COO

PanicAttackInAPack

Tarrifs are taxes based on country of manufacture not where they're shipped from so that only works if they falsify COO. The issue with that is companies, at least US based ones, wouldn't want their Chinese manufacturers to do that because it would result in fines on them.

ConfederacyOfDunces_

It didn’t get walked down on low volume though. It dropped from $140 the second the COO talked about Daily Active Users. They said on the earnings call that April is already off to slow start and said they won’t meet DAU wallstreet expectations for next quarter. They said DAU dropped from to 2% from 6% last quarter. And then they made some dumb ass comment about add fees. OP missed this important data point

i7-4790Que

Yeah, taxes to disuade purchases of certain COO products. The American government must be even stupider than whatever Redditors you're crying about when they were trying to use the existence of VAT to calculate reciprocal tariffs.  L

StocksStormTrooper

HIMS timing the announcement of veteran Amazon COO hire, hours before ER- it will be beast mode!

trainwreck001

HIMS TAPPED AMAZON PHARMACY EXEC AS NEW COO TO BECOME THE NEW AMAZON IN THE HEALTHCARE SPACE. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 HIMS $200+ 

trainwreck001

HIMS HIRES AMAZON PHARMACY EXEC AS NEW COO. HIMS $200+ 

panderson1988

CNBC has Blackstone's COO on, and he mentioned how their firm is looking at Japan. I agree with him since I got into EWJV recently. I had DXJ for a while, made a good run, but sold it in February when it flatline and uncertainty picked up. I am taking a chance on WJRYY, Japan West Railway, an OTC since it's a foreign company. Japanese companies and ETFs have seen less downturn during the volatility, and I feel like they will stay under the radar to an extent with the tariff and political nonsense. Let alone how they have a global expo in Osaka where Japan West Railway operates, and to me it's a country that could see a good breakout. Long term the population is a problem, but they have plenty of great global companies and appeal abroad.

RelativeManner1330

I feel you. The stock definitely looks bad from a lot of angles. I keep going back to the conversation I had with the COO - his heart really seems in it and they seem to have a lot going on, especially if you dig into their LinkedIn (there’s a new “Nuvve Japan” page) and Fermata Energy’s page as well. As a long holder of penny stocks as well, I focus on the company, the assets and the IP, not just the stock price and how to make a quick buck. I’m by no means pumping (no more than anyone else on here, and a lot less than some that just post tickers with exclamation points) and I’m sure you can find my position information in my past comments. Again, as a long-term holder, I really can’t “dump” the position I hold.

pflory23

I'm trying to say it feels too overdone. RDDT has been nice but that ER was a disaster with great numbers. Don't know what's wrong with that COO.

muay_throwaway

God forbid a COO be honest about company performance...

abscando

He really is a perfect COO but not a CEO. First and foremost a good CEO is the ultimate hype man of the company, and boy this dude can make record-breaking revenue quarters sound like a reading of the phone book

Alwaysfavoriteasian

CEO is Steve, COO is Jen.

Kitchen-Lavishness88

That COO should be fired

hewkii2

There are consultant groups that solve the problem of “The CEO is gone, give us a new CEO” but it’s also usually with the board in direct communication as well. Also there’s a lot of C suite execs that are not CEOs but which could be candidates still. You want related experience, but something like “currently COO at Stellantis USA” or whatever wouldn’t be that surprising.

Moist-Golf-8339

Logistics manager here… they are not eating it. I just bought more of our regular textile/fabrics from China yesterday. The price really hurt. These tariffs are making our USA manufacturing cost more but not our offshore manufacturing outside China. So, it’s actually incentivizing us to move more manufacturing offshore. (Which will also help with our international customers who have reciprocal tariffs. A US COO is bad for them but a VN or KH COO is good.

RelativeManner1330

The COO of Nuvve (the CEO of Nuvve New Mexico) was kind enough to talk to me on the phone for about 20 minutes about a month ago; he offered to set up a call with the key 3 of the company but I was leaving the country and didn't have the time (maybe I'll follow up on tat offer). He seems to have his heart in this, has been working on the concept for 10 years. These things take time to develop, and we could be looking at an inflection point. I have yet to get a response to an email I sent to $CTM's CEO Glen Ives who knows how long ago...

South_Afternoon_296

He is officially the COO of Fugazi Capital

The402Jrod

They lost a quarter of sales. Thats… you’re not a COO or VP of sales, are you?

PublicCOO

Would never ask for anything sensitive, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing that the COO monitors socials to try to ensure customers are getting the support they need. You do you though.

Specific-Change9678

And to add I believe new COO has a clause in his contract that he receives 250k vested shares with a buyout.

