>"First, we failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10+ years too early to market, i.e. the tech is not ready yet." I highly do

>"First, we failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10+ years too early to market, i.e. the tech is not ready yet." I highly doubt that you failed! You blazed a trail forward for people in the future to follow. Financial success is not the same thing as taking a super tough problem to solve and then making inroads solving or starting to solve the many sub-problems (and their sub-problems) that invariably show up as a result of taking that path. >"Then we grew our user base. We executed very well here, and grew our user base to 500,000 monthly-active developers, with almost zero marketing spend." That's extremely impressive in my book! (By comparison, I failed to get 2 users -- for one of the apps I built -- and that was with marketing spend! <g>) >"Then, our product failed to generate revenue. Our 500k developers would not pay to use it." You might mean that there may have been an issue with communicating the VALUE of your product such that users would "see" (magical word, "see" -- "percieve", "understand", "observe in a way that you do") the VALUE of it -- such that they would be willing to equally-and-oppositely exchange their money for that VALUE... Finally: I do not think that you failed, and you have no reason to apologize to your investors, customers, employees and others. You pushed the envelope -- and you created great value for future generations who will no doubt benefit from your pioneering steps in this gargantuan undertaking. Well done -- and I think more people should appreciate you for that!