BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Diogenese]

Aggressively selling over the next 12 months not being followed up is your opinion only. You seem to measure the selling and whether it is aggressive by how many IP agreements we currently have? We would all love news of an IP signing. The company has been front and centre with all edge AI related engagements particularly this year and since CES, I think the foundation is being laid carefully and broadly for perhaps an avalanche of IP agreements over the next 12-18 months. The technical landscape is shifting to the edge. This is building and all of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are falling into place and BrainChip is set to capitalise on the shift. This year marks the beginning of this shift imo, the beginning of the next Industrial Revolution. BrainChip has the key enabling technology for this revolution imo and I believe a lot of things have started to fall into place creating unprecedented opportunity. Space tech, military tech, advanced driving, both general and cyber security, smart cities, smart homes and the list is ever increasing. As has been said before there’s use cases for Akida that haven’t been thought of yet. From the very small e.g. securing the 6G network to the very large like enabling autonomous ships to safely navigate the worlds oceans AI will pervade, we just need to be patient for a little longer and then I think things will start to get really exciting.

... and we have several active partnerships, which, unlike licences, do not attract an initial licence fee.

We have learnt a hard lesson about the length of time it takes to incorporate a radical new technology, and the business model we have chosen adds to that duration.
We should start to see some income from the Edge Box in the near term as that does not depend on designing and making new chips - we just use the ones we prepared before.

I have to concede that, now Valeo has released details of Scala 3, there is no mention of Akida.

However, the publicity does refer to AI capabilities which Akida is capable of delivering, although the publicity refers to "software modules":

Valeo SCALA™ 3 LiDAR receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award | Valeo

Valeo SCALA™ 3 LiDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award

Valeo is proud to announce that our SCALA™ 3 LiDAR is a CES 2024 Innovation Award honoree in the category "Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility"

www.valeo.com

"In addition to its hardware capabilities, Valeo SCALA™ 3 comes with a suite of software modules, including perception and artificial intelligence based algorithms. Its LiDAR functions guarantee unparalleled safety and reliability through blockage detection, rain and spray detection, online calibration or misalignment detection. It will be able to identify objects, such as a tire, left on an unlit black asphalt road more than 150 meters ahead with unique detection performance compared to cameras and radars. It also identifies, classifies and tracks objects, giving the car fusion system the full 3D mapping around the car, and finally making autonomous driving possible. These software modules can easily be embedded on major SoC platforms, and run on dedicated ECUs or domain controllers."

So, according to the press release, the Scala 3 lidar transmitter/receiver unit does not include the AI/NN.

Instead it is adapted to cooperate with AI/NN capabilities incorporated in the vehicle control unit (VCU). To that end, Valeo actually provides software modules which can be installed on the VCU.

So now I'm speculating as to how Akida can be incorporated with Scala 3 commercially.

One way would be for the VCU manufacturers to incorporate Akida IP with their processors, but this may take some time.

We know that running vanilla software CNNs is compute heavy.

So would it be possible that the "software modules" incorporate the Akida simulator for inference and learning since we have been working in partnership with Valeo for some years?

This would be a speedier road to market than waiting for the VCU manufacturers to incorporate Akida IP. The simulation software is protected by copyright, so a commercial use would require payment.

So the question is, do the Valeo software modules incorporate Akida simulation software? One advantage of this would be that it would provide a shortcut to getting Akida 2 into action.

The original 2020 press release about the Valeo/Brainchip partnership said:

"In a statement to the market this morning, BrainChip said Valeo will utilise Akida and collaborate on the development of neural network processing solutions, for integration in autonomous vehicles (AVs)."

So is that a disjunctive "and" which would mean that the collaboration on the development of NN processing solutions would be a separate item from using Akida?

It is certain that Valeo would have been playing around with the Akida 1000 simulator and the Akida 2 simulator, and the Akida 2 simulator would be the most efficient software available for processing the lidar data.

 

[Frangipani]

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Hi cosors,

have you by any chance had a look at this self-employed gentleman’s website?

If not, go to https://kispace.de, then to https://kispace.de/team/. What’s your impression?

