To: Craig Goodstadt who wrote (27717 ) 5/8/1999 12:08:00 AM From: The Swordsman Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 44908
I believe he's got it, he's finally got it. Just kidding Craig, but aside from my sometimes?? abrasive approach that's what I've been saying all along. Check back through all of Phoenix's and TSIG's SEC filings. Through that very tedious, and odious reading you will begin to assemble a rich mosaic identified as Robert Gordon. Very intelligent, very controlling, very talented, very imaginative, very complicated, very greedy, and apparently totally insensitive to the needs of the public shareholder he has the fiduciary responsibility to care for. His needs, or better said... wants, invariably come first. Always with a rational... of course. When you read these filings with a careful eye towards their base motives, your heightened sensitivities, much like a blind man to the sounds of his environment, alert you to this mans true intentions. He's more interested in raising public money for one great idea or another with no real ability to execute. Almost not so bad until you realize that he really doesn't care so long as he gets taken care of in the process. And he does. And as you learn from these readings, along with a liberal dose of his contemporaneous utterances (through REW, Marty, or others, whether 1st or 2nd person, and you just know it's coming from RG,) of how great this is or that thing that's happening is going to be, (witness all the leaked?? rumors), Mr. Gordon usually does very well in spite of what the company and its attendant shareholder gets in the process. Additionally there's no accountability with the use of 2nd or 3rd party shills. Whatever happened to all the to-do about Taco Bell? About McDonalds? God knows how many other carefully placed rumors, have come and gone, but in the process motivated more buyers to jump on to buy shares? If they happen, great. If they don't, the story just dies into the background and what the hell, those shareholders have sold and gone. No need for accountability here. The last piece of the puzzle I have yet to determine is whether Mr. Gordon truly believes all his PR's (not to be confused with the company's PR's,) or if he knows much of what he's doing and saying is bogus as he speaks it. Knowing that would tell the rest of the story. Hopefully some of you will now begin to understand that I am not a basher. I got into TSIG as a lark on a tip from a client. A penny gamble. And I got hooked like many of you and I don't quit. However I sincerely believe in TSIG and the plan. This plan could be the nucleus of a fabulous investment return. This plan that has finally evolved from John Hwang, who by the way is only here because of Dr. Frankel. This plan to be effective however, needs Mr. Gordon to stand aside and let the real work be executed by professional and capable management. The CEO needs to be a manager and a leader, not just an idea man. Great ideas will not be enough. They're a dime a dozen. SC