Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside
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Speaker 1: the two year you know, bonds, and this is your
Speaker 1: Bailey Wick Matt being a German resident for so many years,
Speaker 1: but again the two year German bond fort the buond,
Speaker 1: the boon forty two basis points down twenty five basis
Speaker 1: points today just brutal. So this is perfect timing for
Speaker 1: our next guest, Pooja kumera European rate strategist at t D. Pooja,
Speaker 1: do you look at the European you know, just the
Speaker 1: German bond market. What's it telling us today? Good money? Yes,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really think that ECB high fifty basics points yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think what markets are seeing right now is that
Speaker 1: Europe cannot escape procession, and that has been seen in
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks because we are reading more
Speaker 1: into weaker data than instation strips, and even next week
Speaker 1: when we are going to get the next euro area
Speaker 1: of dash PM MICE, I doubt see itsel up that much,
Speaker 1: just because the move is all towards the growth data
Speaker 1: I've been instation data. I think I just want to
Speaker 1: point out that we saw this morning we had more
Speaker 1: ECB headlines. Kasimir came out and said the September rate
Speaker 1: hike could be UM fifty as well, obviously or fifty UM,
Speaker 1: so I think that's what moved markets there. But even
Speaker 1: here in the U s PUJA we've seen massive moves.
Speaker 1: I mean, UM Paul and I were just looking at
Speaker 1: the ten year We're down twenty seven basis points in
Speaker 1: two sessions. What's going on? It's it's it's been horrible.
Speaker 1: I think one thing to note yesterday priced action that
Speaker 1: we saw across rates for mostly driven by a very
Speaker 1: poor liquidity because we could see a lot of block
Speaker 1: trades having that cause to move, and today's move us
Speaker 1: primarily with one of the other. We've got reeper data
Speaker 1: from Europe MS to us p M, so I think
Speaker 1: right now any reaction is anyway is getting much more
Speaker 1: exaggerated because we are heading towards the summer liquidity season
Speaker 1: and also markets somehow now we know that we are
Speaker 1: sitting the end of the hiking cycles. They know that
Speaker 1: we could see maybe a couple of big moves from
Speaker 1: our central banks bankers, but they cannot continue. And that's
Speaker 1: the kind of message that we've got from Easy to
Speaker 1: be itself. They have to move forward rate guidance that
Speaker 1: we had before. They haven't said that they will be
Speaker 1: looking for bigger calibrations with respect to rate heights or
Speaker 1: September that we had before. So September could either be
Speaker 1: twenty five, fifty or seventy five. And I think if
Speaker 1: if data continues to decree, rate market will start even
Speaker 1: thinking about twenty five, markets will think that the ECB
Speaker 1: is actually done with gritis. So I think you are
Speaker 1: we will be extremely data dependent and we could see
Speaker 1: moving much more exacuated just because there's thin liquidity. So
Speaker 1: put you know, so much news coming out of Europe
Speaker 1: this week with the ECB and what's going on in Italy.
Speaker 1: Let's focus on just real quickly on Italy here as
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of the benefit of hindsight
Speaker 1: here with drug resignation, how's that viewed within the rates market,
Speaker 1: the European rates market. It can't be good. But how
Speaker 1: much of a concern is it? It is a concern.
Speaker 1: I think markets will get much more concerned when we
Speaker 1: hit closer to the election in September. Train ships. ECB
Speaker 1: has announced to tp I tool, but first of all,
Speaker 1: this tool needs to be activated by the member states
Speaker 1: and comes with a lot of fistical conditions, so I
Speaker 1: think no member state would actually be ready to actually
Speaker 1: use it. It seems more of namesake pool right now.
Speaker 1: So I think we did see I think today's move
Speaker 1: is more of a positioning let move, but it's talent
Speaker 1: politics will start actually getting more and more attention as
Speaker 1: we had closed it to this September day, so I
Speaker 1: would actually continue to stay with the moves with respect
Speaker 1: to wideners in btpsspots, I'm I'm a bit cautious about
Speaker 1: the rally that we have seen today. All right, Puja Kuma,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us, Puja Kuma, Europeans
Speaker 1: Rates strategists for a t D. Looking at the markets here,
Speaker 1: just kind of churning here. But we've got the SMP down,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of more or less. We've got the
Speaker 1: fixed income down double digits wanted to look at the
Speaker 1: corporates or treasuries. I mean, that's sixty or forty portfolio
Speaker 1: just got crushed in the first half of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know how these people do it for a living.
