>>514808492
Having all those guns gives you a higher chance of changing things for the better when something inevitably goes down.
The only place with that opportunity, the rest of the world can just cross their fingers.

>>514808990
>A proper CEO can fire entire divisions and choose what prototype or product to pursue, what marketing strategies to follow, who to hire for any of these positions
In a private company, sure, that's how it works. That's how pic related does it, for example.
When you go public, you can only do that if you have ownership majority. Otherwise you're a slave to the board, and the board ONLY want to pump up their stocks because that is their main objective since that's the only reason they bought said stocks in the first place.
>Companies don't run themselves by inertia
When was the last time the usual big corps had any real innovation? A revolutionary Wangblows OS? A revolutionary iShit product?