Making your executive team refer to you the CEO as "Doctor" on conference calls…
...is not picayune, but rather is one of the more reliable red flags available to ordinary investors. It applies in spades to Steven Quay, CEO of ATOS and former CEO of NSTK/MRNA; I commented on this many years ago in #msg-3451506.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”