Having worked with entrepreneurial companies still controlled by their founders as well as those owned by investment funds or public, I'd always choose the former. I think the slide at Cabela's was related to the Cabela family selling control and I think this may turn out well for the chain.

Latest reports are that Morris intends to keep the brands separate while combining appropriate back office functions.

Companies need vision and investment funds rarely provide that.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia