Well, those who have or have held executive positions with POET and still have options want to succeed just as the many shareholders who have bought a ton of shares over the years at higher prices than what they are worth now. It still is in everyone's interest to get those shares up as high as possible in order to exercise options and/or for long shareholders to trim some of their holdings for  rich profits from shares purchased eons ago. Also, executives took much lower salaries than they were accustomed to when they joined POET and their options are their incentive / lucrative reward for them when they get POET to where they plan to have taken it in the first place. Typically, start-up companies, like POET, can only incent talent with options in order to keep the talent around long enough to get the job done.

The wording, of the Indian RFP, for example, has Ajit Manocha's name all over it. If we end up winning that RFP, then we have him to thank. However, the Interposer Platform is POET's disruptive low-hanging fruit that has manifested by the roadmap designed/overssee by our very patient CEO and Board of Directors. Their time and effort, and their discounted salaries is their "sweat equity" in POET, and I am sure that they are not around just to stink up the air quality on our forum. They are in POET to win; and we get to go along for the ride. I'll be happy when they issue themselves $5 or $10 options, probably again in the future as that means POET is rocketing ahead ...

... however it still is first things first as they must do everything they can to meet current share price targets. Then, Ajit Manocha's gravy will begin to pour richly and part of his vision for India will come true as well. That also will potentially and dramatically help POET.

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