Coming from software and making the move to hardware has been incredibly eye-opening. As soon as you need to instantiate something with atoms, the cycle-times

Coming from software and making the move to hardware has been incredibly eye-opening. As soon as you need to instantiate something with atoms, the cycle-times and overall difficulty increases exponentially. Just when you think you've got something, all these despicable gatekeepers shove their hands in your pockets. There are lots of reasons we can't have small batch, niche electronic products, and these license fees combined with even worse regulatory costs require enormous sales volumes to amortize. It's really concerning to see the same rent-seeking values making such strong headway in the software space over the past 5-10 years too.