my feeling when people raise a quarter of a billion dollars for an idea i’ve moved beyond game on
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why did I not respond back then? well, frankly, a) wanted to avoid the Streisand effect, didn't appreciate that *years later* people would still be reading and believing a transparently petty takedown. double bind, apparently b) despite disagreements about scaling the co down...
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...I didn't want any of our investors (or the company) to look lame, which I thought was the inevitable outcome if I expressed the facts of what happened we weren't actually directly solving the energy storage problem -- we didn't want or need the press to solve it, but...
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...I didn't appreciate that in the hype driven world of VC, a takedown could and did essentially kill future fundraising prospects, and the decision to shut down tech dev and pursue licensing we forced as a result. big mistake, imo, still, but the majority shareholder's decision
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c) I knew that I'd have another swing at the energy storage problem, attacking it from a different angle, extremely high performance, high energy and power density, in a way that would make this whole bullshit storyline branch irrelevant. and the time to do that is now
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...I've said very little publicly, because frankly, pointing fingers around a defunct company seemed petulant and lame, and it would not honor the achievements and efforts of those who were part of it. the only resolution that seemed worthy would be a new effort to solve storage
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...which I am now doing, and will start to reveal this year.
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