Speaker 1: Brent Shooty, he does it for a living. He's a
Speaker 1: chief investment strategist at Northwestern Mutual. Brent, how do you
Speaker 1: and your team? But wait, hang on a second, Brent, Paul,
Speaker 1: you did this for a living for three decades. Yes,
Speaker 1: I still don't get longer doing it. Probably, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm on the radio now. Brent. How do
Speaker 1: you and your team's kind of reset after that brutal
Speaker 1: first half of two Yeah, I guess kind of commenting
Speaker 1: on the stocks and bonds both thing down and how
Speaker 1: that's kind of I think shell shocked many investors. They
Speaker 1: shouldn't expect that to happen again. And so if I
Speaker 1: take you back to ninety six and I look at
Speaker 1: stocks and bonds, there have been twenty five periods, twenty
Speaker 1: five annual time horizons in which stocks have been negative
Speaker 1: since ninety six and bonds were positive, and all but
Speaker 1: four of those, and so you have this weird period
Speaker 1: of time beginning of two. The other three time periods
Speaker 1: or four time periods, where nineteen thirty one, the Great Depression,
Speaker 1: ninety six, nineteen sixty nine, in nineteen seventy three, besides
Speaker 1: the Great Depression, the thing that occurred in each and
Speaker 1: every one of the other ones was high inflation. And
Speaker 1: this is where we recommend people own commodities because in
Speaker 1: those other three time periods that I mentioned, besides the
Speaker 1: Great Depression and now the beginning of two, um, you've
Speaker 1: seen commodity prices rise. And so I guess two takeaways
Speaker 1: from that one you need to own some commodities as
Speaker 1: part of your long allocation. And to don't expect this
Speaker 1: to happen back to back years because it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it can't, but it hasn't happened in
Speaker 1: the ninety other years. So are you saying, then, Brent,
Speaker 1: A portfolio is not dead. It is not dead. I
Speaker 1: think it's been declared dead about twenty seven times in
Speaker 1: my twenty seven year career. Apparently the beginning part of
Speaker 1: this year was trying. But UM, I don't think that
Speaker 1: renders it dead for just because it hasn't worked for
Speaker 1: six or some months, and what about commodities? Retail investors
Speaker 1: should get that exposure. How do you think, um, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, um trading futures or buying ETFs or a fund.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the best way for a
Speaker 1: retail investor to get pork bellies exposure? Sure probably the
Speaker 1: easiest in the most efficient way for them to get it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to of it. You saw
Speaker 1: what actually happened the first part of the year. How
Speaker 1: a little can go a long way. Uh, And certainly
Speaker 1: over longer periods of time, it's not going to return
Speaker 1: as much as the stock market. Um, they should get
Speaker 1: that through a diversified exposure to commodities. Perhaps something called
Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Commodities Index is kind of a decent place
Speaker 1: to think about funds tied to that. Certainly it's not
Speaker 1: as tax efficient as money, but I think, as we've
Speaker 1: seen during recent time periods when inflation is rising, it
Speaker 1: certainly helps shelter you from some of the losses that
Speaker 1: are occurring in your other parts of the portfolio. You know, Brent,
Speaker 1: when pros like you say, boy in particularly the fixed
Speaker 1: income folks say we've never seen negative returns in the
Speaker 1: fixed income markets like we saw in the first half.
Speaker 1: When I hear stuff like that, I'm like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out and buy that stuff. But it's not
Speaker 1: the same for equities, and we're down and equities I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I have to run out and buy
Speaker 1: equities here. Um, how are you guys thinking about kind
Speaker 1: of you know, just maybe valuation or can't get any
Speaker 1: worse than than the psychology of the markets. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you've seen horrible son, I'm and I know that this
Speaker 1: week we had the Bank of America survey that everybody's
Speaker 1: in referencing, but you've seen the American Association of Individual Investors.
