放了门户。
Obviously, public companies don't disclose who they're lending or banking partners are. This is not part of any rules. I don't think anybody discloses that.
So, so we don't know for sure if any of their lending facilities are there or not. But there's a really great podcast that dot phrase that on the focus the operator.
所以,我们不能确定他们是否拥有任何贷款设施。但有一个非常好的播客,在焦点运营商上提到了这一点。
I think the podcast is from Damien, who is at Sounders Fund is very, very great podcast that gives you a history of open doors capital stack from like founding to post IPO or the podcast is from 2021.
I really recommend listening to that if you're really interested in how the sausages may sell on the capital stack of hope, nor and thought specifically said that like Silicon Valley bank was not the right partner to scale and really get to the to the red cost structure.
And I think that's the other point that's important to double tap here is Silicon Valley bank would be a great partner for risky, unproven business model, right, like a startup.
And because of that increased risk, their interest rates, right, how much they're expected to earn on those assets is a lot higher than you might get at a different bank. That's okay, perhaps, you know, for software companies that are more early stage mid stage and open door early stage, but for company like open door, which is looking for 10% gross profit margins maximum capital efficiency is really, really important and you want the lowest cost structure for your for your debt for your access to financing and Silicon Valley bank is absolutely not that person, right, like they're just it's just a different business model.
And so I think really important upfront for open door, but it wouldn't make sense for open door to have any significance or large proportion of funding with Silicon Valley bank at this stage of their life cycle.
Yeah, and it is really important to state like that because she had a lot of speculation on Twitter where because of some headlines people expected the open doors like hundreds of funded by see confetti bank.
That's just how this works. It would make sense with what's been going on the past year if that was the end, but it's just not true. So yeah, all right, I'm glad we covered this.
Like what we should expect when next week or maybe we shouldn't anymore because of the announcement from the Fed, but like on Friday, a lot of public companies filed an 8k, a announcement of doing material impact to their business.
So a real good answer that they had like price 100 million dollars in in Silicon Valley bank, we hope that we will see something from this from open to as well, because even 1% if it's if you're thinking about a quarterly basis, if that 1% would be gone, it would be kind of material.
I think they would have until Wednesday to file this there in a few days, but at this point, we might not even see that fighting anymore because there is no material impact. So we might never know how much money, but actually had the same come value bank, but like it's unlikely that it's a big amount.
I don't want open door leadership, right, like the C suite to tweet like Elon Musk, but it would be nice every once in a while to just get a few comment.
我不希望领导们像C级干部一样开放,就像Elon Musk一样推特,但是偶尔得到一些评论会很不错。
Imagine if Carrie just logged on to her Twitter with, you know, she's like never on Twitter, but if she just logged on and she was she was like, hey, we don't have any capital in Silicon Valley bank or we had X percentage and just the sigh of relief from the investment community, wouldn't that be a great use of social media, you know what I mean from from like crisis management perspective and investor relations.
I just feel like some of these things it would it would just be really nice if it was just solves, you know, with five seconds of work in a bathroom break.
我只是觉得,如果一些事情能够在上洗手间休息五秒钟的时间内就解决了的话,那将会非常好。
Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, there is obviously something to it that you don't want to be on Twitter, especially when you're open because basically 90% what you get is hate and your customers are not there. There's nothing that really is great. There's an advantage to business to be on Twitter every day as Carrie we look, but in these cases, yeah, just like FYI something like that would have been helpful.
It's not everyone relax, everything is fine, don't worry. I feel like those are the code words for like get your money out right now, right? We've learned that from Silicon Valley bank CEO and obviously Sam Bankman freed they both did the exact same thing. And then the next day the company went under wild. Yeah, I guess in hindsight, it's also good to just wait a few more days and then in primary source that tells me as well, but yeah, some more communication would be helpful.
Yeah, I mean, at least we're around to kind of report the years, I guess that that leaves space for us. Maybe maybe that's what it is. It's just like, I don't know, Sebastian Tyler will take care of it sometime. We will take care of investor relations.
All right. Talking about taking care of people. Open door announced a really interesting new product on last year and it's called list with certainty. What list with certainty is it's currently. A small experimental trial that looks really promising. I think that's that's what we heard from the earnings call.
It's another option for sellers that come to open door to sell their home for more basic needs. It's an option for sellers to list on the MLS deal. And that's a product that opened their head before like last year, it was always kind of a hidden option that can come here and they take advantage of the family. If you really want to sell an MLS, you can you can use open during the in the part of the agent.