ProbablyNotStaying99

Everyone knows about the just in time supply chain though. I honestly thought we would have seen worse impacts by now, but they are coming. I've seen various versions of this story around: [https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/04/gloomhaven-2e-stuck-in-china-amid-rollercoaster-trump-tariffs.html](https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/04/gloomhaven-2e-stuck-in-china-amid-rollercoaster-trump-tariffs.html) Cephalofair Games COO has said they have 1.2 million dollars worth of product sitting in China that doesn't make sense for them to ship here because of the tariffs. If he shipped it here, he could never sell it for what they would have to ask for. They are a small board game company - but the game in question is Gloomhaven. For those who are not board game hobbiests, that's the 4th most popular hobbiest board game in the world and it sat at number one for literally years. It's an item that most people won't notice, but those who enjoy this hobby will. That's one item from one small company. And if tariffs were lifted right now all that product would start moving, but it's already a month behind. That product will not magically teleport here. If there aren't enough ships in China it will have to wait until they get there, and it would be eating up shipping capacity for the items currently shipped now. Eventually it would balance out, but it looks like best case we have to live through a month of shortages and then relief would be gradual. There's no precedent for this besides COVID really and it was for completely different reasons so I could be wrong but that's my guess.

_hiddenscout

Never heard of this company, but what a great quarter: $PEGA Pegasystems Q1 EPS $1.53, consensus 50c Q1 revenue $475.6M, consensus $357.0M. "Pega GenAI has dramatically transformed how we engage with our clients," said Alan Trefler, Pega founder and CEO. "Pega solutions and our approach to AI enables clients to accelerate progress in reaching their digital and legacy transformation goals." "We accelerated ACV growth and delivered record free cash flow in Q1 2025, reflecting the benefits of the subscription model," said Pega COO & CFO Ken Stillwell. "Operating as a Rule of 40 company allows us to focus on accelerating profitable growth while thoughtfully returning capital to shareholders." It is interesting to see some smaller software companies actually getting wins with AI.

jscheuch

Interested as well. I know the recent news w Alani acquisition, Hansen coming over from Pepsi as COO and expanding into EU but maybe there’s more?

Duc_de_Bourgogne

I went to Canada before Easter for a quick vacation. I went to 1 grocery store the whole time and the guy in front of me asked the cashier for the COO on the peanut butter he was buying and he said if it's US, I don't want it. It's very real.

Fine-Store-5184

Most here don't know this but Corey Fishman (current CEO of Iterum Therapeutics) previously helped lead the sale of MedPointe Healthcare to Meda AB in 2007 for $400 million. He later served as COO and CFO of Durata Therapeutics, where he led a successful IPO and ultimately negotiated its $675 million acquisition by Actavis (now owned by Teva Pharmaceuticals) in 2014. Across both exits, Fishman generated approximately $1.5 billion in total deal value. He has stated they are looking for a "strategic transaction" for Iterum as well. While we don't know for sure what happens to $ITRM many investors are expecting a similar outcome from the management team. Near term, this likely rallies to $2-3 range ahead of any material news on an acquisition, partnership or private equity deal. Analyst price targets are around $10/share fwiw. As always do you own research and due diligence.

Kindly_Commercial_35

Doesn’t work that way. There is a Country of Origin determination process. The product would need to be “substantially transformed” for the COO to change from China to Canada.

Ok-Marsupial8141

Yeah, that CFO left to become the CEO of Spirit and the COO is also leaving I believe. I'm assuming that is the reason for the drop today.

RelativeManner1330

I’ve had this epiphany a few times actually, literally doing this for a living…  That’s why you really wanna be certain/sold on the companies you touch. $CTM was my all-in play for a while, shoulda coulda woulda taken profits when it popped, but it seems like it’s a lot of people’s “baby”. … $NVVE is my current reach, I’ve talked to Ted Smith, the COO (CEO of Nuvve New Mexico) on the phone and this stuff seems like it’s his baby. They have a solid presence on LinkedIn and their website which leads me to believe they’re doing/getting ready for *something*.  Ted could just be blowing smoke up my ass but it’s a long hold for me and I’m willing to contribute to the cause. I don’t think the tech is going away. Just my $.02. Wouldn’t touch anything you haven’t done solid due diligence on so you know what you’re getting into. Otherwise it’s nothing but a circle-jerk, truly.

lord-penguin

Could be your COO

eltoddro

$SHFS is a prime buyout candidate right now and trading well below book & cashflow. Just hired a CEO and COO who are deal specialists. This is one is going to sell soon and should bring with it a nice payout.

boogi3woogie

I totally see why tim apple is a better COO than a CEO.

reaper527

> tariffs are based upon the COO - not the country it was shipped from. while true, that's pretty trivial to work around. for example when there were sanctions/etc. against russian diamonds, they could simply ship them to india who would be more than happy to take them, and then they would polish them and send them around the world with an indian COO rather than a russian one. chinese goods can go to europe where some cheap, trivial step is performed to change the COO of the final product.

