> Investors only want to make a return on their investment, and thus do not really care what the product is... Here, in a nutshell, is the entire problem of mi

> Investors only want to make a return on their investment, and thus do not really care what the product is... Here, in a nutshell, is the entire problem of misaligned incentives in modern business. The product becomes the the shares of stock. Larian's success with Baldur's Gate 3 is because they obsessed about the product and their customer. Apple's success is because Steve Jobs obsessed about the product and the customer (despite being publicly traded) and Apple continues to do so. So many other companies are all about maximizing short-term extraction of shareholder value. They're not about the product or the customer anymore. This breaks the market mechanism, so few arguments of how the market will generate winners or fix the problem still make sense. The market is Wall Street, the stock market, not the market where customers buy goods. How do we incentivize good product and customer service in a VC / activist investor / private equity world?