What's interesting here is that open door will give you a backup offer. So you list on MLS. Maybe your home is there now for six weeks, but you really need to move in two months. So you can see if you get any additional autism MLS. And then if you don't still take open doors, slightly discounted offer.
It's kind of. It sounds very similar to sell different party marketplace data building. Just without the marketplace part, right Tyler? Yeah, I mean, I think we talked about a little bit about this before the show, but I think one of the things that you mentioned is it's very similar to like the redfin product or the Zillow products, right with the premier agent or you know the redfin agent.
But the big difference here is that it has a certainty kicker, which is what you were touching on, right? It's it's like list your home with this agent, get better, you know, more eyeballs, more traffic, etc. But with open door, you also have an offer in your back pocket, which we've talked about this for the marketplace, right? Like that this product can't be built anywhere else because nobody else is buying homes, like open door.
但这里的主要区别是,它有一个确定性奖励,这是你提到的,对吧?就像是你把房子列在这个房产经纪人那里,会得到更好的曝光、更多的流量等。但是 Open Door 也提供一个备用报价,我们已经在市场上谈论过这个问题,对吗?就像这个产品不能在任何地方建立,因为没有其他人像 Open Door 一样买房子。
And so I think that's that's a big value ad here is that one that open door can is the only one that can build this product and it has a greater value proposition than even Zillow and redfin. But two, and this is another thing that we were talking about before the show and perhaps even more important is you don't need to build a marketplace for lists with certainty to have value right to be scalable.
And that's what this is what differentiates list of certainty with the third party marketplace, right? The third party marketplace is going to be a tough thing to build and we've already seen that because they walked back projections for what percentage of transactions this would be materially right away from 30% to like 5% over the space of a few months, expected percent of transactions at the end of 2023.
And the reason is because it's really hard to build a marketplace because you have to aggregate supply to create the demand, you have to create network, network effects. And so I think the third party marketplace has never been built before and it's going to take a lot more work probably than than they assumed upfront.
And so that's that's kind of on one side, but the list with certainty, I mean, you can add that into any of open doors, current markets and really begin to see significant scale, especially since they're talking about 20 to 25% conversion for the list with certainty product in their one market.
Yeah, so in their early experiments, it showed that 20 to 25% conversion rate of new sellers, that means they're looking at us that actually ended up selling their home one and less of some other means versus 10% which is the Korean conversion rate on the first party offers.
So, it's a way for them to monetize their funnel of seller leads, right. And they don't necessarily have to give them to like another platform, they don't have to send them to Zillow or to redfin. They can do this in house, they have partner agents with a pretty solid economic incentive. If we look at what the seller would pay, they would still pay a 5% fee, which is lower than the 6% you would pay with a regular realtor and that sees them shared with partner agent.
It's likely if the economics are anything that they were in the past with list with all lists with open or product, it's probably like 1.5% that goes to open door and then there's a part that goes to the by agent and their risk goes to the part agent. It's a pretty great capital light product and on the fall back offer, obviously that fall back offer is this kind of the drawback, right.
You cannot give the same offer that you would have given if it was listed on MLS because obviously if the home lists once and it gets removed from the market, it's actually the next buyer is looking at the history of that home and says, hey, that was listed never sold. It likely is not worth what it was worth when it was initially listed, which gives a head to the value of the whole. So there's a discount that a deeper discount for open door when buying this home as well.
Just an upset in a downside, it's a downside for the seller definitely. I'm doing a downside of the sellers for the seller, I think where I'm a little bit concerned here, there's going to be a lot of options for sellers, right. Let's say in the year from now and a year and a half from now, they have their first party offer, there's the first party marketplace and there's list of open door.
There's a decision that the seller has to make between free choices, obviously will capture that been kind of an interesting into a flow through the whole person that makes sense for the summer, you see your first party offer, if you're not happy with it, you have the options to listen to the first party marketplace for a week with one showing. And then if you're still not happy with any of the offers, you can list those on the MLS which did the backstop offer, but it's a lot less, lot less certainly than what we have a year ago.
We go to open door, you get an amazing offer that is at market rate because we had crazy home press adriciation and there's no reason to not say yesterday. It's I almost wonder if there's some sort of goal to list homes concurrently like lists on the MLS in addition to being listed on the marketplace, I don't know what the regulatory stances on that, but from a consumer perspective, if open door was just like, hey, we're in charge of selling your home.
