long time to stay positive Tech
this was after official validation of milestone 2
the creation of hardware only snap
almost 8 years and the same valuation
to say I am pissed off would be an understatement
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So the question is - was we overvalued back then, or are we undervalued now?
I first invested in this company 4 years back when the SP was about 5c, and back then it was nothing more than a concept:
- No patents;
- No product;
- No international presence;
- Small team;
- Very few mentions in the scientific community; and
- No customers.
Now the landscape is completely different:
- 2 (soon to be 3) validated product offerings;
- A large number of international patents;
- Offices and teams in 4 countries;
- Consistent mentions in articles;
- 2 customers;
- A mature evaluation program with āa dozen or so Tier 1 companiesā;
- A much healthier bank balance; and
- (most importantly in my eyes) the world has succumbed to AI being a highly important next step in technology.
Thereās is no question that progress has been made by the company - but the SP remains the same.
8 years ago at the time the SP was the same as it is now, the company was exciting and had so much potential in the eyes of investors, but now it seems that excitement has diminished. Retail investors are fickle and their attitudes can change in a second. Institutional investors are dogs and will pack hunt public consensus exploit the narrative to its last breath. I believe thatās what we are seeing here, a tired view from retail, getting bored of waiting, and institutions pushing that to the extreme by shorting. They donāt give a damn what the company is doing and likely have no idea, they see a chart, and set their bots up accordingly. Itās bullshit, it stifles growth, it is manipulating a SP, it should be illegal, but it wonāt change - it is what it is.
I donāt think that the tech has failed, and have never publicly stated so - Akida demos are amazing, and when I first showed my wife the original Akida Image Recognition videos she didnāt believe it - for context she manages innovation programs at a university. One shot learning on its own is absolutely amazing, nevermind the other unique abilities that Akida offers.
I think the hype has failed, but I think that hype can return. A couple of big customer announcements and I think were off the the races again.
I fail to believe that such an awesome tech with seemingly infinite usecases will have zero adoption. Especially when we know that so many companies (Ford, Mercedes, Valeo, NASA, etc.) are fully aware of it.
We are young, and clearly still in the pre-revenue stage. Not many (I canāt think of any) other ASX companies have tried what we are attempting (an offering to be implemented by other companies into their products) and as such our revenue model is nothing like anyone before us on the ASX - who knows, perhaps these timeframes are normal by industry standard, has anyone performed analysis against similar US companies to determine what their product to revenue timeframes where? I havenāt, and I donāt remember seeing it on either of the forums.
Itās up to management now, and Antonio is the one that I believe is our best shot of getting us there.