Bravo
If ARM was an arm, BRN would be its bicepsđŞ!
Well, talk about a galaxy of possibilitiesâŚ
Turns out we have underestimated the BrainChip staffâs creativity in coming up with novel blunders: Tony Dawe started off the latest Quarterly Investor Podcast by asking Sean about an event he had recently attended in person: âEarlier this month you attended the embedded world conference in Frankfurt, GermanyâŚâ (from 1:09 min).
Except that the embedded world has been taking place in NĂźrnberg (Nuremberg) since its inception in 2003!
Both German cities have sausages named after them and are roughly on the same latitude, but thatâs about it regarding their similarities. If my memory serves me right, BrainChip had also posted a picture of the Frankfurt skyline (aka Mainhattan due to its location along the Main river) to go along with last yearâs notification about exhibiting at embedded world 2023, which already left me puzzled at the time.
In all likelihood, this mix-up of cities was not a slip of the tongue, as all of Tony Daweâs questions were scripted, and disappointingly, so were the majority of Seanâs answers. I much prefer the live virtual investor roadshow format where our CEO cannot simply read off prepared statements verbatim (although he would already be familiar with some of the questions posed to him, as they would have been emailed to IR in advance). Whatâs the point of presenting all these questions and answers in the form of a pretend conversation? They could just as well publish a written Q&A on the BrainChip website, if the reason the answers are pre-formulated is worrying about legal implications. Having to listen to several prepared statements being read out in succession really irked me - that is not what a podcast should be about!
I then expected Sean to correct Tony about the conference location, given that he had attended the embedded world 2024 in person less than three weeks prior to the podcast recording, but that didnât happen either. SighâŚ
Maybe he missed it, as his focus was already on what he wanted to say next (which appears to have been one of his much rarer unscripted replies in that podcast)? But wouldnât Tony have shared his questions with Sean in advance? After all, how else could he have written out any of his other answers?
While confusing NĂźrnberg with Frankfurt wonât stop interested parties from making further enquiries and obviously doesnât say anything at all about the caliber of the Akida technology, it is yet another annoying slip-up that could possibly have been avoided by employing thefour-six-eyes principle in relation to the scripted parts. How hard can it be?!
Give it a break please. It's not a competition. Heaven forbid you should find out you are not perfect either!!!
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