Not an excuse. If I could sell my shares I would have sold them all straight after reading that thread. That was throughly unimpressive for someone running a multi-million dollar enterprise.
Indeed, if this guy were running something on a public exchange then the shareholders would have lost their shit.
Horrifically unprofessional, I was pretty much going "Ken, Ken my man, what the hell are you doing!?" the entire time.
On such an exchange there wouldn't be shareholders stalking him and his family, making death threats, or making baseless scam accusations. Without the scam accusations I'm sure Ken would have been much more cool-headed and not made that remark. It is definitely unprofessional of him, but understandable.