True, but a handful of boozed out geeks does not a business sink. I really don't know how to explain this so you understand, but the thing is, the majority of people investing on the stock market are the cautious kind. They invest lots and lots of money, spread out the risk and creates investments for their customers that has only slightly higher risk than the bank, but also only slightly higher gain. Then there are traders that buy and sell and try to manipulate as best as they can to make a profit. And of course there are private people with more or less success. There are other type of investors accepting much higher risk, injecting money into businesses directly. They can roughly be divided in two groups. One is purely profit driven. They pump up a company so it can (hopefully) be sold at huge profit after a few years. The other group of investors are involved in the industry, the details. They are genuinely interested in creating industries. Typically they are successful entrepreneurs themselves. It's the last mentioned kind of investor that makes the world rotate. All the others are just bean counters. What makes them tick is to succeed in what they have set out to do, whatever it is, money is just a tool, and the profit is just icing on the cake. That's the kind of investors that owns the majority of Nokia. They may of course fail, because the risk is high, but they wont let fluctuations on the bloody stock market influence what they are doing.