RE: Fireside Chat22 Jan 2021 15:52
Hi Greend100
Likewise - hope all's well with you too. Good to hear from you. Here's my response.
Just finished watching the whole thing.
Having run two listed companies myself, I can tell you that a lot of time was spent thinking about what I could and couldn't say publicly at any given point in time. Above all, I knew the ultimate sin was to over-promise publicly and then under-deliver. Total loss of credibility would ensue, followed by angry phone calls/communications from aggrieved professional shareholders. It's obviously even riskier dropping this particular ball if you have US investors, who of course love to litigate.
Personally I wouldn't ever have said some of the things Kunwar said (or their equivalent for what I was running). I wouldn't take the risk. He is a smart guy and should have been well-briefed by his advisers, so I therefore take his tone and comments to be very bullish.
By the way, I spend most mornings reading RNS announcements at 7am, usually just after I've made porridge for me and my wife to have in bed. She likes blueberries on hers, whereas I'm a walnut and raspberries man. Anyway, I like reading them so closely because I can recognise a lot of the "code" we used to use in our own announcements to try and convey things we wanted to get over without exposing ourselves to criticism for being overtly over-optimistic. Good advisers really know how to get the messaging right - it's a real art. I used to like helping to draft RNS wording alongside advisers - it was really interesting trying to use language in this way.
So to re-iterate, even allowing for Kunwar's natural enthusiasm, IMHO this was a very bullish 27 minutes.
Cheers