Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is

Alex and I'm joined today by Senior Tech Ranch reporter on the FinTech Pete it's Marianne

Marianne hello I haven't talked to you in like 48 minutes yeah I know I am doing

well today Alex how are you my baby was sick last night and so sleep was in short supply. So today on the show,

advice is something very, very dumb, it's my child's fault. And yes, I am passing that buck all the way to the 10-month-old,

but you know, we're hanging in there. But it's not just the two of us we have dragged along our friend Kirsten Corsick.

It's lovely to have you back. I'm very glad that you're here. With the dynamic trio we are going to talk about

deals with the week including May Mobility, Mogul Club, and then Microsoft

and VC's teeming up. After that we have to talk about the end of We Work As We Know

it and what's going on with Zeus Living, and then finally how open AI's tech can actually burn startups and then we're

going to talk at the very end about the 2024 IPO market it is a packed show and

even before we get to all of that Marian Ann we have to talk a little bit about

a firm because we touched on this company just a few days ago. Yeah so a firm

announced its earnings report for the first quarter, fiscal first quarter.

I think was it yesterday or yesterday?

Yes.

And wow, the stock is up like 18% today

where the day that we're recording this and I was impressed.

Yeah, I was too.

I went ahead and poked through the numbers.

My impression of everything is that the company just is doing well along the marks that it expected to hit.

The only thing that I'll throw in there is that if you look at the

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