At first glance, Mr Karaca appears to be running a successful IT Consulting, Software Engineering and Business-Coaching/Training company that has been around since 2011, and seems to have a dynamic team of six employees working for him, right?! Well, let’s see (by quite literally putting the website images under the magnifying glass):

Now zoom in on that team’s “group picture” and have a good look at those people’s faces (weirdly, my iPad view cuts off their faces, whereas I can see them perfectly fine on my iPhone screen). Then do the same with the image on the IT-Training subpage (fully visible on my iPad, too): https://kispace.de/training/
I am not posting the images here, as I am unsure about the website disclaimer’s legal implications (https://kispace.de/disclaimer/) of somebody copying and pasting those images without the website owner’s permission…

All those images are clearly AI-generated, created with the help of an image generator such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Midjourney. Look at those bizarrely distorted faces! None of those business attire-clad people in that “team picture” or in that conference room are real!

Methinks k!space is likely a one-man show! Personally, I’d give a business so evidently misleading prospective clients about its size a wide berth… I am not saying the business owner doesn’t know his stuff, but to me this pretentious and weird web presence with AI-generated disfigured imaginary employees reeks of unprofessionalism.

Oh, and the company address, Fraunhoferweg 1, is by no means a location in a science and technology park (an association the street name may evoke), but turns out to be a detached house in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Oldenburg, if my navigation app is to be believed.

So I assume Erdal Karaca is most likely just a retail shareholder like you and me, but unlike the two of us, he is actually a software engineer and hence knows how to utilise his newly acquired Akida PCIe board (see his recent LinkedIn comments).

Schönes Wochenende
Frangipani

 

[AARONASX]

Wait and see!

Samsung snatches a $752 million AI chip order away from NVIDIA

Samsung has reportedly finalized a $752 million deal with Naver to supply its Mach-1 AI accelerator, beating out NVIDIA in the process.

www.sammobile.com

 

[cosors]

Hi cosors,

have you by any chance had a look at this self-employed gentleman’s website?

If not, go to https://kispace.de, then to https://kispace.de/team/. What’s your impression?

At first glance, Mr Karaca appears to be running a successful IT Consulting, Software Engineering and Business-Coaching/Training company that has been around since 2011, and seems to have a dynamic team of six employees working for him, right?! Well, let’s see (by quite literally putting the website images under the magnifying glass):

Now zoom in on that team’s “group picture” and have a good look at those people’s faces (weirdly, my iPad view cuts off their faces, whereas I can see them perfectly fine on my iPhone screen). Then do the same with the image on the IT-Training subpage (fully visible on my iPad, too): https://kispace.de/training/
I am not posting the images here, as I am unsure about the website disclaimer’s legal implications (https://kispace.de/disclaimer/) of somebody copying and pasting those images without the website owner’s permission…

All those images are clearly AI-generated, created with the help of an image generator such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Midjourney. Look at those bizarrely distorted faces! None of those business attire-clad people in that “team picture” or in that conference room are real!

Methinks k!space is likely a one-man show! Personally, I’d give a business so evidently misleading prospective clients about its size a wide berth… I am not saying the business owner doesn’t know his stuff, but to me this pretentious and weird web presence with AI-generated disfigured imaginary employees reeks of unprofessionalism.

Oh, and the company address, Fraunhoferweg 1, is by no means a location in a science and technology park, but turns out to be a detached house in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Oldenburg, if my navigation app is to be believed. Of course having an office space at an address with this kind of street name could be pure coincidence, but it definitely evokes certain associations, doesn’t it?

Oh, and one more thing that supports my suspicion that k!space’s headcount is much smaller than its website seems to suggest: On eBay-Kleinanzeigen, somebody with the initials ek happens to rent out plenty of coworking office space at the address the company is registered at, for €15 a day, €50 a week or €200 a month: https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anze...n-unserem-coworking-space/2703167747-277-2647

Which proves once again that DYOR can unearth intriguing information…

Schönes Wochenende
Frangipani

Thanks!
I know what you mean and I agree with you. In my own way I've now also taken a close look. But I don't want to be so strict. Maybe leave him alone, what I see he hasn't done anything really wrong.
I deleted my post above. Maybe he doesn't like the attention and being scrutinized and it scares him off.
But I think it's nice that people like him are interested and respond!
Contrary to you, I missed to take a closer look first and just thought it was another university employee who was interested. So I thought nothing of dragging him onto the TSE stage.
If you look at LinkedIn, almost all activities have to do with Brainchip. So he is a fan.

I am much more interested in why Mr. Franke and head of the resource and budget management of Deutsche Telekom AG is interested in Brainchip, either privately or professionally. Maybe you can point your magnifying glass there?

I wish you all a pleasant weekend too!

 

[MDhere]

​

Do you mean this?

