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Dear Shareholders,
Thank you for your ongoing support of Alpine 4 Technologies, Ltd. Our entire management team appreciates your interest in the Company.
For the past five years, Alpine 4 has prided itself on being an employee and shareholder-centric company. Our focus has mainly been around building a solid foundation for which we can create a unique and valuable company. Each year in our short history, we built upon the prior year with new sources of revenue based around our acquired subsidiaries and assets. With those assets, we have pushed boundaries and created limitless opportunities for Alpine 4. In the coming years, I foresee Alpine 4 embodying the heart of what it means to be an American company: a company making various products and providing many of types of services, and all being supplied by the best of what we as a country offer; our hard-working and dedicated employees.
But, we must not forget the shareholders that have had faith in Alpine 4. For the past six months, the Board of Directors and I have explored various options for all our current shareholders to participate more in-depth with Alpine 4 and how we operate. When we began this process, I gave four overarching goals I wanted to achieve in any outcome of our decision. Anything we did had to provide the following:
1) Give a greater voice in the direction of the Company;
2) Provide a hedge against or protect shareholders from potential future dilution;
3) Provide something genuinely unique that other companies do not do; and
4) Be structured to protect the many against the few.
For this, I point to the early days of 2017 when a small number of shareholders liquidated their stock and drove it down from its listing price of $7.50 in January 2017 to $0.05 by July 2017.
