What I gather from your posts regarding DR and shorts that he was obsessed with the price of the stock price. I would prefer to have a CEO that was more concerned with advancing the goals of the company, producing products and creating shareholder value through those sales. The stock market is comprised of long term investors, short term investors and short position players. That is the nature of the market. A company with solid management, a good product and good finances need not be concerned who owns company stock.
"I believe he was simply waiting for the last detail to be worked out, before rolling out a cycle of PR, all planned to shake the short termers out, and screw the Shorts.
He emphatically despised the short-termers...the ones who would flip for small gains but created the bulk of the volitility/wild pps swings."
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