New business is being written on visibly better terms than the company's own recent norm, and the mix shift has just beg
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2022 call → NOWe need to determine if management indicates that the economic terms of the newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement has only begun to flow into reported results because most of the business in the reported numbers was still written at older, less favorable terms. Let's analyze the transcript. The company is Backblaze, with B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup. The question is about the economic terms of the newest business, i.e., the prices, rates, fees, contract sizes, durations, or profitability of recent deals. We need to see if management says that new business is being written at better terms than before, and that the reported results still reflect old terms. Look for mentions of price increases, contract terms, B2 Reserve, etc. In the prepared remarks, Gleb mentions B2 Reserve: "Channel partners have shown enthusiasm for our new platform offering B2 Reserve, which is our predictable capacity-based pricing program for B2. B2 Reserve also includes premium support and use of our recently launched universal data migration program... While only in its first full quarter of availability and still relatively small, we are pleased to see B2 Reserve show a nice initial ramp in demand with revenue increasing each month of Q3." That suggests B2 Reserve is new, but is it at better terms? It's capacity-based pricing, but not necessarily higher price. It's a different pricing model. The question is about economic terms stepping up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm. B2 Reserve might be a new product with different pricing, but does management say it's at better terms? Not explicitly. Also, there is mention of Computer Backup price increase from Q3 2021. Frank says: "Computer Backup continued to benefit from the price increase we implemented in Q3 2021. Recall, since most backup customers are on an annual or two-year subscriptions, this increase, which was from roughly $6 per month to $7 per month will continue to phase in as they renew across the next two years at the higher price. But at this point, the vast majority of Computer Backup subscriptions have transitioned to the new pricing. The amount of growth on the Computer Backup business driven by pricing began to wane in quarter 3, since we are past the one-year anniversary of the increase.
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CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...