Elvis
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We can run across thin air if we don't look down.
A lot of things are true, but it'll never matter if we never talk about it or bring it to anyone's attention.
Plenty of companies could buy us if our shares dropped low enough.
I don't know who would, for sure, I've got some ideas, but if that happened and it looked like my fault, then I'd lose the respect of the business world to guide that purchase at any level.
Everything falls apart if we start saying something is wrong.
If we ever say that we know we're a monopoly, then the DOJ might feel compelled to do something about it since it's on record.
This bust was a huge success, and somewhere in this, there is a story that makes that true.
If you can find that story in the data we see somewhere, then please...
Otherwise, we need to find that story somewhere else.
If we could say a large amount of money was frozen, or an impressive sounding number of people got cut off from funds, genuinely anything that could just sound big,
The problem is we're trying to compete with something as big as the HQ going down.
We have to find something that looks like we're rolling with the punch and getting right back into the fight.
If we turn around and tell the investors that we're taking down litterers and shoplifters like that's our big victory, then it looks like we've fallen down.
We just... It looks like we've fallen down, Elvis.
Important people are trying to short-sell the company.
They want news that we're in trouble.
If it begins to feel like the truth, it will be the truth.
A lot of it will happen automatically through computers.