RE: New Interview19 Aug 2025 14:57
I had a manager once and all he wanted to do was anything other than the day job!. Was a flipping nightmare. The directors loved him coz they all wanted to bye into futures, many were just as bad tbh and most of them were poor finishers! All ideas no end results!
At the end of the day it was the day job that delivered the right to pay wages, bills and then do the other things!
Not saying Nick is the same, but 13mins of a 16min interview talking about a 100k well with no certainty about what they will do after isn’t the best use of time or even 100k just now!
I said before. Laser focus on Rost, on the prospectus and on the IPO. It’s bad enough having a corporate tourist as a CEO without him thinking we are the next Metaplanet!
Get Rost done, get the RTO done, get the AIM listing done. Show me cashflow then I will be interested in your next ‘train set’.
I moved this guy onto futures so he could travel around with his PowerPoint ideas and got someone else in that did a great job running and developing a team. They still generated loads of ideas and the business grew profitably by increased productivity. Several of his ideas got backing none of them landed and we were really routing for a big one. The IT benefits we had were really organic anyway. Using App’s smarter testers, robotics etc. I think now with AI even bigger gains would have come!
Similarly BTC mining has moved on significantly now. Especially now with cloud based AI and networked devices. Sure cheap power and cooling is key.
But there is a lot of competition through hashrates to solve problems. Even players like ARB have been struggling. I don’t see buying a container vessel of Bitcoin mining machines paying as a stand-alone operation.
But for sure sell the power to someone at a benchmark discount and let them pay us in BTC whilst they carry all the mining costs and risks.
That imo is a convo for later after we earn the right through our own productivity and not a distraction for now.
Laser focus imo
Usual caveats
Trek