Yea, kind felt like a lions den there for a while. I am glad to hear the opinions and so on, but I must say, I back @bux 100%, if you could see her in action and how she does navigate very tough territory trying to get stuff done, it’s enlightening. She is not as vocal on this forum as I have been and that is perfectly fine IMO. I know my time on the forum does cost an awful lot and in previous years I was here thinking the network was progressing in ways that it clearly was not. In fact the design was altered dramatically and the team then stuck rigid to their guns that it had to be a totally ordered network. That cost us extremely and to the point the company was essentially bust. I had to move very quickly and recover that, but the tech debt was immense.
Now we are not in that position and the team do listen and work together for the same goals. It’s totally different, but another MASSIVE thing we were missing was the business side of things. That’s speaking with partners, setting up exchanges and handling the investors as well as building the parts of the team we were missing. All of that is being handled very well now, IMO. I do get the token holders and this communities frustration as it has been quiet, but I feel it almost had to be, otherwise it’s empty rhetoric.
The move to focus on targets has been hard for some and that’s due to years of no pressure. Now take that team and try and apply pressure and you can imagine how hard that is. i.e. We have a critical emergency X can you fix. X replies, I am taking the rest of the day off, see you tomorrow. That’s a change that’s hard to make and does create hassle. I would be very strict and angry but Bux and co are the opposite, they try and work with that kind of thing.
This is working as I say, the team are getting there and transitioning from an R&D team where we get it when we get it and we are ready, to let’s get this thing done.
I would say the transition is not complete, but it’s almost there and incredibly hard to do. The management of this has been hard and taken its toll on every side, but it’s happening.
I feel very sad when I see folk being so angry as I know these folk from years of forum activity and debate, but perhaps it’s because I see behind the curtain that I am sad. I just know the effort and sweat being put in to make this not only live, but make it huge and profitable for everyone.
It may be that there are casualties, some folk may think we can just keep getting more money and pay salaries forever without launching, but a while back I said the technical issues were done and they are. We are past the large hurdle’s we had to cross and from a business perspective there will have to be some more changes that have been hard to swallow, but for the project to succeed we will have to do them.
So it’s really a case of Assemble now" and push this over the line.
Bugs, I expect bugs, delays, I hope not, but possibly, but most of all I want to see this team get there and to get there fast and furious and if we do delay then I don’t want the fury to stop until we are launched. We simply cannot just sit about and work like we are IBM Engineers of old, we do need that startup mentality and that’s hard to get and for some it may be impossible, but we need it.
In any case I am hearing everything now .I am not 100% or close to it and have good and bad days (mostly bad still), but I do ask everyone, push it over the line, however and whenever we get there. It’s without doubt the last leg.
is huge, but also just a baby step. We must take that first step.