Nothingdoing079

Goods are typically tariffed based on original country of origin. It's the same thing that stops you from buying into another country with lower tariffs and importing from there.  For a product to change COO it needs to be materially changed (i.e buying cocoa from the ivory coast, shipping to the EU and turning it into Chocolate means that if that chocolate is exported to the US it's tariffed at the EU rate, not the Ivory Coast Rate) I've had situations where a starch is mixed in the EU, but that wasn't enough to classify as materially changed, and thus was charged at the higher 3rd country rate for starch

MikuEmpowered

Yes. because how COO works, how do you accurately label something thats only partially from X country? COO requirement is that if you can't identify the origin country, then the origin is the last place where it underwent production (not minor changes), and if you could identify it, its the source of material or point of production. So yeah, places with cheap labour and 10% tariff? we gonna get those coming in instead of usual places. People be like "We closing loopholes", aint closing shit, because majority of goods before comes in through countries with TRADE AGREEMENTS, there was no reason to actually use these loopholes. other than places like China with existing tariffs, hence the Vietnam shenanigans. Mexico, China, and Canada combine for a total of 43% of all US import, this is important, because while US only composes of 4.2% of world population, it consumes 20\~25% of all consumption, this is too big of a market to ignore. Here's the important part, because the USCMA is still in effect, any goods falling under the category would be exempt from tariffs, meaning its much cheaper to build factory and send material to Mexico or Canada than in the US, because how strong the USD is currently still. If the circus actually care about the economy, expect a update to USMCA to address this, if nothing is changed, Mexico becomes the new Vietnam.

very_bad_advice

tariffs are based upon the COO - not the country it was shipped from. [Country of origin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_of_origin#:~:text=Country%20of%20origin%20(CO)%20represents,within%20the%20value%2Dcreation%20process.) Now you may ask, so just say you manufacture in china, ship to EU and then either fake the manufacturing origin or just do a little change to claim it is manufactured in a low tariff place. Well that's fraud and if found out during an audit likely will lead to criminal charges [Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports | U.S. Customs and Border Protection](https://www.cbp.gov/trade/rulings/informed-compliance-publications/marking-country-origin-us-imports) Do people fake it? I think that's the charge laid upon Vietnam by Peter Navarro.

PhantomFoxtrot

Keyword *smuggle* - the tariffs are not for country of export but country of origin. COO rules apply. I wish I could tell Chinese exporters to ship to a warehouse in Australia and then have the Aussies on ship it the USA bypassing the 100% tariff and only paying the Aussies low 10% tariff. But that’s not legal :/ as it’s country of origin goods not country of export

NussP1

They can’t take 100% Chinese components and just assemble them and pass them off as their own. That’s illegal, though I don’t doubt there are some doing this. They can take a certain percentage of Chinese components and complete the assembly with their own domestically made components and label that with their COO.

wow343

Yo COO is a piece of paper. If Trump goes ahead with this you will see a lot of fake paperwork. I honestly think the way things are going the US will tacitly accept this as well. Kind of a wink wink nod nod so they can act petulantly to their own populace. It's country of jokers not a country of laws!!

AnyFaithlessness7991

From what I understand you can change COO of the product went through "substantial transformation" I am not sure how countries judge what went through "substantial transformation"

NussP1

LOL. Does not work that way. Customs will look at COO of the product being imported. People have been trying that for years ever since the original section 301 tariffs were implemented back in 2019. Customs is well aware of this tactic.

hoxxxxx

actual conversation i had at work a few months ago, "the golf course is where *deals* are made. that's why he golfs so much." "oh really. deals. he's the fucking president of the united states. people come to him wherever he's at. he doesn't have to go play golf with some fucking mid-size company COO to 'make a deal'. you know that right?" "you just don't understand."

Punisher-3-1

That is how modern manufacturing works. Even stuff with Mexico COO is merely assembled there. SMT is happening in China, which then flows to Malaysia for testing and packaging and assembly into a higher level, then flows to Mexico. But before China runs SMT, they need to source key components globally. Many critical components come from the US. Then stuff moved to Mexico, when the BoM arrived from something like 26 counties, believe it or not, with several high level components being COO USA. Finally, it is assembled into a finished good with COO Mexico but really, just about every country contributed to the supply chain.

Kingkongcrapper

Quarterlies are about forward guidance as much as they are earnings. When they get up and talk the CEO or COO will need to discuss their exposure to tariffs. Any shifty language and it’s going to be, “Oh Shit.” RH dropped heavy as people fully understood their tariff exposure. Couple that with weak earnings and you get a hard chop.

Thigmotropism2

We brought in a McKinsey alum as COO and she made herself redundant in 6 mos lol

Chicken65

Mexico doesnt have a free trade agreement with China, to appease the US they may tariff them. Also when importing from MX to US there is a country of origin announcement you have to declare so it can’t be COO Mexico if it’s really from China.

Conscious_Bad_4030

The new ceo was already with LW since 2007 as COO. So nothing too new here. Don't you think the trace wars will f**k the LW guidance a lot?

