&gt; The actual engineers working on the project (including the one in this &quot;spat&quot;) at some point realize the actual limitations of what is possible physics wise<p>From reading the blog of their former VP of engineering [0] I got the impression that the actual engineers were aware from the start of the limitations of what was physically possible. Instead, said engineer seems to have only realized with time something else: that the founder and CEO was perfectly at ease with making unrealistic promises to raise truckloads of funding at valuations that were impossible to justify with the performances he (and the other engineers) knew were physically possible.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a>