Q... You need to relax. Take a walk or something. In my opinion you've been too far on each end of the spectrum. High and low.
You used to get bothered by him not saying enough or promoting his business (which he needs to be doing), now you're bothered he is promoting the business first hand and getting his and Gander.tv's name out there?
Btw... He couldn't sell a single share of stock until he has converted and by my math he has to wait a bit longer to do so. Even if he is raising money who cares? This company needs money to grow. The more $ sooner mean the faster goals get accomplished.
This board is such a contradiction:
"Gander needs expand fast before someone else does". - ok, that takes $. All companies that want explosive growth require $ and take on debt. No such thing as a company private or public that hasn't. Profitable companies always maintain debt.
"Is the company promoting the business to gain future shareholder interest and sell stock?" - yep... Sure hope so. That's a necessary step in growth. Are you suggesting he not promote gander to gain both user and potential future share holder interest. Unless you think Chris is pocketing the money why wouldn't you want him doing this?
This board literally wants everything but willing to give up nothing to get it.
"Where are our PRs?" Wahhhh
"Why is he promoting the company so much?" Wahhhh
Folks need to get used to the fact that in order to grow and gain market share quickly we need to raise $ and debt needs to be converted. Call that dilution if you like. I'm fine with that. I said this OS will land around 4.5B in order to take this company to the next level. Plan on that # when investing. We could've stayed the course, kept the OS in the 2s and just picked off one NYC venue at a time. Do you want revenues to grow 5-10x a quarter? That's going to take money. That's like a lemonade stand saying they want to sell 100x the lemonade they did last year but doesn't want to buy more lemons to do it. Ridiculous. That's just not Chris' way if operating.
For a board that talks about being long and here for a buyout many of you are starting to sound like impatient traders. If you think Chris is pocketing $ raised then you should obviously sell. If not, then you should understand that what's happening now is REQUIRED to achieve the dreams longs claim they have here.
If he could start a business and bring it to profitability in a few short years without any funding but his own then why would he be here? Why RM at all? Why not just keep 100% of the company.