Speaker 1: I believe we've had uh eight sub twenty readings, which
Speaker 1: doesn't occur very often going back to and most of
Speaker 1: those have given away to positive future year. By the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people's emotion kind of a contraining indicator. And so I'm
Speaker 1: not suggesting it can't get any worse. It certainly could,
Speaker 1: But I do think the worst isn't on the inflation side,
Speaker 1: which I do think will help alleviate those fears, which
Speaker 1: are essentially that the economy slows but inflation doesn't. And
Speaker 1: I think the reason why the markets handled. Some of
Speaker 1: the bad news on the economic side over the past
Speaker 1: few weeks that we've seen, including today, is because inflation
Speaker 1: is starting to push lower. I think people are catching
Speaker 1: on that inflation is being driven lower. You mentioned agriculture
Speaker 1: in the beginning. I mean I talked about commodities. The
Speaker 1: irony of commodities is now they're falling just a bit,
Speaker 1: which is actually good for your stock and bond portfolio.
Speaker 1: But I think it's also good for inflation pushing forward.
Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna see inflation fall, which will
Speaker 1: allow the market to guide. The Bloomberg Commodities Index UM
Speaker 1: started the year just under a hundred. It peaked in
Speaker 1: June at UM one thirty six seven, and now we're
Speaker 1: back down to one seventeen. And it's also been a
Speaker 1: pretty good month for stocks. I mean, we started the
Speaker 1: month off at thirty and change I think on the SMP,
Speaker 1: and now we're pushing four thousand. Okay, it's a down day,
Speaker 1: but it's been a good week. UM. When markets fall
Speaker 1: twenty some percent brent, for a retail investor who's got
Speaker 1: a longer time horizon, isn't it a decent idea to
Speaker 1: go ahead and at least dollar cost average in or
Speaker 1: am I dated in that thinking? No, you're not dated.
Speaker 1: All the all the old rules of investing still work.
Speaker 1: The first one that I've mentioned to people listening in
Speaker 1: is don't sell what others are um, even if you
Speaker 1: don't want to buy, don't sell what you have. But
Speaker 1: certainly adding to your exposure during downturns, it's historically proven
Speaker 1: to be a good thing, and I don't think this
Speaker 1: time will be any different. You certainly may have to
Speaker 1: go through some uh periods of doubt about what you
Speaker 1: just did. Um, but certainly, you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a bad idea if you do,
Speaker 1: you know, two, three, or four five years from now,
Speaker 1: which hopefully, if you're buying stocks, you have that horizon
Speaker 1: for those to actually kind of come to fruition. Alright,
Speaker 1: good stuff. Brent Shrudy joins his chief investment strategist for
Speaker 1: Northwestern Mutual. You know, he's in Milwaukee, so that it's
Speaker 1: summertime now, it's probably like a hundred degrees there and
Speaker 1: it'll be snow on the ground in two months. He's
Speaker 1: he's the Chicago guy though NBA from University Chicago. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: NBA from those guys work hard, they're smart, they're all
Speaker 1: about the numbers. Um. I'm more of a big picture
Speaker 1: story guy. But you know, Chicago people, you've got to
Speaker 1: be into this, like those freshwater economics come down. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff. Bruce Levine joins the CEO of
Speaker 1: night Shares, and we're gonna talk first, Bruce about what
Speaker 1: that is. I know that UM for a long time
Speaker 1: in crypto, it's been a good strategy to buy at
Speaker 1: the close and sell at the open, or buy on
Speaker 1: Friday and sell on Monday. Is that a similar idea
Speaker 1: behind night Shares? What's night Years? Yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: some similarity there night chairs. Is this really with the
Speaker 1: night effect? I should say? Is this really surprising phenomenon
Speaker 1: that a very large percentage of the returns of being
Speaker 1: buy and hol they're coming through the night session, and
Speaker 1: they're coming with substantially less volatility than the daytime session.
