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It's Monday, October 14th.

Welcome to Mark Fullry.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today and thank goodness he's in the building because it's a quiet day here at full global headquarters from M-Fam funds. It's Bill Barker. Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me. So schools are out in the Commonwealth of Virginia or at least in our neck of the woods.

So yeah, a lot, not a lot of people here at the office.

So again, thank you for coming in.

We're going to dip into the full mail bag. We're going to get a little bit of an earnings

preview and I mean we got to talk a little bit of baseball, but let's start with the mailbag. And you always email us market foolery at fool.com is our

email address. Question from Caroline in New York City. Road in regarding a New York Times article on startups in Silicon Valley, maybe starting

to focus a little bit more on turning a profit.

This is in reaction to a host of so-called unicorns going public in 2019 and let's just be

charitable and say not fairing so well initially in the public market and so

Caroline asks do you think this focus on profitability over growth

will affect the stock prices of companies that have been out there and trading for

a while? I'm wondering if I should expect a crash in my growth tech stocks soon.

What do you think?

Well, I think that over the long term, profitability is always going to be the thing that dictates where a stock ends up.

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