Honestly, I wish that Kim would have kept quiet about that bit of info concerning the other lab having screenshots of his website. It is one thing to be worried about others acquiring unpatented proprietary info, but being worried about a website screenshot is simply paranoid and rather embarrassing. It is akin to being worried about them having a photograph of a billboard that they put up.
I have no doubt that others in the field of developing synthetic and recombinant Spider Silks are interested in what he has to say as well as other rival companies and laboratories. This is normal and expected. It is not like they are hacking into their computers or sending spies to work in their labs. In fact, I kind of wish that Kim would spend some effort keeping up with rivals as well. Citing an outdated value like $100,000 per kilogram produced either shows that he not following recent developments in the companies or he is being purposefully misleading.
I have hope for the company and feel that it has the potential to make a lot of money once they finally do commercialize. I thought the conference call answered a lot of questions and gave a lot of good info that clarified a lot going on, but Kim should really leave the Q&A session to Jon Rice in the future. He is frankly a better public speaker and can give clear, concise answers without coming off as defensive, paranoid, or ignorant/misleading.
Sorry for the rant, but I have been thinking it over for a few days now and reading that again made me want to get that off my chest.