Alone-Supermarket-98

While the stories are sexy, these are still early stage tech companies burning ever increasing cash. Now they are not being helped with the background of Marks leaving the FDA and RFK jr putting them in a spotlight. CRSP's COO just left after announcing another weak Q. Revenues are declining and losses increased not just for last Q, but all of 2024. BEAM losses increased, and analysts just revised down their estimates again. That doesnt mean that everything in the group is being taken out and shot. Intercellular (ITCI) saw revenues increase by +50% to $199mm, and while still making a loss, that loss was cut in half. In the last month, ITCI was up about +2.5% while BEAM was down -21% As the environment is getting more chaotic, fundimentals are much more important, and demostrating real progress is paramount. A sexy story will only get you so far.

Woksauce1

Our Q2 outlook meeting today was no bueno.Basically our sector of manufacturing in construction products is bracing for the biggest kick in the balls with uncertainty surrounding tariffs. Was professionally told today by our COO that as an estimating department lead “My duties will become very taxing” if this tariff BS doesn’t stop. I’ll have to manage the hell out of honoring old and dynamically shifting new pricing and labor for old and new accounts alike. I don’t like this boys, and if you are one of customers you are not going to like it too…

RockyMountainArms

Large amount of earnings over the past 2 years has been from semaglutide and tirzepatide sales. Both have been taken off the FDA shortage list and they will not be able to compound and sell them anymore. The company has been trying to aggressively advertise to get these drugs placed back in the shortage list. Additionally, the COO, CFO and Chief medical officer have all sold large amounts of shares in the last week. The company has been known for making pretty sub-par compounds for anything except for their semaglutide/tirzepatide. I believe that was their low hanging fruit of easy profits but those days are over and they are going to face a huge retraction in the next year. https://preview.redd.it/bntcccgrnmre1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed7ee2f4ef11f35d0d7d517e7d8ca40d2cd421ba

AccountantDirect9470

Maybe, maybe not. When my company was acquired by a larger company, they also bought a larger company kinda of a merger but still an acquistion. That aquisition was from a much larger city. The new large acquisition came in and changed how we service our clients including company bought us. The parent company. There were pros and cons. But one of the biggest cons that I saw I couldn’t let slide without saying something. They were not about taking extra time. Time counting for service staff was to be meticulously tracked and spent, and metrics were about tickets closed vs customer happiness. Our boss before the acquisition wanted us to be efficient but valued the client happiness knowing that an unhappy client would take more effort down the road than marking a ticket closed before real resolution happened. They also implemented a call center style of engagement rather than consistent access to a tech team that knows them. So I said to the COO, in front of a lot of people, clients will not like that. The clients like knowing they are calling getting consistent technicians and having the relationship with them. It provides comfort that when they call in they get someone with knowledge of their business and of them personally, and they problem would be taken seriously. He proceeded to tell me that client knowledge will not be required as documentation fills that gap, and that we will be closing tickets so fast that they will be happy. What followed was 3 years of technician and client attrition, and culminated in him being fired form the company, that about this time was half built by him. Our current model instituted by the CEO directly, is so far and above for service and support and is far closer to how I would run things. We have not lost a client in 18 months. So the point is, sometimes people really just think they know everything, because they look at numbers from a perspective they know.. and they don’t want to consider anything else. The people making this decision saw American strength as simply American. Not from hard work maintaining a status quo. That status quo being good or bad is another discussion.

anakngtipaklongnaman

COO yelled at me yesterday on the phone, put me on blast on the mgmt email group today. Puts on my career as well + Tariff

apurimac777

Just the thought of Zuck having his COO's clam juice in the mattress on his PJ warms the cockles of my heart

johndsmits

RH COO: ***retail*** *has always bailed out the markets*  (also confirmed RH users' activity def pumping tsla today)

looool_k_libtard

You can be COO if you want

gauzerin

Ceo doesnt have a detailed job description. He is a figurehead who remains in those positions so that he can exert control when he sees need for it. How much he is involved in day to day is speculation. I d wager 2-4 weekly calls in major areas. The day to day ops is COO job. Elon is a face and it might be a good time for him to take a break at least from Tesla.

ilovecuckoldsss

https://preview.redd.it/pjl3hpo3jrne1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2efca14f9ab708f5ff7aea7e212909f5d7146cd9 as COO

No-Doctor9742

- 27% short interest - Insomnia cookies comps roll off by summer - can drive a truck through earnings guidance, low bar going forward - 27% short interest - rates dropping - new COO - 400-500 MCD units being added per month for next 22 months - 27% short interest

MAkrbrakenumbers

A spy calls you at 10am weird flex what’s his COO

WeaknessEmergency

TGT ANF ORN AVDL GENI SPY COO and HPE 

Embarrassed-Chain265

As a business owner, why do I need a CFO and an accounting staff if AI can do it? What good is the CIO or CTO if we don't need an engineering or IT department? most of the sales and marketing department would be easily replaced by an AI that advanced. We don't need a help desk, call center, logistics or the COO anymore. Fulfillment and warehousing will all be robots. Don't need an HR department to manage AI bots. The Chief Culture Officer is already being phased out. Who's left?

