This is a terrible pitch deck, for an unrealistic plan. Their projections (slide 8, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD2cy99aSCZmC-hXWu

This is a terrible pitch deck, for an unrealistic plan. Their projections (slide 8, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD2cy99aSCZmC-hXWuMvgvHL4/preview?sle=true&slide=id.gc70cf13b5_3_41 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gPEGbVzfPQolFgkPWyD...) look like they were just copied from a Google image search for "startup growth graph" - they have absolutely no indication that they're based on reality whatsoever. Nick Bolton seems to be fixated on this idea that Synergy, despite all indications to the contrary, needs to be a startup, and he's been making increasingly doomed decisions to that effect for years (hiring additional employees, moving to the high-rent Bay Area, etc). What Synergy needs to do is swallow their pride, find a company like Google (or Microsoft, who are increasingly supporting open source, especially when it lends legitimacy to the Windows platform) who would be interested in funding an open-source project with no return-on-investment beyond the fact that their employees use it, and ask for a job there subsidizing it, the way successful open source projects like Linux have grown.