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Question: Mark Nelson - Tashi Incorporated - Analyst
: Well, how are you doing today? Can you talk a little bit about the sectors of the business that are driving some of the profitability that we've seen
lately? And we know that you've been doing both consulting as well as the additional growth of the platform. Can you talk about how each of
those lines of business are driving your current profitability?
Question: Mark Nelson - Tashi Incorporated - Analyst
: I have a follow-up question for the consulting work. Is that a long-term contract? Or is that basically work from quarter to quarter?
Question: Mark Nelson - Tashi Incorporated - Analyst
: Great. Thank you. No further questions.
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Thank you. Hi there, everyone. Congratulations on the quarter. A couple of my questions were answered. So that's good on the revenue side and
the platform. I guess the other couple of questions I had were on the increase in equity securities fair value. I think, from $12.8 million to $22.9
million. What's driving that? And how concentrated is it in terms of the increase in value? Is it -- one issue that you have an equity exposure on? Or
just trying to get more insight to that. And then I have two other questions after that.
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Got it. Yeah. And I was speaking of year over year.
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: And when you write up, are you writing up to the latest round offering? Or are you taking a discount of that? How do you approach that (multiple
speakers)
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Got it. Okay. And then I'm not sure this might be for Martin or Cecilia or you, but someone on the team is just -- I know there's been some talk about,
at some point, kind of expanding categories or new categories, and I noticed this baseball movie you're offering the other day. And I said I was just
wondering, if there is additional insight into how you're thinking about that, I guess, Martin, to you now that you're a few quarters in. But just
curious how you guys are thinking about that.
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Yeah, that's helpful. Thank you. And then the last question, I was saving a sensitive one for the last -- sorry, but -- and it's really twofold. One, any
status on the SBA loan? And then secondly, the constant selling of stock. I understand the need for working capital and all.
But do you have any -- it's come at every lower price. Do you have any thoughts on the go forward on that? Are you over in the hump? I know there
was a lot to do coming in. And to understand it, but I'm just trying to get a sense of how you're thinking about cost of capital going forward.
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Got it. Okay. Thank you. And Coreen, any update on the SBA loan?
Question: Robert Topping - Topping Capital - Analyst
: Yes. I know how that goes. Okay. All right. Well, congratulations to you all. Thank you for your time.
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