Verb Technology Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: VERB)
("VERB" or the "Company"), the company behind
MARKET.live, a leading livestream social shopping
platform, and
GO FUND YOURSELF!, a TV show and
innovative new platform disrupting the crowd funding industry,
releases the full unredacted text of VERB Chairman & CEO Rory
J. Cutaia’s Letter to Stockholders, distributed via Form 8-K filed
on Friday, October 11, 2024.
VERB Stockholders:
I’m Rory J. Cutaia, VERB CEO, and I wanted to take this
opportunity to share some information about the Company.
Specifically, I want to address the recent reverse stock split, the
current share price, the current businesses that comprise the
Company, our financial condition, and finally, our future
prospects.
But first – here’s the headline – as of today, October 10, 2024,
our market cap is approximately $3.8M, and as of our last Form 10-Q
filing, we had cash in the bank of approximately $17.2M - and the
only debt we have is a ridiculously small, low interest (3.75%),
low payment, 30-year term SBA loan of approximately $125K.
So do the math – this means if we traded at nothing more
than our net cash value, the stock should be
trading at more than $22 per share.
And that assumes we get ZERO value for the underlying businesses
– ZERO.
It makes no sense to me that the stock should trade the way it
does. I can only assume that people are not reading the filings,
analyzing the financials, and recognizing the amazing opportunity
that the new VERB represents.
This is where I want to direct readers to the safe harbor
provision disclosures at the bottom of this letter as I intend to
make forward looking statements in what follows.
We have completely restructured, realigned, reinvented,
reconstituted, and reinvigorated our business. We sold an
unprofitable business unit that was operating in a challenging
business sector. We’ve since restructured VERB as a holding company
with three distinct, yet complimentary business units, one of which
we have yet to announce. Each is managed by a separate management
team, incentivized for success, and all three are currently
generating revenue and are growing and growing at a rate that far
outpaces the rate of revenue growth we have ever experienced. Third
quarter results will be exceedingly better than second quarter
results as these business units are now hitting their stride, and
based on what we’re seeing right now, fourth quarter will greatly
exceed third quarter results.
I believe we’ve placed ourselves atop a wave of three hot
high-growth opportunities that are an outgrowth of recent changes
in consumer, business, and societal behaviors, as well as recent
changes in securities regulations, that are currently experiencing
meaningful growth right now and into the foreseeable future.
Our MARKET.live business has evolved to one of a service
provider to brands fueled by our blossoming partnership with
TikTok. Our revenue model has changed from a
percent-of-client-sales model to a fixed-price, contract-based,
recurring revenue business. Over the past six months you will have
seen fewer MARKET.live businesses stream on MARKET.live - NOT
because that business is declining – but because as we expanded our
partnership with TikTok we shifted most of our live productions to
TikTok Shop. A completely revamped MARKET.live is in the works and
nearing release. More on that soon.
Our GO FUND YOURSELF SHOW business vertical, though
just-launched, is disrupting the equity crowd-funding sector,
offering Reg CF and Reg A issuers an unmatched opportunity to
create broad-based awareness for their equity offerings among the
investment community. The GO FUND YOURSELF show format also reaches
the everyman and everywoman non-accredited investor that can learn
about and participate in these types of offerings. Our revenue
model includes cash and equity-based fees paid by the issuers for
appearances on the show, including fees for show assets we create
for the issuers to use for their own marketing purposes. We also
take a percentage of sales revenue from those issuers who utilize
the Show’s unique shoppable platform to sell their products. We
also generate revenue from sponsorships and advertisers.
Our third business vertical is currently operating in stealth
mode as we refine the user/subscriber experience. We believe this
business represents an explosive revenue growth opportunity in one
of the fastest-growing business sectors in the world today and I
can’t wait to reveal it to you.
As to the reverse stock split, we did everything reasonably
possible – and then some – to avoid it. In the end, it’s not our
call – let me repeat that because I don’t think some investors
realize that – WE DON’T UNILATERALLY DECIDE TO DO A STOCK SPLIT. IT
IS A DECISION MADE BY THE STOCKHOLDERS. Because of the way the
stock traded, we received a delisting notice from Nasdaq.
Our obligation as management and as board members is to take the
steps required to give our stockholders the option to decide our
path forward – delist from Nasdaq and potentially list on the OTC,
or reverse split the shares and retain our Nasdaq listing. Neither
management, nor our Board is able to implement a reverse stock
split unless the stockholders decide to do so. Our job was to
provide every stockholder with all the information needed to make
that decision for themselves. If we had not given stockholders the
option to choose, and if we had unilaterally decided NOT to do a
reverse stock split, and we allowed VERB to be delisted – we would
have violated our obligations to all stockholders and we would have
been held accountable.
On September 26, 2024, a significant majority of the
stockholders that cast a vote, decided to do a reverse stock split
in order to stay listed on Nasdaq. It was then our job to carry out
that decision, which we’ve done. And now we look forward to the
value creation opportunities that lay before us.
We are extremely well capitalized – on even the most modest
revenue assumptions, we have years of cash runway.
We have virtually no debt to service.
We have a super clean cap table - all of the warrants have
either expired or are so far out of the money as to be
irrelevant.
There’s no hedge fund out there with cheap VERB shares they plan
to short against warrants that they picked up for little or no
consideration through a bad financing - as they simply don’t
exist.
We have an unbelievably small, tight float – only 763,230 shares
as of October 9, 2024.
We have three revenue generating, high-performing/growing
business units.
And once again – assuming all three of these businesses are
worth zero – no value whatsoever – and we trade on nothing more
than LIQUIDATION VALUE CASH IN THE BANK – we should be trading at
more than $22 per share right now.
Think about that.
And think about this – as and when we see the stock trading in
the range we believe it should – I will absolutely advocate for,
and petition our Board to consider a FORWARD stock split. My
interests are completely – 100% aligned with those of every
stockholder – as are the interests of our management team and our
Board.
We win together and now is our time.
Best,
Rory
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This communication contains "forward-looking statements" as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
and include, without limitation, any statement that may predict,
forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance, or
achievements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical
facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based
only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding
the future of our business, future plans and strategies,
projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other
future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the
future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and
changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of
which are outside of our control. Our actual results and financial
condition may differ materially from those indicated in the
forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any
of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could
cause our actual results and financial condition to differ
materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements
include, among others, those identified in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the risk
factors included in our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the
SEC on April 1, 2024. Any forward-looking statement made by us
herein is based only on information currently available to us and
speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement whether
as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise.
About VERB Technology Company
Verb Technology Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERB), is the innovative
force behind interactive video-based social commerce. The Company’s
MARKET.live platform is a multi-vendor, livestream social shopping
destination at the forefront of the convergence of ecommerce and
entertainment, where brands, retailers, creators, and influencers
engage their customers, clients, fans, and followers across
multiple social media channels simultaneously. GO FUND YOURSELF!,
is a revolutionary interactive social crowd funding platform for
public and private companies seeking broad-based exposure across
social media channels for their crowd-funded Regulation CF and
Regulation A offerings. The platform combines a ground-breaking
interactive TV show with MARKET.live’s back-end capabilities
allowing viewers to tap on their screen to facilitate an
investment, in real time, as they watch companies presenting before
the show’s panel of “Titans”. Presenting companies that sell
consumer products are able to offer their products directly to
viewers during the show in real time through shoppable onscreen
icons. The Company is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV and operates
full-service production and creator studios in Los Alamitos,
California and Philadelphia, PA.
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