​

Psi-Biom: digital platform of integrated services for monitoring biodiversity through connected objects and modeling​

The Psi-Biom project aims to offer a complete data processing chain for biodiversity management. It is based on the coupling of the Internet of Things (IoT sensors), artificial intelligence (automated species recognition algorithms) and the modeling of ecological dynamics, within a single digital platform.
The evolution of the regulatory framework in favor of biodiversity increasingly imposes an obligation of results on all the stakeholders concerned (managers, financiers, developers). Their needs now focus primarily on the design, security and long-term, large-scale monitoring of species management measures offering the best efficiency-investment ratio.
However, current tools and methods (naturalistic observations, expert opinions) do not make it possible to respond correctly to these requirements because they are not standardized, not very quantitative, not predictive and can only be used on small scales.
The Psi-Biom project aims to overcome these limits through the coupling of several digital technologies:

• the Internet of Things (IoT): automatic detection of the presence of animals in continuous time using photographic and acoustic sensors
• artificial intelligence (AI): automated analysis of images and sounds from sensors, and species identification
• modeling ecological dynamics: simulation of demographic dynamics and movements of species populations

This chain of acquisition and processing of ecological data facilitates large-scale and long-term monitoring, the standardization of readings, the carrying out of scenario tests in the design phase as well as in the management phase, and the comparison between the results. expected and observed results.
The project should result in the implementation of a digital platform of integrated services allowing all stakeholders involved in biodiversity management to better scale their actions and monitor their real effectiveness over time. This concerns in particular local authorities, ecological engineering design offices, infrastructure managers, land-use planning operators, or natural area managers.
The Psi-Biom project benefits from State funding as part of Investments for the Future. Coordinated by TerrOïko, it brings together public and private actors specializing in the design of communicating sensors, ecology, communication systems and data collection, and artificial intelligence.

General methodology​

The work focuses primarily on two types of applications:

• reducing the risk of collisions with large ungulates (deer, roe deer, wild boar) on road and rail transport infrastructure
• evaluation of the effectiveness of management measures (compensation, conservation) of biodiversity in agricultural environments (hedge networks, etc.)

TerrOïko is in charge of the following actions:

• establishment of a platform for annotating photographic and acoustic data of species, and creation of an annotated database for training artificial intelligence
• development of an integrated digital platform for the analysis, processing and modeling of faunal data
• implementation of two field demonstrators for image and sound sensors, one dedicated to managing the risk of collision with large ungulates, the other dedicated to monitoring agricultural biodiversity

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[Smoothsailing]

Wait and see!

Samsung snatches a $752 million AI chip order away from NVIDIA

Samsung has reportedly finalized a $752 million deal with Naver to supply its Mach-1 AI accelerator, beating out NVIDIA in the process.

www.sammobile.com

That would be nice

 

[Smoothsailing]

Then your world is in denial.
Keep on rewarding management for no results.

Wake up buddy.

I and every investor have invested to expect results.

If not why are you and everyone else invested here?

Keep on saying next year is the year.

New technologies will eventually make our technology obsolete

Here something to keep you interested

Today I updated my list with the disclosures since 19 December, 2023 and it has now reached 55 so I thought as new or potential investors could be looking at Brainchip as a result of this weeks price action it might be a useful first step before they dig into Neuromorphia’s magnum opus via ‘Brainchip AKIDA Ecosystem’ thread:

1. FORD

2. VALEO

3. RENESAS

4. NASA

5. TATA Consulting Services

6. MEGACHIPS

7. MOSCHIP

8. SOCIONEXT

9. PROPHESEE

10. VVDN

11. TEKSUN

12. Ai LABS

13. NVISO

14. EMOTION 3D

15. ARM

16. EDGE IMPULSE

17. INTEL

18. GLOBAL FOUNDRIES

19. BLUE RIDGE ENVISIONEERING

20. MERCEDES BENZ

21. ANT 61

22. QUANTUM VENTURA

23. INFORMATION SYSTEM LABORATORIES

24. INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS

25. CVEDIA

26. LORSER INDUSTRIES

27. SiFIVE

28. IPRO SILICONE

29. SALESLINK

30. NUMEM

31. VORAGO

32. NANOSE

33. BIOTOME

34. OCULI

35. CIRCLE8 CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES

36. AVID GROUP

37. TATA ELXSI

38. GMAC INTELLIGENCE

39. EDGX

40. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

41 UNIGEN

42. iniVation

43. SAHOMA CONTROLWARE

44. MAGIK EYE

45. MYWAI

46. INFINEON

47. ERICSSON

48. MICROCHIP

49. ONSEMI

50. University of Virginia

51. University of Oklahoma

52. Arizona State University

53. Carnegie Mellon University

54. Rochester Institute of Technology

55. Drexel University

My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder

 

