PN - "The goal is not necessarily that we be acquired, but it is an option we are not ruling out."
Sounds like a public statement to me. Its like they said it just for it to be written somewhere. Especially when its in a mock interview. Obviously plan A hasn't materialized, so on to plan B IMO.
Any kind of growth would require more personnel..period. The skeleton crew is proof enough for me. I hope to be wrong.