Replies to post #85623 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[mowo]

He can also make BILLIONS of dollars by contributing to modest success at Liquidmetal!!! So, even assuming entirely selfish anti-altruistic motives, this could still be GREAT for all involved!!!

[DMN]

Lol, the only way he can make money on the deal is if the stock price goes up and it is sustained. Getting rid of 400 million shares on the open market is not so easy. Mr. Li is no fool. Don't be confused by all distractions. The core of the matter is that this guy is going to make money from his investment, and the only way to do that is by building shareholder equity.

[Out The Window]

You say this like he's some day trader that flips stocks and then exits...Li isn't in this to flip a stock for a few million... He's a billionaire...

Are you upset that you didn't buy in the .06's and double your investment like a lot here did??

[Eagle1947]

Since everyone is blowing some smoke up everyone else lately, I guess I'll add in another layer of doubt (mainly for me I suppose).

If the Li-LQMT miracle is as it wantingly appears on the surface, why hasn't any "smart money" jumped all over it .... especially Steipp, Chung and all the other ones ? They are sure smart when it comes to lining their own pockets.

And, please don't tell me that "smart money" isn't interested or aware of a small little thing like LQMT .... smart money finds everything that can profit itself and it never misses anything for more than a day or two.

[Watts Watt]

Agreed with your general thought process.

HOWEVER.

It must understood that Professor Li has taken a bath in his own investment in EONTEC, especially last year because CHINA forced him (the major shareholder of EONTEC) and the other shareholders of Eontec to make MAJOR BUYBACKS of EONTEC stock to support the overall Chinese markets. [The chinese govt imposed this same sanction on many other public chinese companies]. In fact, EONTEC was forced to BUY BACK at HIGH PRICES and shortly thereafter the Chinese markets PLUMMETED inspite of the buybacks. Therefore Professor Li PERSONALLY and CORPORATELY got BURNED BIG TIME.

The proposed investment of 63 million USD into Liquidmetal is only allowed by the CHINESE GOVT because it is an investment in a foreign company. Otherwise, as an individual, Prof Li would have been limited by Chinese law to moving, I believe, less than 50000 dollars to the US.

So, this is to day, HE HAS TO MAINTAIN his money AS A BUSINESS INVESTMENT to prevent violating the CHINESE LAW on moving money out of the country.

So, I personally do believe he will maintain this investment. Of course, I could be wrong, but I think having this amount of money outside of CHINA is a very good hedge for him and I would also think that he would want to grow this money outside of China to keep the Chiness govt off of his money.

So, I see these two reasons for growing Liquidmetal with his money from his viewpoint: making up for tremendous losses in the Chinese stock market by investing in US and Europe (which he has already done) and keeping the Chinese govt from putting their Mitts on his US business investment.

Just my thoughts.

[iateclube]

"Stay in business". Actually, you are being a little generous, the purpose was to keep the executive compensation going.