Discussion: The Big Bad Shareholders & Executives

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sundin13 said:
A couple points, not directly answering your questions but relating to them:
-Shareholders are often ignorant and only interested in short term gains, ignoring the cost of those gains. From the perspective of someone outside of a business, with no experience in the space that business occupies, it is difficult to take their suggestions seriously. The idea of taking ideas from shareholders seems very much like trusting a businessman over a doctor when it comes to medical issues.
-As shareholders are a very short term proposition, they often lead companies into accomplishing short term gains as opposed to looking into long term strategies.
-The future of video games does not only include creative potential but business potential. It is very important as a business to understand the potential of emerging technologies and how they will affect both the creative space and the business space. Discussing this in shareholders meetings is no different than any other business discussing its future. Nintendo is a video game company, and its future stands alongside the future of video games.
-Shareholders can be seen as a necessary evil. While I don't claim to understand the ins and outs of the financial system, I acknowledge why they are needed, but that does not mean that they should pilot a company.
-Kickstarter is not the direction video games are headed. For large productions, finding a publisher will always be the better route because Kickstarter has a ceiling and that ceiling isn't anywhere near the required budget for a game.

Thank you. This is the type of answer I was looking for