TopDeckHero420

Lemme guess, MS is bagholding a lot of Tesla. Even the COO (or whoever it was) sold millions last week.

TopDeckHero420

Didn't the COO or someone just sell hundreds of millions in stock?

looool_k_libtard

Coming for the COO’s job at Google. Zero experience but I am covered head to toe in Vaseline, ready for the opportunity.

MyCactusTeacher

lol yeah in some companies this is the CEO and COO relationship

abscando

Google is the best company with curse of having a COO as CEO.

meemeemoomoo5

even their CEO, COO and a few officers are letting go of their shares for cash. Who does that unless they are sure their stocks will tank?

Trent-Bets

Reddit COO gonna get tossed because of 🥭 new policies😶‍🌫️🤣

orcvader

I am the COO of the company.

FredMc

# The C-Suite: Where the Real Bags Are Held * **CEO (Chief Exit Officer)** – The king of **vague corporate nonsense.** Spends most of their time on CNBC saying "we're focused on long-term growth" while dumping shares **ASAP**. Gets a **$50M golden parachute** when the company inevitably collapses. * **CFO (Chief Fugazi Officer)** – **Makes the numbers lie.** Responsible for **"adjusted EBITDA"** (a.k.a. pretending losses aren’t losses) and **creative accounting sorcery** to keep analysts happy while your stock craters. * **COO (Chief Overpaid Operator)** – Thinks **"synergy"** is a real strategy. **Main skillset:** Laying off half the company **right before earnings** to make the balance sheet look good. * **CTO (Chief Tech Overlord)** – If it’s a tech company, this is the **nerd who built it** before getting shoved aside for a "more experienced" exec. If it’s not a tech company, they just **rebrand Excel as AI** and call it a day. * **CMO (Chief Meme Officer)** – Spends **millions** on Super Bowl ads instead of fixing the product. Thinks **TikTok influencers** will somehow save the company. * **CHRO (Chief Human Rekt Officer)** – Writes the "We’re all a family ❤️" email **right before firing 10,000 employees.** TL;DR: These are the **overpaid suits** rug-pulling your calls while telling you "it's just a market correction." Now go back to **bag-holding**, you filthy **retail investor.** 🚀🚀🚀

AlarmedCockroach3147

So RDDT CEO and COO sold shares 2 days ago. Makes me wonder if a stock offering is coming too.

Beneficial-Idea790

Sold near high for profit. Did you guys seriously look into the new COO though? He's a joke... They want to push medical products on a bunch of bot-inflated social media accounts? Fat chance

Chemical-Suspect5369

Did anyone buy prophase labs. New COO and cost savings plan. Source: I have 1000shares.

irunforth

[ProPhase Labs shares rise on cost cutting plans, hires former Barstool Sports COO Stu Hollenshead | Seeking Alpha](https://seekingalpha.com/news/4409253-prophase-labs-hires-former-barstool-sports-coo-stuart-hollenshead-plans-cost-cutting-measures)

PublicCOO

Hey -- I'm Public's COO (I'm very active here and at r/PublicApp). That's at least one advantage for us ha Shout with any specific questions.

touuuuhhhny

Jen is the COO

Next_Honey_8271

Yes but user change and fast, 80% of users have less than 2 years on the forum. It becoming mainstream. The reality is the revenue are growing. If you watched the live Q3 earnings the COO mentioned at the end of Q3 they were at a load of adds of 30% vs competition. For the same quantity of material scrolled through, reddit only posted 1/3 of the adds quantity of other platforms Let say they double that. Now you have 60m$ every quarter but on top of that the ARPU will go up with them being able to do better add targeting. We are not even talking about users growth. Is it valueprice No, but its a growth stock its why.

fatalbatross_

I'm actually betting on a turnaround for this one. Long and short of it is that the company was mismanaged and overambitious. They had and still have an iron grip on mobile games and the logical strategy for growth was to take a cut of ad revenue made using Unity. This is a good idea, but the way they went about it was to buy ironSource for an insane amount of money/equity, diluting shareholders to hell. Coupled with overhiring and underperforming, they came up with the runtime fee as a desperate measure, which was clearly rolled out before it was thought through and massively damaged the brand. Everyone blames the CEO Riccitelio of EA infamy, but I think the whole exec suite and board was incompetent and shortsighted. These days, the entire C-suite has been replaced, and certain board members are being forced out. Matt Bromberg the new CEO led a turnaround of Zynga as COO and seems to have been tapped for his competence and connections. He brought along with him a cohort of established industry vets who have good track records. The hated runtime fees have been cancelled, and the company has reverted to the subscription model. Efforts are being made to restore their relationship with their customer base. For Unity to turn around, it needs to show progress toward revenue growth and profitability. Currently the company is profitable on an adjusted basis, but they are notorious for elevated levels of SBC that inevitably drag their GAAP earnings into negative, diluting shareholders as well. It seems that they are making progress on cutting back on SBC, though. Growth-wise, ads are still the way forward. If they can develop their ad platform and make it a viable competitor to Applovin, the days of double digit growth could come back in a hurry and the stock would rerate from its current P/S of 5 to maybe 10, a 100% upside. The risk would be failing to execute even after all these changes. This would show irreperable damage to the product/customer base and may foreshadow bankruptcy. But I'd bet on them being sold before going bankrupt -- the product itself is too valuable not to attract vultures if the price is right. So in my mind the stock has an attractive risk/reward that mostly hinges on whether the new guys in charge can do better than the old guys. The next earnings report coming out Feb. 20 should provide more info about how the transformation may or may not pan out.

