{"id":1712,"date":"2008-07-29T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:47:20","slug":"patrick-byrne-child-ceo-of-overstockcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/patrick-byrne-child-ceo-of-overstockcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Byrne, child CEO of Overstock.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least Patrick Byrne, nutty and incompetent CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) can admit that he&#8217;s nothing more than a child who is playing grown-up with the shareholders&#8217; money. <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/080729\/latu050.html?.v=101\">From today&#8217;s press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jonathan has developed into a tremendous asset for our team,&#8221; said Patrick Byrne, chairman and CEO of Overstock.com.  &#8220;He has gone from <strong>simply providing adult supervision for me<\/strong>, to being a fine, aggressive contributor across many facets of our firm&#8217;s operations.  He has grown from being the lawyer working in business to a businessman who happens to be trained in the law.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who says something like that in a press release about an executive promotion? Apparently Patrick Byrne does, since he appears to have absolutely no professional judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Patrick Byrne, nutty and incompetent CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) can admit that he&#8217;s nothing more than a child who is playing grown-up with the shareholders&#8217; money. From today&#8217;s press release: &#8220;Jonathan has developed into a tremendous asset for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-rC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}