Veritone Inc (VERI)

[GBR]

These are some of the comments coming from management on the May 3rd earnings call.

- We remain very confident in our projected growth over the course of 2022 and beyond

- Amazon gives us very good guidance and works with us on a weekly basis to give us a sense of where they're headed into the future

- as far as first half versus the second half, I mean, listen, we've got a good sight of visibility into our pipeline, which obviously gives us tremendous comfort.

-So this is just massive acceleration. We're not seeing it stop. And artificial intelligence is used during good times and bad. So while a lot of companies are fretful that we're heading to a recessionary period, or that we could be ending up with a significant slowdown as rates continue to increase at the Fed level, all that's going to do is shift the use of artificial intelligence with all of our customers from being expansion in the go-go times to now looking at cost cutting to looking at more efficient ways to drive their operations. And it's literally all going to be powered by aiWARE.

I just don't know what to say about that. But, if you take Amazon out of the equation, then it wasn't that bad. Legacy business growing. Non-Amazon Pando growing.

But as I repeatedly posted prior to earnings, I was hoping for some strategic announcements. KVM was right. It was "business as usual" to a T.