RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:MD&Agoldtech wrote: Gene and Elliott had no plans to take this private ...
Yes, exactly, they had no plans because they couldn't do it without losing control. They kept it public instead and tried to keep control through ever-worse band-aid financings instead of courting major investors, until facing bankruptcy they had no choice.
So for those who missed the Hemmingway reference (since it got no likes): An old fisherman in small boat catches the fish of his life, it takes him far out to sea and when he finally reels it in it is too big to pull into the boat. He ties it to the side and starts to row home, but by landfall the sharks have left him with nothing.