[IloveLamp]

AI Start-Up NeuReality Garners $20 Million in VC/Grant Money

NeuReality, which is responsible from developing the NR1 NAPU server-on-a-chip for artificial intelligence (<a href="/article/212227/EPDT-Review-of-the-Year-Part-11-AI-Technology.aspx">AI</a>) inferencing tasks, continues to attract financial backing from numerous high-profile sources.

www.epdtonthenet.net

 

[Esq.111]

Here something to keep you interested

Today I updated my list with the disclosures since 19 December, 2023 and it has now reached 55 so I thought as new or potential investors could be looking at Brainchip as a result of this weeks price action it might be a useful first step before they dig into Neuromorphia’s magnum opus via ‘Brainchip AKIDA Ecosystem’ thread:

1. FORD

2. VALEO

3. RENESAS

4. NASA

5. TATA Consulting Services

6. MEGACHIPS

7. MOSCHIP

8. SOCIONEXT

9. PROPHESEE

10. VVDN

11. TEKSUN

12. Ai LABS

13. NVISO

14. EMOTION 3D

15. ARM

16. EDGE IMPULSE

17. INTEL

18. GLOBAL FOUNDRIES

19. BLUE RIDGE ENVISIONEERING

20. MERCEDES BENZ

21. ANT 61

22. QUANTUM VENTURA

23. INFORMATION SYSTEM LABORATORIES

24. INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS

25. CVEDIA

26. LORSER INDUSTRIES

27. SiFIVE

28. IPRO SILICONE

29. SALESLINK

30. NUMEM

31. VORAGO

32. NANOSE

33. BIOTOME

34. OCULI

35. CIRCLE8 CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES

36. AVID GROUP

37. TATA ELXSI

38. GMAC INTELLIGENCE

39. EDGX

40. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

41 UNIGEN

42. iniVation

43. SAHOMA CONTROLWARE

44. MAGIK EYE

45. MYWAI

46. INFINEON

47. ERICSSON

48. MICROCHIP

49. ONSEMI

50. University of Virginia

51. University of Oklahoma

52. Arizona State University

53. Carnegie Mellon University

54. Rochester Institute of Technology

55. Drexel University

My opinion only DYOR
Fact Finder

Morning Smoothsailing ,

Down ramping will not be tolerated.... .

There is actualy 62 partners in crime / world domination engaged with us according to THE SCROLL , as of 24th March 2024.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[IloveLamp]

Developing CNNs for Neuromorphic Hardware - Edge AI and Vision Alliance

This blog post was originally published at BrainChip’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of BrainChip. (Been There! Done That!) Often, we hear that neuromorphic technology is cool, classy, low power, next-gen hardware for AI and the most suitable technology for edge devices...

www.edge-ai-vision.com

Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka on LinkedIn: #bigdata #analytics #datascience #ai #machinelearning #iot #iiot #python…

Developing CNNs for Neuromorphic-Hardware! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #ReactJS…

www.linkedin.com

 

[Smoothsailing]

Morning Smoothsailing ,

Down ramping will not be tolerated.... .

There is actualy 62 partners in crime / world domination engaged with us according to THE SCROLL , as of 24th March 2024.

Regards,
Esq.

love it , my apologies Esq I hadn’t undated this one and will use the scroll moving forward.
I appreciate your efforts Thankyou.

 

[skutza]

I think people need to take a step back and stop the bias thinking and bashing of people who post concerns. If the concerns are real, not just down ramping for the sake of it, then they should be aired and considered. For those that have run a business and been in sales and marketing I ask you this. Do you believe that after the AKIDA 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 have been released that the sales people have hit their targets this year? Do you believe that Sean has hit his selling targets (if indeed he has them as CEO.) Do you believe that the company in 2022 reached it's targets, in 2023 reached it's targets and so far in 2024? So really if we don't hold the company and it's BOD responsible, then who is? I'm not saying we sack anyone I'm not saying the company is dead in the water, I'm saying, if you don't hit targets for years in a row then you should not be rewarded. TBH I don't know what the answer here is, but the fact that we are only allowed to join dots and live in the fairytale world of Nvida, Intel, Arm and Mercedes stops any real discussing in things that are relevant and are a concern. Any negative chat is aggressively 'whack a moled' and discussing it is OFF LIMITS. Time for some to grow up and let all debate take place or otherwise we do end up being just an echo chamber of flowers and free love

 

[Esq.111]

love it , my apologies Esq I hadn’t undated this one and will use the scroll moving forward.
I appreciate your efforts Thankyou.

