DocuSign hires Google executive Allan Thygesen as CEO, starting October 10; the company’s CEO for the past five years, Dan Springer, stepped down in June (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
DocuSign will lay off 9% of staff as part of a major restructuring to be completed by 2023 end, incurring charges of $30M-$40M; it had 7,461 staffers in January  —  – DocuSign will lay off 9% of its workforce as part of a major restructuring plan, the company announced Wednesday.

Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
DocuSign reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $645.5M, vs. $627M est., and billings up 17% YoY to $659.4M, vs. $588.6M est.; stock is up ~10% after hours  —  Company easily tops expectations on billings and other key metrics  —  Shares of DocuSign were flying higher in aftermarket action Thursday …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
DocuSign reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $622.2M, vs. $602.7M est., and a full-year billings forecast of $2.55B to $2.57B, vs. $2.53B est.; stock jumps 18%+  —  DocuSign Inc. rallied 17% after reporting quarterly sales that topped analysts’ estimates and raising its billings forecast …

Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Signature Bank plans to reduce its crypto-tied deposits by $8B-$10B to under 15%; as of September 2022, ~23.5% of the bank’s $103B deposits came from crypto  —  Nearly a quarter of the Wall Street bank’s current deposits come from crypto-related businesses.

Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Alphabet’s Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January  —  Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously experimented with diabetes-detecting contact lenses …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services in crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some data from AWS to Google Cloud  —  – Google will start allowing a subset of customers to pay for cloud services with digital currencies early next year.