Quirky & Understated, to say the least ...
** None are so blind as those who will not see **
Let's get right to it, the quirky part. Dr. Trevor Kane - Welcome to the Big Leagues. Your first at-bat and you (and your team) crushed a 95mph fastball, soaring upward over the centerfield fence, for a walk-off grand slam. In the Materials Technology world, you moved the earth under their feet. In the hyper competitive jungle of PhD scientific inquiry you just let out a massive ROAR announcing your prescence, marked your territory.
You, like it or not, are in the limelight and this is only the beginning. The CEO (and you) made a specific reference to using a non-CRISPR technique to achieve near 100% pure spider silk. I don't know if your technique qualifies as something separate and distinct. If it does, your name will be attached to it, the Kane Method. If not, still your name will be associated with it as the first to use it. Either way, you da man.
Now let's talk about your public speaking skills. You were reading a carefully worded script, I understand. A script to describe a fantastic achievement while not giving anything away. No need to make it sound like a eulogy. Deer-in-the-headlights look ain't gonna cut it. No, sir. Spend some money, hire a tutor, who will tell you to ... breathe, blink, pause slightly between sentences, tempo, enunciate clearly, inflection - emphasize some key words and phrases, maybe a hand gesture or two, practice in front of a mirror, breathe again (exhale slowly), drop the shoulders. Your monotonic, run-on sentence style, delivery was the oral equivalent of plain, dry, white toast, minus the taste and color. Smile, you just hit a home run, break out the butter and jam.
I have read select comments from this board. From my perspective, Z06 and ArmyO are both spot-on correct. The goo makers are history. In the near future, those companies are going to have some uncomfortable meetings with their investors. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of scam artists. They might have a niche market somewhere but we just cleared the board in terms of large scale industrial use spider silk in the Materials Tech market, and who knows what else. Non-native proteins? Medical? Building materials?
ArmyO commented that having a production facility in the US sounded like DOD supply chain management. I agree. No way is DOD gonna risk this technology or shipments getting sidetracked, pilfered, delayed, reverse engineered or stolen. CEO Kim didn't say they were 'thinking' about US production. He said it will happen and clearly has laid out a plan to make it happen. So, this also means the price this new material will command will easily justify the additional expense to set up such a facility, both equipment and labor. So, yeah, this is a big, effin, deal.
Nearly 100% pure Darwin Bark spider silk is roughly 10x stronger than Kevlar. Let that sink in. KOKI capability will enable off-the-charts customization. Some have suggested that in the future, Vietnam will take a back seat or be abandoned altogether. The mundane silk market is worth $5 billion. Lots of time and effort went into setting that up so now we toss it overboard??? Nonsense. Vietnam will become the place where it all started and shall profit handsomely.
Monster silk and Dragon silk both will render ordinary silk outdated and passe. We can sell it for roughly the same price. Remember, we have 'drop-in' capability for any silk producing country. I have a proposal for Kraig. The 5-5-5 Plan. I challenge Kraig Biocraft to capture a minimum of 5% of the $5 billion mundane silk market in 5 years, or less. I say this is easily doable.
The overall tone of the press conference was unpolished and I loved that about it. Three vastly different personalities giving three very different talks. The professor CEO followed by our outstanding COO Jon Rice, whose hyperactive personality gives dexedrine a bad name, and the staid (soon to be corrected) Dr. Kane. This is the second live video press conference in 12 years. A press release was on the wires shortly after, didn't even wait for the next day. Did I read somewhere people could not log on b/c of too many (900?) visited the site? Nothing to get upset about, we are doing just fine. Lots of eyes.
COO Jon Rice said (about Vietnam) we are 'deep' in commercialization. It is not out of the question we hear some pretty good news on that front. Are we now a takeover target? Yea or nay, we have definitely raised the bar and changed the game. Bound for NASDAQ, probably. The stock market (and the economy) is a mess right now reflecting a runaway, out-of-control, uber-greed (massive thievery), capitalistic system looking for answers in all the wrong places like printing another few trillion (w/ a 'T') dollars out of thin air to fund stock buybacks in a vain, delusional effort to prop up bankrupt enterprises that should've bit-the-dust ages ago.
We, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, are an innovative bunch of entreprenurial whippersnappers who just shook the very foundation of Materials Technology (not to mention a few others). Who, in comparison to the likes of the 'Duponts' of the world, with gobs of money, acres of fancy labs and tons of equipment, accomplished this in a 'garage', so to speak.
Watch the video again, and again. Improved immune systems and licensing possibilities. Actually, you only need to listen to what CEO Kim says. He lays it out very clearly and his excitement is evident. With this new development and his vision of US production using this non-CRISPR tech, he has something else to sink his teeth into, another project to bring to fruition, like Vietnam, but not nearly so long in coming. People like him live for challenges like the one he outlined. He's fired up again.
We are in good hands. Investors looking for someplace to park their windfalls could do far worse than us. I can easily see some people watching going - "holy shite!! did I hear that right?" The after-effects might be slow in coming but we really did change the game. The commercial announcements regarding current production will come shortly, imo. We are the proverbial Mouse that Roared.
later - WBeacham
