I'm not sure my point(s) came through.
I would gladly approve of paying all the executives millions of dollars based on performance. So far, no performance except to print more shares.
Steipp is guilty of hyping every year in order to get the best price he can for the printed shares. In the midst, production ready revision 1, production ready revision 2, production ready revision 3. So far, he hasn't proven that revision 3 is production ready. In fact the M/A knife issues were very troubling. Just 6 months ago, he basically promised 9 to 15 contracts with the possibility of $27 million worth of business. Another bald faced lie? I hope not.
Having that much organizational overhead is like paying for a huge semi truck to deliver a single bottle of water. Otis is utterly useless. Steipp should be qualified to issue the lame PR's once or twice a year. I could go on but you get the idea I hope.
As far as the deals go. Apple got perpetual rights to CE. Visser got perpetual rights. The coatings business was the only profitable entity and it was sold off. What happened to the golf clubs?
Sorry but I don't see genius there.