Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly Calls for Shelving IPO

Re:Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly ... by braythwayt on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:52PM (#20933599)

Ah, well, I think it's certainly valid to take a CEO's behaviour as a signal you use to make predictions about their future behaviour.

And I think it's valid to use that to make predictions about the company's viability and/or make predictions about the likely outcome of any private or public stock market investment.

Choosing whether to do business with someone who fully discloses their past choices and is truthful about their future plans is a whole different thing from judging whether their past choices are criminal and/or dishonest.

Unless it is revealed that they are withholding other relevant transactions, I'd say the man is honest. But "honest" is not synonymous with, "someone I want to do business with."

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Re:Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly ... by prepend on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @02:57AM (#20937286)

I like the way you put that. Honesty is not the sole quality that determines whether I want to do business with someone. It’s a good quality, but sometimes not the most important. I don’t even think it’s in the “necessary but not sufficient” category as there are some good zero trust relationships.

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