‘The medium is the massage’
Having marshalled the good forces of TSExers, Tony advised that my request for a Christmas message has been sent to Sean.
What puzzles me is, in an age where communication is so easy and the importance of getting one’s message out clearly and concisely has never been greater, our Battler appears to consider itself entrapped by NDA’s. As stated above in last weekend’s post, it is simply a nonsense for our company to say they can’t provide meaningful updates without jeopardising confidentiality.
I’m certainly no Winston Churchill, but here’s my attempt at a Christmas message…
The past year has seen significant progress in all facets of our business. We have and are aggressively addressing our marketplace, which occupies every corner of business activity as we know it today, plus areas we currently don’t. Engagement with partners, EAP’s and customers has been rapidly accelerating, and whilst we cannot mention names of individual companies, or even projects we are participating in, we can say that despite global economic conditions, your company is in a good place.
This rise in activity has made it necessary to increase the number of staff we employ, to ensure we can professionally support our partners, EAP’s and customers. It is said…’one man’s loss is another man’s gain’. The layoffs across the tech world has enabled us to hire many high quality people to work in all our offices. Earlier in the year, we forecast having around 100 employees by year’s end…but a combination of demand across all facets of our business, and the availability of high quality people, has seen this number increase to around 120. As a result, you will see a rise in our outgoings, but we are pleased to advise that our forward estimates suggest we are not only well placed to fund this increase, but to accelerate the ongoing development of our technology.
Speaking of which, Akida is being developed at an ever increasing pace…we will say more about this shortly. Whilst this is important, so is the protection we afford it. Our patent programme is progressing at a compatible rate to Akida’s development, and we are comforted that our growing suite of patents provides the protection necessary in today‘s world.
We understand that many shareholders are frustrated by a lack of specific information, caused by the necessity for us to respect confidentiality agreements. Do not think a paucity of specific information means little is happening. We are genuinely excited by what is unfolding, and we are looking forward to what awaits us in the year ahead, and beyond.
On behalf of everyone here at Brainchip, I wish you all a safe and merry Christmas…SH (aka Realinfo)
P.S…over to Fact and the 1000 eyes, to tell me where I’ve breached confidentiality.
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