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I agree 100%. Lebby doesn't need the paycheck and if the day ever comes that he doesn't see the real potential, he will move on to other ventures. Lebby has so many other career opportunities that Lightwave has to offer something outstanding to him personally.
Jim isn't apart of Lebby's team. Jim is leftover from the former Chairman of the Board who placed him in the CEO position so he would have one of his people running the company. I am surprised Jim has not been replaced by Lebby yet. But, I have heard Jim does a great job with payroll and calling LPC for money.
Jim has been working hard to get LWLG shares added to the McDonald's dollar menu. Karen has assured me he is at Mickey D's almost every day for several months!
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Zimtu structured what became Quantum/NioCorp. Post is not off topic.
He's saying the opposite, Gates.
If only someone on here had the ear of a member of the BOD...
If everyone on here wrote out their exact expectations, maybe one person would be right in the end. It's conjecture.
My friend knows his financial advisor, supposedly he is still long a good bit of shares.
Hey, fellow OG investor. I think $10 is a hump to get over and I worry about Avita trying to raise capital. I was hoping someone would buy them out before they had to raise money ever again. I still think that's possible.
What do you mean by the ? Spot?
They will PR it as though it is good news.
Putting out a PR at the same time as a tap, surely that kind of innovation calls for a salary increase. It's like an indigenous group inventing their first wheel in 2019.
This was discussed here several months ago. The warrants expired. Investors wanted an extension, but MGMT wanted to be compensated for extending them.
It wasn't brutal in my opinion, far from it. Some shares went to convicted retail holders for a change, most of whom are still holding, unlike LPC. Lightwave botched the placement themselves by making no real marketing effort. So, not surprisingly, they didn't place the desired number of shares... Lightwave merely contacted a small number of existing retail investors and previous placement participants they already knew. Kept it under 25 so they weren't legally required to officially notify the market of a raise and (THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION) used it as an example of how they are justified in having the LPC deal. It was a half-hearted effort to show they were willing to try a different way and appease shareholders, but also to show that the alternative was not as effective as LPC.
That's not what I asked. But if we're changing topics, our own LWLG Management and Board of Directors' ineptitude and/or general disregard of capital markets, financing methods, finding investors and investor relations is doing a great job suppressing the share price. With the help of the 10-year chart or other ghosts of failures past that would scare off new investors glancing at the stock.
Keep in mind, that currently, the best excuse we have for this reality is that Lebby's time is better spent in the lab than worrying about the share price. Rather than the logical expectation that the #2 at the company should be capable of picking up this slack. We know from Jim's annual SHM praise of LPC that he is very dedicated to their business, which I find questionable...
Proto, why do you believe that shares are sold each day to support lightwave? Most of us are fairly certain that LPC buys shares in bulk and sells the majority when the share price is manipulated higher. Some shares may or may not be LPC on any given day, but they are not selling a fixed amount each day to cover Lightwave's nut. That would be a waste of LPC's trader time.
..."as we mature our polymer technology platform from the prototype stage to commercial"
how sensational.
When I asked him about that line in at the 2018 SHM I got the impression it was someone else's idea. It sounded a little too corny for Lebby imo. Atleast he didn't tell us revenue was imminent.
I agree. Probably closer to 5 years. Too much misdirection and lack of knowledgable leadership. Jumping from different professors to saviors, while working on agreements and collaborations which went nowhere or fell apart (Lockheed, LSS, Celestech, EM Photonics) etc.
Even the most relevantly experienced CEOs have trouble succeeding. We've never had anyone in management who could fully wrap their mind around the science and what is going on in the lab, until Lebby.
I notice Lebby doesn't name drop companies that are sniffing around. He's not dangling carrots for investors (like prior CEOs.) No BS. The best information is buried in a presentation or shows up in a new patent. Methodical progress with no flashiness. Lebby isn't telling us we'll be building houses in Aspen soon (like Tom) or that we're going to Beat Intel!(like Tom). Not great for the share price but it's a much more genuine way to lead and treat investors.
From what I understand, Lauro is known as a Serial board member. I recall at the time he sat on 13 different boards, something like that. These types don't usually contribute very much unless they benefit.
They're probably one of the companies waiting for the 5000 hour test results
Thank you very much, I've never noticed it and must have clicked it haphazardly at some point.
How many do you see?
Hey stark, do you know why our sticky posts aren't showing up?
Lebby didn't care for what they were working on and something else, there is more to that, but I don't believe it is wise to post.
It's a quandary. Lebby has made the type of important progress that investors' thought the company was making at different points of time years prior. Jim and Tom used up much of investors' goodwill.
Based on what I know, you won't see any collaboration between the two companies. Lebby wouldn't be interested.
The 2016 or 2017 Lightwave shm I asked about Poet and was told that their technology had little value.
Aside from the bad financing, this may be why the stock has performed poorly. "There is no there there"
You saw the ECOC presentation and analysis by Photonics Guy?
Easy Six. Can't go buck-wild with incremental change. Jim is the one cozy with LPC and holding a crucial salaried position. Let's keep the focus on him.
Do you mean a company like Illumina?
Yea, I agree, an assumption about an assumption. I doubt Lebby is sitting around like Ebenezer Scrooge trying to figure out how to squeeze the most money out. I wish they would fire Jim and hire a savvy COO/CFO who did think like that.
What if Lebby doesn't share the incremental data with companies in advance? Everyone waits and receives 5k at the same time.
Nice! Guess their guys met that October 4 deadline!
I assumed The advisory board was created to focus on business development, which could potentially involve a solution to LPC but is not the focal point.
The Flaw is in Lightwave's "if you build it, they will come" philosophy, which does eventually work out if they build something and companies are interested. It isn't doing investors any favors in the meantime. This is how it seems to go half the time for eventual successful spec stocks. There is a disconnect between the share price and the risk-reward. And a disconnect between the management and understanding how to find and excite new investors.
In all reality, this is probably the lowest risk level an LWLG investor could have at any point since the companies inception.
Thank you DewD. I'm familiar with your great track record. We've crossed paths in a few of my prior investments.
Hey X, you now have a sticky available, if Photonics Guy would assemble one magnificent post would use your sticky power to place it at the top?
Also, I currently have your Lightwave For Beginners as my sticky, if you want to do an updated one I will swap it out.