Speaker 1: So from the risk adjested basis, it makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense to be playing in the night session as
Speaker 1: compared with the day session. All right, So what securities
Speaker 1: in particular have a meaningful night session? If you will, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting in the night effect we found is very
Speaker 1: broad in acrey markets. It exists around the world. So
Speaker 1: if you were a Japanese investor who would buy the
Speaker 1: Japanese clothes and sell the Japanese open you'd have good
Speaker 1: risk agested returns. If you're a German investor, same thing,
Speaker 1: And um we find it at the single stock level.
Speaker 1: But what we've decided to launch is to broad based
Speaker 1: indexes give you this night effect essentially in the large
Speaker 1: cap in the small cap space. So how many et
Speaker 1: s do you think you're inna launch and how long
Speaker 1: is it this going to take? Yeah, So just to
Speaker 1: give a sense of you know, kind of what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about and why we launched these, Uh, we were
Speaker 1: getting returned in the large cap space, let's say over time,
Speaker 1: you were getting maybe the return coming in the night session,
Speaker 1: and the volatility of that being uh maybe fifty of
Speaker 1: buy and hold. So again nice risk of just returns.
Speaker 1: We saw something really amazing and small caps where the
Speaker 1: daytime return on the Russell two South over a long
Speaker 1: period of times was either negative or just about flat.
Speaker 1: So all of the return was coming in the night session.
Speaker 1: So so the two that we launched so far are
Speaker 1: the end spy, So think of a night spy. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then that also playing on the ticker and the
Speaker 1: heavily traded russell to E T F I, w M
Speaker 1: D and w M. So those are the first two.
Speaker 1: We have four more in registration and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens over time. But we think it's a really interesting
Speaker 1: concept that's never been done in ets before. So have
Speaker 1: these two E T s have you launched them? And
Speaker 1: if so, kind of what's the interest been. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we launched them on JU and I'd say we're getting
Speaker 1: a really good reception. People are very interested in the concept.
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out how to blend them into
Speaker 1: their portfolios. And you know, we're just out there telling
Speaker 1: our story in the down days of summer that we're
Speaker 1: getting a good responsible. But do you expect to focus
Speaker 1: on equities? I mean, I type E T F go right,
Speaker 1: and um, I can put in night shares if I
Speaker 1: leave it on equity. I see these, but then I'm
Speaker 1: reminded you could be doing bonds, you could be doing commodities,
Speaker 1: you could be Because of my experience in crypto, I
Speaker 1: see that it's worked across asset classes. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: it is so now it's equities, and part of that
Speaker 1: is just the operational complexities of actually doing this. So
Speaker 1: you know, cryptos obviously there's no cryptos being traded in
Speaker 1: et F format period other than the futures um you
Speaker 1: know with UH commodities is a good example where we
Speaker 1: have looked at it. That's something you might look at
Speaker 1: on the bond side that you get some interesting results
Speaker 1: on the on the high yield side, it tends to
Speaker 1: look a little bit like equities that kind of returns.
Speaker 1: Yet and sometimes on treasuries you get the opposite of
Speaker 1: the night effect, which is when people are going out
Speaker 1: of the equities to get flat at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, um, they're going into treasuries. So so we're
Speaker 1: looking at all that. It's really interesting. Are you looking
Speaker 1: also at crypto Bruce, mean, do you have you know,
Speaker 1: like SEC news alerts on your phone just in case
Speaker 1: they do approve of crypto e t f UM Not yet,
Speaker 1: but you know, we're we're we're just doubt there on
Speaker 1: the equity side started we're starting down the path here,
Speaker 1: so we will make sure to put that crypto alert
Speaker 1: on our phone. It's it's interesting that in such a
Speaker 1: difficult year for I p O s, you know, no
Speaker 1: new issues and UM and for the market in general,
Speaker 1: E t F introductions have still been pretty strong this year,
Speaker 1: right ye have. But I think I heard a statum
Speaker 1: about two and the sifty new funds this year, you know.
Speaker 1: I think what you're seeing is two things. One is,
Speaker 1: most of the innovation and asset management in my opinion,
Speaker 1: comes through the et F structure these days. That seems
Speaker 1: to be the preferred vehicle for most investors. The second
Speaker 1: thing you're you're seeing is you've seen the mutual fund
Speaker 1: industry really um embrace the E t F vehicle, and
Speaker 1: so you've seen conversion. Then you've seen some of the
Speaker 1: traditional folks get into the industry for the first time.
