Stock Exchange

“PLCs, or companies on the NASDAQ, or the, you know, stock exchange, are incentivized to behave like psychopaths, because they're optimized around short-term transactional value, not long-term relationship building.”

“We should actually have a kite mark that allows consumers to prefer to buy from companies which aren't listed on some stock exchange somewhere, and hence aren't controlled by the finance function, because they're more trustworthy.”

“I was able to do all this because we're a family business and we're not listed on the stock exchange. This allowed us to grow calmly. To have long-term plans, to know how to wait, and to not be caught up in the frenzy of the daily ups and downs.”

“Well, they were not very happy because we tweeted about it, and a few of them had very severe implications on their market cap, because, like, one of them lost, like, over a billion dollars in market cap on the stock exchange.”