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George Patton Thank you for having me for this interview. After reading your initial article, I was excited to see that someone would be covering the new public companies.
Rms78070 Absolutely. Thanks for agreeing, im sure there are a lot of people interested in getting the inside scoop on a company a so close to home.
So you are the CEO of Patton Industries. Do you have any business experience, or anything else that will add credence to your position?
In the eWorld I have owned businesses here in eSim, which are now part of Patton Industries, and in “that other game that not be mentioned” in the past. In terms of real life business, I own two businesses and have been investing in mutual funds and stocks since I was 12 years old. One of my businesses pertains to buying and selling gold, so I’m always following as much of the world economy as I can to see trends and set prices accordingly. My other business is more of a hobby as I have a production company for making independent film and music videos.
Can you give my readers some insight into the direction of your company in both the short and long term?
Patton Industries is going to start in the short term with a focused niche which will be weapons and defense. We will be working diligently on securing larger government contracts with countries and military units to help them get their supplies in bulk at slightly cheaper prices than found on the product market. This is starting with iron, q1 weapons and q3 weapons in the short. As we establish our presence in that market we are also looking forward to stone companies and defense systems. In the long term we hope to be able to expand outside of our niche to include more varied companies and products such as grain/food, oil/tickets, etc as well as utilizing the product and money markets to generate more income.
As of right now you have 412 shares outstanding, do you plan on further diluting the share structure, and if so by how much. How can investors be sure that you will not dilute the value of their shares unnecessarily?
We don’t have any further plans of devaluing shares in the future unless it is something that can help the corporation and its shareholders to prosper in the long run. What you see now is the foundation of the corporation in its beginning stages. In the real world, you wouldn’t be able to go public with a company until the business was established. These initial offerings and splits were minimal to set our staff and raise enough capital to purchase companies, salary capital and to protect myself and my board of directors from a possible hostile takeover which has been seen in some of the initial stock companies that didn’t take the time to set a foundation and just wanted to make some quick gold.
Do you plan on issuing dividends? A growing corporation such as yourself may benefit more from retained earnings.
Dividends are definitely a plan for the future to help reward long term investors get a return without having to sell their shares. As you mentioned, being a growing corporation in our infantile stages we will retain earnings in the short term to help build off of our foundation, but dividends are definitely in the plans for the future as we grow.
Your average price per share has been around 4 gold. How much do you believe the price per share will be one week from now and one month from now?
It’s hard to predict where the market will go from here, especially with more public companies on the way. Keep in mind what we have discussed so far, which is the fact that we haven’t truly opened shares to the public yet. Now that our staff is set, we have purchased companies and protected ourselves, we will be opening a larger issue of shares to the public within the week. This offering will allow us to raise a lot more capital to grow even further. The offering will be in the area of our average share price so far, but as we grow and build the corporation properly I believe that we can double that share price within a month’s time.
Since your initial public offering, your company has remained fairly stagnant. Can you convince my readers in just a few sentences that your company is a sleeping giant, and that they should invest in your company?
Without trying to be too repetitive, the stagnation in the early days was because of getting the foundation set correctly. Patton Industries is looking at the marathon here… not the sprint. If you were building a home, you would need to lay a foundation down before you start framing and finishing or the integrity of the structure wouldn’t hold for the long term. Integrity is a key word here. I have brought in a staff, or board of directors as I prefer to call them, who have integrity as well as knowledge of in-game mechanics and markets as well as meta-game experience that goes years back(including years of playing “the other game” similar to this one). Neither I nor my board members are interested in a quick buck. We want to build a long term corporation that will not only be profitable to itself and our shareholders, but will also add a new element of fun to this game. After all, it is a game and games should be fun. In closing, I’d like to introduce my amazing board of directors to you and your readers…
Molly Emma , 
Mercury55 and 
LordPariah . Have a great day and good luck on your new publication.
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