Speaker 1: So it's driving a lot of product launch. It took
Speaker 1: them long enough. So Bruce, you're at I Shares, Black Rocks.
Speaker 1: Selection of e t F s give us a sense
Speaker 1: of just how the et F space it's kind of
Speaker 1: evolved over time, and is it a good attractive area
Speaker 1: to look at today. It's kind of a duopoly, right
Speaker 1: with I mean, I Shares and Vanguard are the two
Speaker 1: biggest shops on the street. They are and they take
Speaker 1: in you know, the lion's share of the money, and
Speaker 1: they do it in the more traditional et f that
Speaker 1: were launched twenty five years ago. You know, I launched
Speaker 1: actually a number of them, and you know that if
Speaker 1: you take some of the flows away from them, it's
Speaker 1: still pretty large numbers. It's still a growth industry and
Speaker 1: there's always room for innovation. You have seen some good
Speaker 1: things happening from some of the smaller firms, and you know,
Speaker 1: I expected to just continue to be the center of
Speaker 1: innovation and asset management. All right, So you have an
Speaker 1: affinity here. I'm just looking at kind of your CV.
Speaker 1: You have affinity for Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia undergrad
Speaker 1: and then you get the NBA at the Darden School
Speaker 1: of Business, and I was considering going there. That was
Speaker 1: my choice between Duke and Virginia. But you know what,
Speaker 1: the people Bruce at Darden, they just worked too hard.
Speaker 1: You guys really worked hard at doing that case stuff, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we the series Lament. The type of the law school
Speaker 1: which was right across from us is really playing softball
Speaker 1: while we're working on our cases. But um, now I
Speaker 1: have a greater finishing Charlotte, Like you said, it's a
Speaker 1: great place. You know. I was down there Matt for
Speaker 1: my tour and they were just telling me how hard
Speaker 1: they worked. And I was literally getting off a stretch
Speaker 1: of like twenty seven days straight work, you know, as
Speaker 1: an investment banking analyst, scrub analyst. And the last thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear was we worked the hardest. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I went to Duke and had a phenomenal two years.
Speaker 1: And so all right, Bruce, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Bruce Levine, CEO of Night Shairs, I didn't know this
Speaker 1: night trading thing was a thing. Yeah, it's huge, and
Speaker 1: um it's amazing if you look at the charts, because
Speaker 1: you don't expect it to be as successful as it is,
Speaker 1: and then I guess it would be laborious. Um well,
Speaker 1: from my perspective, maybe the kids could write code for it,
Speaker 1: but obviously in E t F just makes it easier
Speaker 1: and keeps the cost down. Where you go to Man Deep,
Speaker 1: because we need to get smart here on the social
Speaker 1: media named snap down thirty, uh pinterest down twelve, Twitter
Speaker 1: also a down, So Man Deep seeing he covers technology
Speaker 1: for Bloomberg Intelligence. Man Deep, is this some of this
Speaker 1: week just we're seeing some of these smaller social media names.
Speaker 1: Is it just because they're not players and we need
Speaker 1: to really wait for the facebooks and the Google's next week? Yes,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think what it shows is that not
Speaker 1: everything in ad spending is going to be cut. So
Speaker 1: if companies are looking at their discretionary versus you know,
Speaker 1: essential ad spend, So in the discretionary bucket, probably snap Pinterest,
Speaker 1: the smaller social media platform sofall as opposed to the
Speaker 1: non stationary where you Google search spend is probably the
Speaker 1: last thing to be cut. So I think that's what
Speaker 1: the market is hinting at. But who knows, maybe Google
Speaker 1: disappoints as well. It's very unlikely. And you know, the
Speaker 1: valuation multiples have compressed a lot in anticipation, so I
Speaker 1: think even if the report an inline quarter, you are
Speaker 1: going to see the stock will be up. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I I think a lot has already priced in in
Speaker 1: terms of weakness. Man, deep, why does um Snapchat have
Speaker 1: the power to move the market. I mean, it's wiped out.
