misslou
Founding Member
Really well said. This articulates what I’ve been expecting for the 2 years I’ve held.I can help but continually revert back to AfterPay when contemplating the potential value of this company.
AfterPay reached an approximate value of $40b on the ASX before cooling off and being acquired by Square for $39b. I believe the latest ASX revenue report was $500m.
There’s no denying that it was a one trick pony. It didn’t offer anything that many other BNPL companies did at the time, it simply got traction. No unique technology, applicable to one sector, nothing much to patent, nothing special whatsoever really.
Then theres us.
- A game changing technology with seeming endless use cases
- Competing, and leading in a space that most other market leaders are trying to dominate
- Protected by an army of patents
- Catching the attention of industry (for Mercedes to use us is incredible, let alone NASA and god knows who else)
I still think we’re early. I mean from an industry perspective, we came out of nowhere. Think about it… Big tech is watching Intel - the market leader - to see what they can do with Loihi when ready for market. They had bean beating the Neuromorphic drum, and undoubtedly under pre-contracts with many existing clients. Big tech would have been looking at the numbers and considering what their development options were, then bam, out of the blue Akida is released. Smaller, faster, lower power, cheaper and available. But it’s from a startup in a country nobody takes seriously, and it’s a $200m company at the time. It’s quite unbelievable, but its irresponsible for big tech not to take a look at least. Then they realise, it’s the real deal, and products that they were considering developing have the potential to be better, and cheaper than they had originally thought, so it’s back to the drawing board.
Now this may or may not have been how things transpire, but I betting it’s not too far off.
It took time to gain exposure, it took time to gain confidence, and it takes time to develop products - but if Mercedes, NASA, and Valeo are close, you’d think that others under the EAP probably are too, and if half the dots drawn on here come true.
Intel have spent (significantly - I can’t find the figures but remember seeing them a while back) developing Loihi than the entire Market Cap of Brainchip - and it’s not a patch as good as it. They’ve practically admitted this by offering Akida under their name! Surely this alone speaks of how undervalued we currently are?
I just fail to see how we can‘t compete with the value of a company like Afterpay, that essentially ran on hype.
I try to keep my excitement in check, low expectations means either no disappointment or a pleasant surprise.
But I just cannot see any realistic reason we won’t match or exceed the biggest success stories.
Right place, right time, right technology, in everything, everywhere.
So you can see the terrible job I do of trying to keep my expectations low.