Fothyon

Yes and no. The company may or may not survive, the persons responsible for the lies will 100% go to prison though. Governments don't like market manipulation even one bit. Just see Wirecard as an example. Their COO lied about their assets so much, they got listed as one of Germanys most valuable companies. Then the truth came out and the guy fled to Russia and is living there as a priest under a fake name.

johndsmits

Oct 2007, I'm in a dept wide presentation with the CEO of the most respected entertainment company in the world (think mice) with his sr. staff. Email comes in, reads, loosely ignores presentation. Then phone call comes in, starts talking our CFO, COO. Cuts presentation short and leaves. Ask my boss (who was host) what happened, he says: *"he left to go SAVE the damn company"* (we know what happened afterwards). That's a real crash.

CaptainKursk

>the CFO and COO sounded scared to ask Elon questions. The Emperor has no ket.

Free_Sympathy2016

Unbelievable. You think ARR means anything to the stock price, when they will just dilute it when they run out of cash this year? I believe payroll for a year is around 1B. And that isn't taking into consideration stock bonuses paid on payroll, bonuses for managers and CEO CFO COO amounting to tens of millions. Market cap may go up, but common stock price will go down

TopDefinition1903

On what planet are you on that you think the CFO and COO will ask their CEO questions on an earnings call?

QuarterBackground

If it were any other company, its shares would be down 20% today. That earnings call was awful. Elon sounded drugged and the CFO and COO sounded scared to ask Elon questions. I hope TSLA tanks.

Darrinm03

Yeah I’ve literally been scouring the internet looking for ANYTHING and all I could find was the old COO or CEO that got dinged for SEC violations but that was years ago

BraveDevelopment253

 it’s important to note that tariffs in the United States are usually assessed once per import transaction, based on the country of origin (COO) and the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) code of the product that is entering the U.S. In other words, you typically do not pay separate tariffs for each sub-component inside a finished product. Instead, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) looks at: What is the product being imported? Where is it coming from (Country of Origin)? What is the HTS code and the associated tariff rate for this product from that country? Country of Origin for U.S. customs purposes is often decided by where the product underwent its “last substantial transformation.” If a raw chip (die) made in Taiwan is shipped to China and then assembled into a completed graphics card (or H100 module), there is a question: Did this assembly amount to a “substantial transformation”? If so, the final good (the fully assembled GPU) may be considered to originate in China rather than Taiwan. This means that Trump can target TSMC all day long with 100% Tarrifs and the only thing it will give an incentive for is for final assembly to occur in a low Tarrif country.  So the real Tarrif that hits TSMC are the the ones he hits China and other southeast Asian countries where the substantial assembly of the final product occurs and indirectly hits TSMC and this Tarrif will ultimately impact the entire value chain for the gpu - nvidia, gigabyte, tsmc, shipping logistics company etc.

AssistanceChance5454

For a company that is close to being on the ropes with what seems to be an insurmountable pile of debt while burning cash every quarter with the inability to turn a profit? 😂 probably. Also note it was a promotion of the COO - not an outside hire.

Athidius

Surprised you didn't mention the new COO they appointed.

s_nes

Stupid hackers got my WhatsApp banned. Support is nonexistent. Emailed the COO lol

FangGore

Not sure what OP suggests they’ve signed. If there is something that happened today I might have missed it, but $Cask has made a couple of notable moves lately: * Signed distribution deals to further expand in the US * Expanded their board with Troy Alstead and Andrew Varga. The former COO of Starbucks and CMO of Papa John’s. Quite heavy names.

Phoenixchess

GTI's recent achievements are significant. They've hit [99.99% graphite purity and 98.8% graphitization](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/graphjet-technology-achieves-technological-breakthroughs-130000582.html) - the highest levels among biomass graphite production technologies. Their tech produces only 2.95kg CO2 per kg of graphite vs 16.8kg from traditional methods. But the insider selling is concerning. The COO's background shows more experience in real estate and oil recycling than graphene tech. Their 3,000 metric ton facility sounds impressive until you realize the global graphite market is millions of tons. The price crash wasn't just "lack of PR" - there are fundamental issues here. The tech might be good but the business execution needs work. This looks more like a lottery ticket than a solid investment right now. Better plays exist in the graphene space.