Speaker 1: I think eighty billion dollars in social media market cap,
Speaker 1: but it's not even worth eight billion dollars itself. And
Speaker 1: I didn't even really know people still used it. I
Speaker 1: remember back in the day the idea was college kids
Speaker 1: could text each other and it would disappear or something.
Speaker 1: But is it still like a big deal. Well, so
Speaker 1: they still have around three forty and daily active users.
Speaker 1: So when you start looking at you know a number
Speaker 1: of platforms that have got over two hundred million daily
Speaker 1: active users, you can it's probably you know, less intent
Speaker 1: at this point of time. So clearly they have that
Speaker 1: user base. Now their engagement seems to be falling, and
Speaker 1: part of that has to do with competition from TikTok.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, the advertisers are pulling back
Speaker 1: because they just don't seem to get the r Y
Speaker 1: they were getting before. And that is the big change.
Speaker 1: Because Apple's privacy changes has really heard the r o
Speaker 1: I on ad spending for some of these platforms, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think that is the big change. I mean, doesn't
Speaker 1: warrant eighty billion dollar route in terms of the market
Speaker 1: cap of all these companies, I don't think so. But
Speaker 1: clearly there's a lot of uncertainty around how much those
Speaker 1: changes would affect the large companies like Alphabet and Matter.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Snap has a market cap at of
Speaker 1: sixteen point eight billions, a little bit bigger than that,
Speaker 1: but nothing relative to the Facebook's and Google. So thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: Man Deep, what's the key thing we should look for
Speaker 1: from those big companies next week? Facebook and Google? Yeah,
Speaker 1: direct response adds because those are the ones directly hit
Speaker 1: by Apple's privacy changes. If Meta can show you know,
Speaker 1: even an inline quarter, the estimates have been devised the
Speaker 1: lower by ten percent if they report an inline quarter,
Speaker 1: I think I thinks those stabilized. All right, Man Deep,
Speaker 1: good stuff. As always appreciate your phone in it in
Speaker 1: from home. But I see him here. He's here all
Speaker 1: the time too, So he's one of those guys A feeling.
Speaker 1: He also works very hard from home. This is you
Speaker 1: know the debate, right, do people are they pretending to
Speaker 1: work from home? As Elon Musk says, or as we
Speaker 1: see from Man Deep, are they excelling They're? Deep is
Speaker 1: a smart dude and he's a hard work He puts
Speaker 1: out some great research. You can get it in b
Speaker 1: I go. I'll just get right to next guy, Dan Mary,
Speaker 1: CEO and founder of Vertex Software UM and I also
Speaker 1: want to talk to about what's going on in great
Speaker 1: state of Iowa. We'll get to that in a minute. Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Tell us what Vertex
Speaker 1: software is, what are you guys doing, and and kind
Speaker 1: of what's your outlook? Well, hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So we have cloud based software that helps manufacturers use
Speaker 1: three D and sales service, factory and supply chain that
Speaker 1: helps them increase efficiencies, lower costs, and drive revenue. That's
Speaker 1: kind of the nutshell. It's kind of like if you
Speaker 1: think about video games, to do games make today, you
Speaker 1: make heavy use of three D content. Well, manufacturers have
Speaker 1: a lot of three D content that they provide. It's
Speaker 1: just much more complex, a lot bigger, and it has
Speaker 1: to be more precise. So we help happen leverage that
Speaker 1: content to get more bang for the buck out of
Speaker 1: that investment. So is it like CAD your own version
Speaker 1: of AutoCAD, Well, it's kind of like that, except we're
Speaker 1: more like Netflix for CAD. So we take their CAD
Speaker 1: data and we make it easier for them to use
Speaker 1: it downstream of product of alopment and engineering where they
Speaker 1: make it so they can use it and put in
Speaker 1: the hands of a salesperson or someone on the factory
Speaker 1: for or in the hands of their customers. That historically
Speaker 1: has been really really hard to do, and we make
Speaker 1: that easy and orders the magnitude more cost efficient. Dan
Speaker 1: talks about your partnership with John Deer one of my
Speaker 1: favorite companies out there, Mine too, Mine too. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're just so grateful to work with. You know, iconic
Speaker 1: company like John dere is such innovators. So we help
Speaker 1: them leverage three D cads like you just said, uh,
Speaker 1: to see the state of the factory for forecasting and planning,
Speaker 1: for visualizes and equipment of function and for service. Again,
Speaker 1: that concept of putting three D in the palm of
Speaker 1: people's hands on devices that they use today. Again, it's
Speaker 1: been a horse historical challenging. So what is the state
Speaker 1: of US manufacturing like right now, especially with the supply
Speaker 1: chain issues? Are they getting any better? Chip short ages
Speaker 1: really bumming me out? Um, is there an improvement that
Speaker 1: you see with the partners you work with? Well, I
Speaker 1: think just generally what I'm seeing is certainly right now.