Give us the information we're going to list the MLS, we're going to list on our exclusives marketplace, you can choose, but we'll get, we'll simulate all these offers for you and explain them, you know what I mean, I feel like as a consumer that that would be most valuable to me as opposed to, you know, we study residential real estate, right, but if let's say that we don't and we're just trying to sell our home.
Like you said, if I, if I have to go through this funnel and just be like, I don't know, like I've seen. I don't know, like I've three options and they, they all require a lot of fine print that could be a little bit confusing, but if it's just like, hey, either take this cash offer or we will sell your home, that seems like an easier funnel for me to walk through easier for me to convert.
And probably faster from a sales perspective for open doors, well, because if they're listening on the MLS and trying to get offers plus, assimilating offers on exclusives, right, those two things are happening at the same time, which whatever, whichever one is faster wins, you know, in that idea, but I don't know, we haven't gotten any, any commentary around that.
Ideally, I would go to open door and tell them by when I need to have my home sold. If it's in two weeks, I'm going to get the cash, so the first party offer, they tell me, hey, we can listen to an exclusives for a week with one showing to get you more. But the end of the week I can select the offer that they want and I'm done.
If I ask eight weeks to sell a home, they should just take care of that. And in the seventh week, show me all the offers I have. And I just choose whatever price or whatever buyer I like the most. Yeah. If you can really simplify it down, like as a seller, I don't care where the home goes, right, I just want it. Did it make a maximum price for. Yeah.
And that's kind of what I think we're both getting at is selling a home and we've talked about this in the past, selling a home is just about finance. It's just how do I maximize two things, right, convenience and how much money I'm making. That's all that matters for selling a home, buying a home very different, very nuanced, very personal, right, less about money.
I mean, money is still important, but on the axis of importance, it's, it's much lower. And so if we can simplify that process or just maximize convenience and sell our equity, then I think that there's, there's a great chance for a high conversion.
That said, one of the things that we haven't talked about before for this was certainty plus their first party businesses. Here's the current situation for open door in this down market where they've got these massive spreads, right, open doors currently converting one out of 10 real sellers to buy their home because they're offering such low, such, you know, low prices for these homes, so they have a conservative buffer on their gross margins that only one in 10 real sellers are converting.
But in this one market where the testing out list with certainty, they're getting conversion of about 20 to 25%. And now these two figures compared to open doors historical 30 to 35% conversion of their first party business when they were placing offers at or slightly above homes values when HPA was going on this.
And so I think what I'm most excited about for list with certainty and the third party's third party marketplace is finding a way to turn these. Unconverting real sellers into converting open door customers, whether that's through their first party funnel, their list with certainty or the third party marketplace.
And so if there's a version of open door in the future where they don't need to have such wide spreads, maybe we get back to the I don't think we ever should get back to 30 35% because they're probably offering too much for homes for their cost structure for first party.
But let's say we're back at like 25% 20 to 25% for the first party business. And then, you know, if you're able to get 10 to 20% for list with certainty, 10 to 20% for the third party marketplace. Suddenly, even with the exact same amount of sales marketing, advertising, et cetera, they have a much more monetizable funnel because all of those consumers that used to be lost because they said, I don't want to sell my home to open door or at that price or whatever it was.
Now they have different options for products that they can go through. And I think that's a very real possibility if open doors able to get these products right.
Yeah, it's kind of the forcing function of the market way in right now. And maybe that's a good thing is I'm pretty impressed how open doors involving their product. They're not just sitting on their hands waiting to finish to go back. Great was last year. No, they they're coming up with experiments.
They probably tried a bunch of more things that we never hear about, but this list is certainly things kind of clicked with a lot of their sellers. And that's what they will double down on together with the marketplace.
And they will get stronger out of this wherever the housing market goes. And hopefully by the end of the beginning of next year, things look a lot better. And they have another piece that just monitors a lot better than the business before. Yeah, pretty exciting. And we will hopefully see more about that. Next earnings call sometimes in May.
And talking about the next earnings call. How is the pen. We have a listener question from from the discord from I shark. And he's asking, how depending margins currently look like are we better we improving or is this sentiment going to the other direction right now.
