I concur. Stocks are too far away from the actual software. The CEOs stupid pet project might well ruin the company's financials, even though all of the engine

I concur. Stocks are too far away from the actual software. The CEOs stupid pet project might well ruin the company's financials, even though all of the engineers on the core team did a fantastic and highly profitable job. So stocks are more bets on the CEOs performance than on the engineers'.