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows demand for goods as weakening. You know,
Speaker 1: consumers are starting to spend more on service, labor, energy
Speaker 1: costs are rising, and their supply chain bombs. As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: so I think what I'm seeing, and I was just
Speaker 1: actually on site of one of our customers earlier this week.
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing this accelerating need, almost an urgency for automation,
Speaker 1: automation and distributed collaboration across time zones. They want to
Speaker 1: shorten a side of supply chain and be more nimble
Speaker 1: and flexible. That's really what what I see in the
Speaker 1: microchip shortage. The nail on the head with that is
Speaker 1: we have customers that have equipment parked in parking lots
Speaker 1: that they're leasing right because they don't have the parts
Speaker 1: to complete the production to deliver the orders. So you know, man, Dan,
Speaker 1: do I understand that? You know, I ordered a Chevy
Speaker 1: Silverado at the beginning of the year, and it is
Speaker 1: apparently as far as I can track, built in Mexico,
Speaker 1: sitting in a lot waiting for I think a window
Speaker 1: switch chip. I don't ever need to roll the windows down.
Speaker 1: I'll take the truck now, thank you very much. Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: you know, Matt and I are stuck here in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 1: We have no idea what's going on in the real world.
Speaker 1: So we left talking the folks that are out and
Speaker 1: about doing stuff you have a bachelor's mechanical engineering from
Speaker 1: Iowa State University. That's an eyewa. These days, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, generally speaking, I think things are
Speaker 1: pretty good in Iowa. We have a you know, state
Speaker 1: government here that has been really uh you know, supportive
Speaker 1: of from my world, support of the innovation. I I
Speaker 1: am excited about what's going on in Congress right now
Speaker 1: and support for you know, kind of diversifying uh you know,
Speaker 1: diversity of the investments for National Science Foundation and Department Energy.
Speaker 1: I think that's something I've heard a lot of excitement
Speaker 1: about with his latest bill. Um just making it possible
Speaker 1: for people in more rural states like us to tap
Speaker 1: into you know, grant money. How's it you the farm
Speaker 1: economy out there. We've seen big swings and commodity prices
Speaker 1: that Mett and I like to talk about, but you
Speaker 1: guys are actually putting the stuff in the ground and
Speaker 1: taking it out. Yeah, you know, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm in Iowa, and that's not not really my area.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of friends, and I got a lot
Speaker 1: of friends in the act. But I grew up in
Speaker 1: kind of science technology and was a child at the
Speaker 1: early video game generation, Like, what what are your favorite games?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, geez, well, I go all the way back
Speaker 1: to dude, I was there at the Commodore sixty four.
Speaker 1: You know. Oh yeah, yeah, oh you that that impossibation?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, dad, good, good, good stuff. We
Speaker 1: always appreciate checking in with some of these entrepreneurs out
Speaker 1: there all over the country. Dan Murray's doing it CEO
Speaker 1: and founder Vertex Software bringing some technology solutions to some
Speaker 1: industrial companies. And I'm sure that's a big, big plus
Speaker 1: for a lot of these companies when they can get
Speaker 1: kind of really step up their tech game, and Dan
Speaker 1: Murray does that. Appreciate it. Thanks for listening to the
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