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NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:31 am

Simon wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:53 am I work for a NASDAQ tech company that similarly had a vulture fund buy 5% or more of our stock at the end of last year. SEC announcements were made, emails were sent around. It's a bit unsettling really. I get Musk's point about the 'street' and how investors only seem to have an eye on the short term. Our quarterly all-hands meetings seem to have a large focus on EPS and the bottom line and that's all investors seem to care about from one quarter to the next, not how you've invented some widgety doo-dah that's gonna make you a billion dollars in a few years time.

I think the asia-pac countries are better than this, and you have to admire China for playing the extraordinarily long game in the world of global finance and company growth.

We're a recent-ish flotation and it changes the focus of the company: it's all about hitting your numbers. It gets frustrating when you can't get the money you want for investment in infrastructure because it would mean missing targets and thus having an impact on company value (and then patiently explaining that if the website falls over we don't have a business and we'll definitely miss our numbers)

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:28 am

Mito Man wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:00 am It seems just a bit futile fighting against a country which has the biggest reserves of natural resources and thus can afford anything if they really want it.

They can afford it, but that doesn't make it a worthwhile business investment.

Simon wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:44 am

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:31 am

Simon wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:53 am I work for a NASDAQ tech company that similarly had a vulture fund buy 5% or more of our stock at the end of last year. SEC announcements were made, emails were sent around. It's a bit unsettling really. I get Musk's point about the 'street' and how investors only seem to have an eye on the short term. Our quarterly all-hands meetings seem to have a large focus on EPS and the bottom line and that's all investors seem to care about from one quarter to the next, not how you've invented some widgety doo-dah that's gonna make you a billion dollars in a few years time.

I think the asia-pac countries are better than this, and you have to admire China for playing the extraordinarily long game in the world of global finance and company growth.

We're a recent-ish flotation and it changes the focus of the company: it's all about hitting your numbers. It gets frustrating when you can't get the money you want for investment in infrastructure because it would mean missing targets and thus having an impact on company value (and then patiently explaining that if the website falls over we don't have a business and we'll definitely miss our numbers)

Interestingly enough, I think one of my team may have met you or one of your team a few months ago for a pitch. And I used your company as a whiteboard demo internally.

IanF wrote: Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 pm I think Twitter is going to be seen as the worst SM invention of the 20th(21st?) Century... there are too many influential people who tweet before thinking.

Marv wrote: Sun Aug 12, 2018 5:09 pm

JLv3.0 wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 10:16 am Yep. Musk is a cunt.