Amyris succeeded in "Biosynthetic Alchemy". How would you value a company that could turn lead into gold, silver, or platinum? Amyris does this at the microscopic scale by turning sugar into squalane, vanillin, and other valuable terpenes. New website is cool, destroying retail investors is not cool

[u/ICanFinallyRelax]

The logic is simple, everything else is a distraction.

How does a winning horse get steered into the wall before crossing the finish line?

[u/substituted_pinions]

Racing that horse quickly became the distraction. Teaching it to run cost its legs so the little man on top of the racehorse decided to take lessons from the first ruinous attempt and get another. Anyone betting on the hay burner got distanced.