谈到下一个财报电话,笔的情况怎么样?我们来自 Discord 中的听众 I Shark 提出了一个问题。他问,现在利润率是怎样的,我们是在变得更好还是正在朝另一个方向发展。
Yeah. Pending gross margins are definitely improving and they have basically throughout the entirety of early 2023. And since October really pending margins have continued to improve from negative to now they're well into positive territory. Still lower than then we'd like for the company and still definitely sub four to six percent contribution profit margin targets, but moving in the right direction.
And I think to add a little color to that because we're not going to share actual numbers for pending gross margin. I think that's really valuable data. And so we we reserve that kind of thing for the data door subscribers.
But just sort of adding a little color to what margins might look like for the remainder of the year. One of the things that I think I'm most excited about as someone who's constructive on open door long term is when you look at the percentage of home sales that open doors currently seeing that are still the Q2 offer cohort.
By that I mean homes that open door bought between the months of April and August 2022 in Q4 it was 90% in Q1 at 60% and in Q2 it's looking like it's going to be 40 to 55% somewhere around there.
But beyond Q2 that percentage is going to be sub 20% I think of of all sales and possibly you know even even lower than that and the reason that that's important is because the gross margins on these homes that were purchased and sold after the Q2 offer cohort are spectacular right I mean pretty much 10 plus percent for every monthly cohort after September.
And that we've seen so far and I think that really has implications for open doors bottom line as we move into the second half of the year I think Q1 and Q2 are so going to be under tremendous pressure because not the majority for Q2 at least but the majority of the homes in Q1 are still going to be Q2 offer cohort homes in Q2 it's going to be close to half. So I think there's still going to see a lot of pressure a lot of margins drag but after those quarters it's really just going to be these these homes sold with these massive fat spreads and so I think open doors going to surprise the upside on on margins as we move into the second half.
That said if we have some you know existential shock to the housing market like mortgage rates go up another 3% or something like that I mean open doors probably hose in that situation but assuming that there's some semblance of stability in the macro the second half of 2023 should be really excellent gross margins for open door. Yeah we've seen that was another listener question is if we've seen any impact from the rising interest rates because we've seen interest rates go from sub 6% or to to over 7% in the in the last 45 weeks.
If we look at depending data especially it adjusts seasonality I don't think we've seen any impact on on on pending sales for open door right. I think it's here let me let me pull it up I think the one the one caveat to that would be volumes right like I do think that volumes are going to peak in the spring and I think those are going to be the highest for at least a year probably but but if you look back at like 2022 for example volumes peak to the exact same time so to your point there's a seasonal element to that I think I think that.
There's there's two things probably influencing that for right now one maybe some mortgage hesitation some some buyer hesitation and the fact that there's not a lot of inventory available but also I think the second thing really driving a deceleration in pending volumes is that open door just has doesn't have any new homes right there they're just not buying enough homes they're selling more homes and they're buying and I think because they don't have a lot of. Fresh inventory the homes that they're currently trying to sell or increasingly we're going to be trying to sell are the you know the drugs of the barrel the last home sold the Q2 Africa or which I think you're going to be really difficult to sell and that's going to add inertia to their pending pipeline.
And obviously it's really hard to tell where more trades are going especially with what happened at the end of last week it's like the most likely outcome right now is the mortgage is going to go down from here but who knows so it what. 2023 doesn't it is really not disappointing in the amount of excitement that it's just a roller coaster so start the beginning so yeah that probably explains the really widespread because like whenever happens open risk is trying to get fruit is as unscrupulous possible so.
Yeah I think I think that was actually a question on the Twitter spaces to is if there was another downturn what would happen to open door and I I think reflecting on that they really are. Pretty conservatively position in terms of the margins of the new cohorts at this point I mean even even if things dropped the amount that they did in the summer of 2022 I mean the cushion that they have is is at least two to three times what it was at that time and they're buying so few homes that the impact would be much much much smaller. I think it would be still a huge risk to to the solvency of open doors business but they're they're positioned much more conservatively much more poised for for something like that to happen.
我想,实际上在 Twitter spaces 上确实有一个问题,即如果出现另一次下行,Open Door 会发生什么。回想一下,他们对于新一批的利润率非常谨慎,即使在2022年夏季期间出现的下降(情况糟糕)的情况下,他们有的缓冲区至少是当时的两到三倍,并且他们购买的房屋数量非常少,影响会更小。我认为,这仍然是 Open Door 业务偿债的巨大风险,但他们的立场更加谨慎,更加为这种情况做好了准备。
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The numbers the sales numbers almost in real time and and here what we have to say in specific. Alright thanks Tyler yeah thanks man.