The entire point of going to NSDQ.Is because of boards just like this.
We have pumpers and dumpers on this board (myself included), I'm a pumper (I love this company).
The NSDQ opens up the stock to a whole new world of investors, institutions in particular, and a whole new world of > 300 mil people.
Shorters, dumpers and pumpers come and go. But a real investor will rerate the value of VLNS vs its peer group and we can get a 2 to 3x EV value gap up, just by that measure alone.
Then its up to what is in their management control (market penetration, production and branding) and what isn't (US regulation).
And the other thing that can always happen to a shorter is the "reverse idiocy effect", meme stock attributes do exist here. Love to see a shorter at 2bucks (pre consolidation) at a 10x or even 20x run. That would hurt, and would be really fun to see.
My worst case is I own a company at $2 bucks, has cash on balance sheet, and it makes money and grows methodically with the market.