Morning Smoothsailing ,

THE BRAINCHIP SCROLL is compiled from Fact Finder's last list , together with all the confirmed engagements found by Super Slouthes here .

If a savvy chipper could maintain a clear , neatly typed up log would be great.

Regards,
Esq.

 

[jtardif999]

I think people need to take a step back and stop the bias thinking and bashing of people who post concerns. If the concerns are real, not just down ramping for the sake of it, then they should be aired and considered. For those that have run a business and been in sales and marketing I ask you this. Do you believe that after the AKIDA 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 have been released that the sales people have hit their targets this year? Do you believe that Sean has hit his selling targets (if indeed he has them as CEO.) Do you believe that the company in 2022 reached it's targets, in 2023 reached it's targets and so far in 2024? So really if we don't hold the company and it's BOD responsible, then who is? I'm not saying we sack anyone I'm not saying the company is dead in the water, I'm saying, if you don't hit targets for years in a row then you should not be rewarded. TBH I don't know what the answer here is, but the fact that we are only allowed to join dots and live in the fairytale world of Nvida, Intel, Arm and Mercedes stops any real discussing in things that are relevant and are a concern. Any negative chat is aggressively 'whack a moled' and discussing it is OFF LIMITS. Time for some to grow up and let all debate take place or otherwise we do end up being just an echo chamber of flowers and free love

They are not selling toasters.

 

[Hoohoo]

Morning Smoothsailing ,

THE BRAINCHIP SCROLL is compiled from Fact Finder's last list , together with all the confirmed engagements found by Super Slouthes here .

If a savvy chipper could maintain a clear , neatly typed up log would be great.

Regards,
Esq.

There are 78 listed here:

The Growing Brainchip Akida Ecosystem

The Growing Brainchip Akida Ecosystem IP Technology Partners, Solutions Enablement Partners, Silicon Integration, OEM Integration, Implementation, CES Technology Partners, Collaborations, Using Brainchip, Engagements and Speculation IP Technology Partners * Arm BrainChip Joins Arm AI...

thestockexchange.com.au

 

[jtardif999]

... and we have several active partnerships, which, unlike licences, do not attract an initial licence fee.

We have learnt a hard lesson about the length of time it takes to incorporate a radical new technology, and the business model we have chosen adds to that duration.
We should start to see some income from the Edge Box in the near term as that does not depend on designing and making new chips - we just use the ones we prepared before.

I have to concede that, now Valeo has released details of Scala 3, there is no mention of Akida.

However, the publicity does refer to AI capabilities which Akida is capable of delivering, although the publicity refers to "software modules":

Valeo SCALA™ 3 LiDAR receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award | Valeo

Valeo SCALA™ 3 LiDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award

Valeo is proud to announce that our SCALA™ 3 LiDAR is a CES 2024 Innovation Award honoree in the category "Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility"

www.valeo.com

"In addition to its hardware capabilities, Valeo SCALA™ 3 comes with a suite of software modules, including perception and artificial intelligence based algorithms. Its LiDAR functions guarantee unparalleled safety and reliability through blockage detection, rain and spray detection, online calibration or misalignment detection. It will be able to identify objects, such as a tire, left on an unlit black asphalt road more than 150 meters ahead with unique detection performance compared to cameras and radars. It also identifies, classifies and tracks objects, giving the car fusion system the full 3D mapping around the car, and finally making autonomous driving possible. These software modules can easily be embedded on major SoC platforms, and run on dedicated ECUs or domain controllers."

So, according to the press release, the Scala 3 lidar transmitter/receiver unit does not include the AI/NN.

Instead it is adapted to cooperate with AI/NN capabilities incorporated in the vehicle control unit (VCU). To that end, Valeo actually provides software modules which can be installed on the VCU.

So now I'm speculating as to how Akida can be incorporated with Scala 3 commercially.

One way would be for the VCU manufacturers to incorporate Akida IP with their processors, but this may take some time.

We know that running vanilla software CNNs is compute heavy.

