That is why your post still stands, Tantallon. He was quoted as saying that. I know that there has been discussion that he said he was misquoted, but I cannot find an identifiable source for that.
The CEO also used much lower numbers in several previous interviews, and as this one is an outlier I believe that he may indeed have been misquoted. But I don't know for a fact that he was.
Cheers,
Bluenoser