for some reason he equated the fact that we paid for lunch once a week, with the fact that we had financial difficulties in the 2015-2016 time period. somehow,

for some reason he equated the fact that we paid for lunch once a week, with the fact that we had financial difficulties in the 2015-2016 time period. somehow, the truth of the matter, which is that cleantech financing for private companies focused on technology had been on life support since 2011, and that in 2014 there was a terrible financing that's not the only bad journalism here, either. he took my quote out of context, and though he claimed to call up 10 employees, he didn't actually talk to all of them, one specifically told us that he "only needed to say he spoke to him" and then hung up. i don't know what he js against us, but he definitely didn't attempt to get a fair or complete picture. if he had, he'd have talked to any one of the founders or the board, at least to get our perspective, not to twist it. i don't know why he imagines that his brand of heavy hitting editorializing is more accurate. it's just meaner. there are probably numerous thing that we could have done better, and differently, but a, we are still around as a business, when almost all other cleantech companies are dead or in trouble. we have a decent shot at developing a great business around to production of carbon fiber pressure vessels, and these can be used, in a number of ways, to get really cheap, high density energy storage -- beyond compressed air, which is sadly being overtaken by lithium ion at the moment. re: articles on startups, not our fault. journalists write the stories they know how to write -- in the tech press, basically hype or scandal. what we put in our talks and website and comments afterwards is fairer criticism, we can do something about it. i always tried to state as clearly as possible what the actual situation was, and where we were, and answered sometimes dozens of comments and questions per article. but we haven't responded to gtm after we were abused this way; frankly, what's the point of providing more content for them to sell subscriptions. but hn, that's my turf and my people, so thanks for asking the question. you can reach me at daniellefong at daniellefong.com if you want more