So would it be possible that the "software modules" incorporate the Akida simulator for inference and learning since we have been working in partnership with Valeo for some years?

This would be a speedier road to market than waiting for the VCU manufacturers to incorporate Akida IP. The simulation software is protected by copyright, so a commercial use would require payment.

So the question is, do the Valeo software modules incorporate Akida simulation software? One advantage of this would be that it would provide a shortcut to getting Akida 2 into action.

The original 2020 press release about the Valeo/Brainchip partnership said:

"In a statement to the market this morning, BrainChip said Valeo will utilise Akida and collaborate on the development of neural network processing solutions, for integration in autonomous vehicles (AVs)."

So is that a disjunctive "and" which would mean that the collaboration on the development of NN processing solutions would be a separate item from using Akida?

It is certain that Valeo would have been playing around with the Akida 1000 simulator and the Akida 2 simulator, and the Akida 2 simulator would be the most efficient software available for processing the lidar data.

Yes, if I remember from around the 2018/19 mark LDN mention maybe in a webinar that Akida in software could potentially be used, that there may be cases where it makes more sense to utilise it in software form.

 

[Smoothsailing]

Morning Smoothsailing ,

THE BRAINCHIP SCROLL is compiled from Fact Finder's last list , together with all the confirmed engagements found by Super Slouthes here .

If a savvy chipper could maintain a clear , neatly typed up log would be great.

Regards,
Esq.

Great idea, unfortunately that isn’t in my wheel house, paint your house or sail you to a foreign land tho

 

[MDhere]

Morning Smoothsailing ,

THE BRAINCHIP SCROLL is compiled from Fact Finder's last list , together with all the confirmed engagements found by Super Slouthes here .

If a savvy chipper could maintain a clear , neatly typed up log would be great.

Regards,
Esq.

nah i like your handwritten scroll

 

[Getupthere]

I think people need to take a step back and stop the bias thinking and bashing of people who post concerns. If the concerns are real, not just down ramping for the sake of it, then they should be aired and considered. For those that have run a business and been in sales and marketing I ask you this. Do you believe that after the AKIDA 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 have been released that the sales people have hit their targets this year? Do you believe that Sean has hit his selling targets (if indeed he has them as CEO.) Do you believe that the company in 2022 reached its targets, in 2023 reached its targets and so far in 2024? So really if we don't hold the company and it's BOD responsible, then who is? I'm not saying we sack anyone I'm not saying the company is dead in the water, I'm saying, if you don't hit targets for years in a row then you should not be rewarded. TBH I don't know what the answer here is, but the fact that we are only allowed to join dots and live in the fairytale world of Nvida, Intel, Arm and Mercedes stops any real discussing in things that are relevant and are a concern. Any negative chat is aggressively 'whack a moled' and discussing it is OFF LIMITS. Time for some to grow up and let all debate take place or otherwise we do end up being just an echo chamber of flowers and free love

Great post Shutza!

Company gets rewarded
Shareholders get rewarded
Management get rewarded.

This should the mind set of all company’s.

Not a boys club where everyone stacks up bonus shares yearly then leave for the next management to do the hard yards.

 

[Boab]

I think people need to take a step back and stop the bias thinking and bashing of people who post concerns. If the concerns are real, not just down ramping for the sake of it, then they should be aired and considered. For those that have run a business and been in sales and marketing I ask you this. Do you believe that after the AKIDA 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 have been released that the sales people have hit their targets this year? Do you believe that Sean has hit his selling targets (if indeed he has them as CEO.) Do you believe that the company in 2022 reached it's targets, in 2023 reached it's targets and so far in 2024? So really if we don't hold the company and it's BOD responsible, then who is? I'm not saying we sack anyone I'm not saying the company is dead in the water, I'm saying, if you don't hit targets for years in a row then you should not be rewarded. TBH I don't know what the answer here is, but the fact that we are only allowed to join dots and live in the fairytale world of Nvida, Intel, Arm and Mercedes stops any real discussing in things that are relevant and are a concern. Any negative chat is aggressively 'whack a moled' and discussing it is OFF LIMITS. Time for some to grow up and let all debate take place or otherwise we do end up being just an echo chamber of flowers and free love

You say
"I'm saying, if you don't hit targets for years in a row then you should not be rewarded."

Here is part of the chairmans address from last years AGM. It is clear that employees are not being rewarded if targets are not met.
"Mitigate payments if metrics are not met"

Give it a rest please @skutza