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Old 02-17-2019, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by CunegoFan View Post
At this point it is clear that Grant needs to step away and let the employees or someone else make the business decisions. He obviously has no intention of changing to save the company. He is the problem. Forget marketing and product mix and the website. It's him. The guy who starts a company is not necessarily the one who should be running it long term, and it's now years past the time when he should have been eased into a figurehead position.

I cannot get over him putting effort and resources into a new friction shifter while acknowledging it might not sell more than fifty units. I feel bad for the employees working for a leader who puts the pursuit of his personal white whale above their financial security.
Dejavu all over again.

serotta, calfee..both same boat, others(altho with the help of the carbon people at calfee(not craig, he's still afloat but a fraction of what he once was).
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