Phoenixchess

CASK is positioning itself for serious growth. [The former Starbucks COO Troy Alstead who expanded SBUX's global footprint across Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Greater China](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heritage-distilling-company-strengthens-senior-133000595.html) joining the board is massive. Not just some random exec - the guy who actually made Starbucks international. [They've raised $130k+ for military charities through their Salute Series program in less than a year](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heritage-distilling-co-expands-kentucky-133000062.html). Shows they know how to build brand loyalty and community connection. The management team is stacked. The CEO's 13 years of Senate experience got distilling laws changed on tribal lands. Now Andrew Varga who launched Woodford Reserve is running revenue strategy. These aren't amateur hour penny stock execs. Already pushing into Kentucky and Colorado markets. Smart move targeting bourbon country. The tribal casino partnerships create a unique distribution channel other craft distillers can't match. This isn't a pump and dump - it's a legit craft spirits company with real products, revenue, and expansion plans. The tiny float makes it volatile but the fundamentals are solid. Insiders buying at $4 shows confidence in the valuation.

betrayed247

lmao.. so RDDT's 4% fall was just b/c the COO had a scheduled sell-off of shares. 

snowman271291

$TENB 45c jan 17th 2025 exp, buys, volume on options flow earlier today. They said they were exploring a potential sale 30th of July, it's like 4.5months now since then..no movement of options since earnings period Maybe a takeover deal news coming soon? CEO is undergoing cancer treatment and will be COO & CFO as interim...more sus that they will definitely sell

highgravityday2121

The only thing he’s good at is hiring talented people. He hired gweynne shotwell the COO spacex and she’s the GOAT

PublicCOO

I'm the COO -- happy to answer any questions you have (here or DM)

covid_endgame

I’m pretty sure its the CFO not the COO

IRunFast24

>The COO leaving is NOT a big deal Agreed, but the stock has gotten crushed because on the conference call (which I know no one pays attention to) they said that they Q3 revenue included a number of significant long-term deals that were paid upfront.

shawnjp

Corrected .. COO.

PewPewDiie

I haven't dd'd zs properly but am familiar with them. I think that mdb solves a fundamental problem that enterprises face and will only get bigger in a lot of sectors within enterprise IT. I think their long term growth prospects are heavily underpriced. Right now tho stock is reacting to COO/CFO stepping down but to me that seems like a heavy overreaction. I'm loading up best I can. Across the board I see analysts underprising mid cap high growth SaaS, and the target prices alone adds weight to my view of things. Zscaler operates in a different niche so I can't directly compare them.

