Veritone Inc (VERI)

[GBR]

Those comments certainly did not age well. They shut Chad up, never to speak publicly about aiWare again.

But I have to say, no matter how much BS that was, they went the opposite extreme with Ryan. I think every CEO to some degree is the head cheerleader for a company's offerings. But Ryan never says anything about how Veritone differentiates. He is the worst CEO I have seen when it comes to evangelizing product offerings. You watch any of his interviews as CEO. He talks about AI in general. He talks more about his history leading up to Veritone more than any specifics of what Veritone has to offer. And it's all more matter of fact rather than with any degree of enthusiasm. And it's hard for me to believe that he is just too stupid to know better. Even if aiWare is a dud, he could be bragging up their HR tech. Why is it better?

I don't care how bad your company is. You can still act like a cheerleader and have enthusiasm about your products and BS about how they are great. He does none of that. He basically just will say what they are involved in generally speaking and leave it at that.

He is not evangelizing anything. Maybe he's just being honest and it's his way of saying Veritone doesn't have a pot to piss in. Hard to believe.

Also thought that maybe he is there to be some kind of interim CEO until the roadmap is complete. He just took on the Chairman role. Maybe someone else steps in as CEO here shortly.