ObservationalHumor

So first and foremost he's just nowhere near as smart as he claims to be. One of the things Musk is great at doing is using random annecdotes he's heard and technical language and throwing them into conversations. It's usually esoteric and highly specialized stuff that the average public and financial analysts aren't knowledgable about so everyone just assumes he said something deep or profound when a lot of the time it's either meaningless, not applicable or literally complete nonsense because he doesn't understand the terminology he's trying to use. In general I would say he's very good at exploiting a general asymmetry in specialized technical information, old thought experiments and even old sci fi tropes to sell investors and people that he's some kind of genius visionary and singular presence capable of understanding and monetizing them. A great example of this is his commentary to his shareholders around self driving cars and humanoid robots. Waymo has been working on it longer than Tesla because they saw the value much earlier and even before that DARPA was funding a ton of research to really bootstrap it in the early 2000s (very good example of a so called 'DARPA Hard' problem). A lot of what he says about technical details around training and problems Tesla's system has and had in the past is completely wrong, but it doesn't really matter because no unless you work in that field it isn't obvious. Really there's no problem if a CEO doesn't have that level of knowledge, it's just that Musk claims to and keeps on trying to perpetuate this view of him as some super engineer that has no real basis in reality. So what's he actually good at? I think he's good at acting as an early investors and finding plays where there's a lot of buy in from the engineers and scientists or do the work and also interest from governments to provide substantial funding and contracts very early on. Both SpaceX and Tesla are great examples of that. He's also an excellent self promoter like Trump is and one of the biggest things he brought to Tesla for a while was just being popular on Twitter and allowing them to forgo a traditional advertising and promotional budget, that's since been supplanted by a lot of price cuts to keep metal moving and more recently his political swing has alienated a lot of people on the left who were the biggest buyers of BEVs in the US and it's very likely he's done more damage to the brand over the last 2 years than he's brought to it. There's a lot of luck involved too and recently he's kind of just fully leaned in to trying to benefit from corruption and graft via the Trump administration and TSLA has basically doubled as a result making them the richest person on earth. I'll go through things chronologically to try to trace the path though. His first company of any note that gave him his initial fortune was Zip2. He'll tell it as him being a genius engineer but what really ultimately happened is he got something very valuable for literally nothing. Zip2 was basically an early online directory and mapping service. What really made it impressive was its ability to give directions though and that was possible because Musk somehow managed to convince a company called NavTech a free license to use their mapping and directions software on his website. He paired that with a business directory he got from the San Francisco chamber of commerces and made a barely functional demo which he used to get funded. Now the website sucked but the VC investors immediately realized the value of what he had and the soundness of the concept. They brought in a real CEO and real software engineers to rewrite everything and basically put Musk in a meaningless CTO role where he still apparently continued to frustrate engineers by pushing code base changes overnight and forcing them to rewrite them during work. Eventually the CEO set up a deal to sell the service to newspapers and eventually the entire company and Musk basically lucked into a boatload of money fairly young by getting something very valuable for a song. It's hard to express how fortunate this was and how much NavTech missed an opportunitiy, it was like IBM not realizing the value of computer software back in the 1980s or AOL screwing its instant messaging platform and missing social media. After that the next big company he's associated with is Paypal. Contrary to some of the popular versions of the story Elon Musk did not found or create Paypal. Paypal was a product created by Confinity, headed by Peter Thiel and where Max Levchin was the CEO and spearheaded the Paypal product. What Musk founded was X.com which was basically a pretty crappy early online bank. It worked to some degree but had a lot of security problems and was more focused on banking services than payments. However Musk was good at raising a lot of money and got into an advertising and promotions war with Confinity where both companies were burning through copious amounts of cash on promotions and faced with running out of runway. This lead to a merger between the two companies being pursued. Musk ended up as the CEO shortly thereafter and his only notable contributions during that time were deciding to focus the combined company on the PayPal product, essentially ditching everything from X.com in the process, and his meddling with technical details of the system which caused him to the lose job. At some point he decided he knew better than the CTO how the system should be built, proposed one of his famous rewrites and transitioning the system to Windows NT instead of the POSIX based system it ran on. Levchin and the engineers pushed back and made an ultimatum that Musk had to go from the CEO position or they would. Musk was removed while he was on his honeymoon with his wife. If you want to know why he was sleeping on the floor at Tesla that's the main reason why, not because of some work ethic or the need for him to be there, it's because he was afraid he would be removed whenever things were going poorly and the company was short on cash. It's also why they still don't really have a COO, CTO or anyone who could easily slip into Musk's role today. Thiel would take over as CEO and run the company until its successful sale to Ebay that made everyone involved fantastically wealthy. Musk still retained his equity and made a boatload off of a stake in a company basically by being an obstacle along the way to Convinity. Lucky here again as he was with Zip2. Musk basically failed upwards into hundreds of millions of dollars by the early 2000s and that would set the stage for his two most well known investments. SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX is probably the one where he's put in the most effort and got pretty much all the stories about his technical prowess. SpaceX came about primarily after the Shuttle Columbia disaster. Back in the 1990s both DARPA and NASA had been funding a lot of ambitious new launch systems with DAPRA pursuing McDonald Douglas' DC-X prototype which had many of its engineers eventually go into Blue Origin and Musk even credit as being the predecessor to SpaceX's second stage landings. NASA pursued the Lockheed Martin led VentureStar project which landed similar to the shuttle like and aeroplane. These designs were focused on slightly different hings with the DC-X seeking to provide rapid turn around and frequent launch capability to the DoD and VentureStar having capabilities for in space operations similar to the shuttle. Both were designed to have lower costs and get rid of what were seen as problematic aspects of the shuttle's design, particularly the sold fuel boosters which were the source of failure during the Challenger disaster. Budget cuts during the Clinton administration, a refocusing of NASA towards the ISS, cancelling of Reagan's Star Wars program at the DoD, internal politics at NASA and the subsequent Columbia disaster would kill all government funding for reusable launch systems early in the 2000s. A big failure in early proposed satellite internet and communications companies after the .com bubble also killed demand in the private launch market. With their biggest customer, the US government, seeking to use expendable rockets aerospace contractors mothballed their amibition SSTO programs and focused on their military contracts as the GWOT ramped up. That left a bunch of skilled engineers who had worked on these systems basically without jobs where they could work on them and that formed the base of what would become SpaceX. Notably the Bush administration would also being a big push to privatize the launch industry as a whole and SpaceX ended up being an early beneficiary of that after Musk made a good impression with the man spearheading that program. Since then it's become deeply intwined with US defense interests as tensions with Russia, benefitted from bigger NASA contracts and ton of investor money pouring in to try to make Starlink economically viable (this also has benefitted heavily from DoD spending to keep communications in Ukraine working after Musk initially gave them the service for 'free' until he wanted to make money off it and threatened to cut it). SpaceX has a lot of talented engineers and the Falcon 9 was much better scoped as a next generation launch system than the SSTO systems of the 1990s which would have required real technical breakthroughs to work out super efficiently. There basically isn't really a market for Starship but NASA gave him a lunar contract to implement a super convoluted system of orbital fuelings for every launch to try to make it work anyways. Continued in the next post...